Category: Community Events
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Public Meeting on Lowering Gun Violence
Putney Friends Meeting is hosting a discussion with guest speaker Leslie Manning at Putney Friends Meetinghouse, RT 5, Putney, VT, on 12/8/13 at 12:00 noon. This event is free and all are welcome. Leslie is interested to hear what Putney area folks have to say and learn where there is common ground. In a culture…
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Nonviolent Communication Workshops at Putney Friends
Heart-Conscious Communication Workshop facilitated by Karen Fogliatti, Ph.D. based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg: NonViolent Communication (NVC) What to Say When You Don’t Agree Tired of arguing? Learn to communicate with authenticity and open-heartedness Imagine being able to: * Feel competent and stay present in the heat of differences * Be authentic…
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Nonviolent Direct Action Training Opportunity on December 1
Dear Members, Attenders, and Supporters of Putney Friends Meeting, I’m thrilled to invite you all to a very low-cost nonviolent direct action training workshop this Saturday, on December 1, from 9 am to 5 pm in the main Community Room at Antioch University New England, 40 Avon Street, Keene, NH. If you are interested, please…
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The Public Speaks on Vermont Yankee’s Future — One Quaker’s Perspective
On the evening of Wednesday, November 7, over 250 members of the public from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts packed the elementary school gym in Vernon, Vermont, for the first of two public hearings held by Vermont’s three-member Public Service Board. The topic at hand was whether the Public Service Board should grant the Entergy…
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Quaker Worship @ Vermont Yankee Sunday, September 23rd
Dear Friends, We want to update you on our plans for the Quaker worship under the care of Burlington Meeting (VT), at the main gate of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant on Governor Hunt Road in Vernon, Vermont, on First Day, 9-23-12, at 1 pm.This religious witness will go forward regardless of the weather. We…
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Gay Quaker Performance Artist To Visit Brattleboro
Peterson Tuscano will be appearing in Brattleboro at New England Youth Theater Tuesday, June 26 at 7 PM. He will be preforming his one-person show Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible as a fundraiser for the Men’s Program AIDS Project of Southern Vermont. (For ticket information for this daring and caring performance, please call 254-4444.) In…
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Awakening Through Love Study Group at Putney Friends Meeting
Come practice and study meditation for compassionate living for the next six Tuesday nights from 7 to 8pm. Starting on February 7, participants will use John Makransky’s book Awakening Through Love and practice meditation to enliven our capacity for deep peace and powerful love and compassion. No prior mediation experience needed. ALL sincerely welcome. Julie…
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Around the Fire: Evenings of “Sacred Conversations” at Putney Friends Meeting
Friends’ practice has always been to allow space in our schedules for conversations that matter, that are about what is mostly deeply Real in our lives. One of the ways we can deepen our spiritual journeys is to share them with one another. Last fall, a group of Friends began gathering for monthly conversations we’ve…
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Interfaith Program On Climate Change, Faith, And Action
Putney Friends Meeting member Steve Chase will be co-facilitating a community interfaith conversation at St. James Episcopal Church in Keene on “Climate Change, Faith, and Action” this Sunday (January 8) from 1 to 3 pm in the church’s Common Room. This event is co-sponsored by the Transition Keene Task Force, the Keene Unitarian Universalist Church,…
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An Invitation To An Afternoon New Year’s Eve Bash at Vermont Yankee
Here is an open invitation to a New Year’s Eve party to remember–and one that builds on PFM’s recent minute about nuclear power and the closing of Vermont Yankee! Just 82 days before the scheduled closure of the Vermont Yankee plant, the New Hampshire-based Nuke Free Monadnock affinity group, co-founded by PFM member Steve Chase,…
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