Ekere Taille is a poet, children's book author, herbalist and co-facilitator of the Mt. Chocorua Writing Week. Che Guevara said, “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” Ekere will read works focused on joy, love, and pleasure and engage in discussion about the role love plays in her radical art and artmaking. Q &…

Ellen Meeropol is a novelist and co-facilitator of the Mt. Chocorua Writing Week. The novelist Dahlma LlanosFigueroa writes that “history reflects life from the outside in. Fiction reflects life from the inside out. One focuses on events, the other on the effects of those events on characters.” Ellen will read from her new novel, The Lost Women of Azalea Court, and talk about writing fiction based on real-life abuse of power. Q & A to follow.

Take a walk down Tamworth’s Main Street with University of Orange's Urbanism department and Tamworth residents Andy Davis and Hannah Lally. We’ll draw from UofOrange co-founder Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s book “Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All” to see how Main Streets everywhere are key to helping us solve the problems of our world. UofOrange is a free school of Restoration Urbanism in Orange, NJ.

Participants in the Mt. Chocorua Writing Week are encouraged to read at this open mic event. The event is open to all.

Three years ago, World Fellowship granted three separate conservation easements to the Upper Saco Valley Land Trust in order to permanently protect nearly 400 acres of the land and shorefront on Whitton Pond. Part of this process included an assessment of our land to see what was there. Learn about what they identified in their survey - streams, marshes, peatlands, swamps, vernal pools, trees and rich forest soil, and nesting sites for the Common Loon, who have returned to Whitton…

World Fellowship is hosting a Bio Blitz on Saturday and Sunday, in which small teams will work with naturalists to find and identify as many species as possible on our four hundred wooded acres, wetlands, and ponds within a 24 hour period. This includes trees, plants, birds, insects, mushrooms, birds, and other animals. It will also offer the opportunity for nature drawing lead by experienced illustrators.This event will be led by Larry Millman, author, mycologist and world explorer, who will…

Burlington Vermont's own samba street band is guaranteed to get you on your feet and moving to its pulsating carnaval rhythms. The huge sound of drummers playing their contagious brand of Afro-Brazilian percussion is irresistable to people of all ages. Patterned after Brazilian Carnaval percussion orchestras with up to 300 musicians, Bloco Montanha Verde is a smaller scale version of the traditional community street bands found in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. Smaller to fit the scale of their Vermont…

Gina Bilander presents a Nature Photography Workshop: All ages, levels of skill and equipment are welcome as we learn how to translate what we see and respond to into photographs: the art and science of light. Morning sessions which may include field trips. Daily handouts given on the history of photography and nature essays.