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August 2024
Bioblitz 2024! (Day 2)
World Fellowship is hosting Bioblitz 2024, in which small teams will work with naturalists to find and identify as many species as possible on our 455-acres of conservation, including forests, wetlands, lakes and ponds within a 24-hour period. This includes identification and learning about trees, plants, birds, insects, mushrooms, birds, and other animals. This event will be led by Larry Millman, author, mycologist and world explorer, who will be joined by other environmental groups. Weekend and overnight visitors can reserve…
Find out more »Choral Singing Week!
Director Gina Samardge of the Beacon Rising Choir and accompanist Andy Reinhardt return for a second summer to run this singing workshop for all levels and all voices. The program runs 10am-12pm, Monday-Friday, at WFC's Schmauch Meeting Room! Sliding scale fee 0-$100 - all are welcome!
Find out more »Organizing Against Displacement (Kim Landaverde, City Life | Vida Urbana)
Kim Landaverde is a young organizer with City Life | Vida Urbana (CLVU) who helped her immigrant parents stay in their home during the pandemic, when the landlord was going to “evict” them for lack of payment. It is from this organization, City Life | Vida Urbana, that we first heard the chant, “When We Fight, We Win!" Kim shares more about CLVU's work and her experiences organizing in Boston's Salvadoran American community. Listen to her story here!
Find out more »Together We Sing!
Join for a Rise Up Singing circle led by Choral Singing Week participants. Bring instruments if you wish and dog-ear your favorites in our classic book of favorite WFC songs.
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 »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).
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