Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

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.

Green Roots is a community-based organization in Chelsea MA. With a majority Latinix population, the city ranks 2nd in the state for population density with 25% of residents living below the poverty line. A representative will talk about their work to address the the environmental and public health threats in their community. Through organizing and political action they have been successful in cleaning air pollution hot spots, stopping the transport of dangerous fuels by trains through their community and a…

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.

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Lynne Cherry is a climate activist, author and illustrator of over thirty nature-themed children's books including the NY Times best-seller, Under the Kapok Tree, a picture book about the ecological importance of the Amazon rainforest. She has also founded and directed the Center for Children's Environmental Literature and Young Voices for the Planet, and has produced documentary films which highlight the power the young people have to take action about the climate crisis. Lynne will talk about the actions that…

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.

This session will introduce participants to the skill set of how to analyze environmental and energy (in)justice. Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences in climate activism.

David McDermott Hughes is professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. The transition away from fossil fuels is not primarily an engineering problem. One does not simply install solar and wind farms and collect profits as corporations are doing now – and provoking local resistance significant enough to slow or stop the energy transition altogether. We will discuss alternatives that are both progressive and necessary, including faster ways to retire oil, gas, and the means of achieving public ownership of wind…

Molly and Dan Watt, the creators of the original World Fellowship Ukelele week, are back. with a long weekend gathering, though with no faculty – and therefore no added program fee. We will all make the program when we get there. Maybe someone will suggest a theme: Beatles, 20s pop, 50s rock-n-roll, folk music, gospel songs, Hawaiian songs and hula? Whatever strikes our fancy. Every evening, singing on the porch after the evening program. Bring your old uke festival resource…

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.

Gina Bilander shares about the life and work of the pioneering photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. She pioneered the role of a woman photographer by documenting the Soviet Union, WWII, from the beginnings of the Nazi era, while flying on bombing missions to the liberation of the Concentration Camps, India and South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. The power of bearing witness to racism, war and the daily struggles of people's lives remains relevant today.

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.

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Tam Willey (they/them) is a certified forest therapy guide, trainer, mentor and teacher with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and is the founder of Toadstool Walks, a guiding practice based in Boston, Massachusetts. Slow down and awaken your senses and lean into the sensation of being alive. Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, forest bathing is a restorative sensory exploration that supports health and healing for all beings. From increased cerebral blood flow to stronger immune defenses,…

George and Ruth: Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War, is a two-hander play about the international struggle against fascism leading up to World War II. Told through George Watt’s letters from the Lincoln Battalion in Spain (read by his son, Dan Lynn Watt) to his wife Ruth and letters to George from Ruth, an organizer in New York (read by Molly Lynn Watt). The letters reveal the human side of the Spanish Civil War, through their passionate love…

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Angela Matthews is a tour guide on the Black Heritage Trail in Portsmouth, NH. The poignant stories that led to the establishment of the Black Heritage Trail, and its juxtaposition to the house museums that now mark the lives of the privileged whites in that city, bring into focus an economic system dependent upon international slave trade with its constant supply of kidnapped unpaid African workers and their descendants, who, against the odds, created one of this country's oldest Black…

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

The LGBT Asylum Task Force is a church ministry in Worcester, MA that supports LGBTQ+ asylum seekers by providing housing, food, and connection to legal, medical and mental resources at local agencies. Asylees who have fled persecution and danger in their home countries and eventually made their way to this welcoming ministry recount their stories and their resolve to live their lives safely, freely and lovingly.

Stu Ball continues his legendary all age, all skills, all everything soccer games. Important note: the listed DAY is only an approximate placeholder; there will be two days scheduled this week, but the actual weekday (M-F) they occur on may vary due to weather, and player availability.

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Kevin Martin is president of national Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund. Peace activists take seriously Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s admonition to address the Giant Triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation, as they are inextricably linked. It could be argued that of the three, militarism is the most easily accepted and least challenged by broader US society. When looking at the gargantuan Pentagon budget (while social and environmental programs go begging for sufficient investment), $2 trillion upgrade…

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

Stu Ball continues his legendary all age, all skills, all everything soccer games. Important note: the listed DAY is only an approximate placeholder; there will be two days scheduled this week, but the actual weekday (M-F) they occur on may vary due to weather, and player availability.

Arnold Farr, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, will address how both the right and the left have supported a false narrative about American identity. This narrative has been used in different ways by the two groups, but nevertheless, has led us to our present political and social situation. Some features of this narrative include American exceptionalism, denial about our violent origins, the obsession with comfort, the lack of action driven by a real progressive agenda and the…

"Seasoned Clams" is a group of anti-nukers who came together in the 1970s as the New England-Wide Clamshell Alliance to stop a nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire through direct action and civil disobedience. We're thrilled that they keep gathering at World Fellowship each summer, not just for reunion, but to share their important continuing work, anti-nuclear and more.

