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
Veterans for Peace activist speaks in Port Townsend on Friday, August 4th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm, at the Port Townsend Friends (Quakers) Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan Street.
VETERANS FOR PEACE is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies aiming to build a culture of peace by exposing the true costs of war.
PT Leader article: Veterans for Peace Activist speaks in Port Townsend
(Covid masks encouraged, but not required)
Peter Lumsdaine is a member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) national committee to abolish nuclear weapons.
Sponsored by the Peace and Social Concerns committee, Port Townsend Friends Meeting.
Worship Discussion on FCNL Legislative Priorities – 11:30 am
In a time of growing conflict and war in the Middle East, Ukraine, and around the globe, the urgency of the climate crisis, threats to America’s democratic processes, and a desperate need to reckon with historic and ongoing racial injustice, our country faces significant challenges. Thus, your feedback and participation in the legislative priorities process are especially valuable this year.
–The FCNL Policy Committee
Speaker, Kamal Hassan: “PALESTINE ON FIRE! A political refugee’s perspective”
Kamal Hassan spent the first twenty years of his life in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Now he spends his time educating people about what it means to be a Palestinian in today’s world.
Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Location: Quaker Meetinghouse, Port Townsend Friends Meeting
1841 Sheridan St (corner of Sheridan & Discovery)
Presented by Jefferson County Palestinian Solidarity; Sponsored by the Port Townsend Friends Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee
(setup at 2:30)
(setup 1:30 pm)
Jefferson County Palestine Solidarity presents: a 3-part speaker/discussion series with Peter Lumsdaine, “Gaza and Global Escalation”
Tuesdays — April 16, 23, and 30
7:00 – 9:00 pm
at the Friends Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan, Port Townsend
** Setup at 6:00 pm **
Jefferson County Palestine Solidarity presents: a 3-part speaker/discussion series with Peter Lumsdaine, “Gaza and Global Escalation”
Tuesdays — April 16, 23, and 30
7:00 – 9:00 pm
at the Friends Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan, Port Townsend
** Setup at 6:00 pm **
Jefferson County Palestine Solidarity presents: a 3-part speaker/discussion series with Peter Lumsdaine, “Gaza and Global Escalation”
Tuesdays — April 16, 23, and 30
7:00 – 9:00 pm
at the Friends Meetinghouse, 1841 Sheridan, Port Townsend
** Setup at 6:00 pm **
PT Friends event host:
Sponsored by Peace and Social Concerns Committee
The Golden Rule peace boat is a National Project of Veterans For Peace, aiming to advance opposition to nuclear weapons and war.
This speaker event is sponsored by the Peace and Social Concerns committee of the Port Townsend Friends Meeting.
(submitted by Caroline Wildflower)
Kathy Railsback, Co-Clerk of Friends Peace Teams'(FTP) African Great Lakes Initiative, will speak on her work co-facilitating trauma education workshops for South Sudanese refugees with FPT partners in East Africa. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Kathy has traveled to the region roughly a dozen times over the past 11 years. In 2023, she won a service award to work with FPT partners in Kenya and Uganda to offer trauma education workshops for approximately 600 refugees and to train dozens of South Sudanese facilitators.
Article on Kathy’s work from the Friends Peace Teams website: Trauma Education with South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda & Kenya
For more info contact Kathy Railsback: railsback.kathryn@gmail.com or 208-949-3004
April 20, 2025 is Easter Sunday
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]