Calendar
Our Summer 2024 program is here! Check calendar below for specific events.
Recurring events also hold each week (June 28-September 3, 2024), including:
Sunday Evenings Games! Kicking off each week with interactive fun from charades to WFC Jeopardy! and even flashlight tag…
Tuesday Afternoons WFC Book of the Summer discussions on The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
Wednesday Evenings S’more community campfires. What’s more “summer” than a campfire? Stars visible. Guitars/singing welcome.
Weekday Afternoons Summer Social Justice Institute. Our social justice fellows gather to discuss social movements & justice issues. Join for a session or volunteer as a mentor!
Friday Evenings Fun Night! Bring your talents to share with our community. Music, poetry, children’s plays, bad dad jokes. Every Friday. Open to all. Sign up ahead or let the spirit move you.
Saturday Mornings* Tamworth Farmers’ Market. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! We help arrange carpooling to the best farmers’ market & local gathering place. *Occasional Saturday morning programs. Check below.
Saturday Afternoons Community conversations. We open spaces for facilitated conversations on issues dividing the left, finding resilience among the horrors of 2024, and sharing hopes/ideas for the future of World Fellowship.
Saturday Evenings* Music and poetry, contra dancing and theater. Served up coffeehouse style to round out your week or hit a weekend high note. *Check below for specifics.
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July 2024
Main Street Walk in Tamworth (University of Orange)
Take a walk down Tamworth’s Main Street with Molly Rose Kaufman and 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.
Find out more »Discussion / Q&A on “Acres of Clams” (Clamshell Alliance & Eric Wolfe, filmmaker)
Following the Friday evening screening of Eric Wolfe's Acres of Clams, we will hold a Q&A/intergenerational discussion of the film with the film maker and other Clamshell Alliance members.
Find out more »NoNukes Updates (Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear)
Paul Gunter, co-founder of the Clamshell Alliance and Director at Beyond Nuclear, offers updates on current nuclear threats and NoNukes activism in 2024. Paul will describe opposition to the nuclear industry's plans for a comeback, including massive subsidies and regulators ordered to look the other way in the face of safety hazards exacerbated by a changing climate
Find out more »Tomas Rodriguez, Julian Gerstin & Barry Kornhauser (Music Performance)
Bringing a unique blend of repertoire and instrumentation, Tomas Rodriguez (guitar) with Julian Gerstin (percussion) and Barry Kornhauser (cello) present an engaging mix of music ranging from the tunes of Venezuelan harp masters to unique arrangements of the compositions of the Malian kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté. Their own compositions, emerging from their diverse musical inspirations, include Argentinian milongas, Brazilian choros, and contemporary flamenco.
Find out more »Root Shock at 20 (Mindy Fullilove & University of Orange)
A presentation marking the 20th anniversary of Root Shock, a book that examines 3 different U.S. cities (Pittsburgh, Newark, and Roanoke) to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite. Root Shock, How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It by Mindy Fullilove
Find out more »Capoeira Angola! (Kilombo Novo)
Kilombo Novo annual retreat welcomes all to try Capoeira Angola for the first time or deepen their practice.
Find out more »Soccer on Demand! (Stu Ball, coach)
Stu Ball continues the long WFC tradition of all-ages, all-levels international football -- games can be scheduled on-demand based on interest and weather throughout this two-week period.
Find out more »Stories for Dreaming An-Other World: the Zapatistas at 30 (Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College)
Stories and storytelling have been a distinctive and compelling feature of the Zapatista movement since its appearance in 1994. The impulse behind a recent translation of Zapatista stories by an activist translators’ collective will frame the presentation. A brief conceptual summary of the history of the movement will follow, with an emphasis on the 30th anniversary celebration in December and January, and the spate of communiqués that preceded it, announcing a new turn in the Zapatista struggle. Stories for Dreaming…
Find out more »NH Radical History Comes Alive! (Arnie Alpert, activist)
New Hampshire history is full of people who stepped out of line to challenge patriarchy, violence, racism, capitalism, and other forms of injustice. In many cases they took substantial risks, often suffering imprisonment, assault, even death. Sometimes they met success, other times they lit sparks that led to change over years or decades. Arnie Alpert, creator of nhradicalhistory.org, will introduce us to some of them and tell the story of efforts to place an official marker at the Concord birthplace…
Find out more »August 2024
The Wisdom of Indigenous People, Ongoing Resistance to Colonization, and Pathways to Solidarity (Zumbi Grey & Kilombo Novo Team)
An interactive workshop investigating the impacts of oppression and inequities in the Congo, Gaza, the US, Mali, and elsewhere, along the lines of health, wealth, climate, social media, ethnic conflict, and resilience. We will examine how artists, organizers, women, community and Faith leaders, and youth are responding to these issues. We will tease out concrete steps World Fellowship leadership and members can take. tyty
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 »Wyman v. Uphaus (Stage Play)
Wyman v. Uphaus brings to life the McCarthy-era prosecution & imprisonment of former WFC Director Willard Uphaus. Written/directed by Arnie Alpert. Featuring Chuck Collins as Uphaus.