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Judy Gorman is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Our society pushes passive commercial consumption of culture rather than creating and sharing it, which isolates and disempowers us. Most people insist they can not sing and can learn this is not true. This workshop will share decades of research on our musical heritage and will support workshop attendees in exploring how to find their own voice …and use that voice. Songs will be performed and shared. Another world is indeed possible.

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.

Chris Owens is the former Campaign Manager for his father, the late Congressman Major R. Owens (D-NY), a former elected Democratic "District Leader," and campaign consultant. Part 1 of Chris' two part workshop: The 2024 Presidential election cycle has started. We will explore the dimensions of this question: Do I have faith in the American "democratic" experiment? Why do I consider myself "motivated" to believe, to vote and/or to volunteer in a political context? Am I motivated enough to persevere…

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

In Part 2 of Chris Owens' workshop, we will explore the methods we each use to sustain our beliefs and to advocate for them. Some of us are talkers, some are walkers, some are writers, some are riders, some are strategists, some are activists. What works for me? What do I like to do? Can I sustain my choices over a long period of time?

Marc Mauer is the Senior Advisor to the Sentencing Project. This year marks a half century since the inception of mass incarceration. Policy reforms adopted in the past decade have made inroads into reducing prison populations, but a sustained challenge to the system will require a wholesale rethinking of the American commitment to punishment.

Stu Ball continues his legendary all age, all skills, all everything soccer games. Important note: the listed DAY is only an approximate placeholder; there will be two days scheduled this week, but the actual weekday (M-F) they occur on may vary due to weather, and player availability.

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Winston C. Cox is a career public school educator and proud member of Kilombo Novo, Capoeira Angola, who's been coming to WF for over 40 years. This session explores the profound and historical ways that people of color have relied upon the natural world to support our humanity & liberation movements, from millenia before colonial contact, to the adaptations made upon contact (think North Star, Wade in the Water, plant medicine, etc.). We look to inspire new generations of people…

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

Stu Ball continues his legendary all age, all skills, all everything soccer games. Important note: the listed DAY is only an approximate placeholder; there will be two days scheduled this week, but the actual weekday (M-F) they occur on may vary due to weather, and player availability.

Megan Hester is the National Campaign Director, NYU Metro Center and a lead organizer for H.E.A.L. Together. A new wave of culture wars has politicized and divided communities across the country under the guise of parental rights and curriculum debates. Educational gag order bills banning the teaching of topics of race, gender and sexuality have been introduced in 41 states, and this activity has been financed by political and corporate elites working to drive a racial wedge among diverse communities…

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Liz Kelner is a retired social worker, lifelong activist for peace and justice, and group facilitator who's been coming to WFC since 1972. Liz uses Chris Hedge's book of the same name as the foundation for an interactive workshop, beginning with the premise that there is no justification for initiating war, ever, for any reason. A lively exchange of ideas will be encouraged!

Guitarist/composer Ty Citerman performs with a wide range of ensembles, including his newest Time Phase Trio and radical Yiddish songsters Bop Kabbalah+Voices. This summer, he returns to WFC to perform a special solo set of original music, improvisations, jazz tunes, classical and folk pieces, plus a handful of surprises from his diverse palette of musical interests. Six strings with electronics will make for a truly engaging and provocative Saturday night set.

Andrea Walsh, past Co-Director of World Fellowship Center, leads our community gathering at WFC Peace Rock for a Hiroshima Day ceremony, and discussion about what peace really means -- for self, community, and the world.

With Robert Oppenheimer once again in the popular consciousness, on this Hiroshima Day anniversary, learn about the fascinating history of Klaus Fuchs, atomic scientist on the Manhattan Project, only to then be imprisoned in Great Britain for providing the Soviet Union with research from the Project. For the first time, this German-language film will be accessible to English speakers, through subtitles, thanks to the work of Professor Barton Byg, who will present the film at World Fellowship, and the DEFA…

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

Christoph and Kit Schmauch were Co-Directors of World Fellowship Center from 1970-2000. With their vast perspective of World Fellowship history to aid them, they hone in on select case studies of what has happened in the implementation of dialogue among staff, guests, and program presenters, since dialogue is the essence of WF, and according to Martin Buber, even of life itself.

