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  • 15th annual music and dance weekend

    15th annual music and dance weekend

    Music and Dance weekend 2025

    An in-person event
    December 5-7, 2025
    Led, as always, by participant leaders

    It’s the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL Music and Dance weekend!

    Register now!


    On the first weekend in December, this beloved event returns to Quaker Center – now fifteen years running. Join us for a weekend of celebration, music, singing, dancing, workshops, hanging out, great food and more, here in the redwoods.

    We encourage musicians, singers, dancers, and those who just enjoy listening to attend. No particular dancing or musical talent necessary to enjoy this all-ages event. In past years, activities have included folk dancing from around the world, ukulele workshops, round singing groups, hymn singing, instrumental jamming, songwriting sessions, children’s songs, and more. If you have an activity or workshop you’d like to share, we’d love to hear about it!

    We’ll gather after dinner on Friday evening, Sessions of this program will be participant-led, with the exception of a professionally called community dance on Saturday night, with a fiddler and band.

    Early risers may begin the morning with meeting for worship, a Quaker Center daily practice. 

    Children are welcome and some childcare will be provided.

    Overnight lodging will be in the Orchard Lodge bedrooms and Redwood Lodge bunkrooms. Camping is also available, and commuters staying at home or elsewhere are welcome.

    Delicious vegetarian food will be prepared by Chef Tod Nysether.

    All Quaker Center programs are on a sliding scale, with the following suggested contribution amounts:
    Standard rate: $200-350.
    Welcome rate: $75-150.
    For more information about our program fees, click here.

  • Resisting Authoritarianism with love and power

    Resisting Authoritarianism with love and power

    an in-person program
    with Eileen Flanagan
    October 24-26, 2025

    We are all one – and if we don’t know it,
    we will learn it the hard way.
    -Bayard Rustin

    Whether you consider yourself a Friend (Quaker), or a friend of Friends, come find wisdom and strength in the Quaker tradition of resistance grounded in love. At this workshop, we will combine lessons in strategy and spiritual grounding to help us navigate this period of political and ecological crisis. 

    Click here to register.

  • Organizing for Climate Resilience

    Organizing for Climate Resilience

    Organizing for Climate Resilience

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    An online program with Cherice Bock
    Tuesdays in May, 2026
    (May 5, 12, 19 and 26)
    6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Pacific Time

    As we begin to feel the impacts of climate change, it’s important to help shape our local communities to be more resilient. We will need the ability to respond and recover when there are climate emergencies, and the ability to work together to lower our climate impact. Faith communities, including Quaker meetings, could have an important role as hubs for community connection, and find ways to use their buildings and grounds in ways that help heal their local ecosystems.

    This virtual workshop series will offer suggestions and examples of ways that individuals and faith communities can begin to build climate resilient communities. It will include community organizing, types of projects that groups might take on, and tools and resources to get you started.

    It would be ideal if you can sign up with 1-2 others from your Quaker meeting or neighborhood, but please take the workshop even if you aren’t part of a group at this time.

    About the Program Leader

    Cherice Bock (she/her) is a Quaker from Oregon. She serves as climate policy director for 350PDX and is adjunct faculty in the environmental studies department at University of Portland. Her education includes a PhD in environmental studies. Cherice’s publications include the chapter “Faith Communities as Hubs for Climate Resilience” in The Encyclopedia for Urban and Regional Futures. Learn more at her website, http://chericebock.com

    Program Costs – Online Program

    All Quaker Center programs are on a sliding scale, with the following suggested contribution amounts for online programs:

    Standard rate: $100 – $250.
    Welcome rate: $50 – $75. 

    For more information about our program fees, click here.

    REGISTER HERE