Find out more »WFC Lives & Legacies (Kit & Christoph Schmauch, former WFC directors)
Kit & Christoph Schmauch share stories of earlier WFC generations, including three generations of World Fellowship leadership from Charles & Eugenia Weller, Willard & Ola Uphaus, and themselves, to others who have made huge contributions to build, grow and sustain WFC. Each life story and legacy will be framed against the backdrop of their unique moments in U.S. and world history.
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 »Unionizing the News (Tanya Snyder, Politico)
Tanya Snyder spent the last three years organizing and then leading a brand-new union at Politico, which everyone said couldn’t be done. After nine months of underground organizing and 20 months of contract bargaining, Politico now has its first-ever collective bargaining agreement. It addresses pay inequity, protects journalists against the threats posed by artificial intelligence and ensures that workers aren’t unfairly targeted by managers. She’ll tell the inside story of how it all happened and invite others to share their…
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 »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.
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’…
Find out more »Don’t Cede White Voters to the MAGA Right: Shift Them! (Greg Horwitch, Showing Up for Racial Justice)
This fall, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial and economic justice, will be knocking doors and running phonebanks to speak with voters in majority-white counties in key battleground states. Join us to learn how you can participate from wherever you live! SURJ and movement partners have identified Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona as strategic states in which white voters could go either way or stay home,…
Find out more »Antisemitism: Where It Comes From & How It’s Used as a Political Tool (Tamara Shapiro, Diaspora Alliance)
Antisemitism is both real and rising, and being mis-used to attack movements and initiatives for justice. In this session we will conceptualize antisemitism in the framework of a power analysis that integrates a holistic understanding about intersectional oppression and explores the role antisemitism plays in justice movements. We will review both where antisemitism came from, and how the narrative gets weaponized as a tool to disempower Black women in leadership and other marginalized communities. We will use a range of…
Find out more »Cleaner Future Through Building Decarbonization (Mary Kuhn, affordable housing advocate)
Mary Kuhn works with SlipStream to support energy transition strategies for affordable housing in the Midwest, including promoting passive architecture techniques in partnership with groups like Habitat for Humanity.
Find out more »Antipoverty Policy that Works: Learning from the Pandemic (Bob Ross, scholar-activist)
Scholar-activist Bob Ross, who has previously engaged WFC with his work on sweatshop labor, turns his attention to the pandemic inspired policies that reduced poverty and temporarily stopped the increase in inequality. The author of two books on global capitalism (Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan and Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops), Ross taught urban affairs and social policy at Clark University for forty years. Much earlier he was among the founders of Students for a…
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 »Sol y Canto! (Music Performance)
It’s not summer at World Fellowship without Rosi and Brian Amador and the magical sounds of Sol y Canto. The good news? In 2024, it will be summer at World Fellowship again as they bring their special blend of "Latin roots music to change the world."
Find out more »Rural Community Pathways to Climate Action (Aaron Strong, Hamilton College)
As the climate crisis continues, rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is essential to minimize human suffering and to avoid the worst impacts of the crisis. The pathways to climate action require rapid deployment of renewable energy, reductions in animal agriculture and changes in land management to protect forests and promote reforestation, all of which take place in rural communities. Here, I discuss ongoing research (focused in upstate NY) on US rural community perceptions of climate…
Find out more »Generational Cycles in Activism (Judy Clark)
Judy Clark was a red diaper baby who jumped into activism in her early teens, supporting the struggle for quality education and community control in NYC, led by the Black community in Brooklyn. By 1970, she joined Weatherman SDS, and for over a decade immersed herself in small, self-enclosed. anti-imperialist cadre organizations that championed armed struggle, even after becoming a mother. Ultimately, she spent 38 years in prison for her part in the 1981 BLA Brinks robbery, in which three…
Find out more »Counter-Narratives & Challenging Hegemony through Art (Part I – Poetry)
A morning poetry workshop with a Brooklyn-based writing group (Ben Snyder, Misa Dayson, Thyra Heder, and Felice Belle), part one in a three-part series. Listen to some examples of Felice Belle's poetry from TEDCity2.0 and Brooklyn Poets.
Find out more »Balancing Fear and “Hopeism” in the Face of the Climate Crisis and Rising Fascism
Liza Featherstone is a writer tackling issues ranging from climate to labor and the DSA. She is contributing writer for The Nation, and a columnist for Jacobin Magazine and The New Republic. She is also an adjunct professor of public policy at Columbia University and NYU. In this talk, she will build on a general thesis about the right balance in messaging to keep us active in the face of crises.
Find out more »Counter-Narratives & Challenging Hegemony through Art (Part II – Narrative Storytelling)
A morning narrative storytelling workshop with a Brooklyn-based writing group (Ben Snyder, Misa Dayson, Thyra Heder, and Felice Belle), part two in a three-part series. Ben Snyder recently won best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Find out more »Counter-Narratives and Challenging Hegemony through Art (Part III – Improv)
A morning improv workshop with a Brooklyn-based writing group (Ben Snyder, Misa Dayson, Thyra Heder, and Felice Belle), part three in a three-part series. Ben Snyder recently won best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Find out more »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!
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 »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. Sliding scale fee 0-$100 - all are welcome!
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 »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 »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…
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