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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
Public Education & the Movement for Fair School Funding (Andru Volinsky)
Andru Volinsky was the lead lawyer in a series of cases (the Clarement cases) that established a constitutional right to public education and challenged the constitutionality of NH public school funding. He will share highlights and lessons from his book in process, Litigation and Public Policy for Change, which connects the dots between a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that shut down the prospects for a federal constitutional right to education and the struggles over 30 years of litigation around…
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 »Bioblitz 2024! (Day 1)
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 »Transformative Advocacy & Awakening Citizens to Their Power: A Climate Advocacy Case Study (Gary Rucinski, activist)
Former Vice President Al Gore once remarked that "all we lack is the political will" to act on climate. In 2007 a retired real estate agent from southern California decided to do something about this. He founded Citizens’ Climate Lobby with a mission of building the political will for a livable world by awakening individuals to their power as citizens. In this interactive session, participants will be introduced to the concept of transformational advocacy with examples drawn from the speaker’s…
Find out more »The Viscera of Our Times (Felice Belle, poet) (Poetry Reading)
Felice Belle will read from her debut poetry collection Viscera (Etruscan Press, 2023). Her poems explore—among many things—pandemic isolation, heartbreak and loss, cultural collisions, dreams, and desire. As author Colum McCann writes in the book's afterword, "These poems get to the heart of the matter...the true viscera, the blood and guts of who we are." As a poet and playwright, Felice Belle has performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe’s Pub, TEDWomen, and TEDCity2.0. Her writing has been published in several…
Find out more »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.
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