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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 »Kayode Kuti (Music Performance)
Kayode Kuti is a bassist who hails from an ancestral lineage of Yoruba musicians. In his childhood, his grandfather taught him the ancestral rhythms of his Yoruba culture through playing the Gudugudu, a highly spiritual drum. Picking up the bass at thirteen, Kayode started playing among several gospel choirs of Lagos and quickly took to the swaggering hypnotic rhythms of Yoruban Juju and Highlife music. At 20 years old, he was asked to join the legendary Egypt 80 band, formed…
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 »Exploring 700+ miles of waterway by solo canoe (Bob Nolan, adventurer)
In Spring 2023, Bob Nolan completed a thru paddle of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. The NFCT is a 740 mile waterway trail connecting New York, Vermont, Quebec, New Hampshire and Maine by canoe via flatwater, whitewater and overland through deep wilderness and rural communities, starting in Old Forge, NY and ending at Fort Kent, ME. Bob will share stories, pictures and advice for anyone who might want to embark on such an adventure -- or a part of such…
Find out more »November 2024
Post-Election Community Circle (1st Virtual Gathering)
This is the time for us to come together in community, process, and find our way forward. Open to all. Please join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86721135824 (10:30am-12noon Eastern).
Find out more »Post Election Community Circle (In Person in Cambridge, MA)
This is the time for us to come together in community, process, and find our way forward. This community gathering will be hosted by Cambridge Co-Housing, 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge, MA. Potluck starting at 6pm, and open discussion starting at 7:30pm. Please RSVP to Norma: normawassel@yahoo.com or 617-306-4916.
Find out more »Post-Election Community Circle (2nd Virtual Gathering)
This is the time for us to come together in community, process, and find our way forward. Open to all. Please join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86721135824 (10:30am-12noon Eastern).
Find out more »December 2024
Campaign to Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg
Join long-term WFC community member Robert Meeropol and Rosenberg Fund for Children Executive Director Jenn Meeropol for a virtual program about the ongoing campaign to call on President Biden to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. This program will have time for Q&A and an open discussion/exchange on a range of related themes. RSVP to get login information.
Find out more »February 2025
Forging Ahead in the Midst of Climate Backlash (Aaron Strong) *VIRTUAL PROGRAM*
Last summer at WFC, Dr. Aaron Strong shared emerging research into the dynamics underlying rural backlash to energy transition investments in upstate New York — research that includes insights into the parallel backlash leading to the November 2024 election. As we face the coming chapter with increasingly visible climate crisis impacts, a backslide in climate leadership among the U.S. and other traditional world powers, Dr. Strong will help share positive examples of people-led effective climate action to inspire and demonstrate…
Find out more »March 2025
Crisis in Eastern Congo (Kambale Musavuli) *VIRTUAL PROGRAM*
Longtime WFC Collaborator Kambale Musavuli shares more background and insights into the worsening crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the 30 years of advocacy that led to the just announced U.S. sanctions on key Rwandan backers of the M23 militia that is taking over much of North and South Kivu. Kambale was formerly with DC-based Friends of the Congo and for several years ran the WFC-hosted Kimpa Vita Institute for activists and youth in…
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