Upcoming Events / Calendar

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.
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Sep
26
Fri
Quarterly Gathering in Ellensburg WA: Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting, Sept 26-27-28
Sep 26 – Sep 28 all-day
Sep
29
Mon
PT Sangha Monday Evening Meditation
Sep 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 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/

Oct
5
Sun
Advices & Queries worship sharing
Oct 5 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Oct
6
Mon
PT Sangha Monday Evening Meditation
Oct 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 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/

Oct
8
Wed
MusicTeams Workshop series
Oct 8 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Judith-Kate Friedman and Songwriting Works™ presents the MusicTeams Workshop series for inter-generational music-making.

Four Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, at 2:00-4:00 pm

Everyone is welcome to join the MusicTeams — it’s fun, easy, and engaging. Songwriting Works’ mission is to restore joy, hope, vitality, and community through story and song. Coming together through music of all kinds is one of the most healing experiences imaginable!

Oct
9
Thu
Irish Fiddle concert, featuring Brian Conway
Oct 9 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

PTFM host is Mhaire Merryman [setup: 7:00 pm]
organizer: Dave Lewicki

Oct
11
Sat
Aktion Club – Service and Fun
Oct 11 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 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

(Business at 12:00 noon; projects 1:00 – 4:00 pm)

Oct
13
Mon
PT Sangha Monday Evening Meditation
Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 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/

Oct
15
Wed
MusicTeams Workshop series
Oct 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Judith-Kate Friedman and Songwriting Works™ presents the MusicTeams Workshop series for inter-generational music-making.

Four Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, at 2:00-4:00 pm

Everyone is welcome to join the MusicTeams — it’s fun, easy, and engaging. Songwriting Works’ mission is to restore joy, hope, vitality, and community through story and song. Coming together through music of all kinds is one of the most healing experiences imaginable!

Oct
16
Thu
Readings at the Meetinghouse – Barbara Bennett
Oct 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oct
17
Fri
Concert: Brazilian guitar, Marco de Carvalho Trio
Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Marco de Carvalho on guitar, with Neal Chin on ukulele and Abbey Blackwell on bass

Oct
18
Sat
Memorial Meeting for Worship for Hannah Russell
Oct 18 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Oct
19
Sun
Monthly Potluck @ PTFM Meetinghouse
Oct 19 @ 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Reading: “One Family in Gaza”
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

A reading of “One Family in Gaza”: an original play by Crystal Zevon

[PTFM HOST: Doug Milholland; setup at 6:00 pm; sponsored by Peace and Social Concerns committee]

Oct
20
Mon
PT Sangha Monday Evening Meditation
Oct 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 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/

Oct
22
Wed
MusicTeams Workshop series
Oct 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Judith-Kate Friedman and Songwriting Works™ presents the MusicTeams Workshop series for inter-generational music-making.

Four Wednesdays: October 8, 15, 22, and 29, at 2:00-4:00 pm

Everyone is welcome to join the MusicTeams — it’s fun, easy, and engaging. Songwriting Works’ mission is to restore joy, hope, vitality, and community through story and song. Coming together through music of all kinds is one of the most healing experiences imaginable!

Oct
25
Sat
WAVE Food Drive
Oct 25 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Kaleidoscope Open Mic for Writers
Oct 25 @ 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

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 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. Names will be drawn out of a hat. Your name must be dropped into the hat by 2:50pm.

DOORS 2:30 pm
EVENT 3:00 PM

[setup 2:00 pm]

(sponsored by Outreach committee)

Oct
27
Mon
Ministry & Counsel Committee
Oct 27 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

MC – for committee members – M&C usually meets monthly on the last Monday of the month at 1:30 pm

PT Sangha Monday Evening Meditation
Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 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/