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
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)
Workshop: “End of Life Planning” Session 1
This 2-session workshop provides attendees a way to prepare themselves and those they love for life’s final days.
Session 1: Wed, January 22 – 2:00 to 4:00 pm, at the Meetinghouse
Session 2: Wed, February 19 – 2:00 to 4:00 pm, at the Meetinghouse
Our workshop will be led by Carrie Andrews, a local certified patient advocate and specialist in advance care planning. Learn more about Carrie and her services at her website: Peace of Mind.
How to sign up: Just put your name on the clipboard at the back of the Meetinghouse worship room (on top of the bookcase).
Need more info? Please call Carla at 360-302-1081
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mixture of every genre, style, form, perspective and content from fiction to memoir to poetry, unpolished to polished, unpublished to published.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]
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.]
The 2:00 pm workshop has been cancelled
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]