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[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
Empty Bowl Press Reading: Jerry Martien, “Exploring Watersheds and Waveshocks”
PTFM event host: Monica F.
The Aktion Club is a service club for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities — an inclusive activity for fun, fellowship, and service!
Volunteers are welcome to join in club activities.
Event contact: Curtis Wheeler, curtis@casconnections.org
Sponsored by:
Port Townsend Kiwanis Club and Cascade Community Connections
Hosted at the Friends Meetinghouse, by the Outreach Committee of Port Townsend Friends Meeting
(Business at 12:00 noon; projects 1:00 – 4:00 pm)
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
A series of readings presenting writing in all genres, Readings at the Meetinghouse will take place on the following dates, at 7:00 pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Hosted by Carl & Ellie.
sponsored by PTFM Outreach committee
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(setup 6:30 pm)
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
The Aktion Club is a service club for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities — an inclusive activity for fun, fellowship, and service!
Volunteers are welcome to join in club activities.
Event contact: Curtis Wheeler, curtis@casconnections.org
Sponsored by:
Port Townsend Kiwanis Club and Cascade Community Connections
Hosted at the Friends Meetinghouse, by the Outreach Committee of Port Townsend Friends Meeting
(Business at 12:00 noon; projects 1:00 – 4:00 pm)
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
Organizers: Anna and Peter Quinn
This open mic will be a mixture of every genre, style, form, perspective and content — from fiction to memoir to poetry, unpolished to polished, unpublished to published. Writers from all steps along the writing path are welcome! Please don’t be shy — we have the most wonderful, supportive audiences!
There will be 10-12 readers, each reading for five minutes, plus two featured readers. Names will be drawn out of a hat. Your name must be dropped into the hat by 2:50pm.
EVENT 3:00 to 5:00 PM
DOORS 2:30 PM
sponsored by PTFM Outreach committee
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(setup 2:00 pm)
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
Join us for a reading by Charles Goodrich and Edward Harkness.
Charles Goodrich, here from Corvallis, OR, will read from his just-released Knot House: New & Selected Poems. Ed Harkness will read from Creek Water, his volume of new and selected poems published by Empty Bowl in September 2025.
[setup 5pm; PTFM event host: Carl & Ellie]
No Aktion Club meetings on May 9
Event contact: Curtis Wheeler, curtis@casconnections.org
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/
[setup at 6:30 pm every Monday]
You are Invited to Attend Meditation and Discussion with the Port Townsend Sangha
Every Monday at 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Friends Meetinghouse, Port Townsend
1841 Sheridan Street (corner of Sheridan and 19th St)
All who wish to meditate or who are interested in the dharma are welcome at all announced events.
Schedule: We arrive silently before 7 PM, begin meditation at 7 PM. After about 20 minutes, a bell rings as a signal for those who wish to begin walking meditation. The group takes a break at 7:40 for tea and socializing. At 8 PM, dharma talks, presentations, and discussions begin.
Discussions are led and subject matter of dharma talks are chosen by volunteers; topics most often are related to insight meditation (vipassana).
For more information, visit the Port Townsend Sangha website: https://www.ptsangha.org/