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Joel Couch likes knowing how things work, and sharing that with others in an accessible way. By looking at the nuts and bolts of web technology, a story can be told about some of the patterns of behavior that we often see when using the Internet. The goal is not to teach all about the technology, but to explain about cookies, caching, and the kinds of web features that allow usable software to appear in a web browser. He will…

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

As an organizer in 1992, David Zuckerman was greatly inspired by then Congressman Bernie Sanders. He later served for 18 years in the Vermont legislature before being elected Lt. Governor in 2017. As such he is the highest elected 3rd party official in the country. This discussion will focus on the success of Vermont's Progressive Party as well as how issue organizing and politics can blend together to be a more representative democracy than what we generally see today with…

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

In February-March 2023, Nigeria went to the polls and has been passing through some of the most problematic and contested elections since its transition to democracy in 1999. Megan Chapman and Andrew Maki, who have lived and worked in Nigeria for the past 11 years, will share their own observations and the lived realities of their neighbors and colleagues in Lagos throughout this period - while reflecting on how political messaging used by the media-savvy party in power reflects recent…

It’s not summer at World Fellowship without Rosi and Brian Amador and the magical sounds of Sol y Canto. The good news? In 2023, it will be summer at World Fellowship again as they bring their special blend of "Latin roots music to change the world."

Linda Farthing is an independent scholar and journalist working in Latin America whose.latest book is Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia (2021). Since 2018, voters in eight Latin American countries have chosen leftwing governments at the ballot box. Rather than merely Pink Tide version 2.0, this new phase of left-identified governments face very different circumstances, characteristics and options

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

Sara Keenan is an educator and coach. This session will create space to experience the value of being a part of an intergenerational community working for social change. What can we learn from generations other than our own? What myths about our generation might we want to dispel? How can we build healthier and more effective social movements through working across generations?

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Tammy Shapiro is the Senior U.S. Director of the Diaspora Alliance, which takes on antisemitism and pushes back on bad faith accusations. We will discuss how while antisemitism is a growing concern around the world, bad faith accusations by some forces on the right make it harder to build coalitions on the left to address it.

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

Chuck Collins discusses his provocative new novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, that explores current and future social movements to navigate ecological catastrophe and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry. Collins is co-editor of <ahref="http://www.inequality.org/" >Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of numerous books including Born on Third Base, <a " href="http://www.wealthhoarders.com/">The Wealth Hoarders, and Economic Apartheid in America.

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. How do we move to a place where negotiations can take place re Ukraine in order to end this war? Medea compares Europe to the political scene in D.C and activism in the US, and draws from her recent book, "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" in a search for solutions. Medea will be joined by Rob Shetterly, the creator of…

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’…

What does it mean for 10,000 people to lose their homes, without prior notice and with extreme violence, through voluntary government action in the space of a day? What does it mean for this kind of action to happen repeatedly over decades in a peace-time democracy with near-total impunity? Megan Chapman and Andrew Maki share experiences from supporting urban poor communities through this kind of mass forced eviction in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria: the strategies used to support communities…

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

Leslie Fine is a union organizer with the Communications Workers of America Local 1180 and has helped workers win dozens of union campaigns. “If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.” Then why are so many passionate dedicated nonprofit workers at a breaking point? Union organizing among non-profit workers has surged in recent years as workers attempt to make their jobs, organizations, and movements more sustainable through collective power. We’ll discuss what that looks…

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Sarah Hughes is a staff organizer at Labor Notes, a media and organizing project that strives to "put the movement back in the labor movement." We'll take a look at trends, hidden patterns, and issues that are making the US labor movement a thing to watch. The stories of unionizing workers have been everywhere. Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers, nurses, teachers, film and tv crews, manufacturing workers and more seem to be standing up for their rights in numbers not…

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

Sarah Hughes is a staff organizer at Labor Notes, a media and organizing project that strives to "put the movement back in the labor movement." Organized labor in the US has had a complicated relationship with racial equity and immigration. We'll explore some of the history of unions as they organize to build power for workers, sometimes for all, and sometimes for a select few. We'll look at our own family histories of race, immigration and work and how we…

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Olivia Zink, Director of Open Democracy NH, and Liz Tentarelli, President of League of Women Voters NH. On Women's Equality Day, join us to commemorate women’s efforts to win the vote 103 years ago. We’ll talk about some of the tactics and key figures in the long struggle for women’s voting rights. We’ll explore who else has been left out of voting, and why voting is so important but still at risk. What does this statement by an early activist…

Storyteller and actress Judith Black will bring Lucy Stone to life on stage. There was a time in our national history when a married woman did not have legal rights to the money she earned, the property she inherited, or the children she bore. During this same era citizens of the United States thought it a legal and rational pursuit to buy and trade human beings. Lucy Stone, (born Brookfield Massachusetts 1818), decided this was not the nation she wanted…

Judith Black, a storyteller and activist, will support participants in shaping compelling stories that they can use to speak truth to power. As environmental and climate advocates, we often find ourselves trying to persuade people and making presentations to legislators or large organizaitons of the dire need for climate action . . . yesterday. Facts are necessary and useful, but what people retain are stories. Stories are how we make sense of our world.

