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
In front of the Meetinghouse
Fun Day at the Meetinghouse
Sat, October 26, 2:00 to 4:00 pm (after the Food Drive)
Show and Tell, bring a game to share, enjoy some snacks!
Call Dorn, Katy, or Norma for more info.
[setup at 1:30 pm; cleanup at 4:00]
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)
Launch of our last Empty Bowl title for 2024: Forests, Temples, Glacial Rivers by Andrew Schelling.
[setup time: 3:00 pm]
Holiday celebration: “Sharing Gifts of the Spirit”
Sunday, Dec 22 at 11:00 am
after Meeting for Worship
Come to share and to receive gifts with our Beloved Community
Bring a story, an artwork, a joke, a song — something from your heart, from your spirit!
(Caroline Wildflower will facilitate the event)
11:00 am on Wed, December 25 — Christmas Day — come to the meetinghouse to sing carols and holiday songs
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)
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]
At rise of Meeting (about 11:30 am) share your 2024 Meeting memories, as input to our annual State of the Meeting report.