Events

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Oct 2024

When & Where Event
15/10/2024
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Online
Midlands Green Quakers
Ecological Spirituality - Trunk - Midlands Green Quakers is a network of Friends from across the region who share a concern about the climate and ecological emergency. For our autumn series of Zoom sessions, we’ll explore how our love for the earth is intertwined with our spiritual lives. Each month will draw upon imagery of different parts of a tree, [...]
19/10/2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
at Bournville Quaker Meeting House, Bournville Birmingham, B30 1JT
Fundraising Quiz - Toilet Twinning
- Bournville Friends invite you to help us raise funds to twin at least one of our toilets. Please join in our fun QUIZ – and you will learn more about toilets than you ever thought possible! Refreshments available. Teams made up on the day or bring your friends – all invited. Further information: bournville@ceqam.org.uk
Friends' Cinema 19/10/2024
7:00 pm
at Barnt Green & Redditch Quaker Meeting House, Barnt Green, B45 8NR
Friends' Cinema
Western about a gunslinger and a Quaker nurse - Barnt Green & Redditch Quakers invite you to join them at their monthly film showing. All welcome. This month: a classic western, which tells the story of an injured gunfighter (John Wayne), nursed back to health by a Quaker nurse (Gail Russell) and her family.  Influenced by Quaker principles of non-violence, the gunfighter reviews his [...]
20/10/2024
11:45 am
at Cotteridge Meeting House, Birmingham, B30 1JB
Earth-friendly ways with food
- Cotteridge Quakers invite you to join this talk after Meeting for Worship, followed by a vegan bring a share lunch. John Marshall and Sarah Benn, retired GP will talk about how by making simple food-choice changes we can significantly reduce our carbon footprint. Meeting for Worship at Cotteridge is 10:30 - 11:30am if you wish [...]
20/10/2024
2:30 pm
at Barnt Green & Redditch Quaker Meeting House, Barnt Green, B45 8NR
Friends Cinema with Council of Christians & Jews
Adaptation of Martin Amis novel about Rudolf Höss and Auschwitz. - In conjunction with the Council of Christians & Jews (B’ham branch) Barnt Green friends are showing this highly acclaimed film, written and directed by Jonathan Glazer. Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, it focuses on the life of Rudolf Höss and his family, who live in a home next to the Auschwitz [...]
Area Meeting October 2024 22/10/2024
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
at Bournville Quaker Meeting House, Bournville Birmingham, B30 1JT
Area Meeting October 2024
- Food will be available before the meeting from 5pm. Our Area Business Meeting is a special type of Meeting for Worship used to make decisions: from how Quakers spend our money, to adopting a Concern. Agenda items deadline 8th October. Any Member can attend these meetings and take part in decision making: if you are [...]
26/10/2024
3:30 pm - 7:00 pm
at Cotteridge Meeting House, Birmingham, B30 1JB
Cotteridge Quakers Social
with a Quiz and bring & share meal - Cotteridge Quakers invite you to their social evening - all welcome including family & friends. 3:30 tea and cake 4:15 quiz 5:45 bring and share meal (with baked potatoes) 7:00 home Please sign-up by emailing Cathy Tuckett by 13th October (details in the green membership book)
George Fox Re-enactment 27/10/2024
2:30 pm
at Litchfield Market Square, Litchfield, WS13 6LG
George Fox Re-enactment
- You are invited to join with Lichfield Quakers (in neighbouring Staffordshire Area Meeting) to mark the 400th anniversary of George Fox's birth. A re-enactment will be held on Lichfield Market Square, of Fox's notorious visit to the town with his message of "woe to the bloody city". Written & produced by Berry Dicker and directed [...]

Nov 2024

When & Where Event
Friends' Cinema 02/11/2024
2:30 pm
at Barnt Green & Redditch Quaker Meeting House, Barnt Green, B45 8NR
Friends' Cinema
Musical based on a Roald Dahl novel - Barnt Green & Redditch Quakers invite you to join them at a half-term film matinee showing. All welcome. This time: 2023 musical fantasy comedy based on Roald Dahl’s novel about a chocolatier. N.B. Our licensing agreement allow us to advertise the titles of films only on or premises. See the notice boards in the Meeting [...]
16/11/2024
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online
Quaker Mental Health Forum
Online session - Quaker Voices on Mental Health invite you to their annual forum, this year with the theme Honouring Dark and Light: discovering balance and possibilities.  There are two sessions, one in-person in October, and another online in November. You are welcome to join either or both. At this online session we will reflect on material from [...]
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