Music Store:
new large format RUS!
"Meet Me by the Moonlight"
including live recordings of his Solstice celebrations heard on NPR
NY Times article on "Shared Song - Communal Memory".
Information on Quakercamp at Stillwater has been moved to a new website:
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This past June, over 80 Friends from 17 yearly meetings came together in Barnesville, Ohio, to share their deepest experiences and longings regarding their Quaker faith. This gathering included 2 components:
 June 22-24: "YFNA / WGYF: Past, Present & Future"
Reunion & Envisioning a Future YF Movement
This weekend brought together past, present & future young adult Friends to share stories, ways these gatherings affected their lives, plans & visions for the future.
June 24-29: "QuakerCamp at Stillwater"
Following the reunion, Friends hungry for spiritual community came together for 5 days of worship, worship sharing and discernment. Here is a description of last year's Quakercamp daily schedule.
Gathering epistles, accounts, talks & queries
 Friends gathered this week in Barnesville last year wrote an Epistle from Quakercamp at Stillwater describing their sense of deep joy & excitement about what occurred there.
A separate Epistle from Young Adult Friends was also written concerning the work that YAFs there were doing to envision and build a new movement for YAFs in the US & Canada. For more about YAFs, go to YAFs at Quakercamp
An article by Pamela Haines describing this gathering in more detail appeared in Friends Journal in December 2007.
You can also read Micah Bales' reflections on his experience in Barnesville this week. Micah is an ESR student and a member of Great Plains YM (FUM).
 Those of us present were deeply moved by presentations each evening by Conservative Friends on their own experience of their Quaker faith. 2 of these presentations are posted here:
Susan Smith on Friends Business Meeting, as Conservative Friends Experience It
Jack Smith on The Scriptures as Understood & Used by Conservative Friends and
An interest group developed a set of Queries on Confidentiality & Openness that may be useful to elders, gathering planners and others needed to discern the right balance between these two important needs within a faith community.
For a list of who took part in these gatherings, click on Quakercamp Participants.
Another similar gathering will be held in Barnesville on June 22-28, 2008. Here are links to the flyer and registration information for this coming June's gathering.
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UPCOMING EVENTS & WORKSHOPS with Annie & Peter
Sat. Aug 7-Th Aug. 9 - Smithfield RI New England Yearly Meeting annual sessions. As "Sessions Peacemakers" this year, we will be doing programs with all age groups, including a concert Tuesday evening on the theme "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land".
Sat. Sept 18 - Ithaca NY Singalong Concert. 7pm at St Paul's Methodist church, 402 N. Aurora Street. For info contact Melody Johnson (807) 272-8755. Benefit for Ithaca Friends Meeting.
Sun. Oct 3 - Philadelphia PA Singalong Concert with John McCutcheon & others celebrating Rise Up Singing. 3pm at 1st Unitarian-Universalist Church, 2125 Chestnut St. Benefit for Sing Out Corp.
Sat. Oct. 23rd - Northampton MA Singalong Concert 7:30pm at Northampton Friends Meetinghouse, 43 Center Street. For more info contact: Dick & Kathleen Konicek-Moran.
See also swing performances Annie is doing with the
GIRLS FROM MARS
Mon, July 12 - Hatfield PA 6-8pm Hatfield Musicfest - free!
and The O-TONES
promoting efforts to secure a Nobel Peace Prize for legendary folk singer & environmental & peace activist, Pete Seeger. A new edition of Seeger's autobiography (which Peter edited) is coming out this spring.
There are some great quotes from Pete on the power of group singing in the recent New York Times article on community sings around the country, many of which use Rise Up Singing.
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