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

Come lift your heart and share the joy of singing together with director Gina Samardge of the Beacon Rising Choir and musician Andy Reinhardt as accompanist! All levels, all voices welcome. Sliding scale fee 0-$100 - all are welcome.

A lightly facilitated weekly discussion of the 2023 Book of the Summer selection, Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng. Day/time may vary based on guest preferences each week, or multiple groups may be held in one week. Check the activity board and dining hall announcements. But come prepared to engage with this WF community read.

Bring your instruments, bring your Rise Up Singing books or borrow one of ours, and have fun singing old favorites together 'neath Mt. Chocorua's gaze.

Wednesday Morning Visits to a Farm The Olde Ways at Mustard Seed Farm 176 Ledge Hill Road Center Tuftonboro NH Join Dina Farrell for a walking tour through her magical gardens full of edible herbs, flowers, and delicious vegetables. Taste, learn, and experience how humans and plants can thrive while working together.  Also, meet her many animals including cows, chickens, and cats After the tour, check out her amazing apothecary shop loaded with herbs, teas, crafts from local artists, jewelry,…

Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

Alexia Layne-Lomon, Leigh Beck & Kim Wassel Hardy, founding members of Becky's Anonymous – a mutual aid organization for white women to help end white supremacy-- will present a popular education workshop about reparations and how white people can use economic tools to dismantle structural racism. This will be an interactive experience to share resources and make a plan of action so you too can pay reparations now!

All the fun of Fun Night, with the added benefit of kicking off Protest Fest weekend with emcees Eroc and Javi! Bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Click "View All 5 Events" for the complete Protest Fest schedule for today, including a film, storytelling, song workshop, and an evening concert performance with Pamela Means and Guthrie's Ghost.

We Were There! is a film version of Bev Grant's multi-media show about women's labor history created for presentation at the 2021 Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Convention. Bev is a musician, founder of the Brooklyn's Women Chorus, and labor activist, who lead the World Fellowship Choral Week for many years. Presented as part of Protest Fest 2023.

To Supply the Entire World with Plenty: Storyteller and former WFC Co-Director Andy Davis dramatizes little known tales of the struggles of the Granite State’s working people, from the strike of the Cocheco “mill girls” in 1828, to the 1920 Palmer Raids in which hundreds of accused Communists were rounded up in 8 NH towns, to the McCarthy Era wave of persecution. Through stories drawn from individual lives, Andy will share tales of courage and reflect on how this history…

Before they entertain you with their Saturday evening performance as Guthrie's Ghost (yes, that Guthrie), this specialty once-a-year super group will share their music & song wisdom with you in an afternoon workshop. Look for more details in this space in the near future. Presented as part of Protest Fest 2023.

Pamela Means is an Easthampton MA-based Out(spoken), Biracial, independent artist whose "kamikaze guitar style" and punchy provocative songs have worn a hole in two of her acoustic guitars. Armed with the razor wit of a stand-up comic, engaging presence, elegant poetry, and irresistible charm, Pamela Means’s “stark, defiant songs” (New York Times) set the status quo and the stage afire. Guthrie's Ghost is three groups in one, joining together in musical celebration of Woody Guthrie just once a year or…

Eroc Arroyo-Montano, a founding member of the critically acclaimed and award winning Hip Hop duo Foundation Movement, and his son (Javier Arroyo-Lomon) will be sharing their favorite protest music. Javier is an emerging artist in his own right and has been coming to World Fellowship for most of his life. Presented as part of Protest Fest 2023.

So what if we had the usual Wednesday evening campfire a few days before? It's near the end of our season, the nights are growing cooler, and Choral week and Protest Fest have brought music back to Labor Day at World Fellowship. It's only natural to have s'more campfire action... with Acoustic Campfire. Presented as part of Protest Fest 2023.

You make the decision: Whitton Pond, reading/napping on the lawn, hiking... whatever you hear calling you. Of course, more music could break out at any time. In between, enjoy three great meals, as always. The season ain't over 'til it's over! And breakfast on Tuesday September 5 is exactly that.

Stay tuned for details.

Come together with other members of WFC community to volunteer to help with a number of projects ongoing at World Fellowship: building, landscaping/gardening, other activities in preparation for winter and for the next summer season. Most projects involve some physical or creative work. Volunteers enjoy free room and board for the weekend. To sign-up, complete this online registration form or call (603) 447-2280. Fall housing options are limited, so please sign up early!