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We are thrilled to offer a wide range of educational programs, recreation, body movement, creative expression, and much more throughout the Summer 2025 season. Please check regularly for updates and additions! Direct any questions, offers, and ideas to programs@worldfellowship.org.
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August 2024
A World Fellowship Free-For-All
This last weekend of our season, we let out our wildest egalitarian dreams and throw open our doors. Come with your co-creative ideas and your willingness to chip in to give seasonal staff and long-term volunteers a Labor Day break and help make sure that we all have a good time. With your help, we’ll have three good meals a day and clean rooms, alongside a radical carnival-like atmosphere – think hula hoops, frisbees, improvised music, collective art projects, and…
Find out more »September 2024
The Care and Feeding of Your Shaggy Dog (Andy Davis, Storyteller)
A shaggy dog story is a meandering, digressive account of a series of events that leads inexorably, gloriously, beautifully to a disappointing anti-climax. It’s narrative for the joy of narrative, and Mark Twain called it a “high and delicate art.” We will take a brief look at the beguiling history of this art form, highlighting notable examples. We’ll reflect on what it has in common with and what distinguishes it from other storytelling genres. Finally, there’ll be opportunity to experiment with what…
Find out more »June 2025
Magic, Music & Storytelling (Roger Isberg, Sarah Isberg & Andy Davis)
Magician Roger Isberg, multi-instrumentalist Sarah Isberg, and storyteller Andy Davis explore the nature of truth and illusion. Held at WFC's Schmauch Meeting Room. Suggested donation $10-15. All donations go 100% to the performers. Noone turned away. Roger Isberg started performing at age 15 when he produced his own revue in Gothenburg, Sweden. He went on to pursue clown school, acting, and magic as an adult, training with Viktor Krivalapov in Russia and Mario Gonzalez from the College of Theater and…
Find out more »White Mountains Pride Festival **OUTSIDE EVENT**
Take a moment away from WFC to join the White Mountains Pride Festival, 10am-4pm on Saturday, June 28 at the North Conway Community Center Park! More details here: Pride | White Mountains Pride | New Hampshire
Find out more »White Mountain Ceilí Band (Music & Contra Dance)
Come dance! These contra dances, both deeply and currently in the New England tradition, will be called (and taught) by Eric Rollnick who has been doing this in the Mount Washington Valley for decades. Expert or beginner, you will love this dance. "You don't need to come with a partner, or a clue or even a shoe," says band member Dexter Harding. White Mountain Ceilí Band is Dexter Harding on the tenor banjo, Fiona Howell on the flute, Siena Kaplan-Thompson on the fiddle,…
Find out more »July 2025
Songs of Resistance (Ty Citerman)
Guitarist/composer Ty Citerman performs with a wide range of ensembles, including his newest Time Phase Trio and radical Yiddish songsters Bop Kabbalah+Voices. He is also actively engaged in resistance work through groups such as Jews For Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). This summer, he returns to WFC for an evening of protest songs, both performed and taught for sing-along, laying a shared foundation for how participatory music making can fuel our collective resistance. Enjoy this collection of protest songs!
Find out more »White Mountain Ukulele Retreat
The White Mountain Ukulele Retreat is a weekend community gathering where members of the various ukulele communities in New England (and elsewhere) can gather to learn from local teachers and musicians, jam, have fun, and build relationships. Check here for more details about the weekend program. Please register in advance for the retreat!
Find out more »Erin Ash Sullivan with special guest Danno Sullivan (Music Performance)
Erin Ash Sullivan and Danno Sullivan are a husband-and-wife team of musicians and performers hailing from central Massachusetts. Erin is a singer-songwriter who tours and performs nationally. Her 2024 album, Signposts and Marks, debuted at #4 on the FAI Folk DJ chart, and Americana UK describes her as “a songwriter of the highest order.” Her music focuses on the power of stories to build connection and calls back to the style and spirit of her music idols, which include Joni Mitchell, Patty Griffin, John…
Find out more »August 2025
Leyla McCalla (Music Performance)
Leyla McCalla returns to WFC for the second summer in a row, bringing her three kids and her powerful music. Her Saturday night performance follows a week-long morning workshop she will lead about balancing family and work in the creative arts. Born in New York City to Haitian emigrants and activists, Leyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present– her music vibrates with three centuries of history and influences from around the globe. McCalla possesses a stunning mastery of…
Find out more »Extraordinary Rendition Band (Music Performance)
The Extraordinary Rendition Band (ERB) is a proudly diverse group of activist musicians based in Providence, Rhode Island. We specialize in creating spontaneous moments of raucous musical joy. Our eclectic repertoire combines beauty, noise, and heart in equal parts. ERB appears in the streets and in public spaces at scheduled performances, protests, and benefits—but we also show up when you least expect us. We love to make you dance, and we invite everyone within earshot to join in the general…
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