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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
79 Years: Hiroshima Remembrance Ceremony (Andrea Walsh, former WFC co-director)
Andrea Walsh, former WFC Co-Director, leads our Hiroshima remembrance ceremony and reflections at Peace Rock. ** PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL PRINT SCHEDULE! **
Find out more »The Chiquita Papers: Documenting How the World’s Most Famous Banana Company Funded Terrorism in Colombia (Mike Evans, National Security Archive)
Michael Evans of the National Security Archive discusses how he used the Freedom of Information Act to document Chiquita's role in Colombia's civil war and talks about his experience serving as a witness in the U.S. civil trial against Chiquita and several of its former executives for funding a Colombian terrorist group. Michael Evans, Editorial Director, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive
Find out more »Finding More Meaning in Life (Lynn Niizawa, philosopher)
Learn to make room for more meaning in your daily life. Develop a personalized toolkit with exercises to help build a better life for yourself: mindfulness, values, legacy, skills and passions, gratitude practices, meaningful to do lists and planning. Register for the 5-day workshop or drop in for one or two classes.
Find out more »Leyla McCalla (Music Performance)
Leyla McCalla returns to WFC for the first time since her childhood -- now bringing her three kids and her powerful music. 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 the cello, tenor banjo and guitar and, as a multilingual singer and songwriter, has risen to produce a distinctive…
Find out more »Finding More Meaning in Life (Lynn Niizawa, philosopher)
Learn to make room for more meaning in your daily life. Develop a personalized toolkit with exercises to help build a better life for yourself: mindfulness, values, legacy, skills and passions, gratitude practices, meaningful to do lists and planning. Register for the 5-day workshop or drop in for one or two classes.
Find out more »Negotiating the International Plastics Treaty (Melissa Blue Sky, CIEL)
Melissa Blue Sky, a Senior Attorney with the Center on International Environmental Law (CIEL), reports on progress toward an international treaty on plastics pollution against the specter of projected tripling rates of plastic waste entering the aquatic ecosystems by 2040. Will we meet the target of a binding agreement by end of 2024?
Find out more »Finding More Meaning in Life (Lynn Niizawa, philosopher)
Learn to make room for more meaning in your daily life. Develop a personalized toolkit with exercises to help build a better life for yourself: mindfulness, values, legacy, skills and passions, gratitude practices, meaningful to do lists and planning. Register for the 5-day workshop or drop in for one or two classes.
Find out more »Fun Night!
Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, children's plays, etc., to entertain and amuse at Fun Night. All ages, all acts… all love it, every Friday! Sign up ahead or let the spirit move you.
Find out more »Pete Seeger – Chopping Wood – Thoughts and Stories of a Legendary American Folksinger (David Bernz, songwriter/author)
David Bernz shares his new book, Pete Seeger - Chopping Wood - Thoughts and Stories of a Legendary American Folksinger, which is built around transcriptions of Pete’s spoken word and designed to allow us all to “hear” Pete Seeger once again as we journey through his remarkable life. Pete unabashedly shares historical and family stories, tells of learning the banjo, traveling with Woody Guthrie and finding commercial success with The Weavers. We learn how he wrote books and put together…
Find out more »David & Jacob Bernz (Music Performance)
David and Jacob Bernz are a father-son team of folksingers and songwriters hailing from New York State’s Hudson Valley region. David has been performing for over forty years and had a close relationship with the late Pete Seeger, earning two Grammy Awards for producing “Pete Seeger, at 89” (Best Folk Album 2008) and “Pete Seeger and the Rivertown Kids – Tomorrow’s Children” (Best Children’s Album 2010). His own performance ensembles have included “Dave, Perry, Rande", “Stone Soup” and “Work o’…
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