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
Empty Bowl Press Reading: Jerry Martien, “Exploring Watersheds and Waveshocks”
PTFM event host: Monica F.
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)
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of every genre, style, form, perspective and content — from fiction to memoir to poetry, unpolished to polished, unpublished to published.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)
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]
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
—
(setup 6:30 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of every genre, style, form, perspective and content — from fiction to memoir to poetry, unpolished to polished, unpublished to published.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 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)
Reading 6:00 – 7:30 pm
(rental 5-8 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. 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)