Category: Community Events

An invitation from Burlington Friends Meeting

Doug Gwyn, pastor of Durham Friends Meeting and author of many books including his recent A Sustainable Life–Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation, is coming to Burlington Friends Meeting on March 29. Burlington Friends have been reading the book together and have found it to be very relevant to our life and times…

03/06/2015

Community Events, The Wider Quaker World

A Sustainable Life–Quaker Faith and Practice in the Renewal of Creation, Burlington Friends Meeting, Doug Gwyn, FRIENDS, Northwest Quarterly Meeting, Quaker, Quaker community
AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE

AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE On Tuesday, March 3, at 7pm, Hilary Burgin (the Boston Start-up Coordinator for Quaker Voluntary Service) will be at Northampton Friends Meeting to talk with local Quakers about QVS. She will be updating about the start-up of the Boston house and how we can be involved in recruiting young…

02/27/2015

Community Events, Social Justice

Quaker Voluntary Service, QVS, UMass Amherst
Citizens’ Climate Lobby

What: Citizens’ Climate Lobby Groupstart Meeting (free and open to the public) When: Saturday, February 28th, 9am-12pm Where: Antioch University New England, Room E101(first floor), 40 Avon St, Keene, NH Contact: Sasha Breus abreus@antioch.edu Citizens’ Climate Lobby(CCL) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies addressing climate change. In order to generate the political will necessary…

02/25/2015

Community Events

Antioch University New England, Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Brattleboro Interfaith Roots of Poverty Training Event

A local interfaith group committed to addressing the root causes of poverty is sponsoring a training in faith-based community organizing basics, taught by Vermont Interfaith Action on Saturday, February 28, 2015, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro. This training will help people of faith bring our values and convictions into the…

02/01/2015

Community Events, Member Activities, Social Justice

Brattleboro, Brattleboro Interfaith Initiative, Brattleboro Interfaith Roots of Poverty Training Event, Centre Congregational Church, community organizing, interfaith group, Putney Friends Meeting, Social Justice, Vermont Interfaith Action
Gun Sense Vermont

Putney Friends Meeting has endorsed the work of GunSense. Ann Braden will be with us on Sunday January 18th at 9:45am at Putney Friends Meetinghouse to speak with us about how we can help support legislation regarding gun ownership here in Vermont. Gun Sense VT is an independent, grassroots, Vermont-run organization fueled by volunteers from…

01/12/2015

Community Events, PFM Events

Ann Braden, Gun Sense Vermont, Putney, Putney Friends, Putney Friends Meeting, Quaker, Social Justice
Social Justice Film Fest-The Two Row Wampum

Putney Friends Meeting presentation: “The Two Row Wampum” at: Next Stage Kimball Hill Rd., Putney, VT On Thursday November 20th at 7:00 PM This film features stunning footage of the 28 day paddling journey from the Onondaga Nation to the United Nations in New York City during the summer of 2013 to re-ratify a…

11/17/2014

Community Events

Food Shelf and Homeless Shelter, Next Stage, Putney, Putney Friends, Putney Friends Meeting, Quaker, Social Justice, Social Justice Film Festival, Social Justice Film Festival 2014, The two row wampum
Social Justice Film Festival 2014

Social Justice Film Festival 2014 sponsored by Putney Friends Meeting To be held at Next Stage 15 Kimball Hill Rd., Putney, VT Thurs . Nov . 6th: The Power of Song The life and songs of Pete Seeger; a documentary Thurs . Nov . 13th: The Dharma Brothers How lives were changed by…

11/03/2014

Community Events

Food Shelf and Homeless Shelter, Pete Seeger, Putney, Putney Friends, Putney Friends Meeting, Quaker, Social Justice, Social Justice Film Festival, Social Justice Film Festival 2014, The Dharma Brothers, The Power of Song, The two row wampum, VT
David Hartsough Book Tour Event On October 6

DAVID HARTSOUGH Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist Book discussion with the author Monday ~ October 6th ~ 7:30PM at Putney Cares 54 Kimball Hill Rd., Putney, Vermont David Hartsough’s story demonstrates the power and effectiveness of organized nonviolent action. Waging Peace is more than one man’s memoir, Hartsough shows how this struggle…

09/24/2014

Community Events, PFM Events
Art and Spirit Event A Moving Success

Friends and members of the local community gathered on May 10th for the Art & Spirit exhibit at the Putney Friends Meeting house. Roger Vincent Jasaitis exhibited his contemporary landscape paintings and Matthew Wright read his insightful poetry to an appreciative audience. A lively discussion followed with observations by the artists and audience in the…

05/16/2014

Community Events
Join Us As We Celebrate The Life of Pete Seeger

04/11/2014

Community Events