Upcoming events for the Port Townsend Friends Meeting, and events held at the PTFM meetinghouse. Our parking lot is rented to Salish Coast School at school opening and closing time for student drop-off & pick-up. Select Event Type (green Categories button) Click calendar icon to display Day/week/month
Launch of our last Empty Bowl title for 2024: Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers by Andrew Schelling.
[setup time: 3:00 pm]
[setup time 12:00 noon]
An inclusive activity for fun, fellowship, and service!
The Port Townsend Aktion Club is a service club for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
For more information, contact Curtis Wheeler: curtis@casconnections.org
Hosted by: Port Townsend Friends Meeting Outreach Committee
Sponsored by: Port Townsend Kiwanis Club and Cascade Community Connections
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)
A series of readings presenting writing in all genres, Readings at the Meetinghouse will take place on the following dates, at 7:00 pm:
Thurs, November 21, 2024
Thurs, January 16, 2025
Thurs, March 20, 2025
Thurs, May 15, 2025
Admission is free and open to the public.
For more information about the authors and about this series of readings, you may sign up for the email newsletter at this link: Subscribe-RFM
(setup 6:30 pm)
(setup 1:30)
Event info from Anna 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mixture of every genre, style, form, perspective and content from fiction to memoir to poetry, unpolished to polished, unpublished to published.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 of 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 each reading for fifteen minutes. Names will be drawn out of a hat. Your name must be dropped into the hat by 2:50pm.”
Jan 25 link to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1614960389455163
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2025 Kaleidoscope Open Mic Events
January 25
February 22
April 26
June 28
DOORS 2:30 pm
EVENT 3:00 PM
[PTFM host: Paula J; setup 2 pm]
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
(setup 12:00 – 1:00 pm; activity 1:00 – 4:00 pm)
Please join us for a reading from two books focused on Southeast Alaska. Kurt Hoelting reads from his recently released book Apprentice to the Wild, and Tele Aadsen reads from her award-winning What Water Holds. The reading will be followed by a conversation between the authors and a book signing.
[setup at 3:00 pm; PTFM HOST: Carl Y. & Ellie M.]
Event info from Anna 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 of all steps along the writing path are welcome! Please don’t be shy — we have the most wonderful, supportive audiences!
There will be 10 to 12 readers, each reading for five minutes, plus two featured readers each reading for fifteen minutes. Names will be drawn out of a hat. Your name must be dropped into the hat by 2:50pm.
2025 Kaleidoscope Open Mic Events
January 25
February 22
April 26
June 28
DOORS 2:30 pm
EVENT 3:00 PM
[PTFM host: Paula J; room setup 2 pm]