Spring Gathering Schedule
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Time | Event |
FRIDAY, MAY 14 | |
6:15 - 6:30 pm | Welcome, Land Acknowledgment, and Video/photo montage Celebration of All Living Things! |
6:30-8:00 pm | Culture & Change: A Framework |
8:00-9:00 pm | Music Ministry and testimony of Racial Justice and singing with Annie Patterson and Peter Blood |
9:00 PM | Film: Kiss the Ground |
SATURDAY, MAY 15 | |
8:00-8:15 am | Gather / hot beverage of your choice! |
8:15-8:40 am | Silent worship |
8:40-8:55 am | Welcome and Land Acknowledgment |
9:00 to 10:00 am | Beverly Ward, plenary speaker: Racial Justice/Economic Justice/Environmental Justice Beverly Ward, Earthcare Field Secretary of Southeastern Yearly Meeting, works in some of the spaces these struggles converge. |
10:15-12:00 am | Panel discussion: members from NY AVP; Prisons Committee; FSRM "Good Trouble" anti-racism group; Earth Care Witness; members from Right Sharing of World Resources; FSRM Healers and more consider these queries: • How does it feel to live from the Center, where God/Spirit dwells? What do you sense at the Center? • How do our gifts and skills bring us closer to the loving tender compassionate role of Spirit within each of us? • In your area of interest, how can we make society just and equitable for everyone? • What is it that joins us? |
12:30-1:30 pm | Social Lunch/committee meetings |
2:00 - 5:00 pm | Interest Groups |
2:00 - 2:45 pm | Peruvian Outreach Project: Returning the Love, Building the Future |
2:00 - 3:00 pm | Social Media for Meetings: Supporting Informed and Spirit-Led Discernment |
2:00 - 3:30 pm | Quaker Aspen: Quakers @ Work |
2:00 - 3:30 pm | Doctrine of Discovery (film and discussion) |
3:00 - 3:50 pm | Beverly Ward - discussion follow up to morning's plenary |
3:00 - 4:00 pm | Electric Pressure Cooking: Serving Up Electric Pressure Cooking with a Side of Environmental Justice |
3:30 - 5:00 pm | Listening Circle to Express Our Grief and Our Hopes |
4:00 - 5:00 pm | Becoming an antiracist faith community: Where is NYYM at? |
4:00 - 5:15 pm | Viruses, Vaccines, Science, and the Creation |
5:30-6:30 pm | Social Supper |
7:00 - 8:30pm | Talent Show! |
SUNDAY, MAY 16 | |
9:00-11:00 am | Extended Meeting for Worship |
9:00-10:00 am | Bible Study |
10:00-11:00 am | Hymn Sing |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Meeting for Worship (joining Friends already in extended Meeting for Worship) |
12:00-1:00 pm | Social Lunch |
1:00-3:00 pm | Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business |