Hereford Quakers Newsletter
November 2017
A day opens, a day closes,
Every day like every other day.
No day is like another day.
(Before Eden, by Anne Stevenson)
Diary
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Thursday 2nd |
12.30 Meeting for Worship & picnic lunch |
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Sunday 5th |
10.30 Meeting for Worship 12.00 Business Meeting |
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Wednesday 8th |
19.30 Olivier Peace Lecture, Ludlow Assembly Rooms |
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Thursday 9th |
12.30 Meeting for Worship & picnic lunch 19.30 Book Club, 56 Broomy Hill (tbc) |
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Sunday 12th |
10.30 Meeting for Worship followed by Area Meeting |
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Thursday 16th |
12.30 Meeting for Worship & picnic lunch |
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Sunday 19th |
10.30 Meeting for Worship |
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Wednesday 22nd |
from 10.00 Just This Day, Llandrindod Wells |
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Thursday 23rd |
12.30 Meeting for Worship & picnic lunch |
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Sunday 26th |
10.30 Meeting for Worship & Children’s Meeting, followed by bring & share lunch |
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Thursday 30th |
12.30 Meeting for Worship & picnic lunch |
Events are at the Friends Meeting House, 21 King Street, Hereford HR4 9BX unless otherwise stated
Thursday 2nd November
Death to the Death Penalty
Organised by Amnesty International (Hereford Group), Swithin Fry will perform a one-man play about his friendship with a death row inmate. There will also be music, art work, poems and film clips.
The Speakeasy, Left Bank Village. Bar open at 19.15; performance at 19.45. Free but ticketed – book at www.herefordleftbank.com
8th November
Olivier Peace Lecture: “Survival in Solitude” – Terry Waite
Ludlow Assembly Rooms, 19.30 – 21.00. Tickets £12 / £10 / £2
22nd November
Just This Day – an invitation to discover and share silence, sacred music, sacred dance, inner stillness, at the Meeting House, Llandrindod Wells from 10.00 (or join any session). Further information: 01597 870277.
25th November
A Day of Spiritual Contemplation, Conversation, Song and Dance
10.00 – 16.30, Leominster Methodist Hall & Church
Suggested donation £12 / £5
Information / booking: Venerable Choesang 01568 750 082 or choesang@the-hermit-online.co.uk or Frances Biseker 01568 612 406 or francesbiseker@rocketmail.com
25th November
The Slow Journey on Women’s Rights: from Magna Carta to President Trump
with Helena Kennedy QC
Organised with Amnesty International, booking is essential for this talk at College Hall at 19:00. Tickets £10
01432 374225 / 374226
library@herefordcathedral.org
(Please note: the date has changed. It was originally 23rd November.)
Hereford Food Bank
There will be a collection made for the Food Bank in Hereford on the last Sunday every month (bring and share lunch day). The box and a bag will be in Room 1, and items will be taken to the Food bank the following day.
Please bring:
- TINS – hot or cold foods, vegetables, fruit, rice pudding
- DRY GOODS – Smash potato, rice, powdered milk, custard, instant coffee, sugar
- GENERAL – UHT milk, pasta sauces, jam, marmalade, instant / microwave meals
- HYGIENE – shampoo, toothpaste, soap, household cleaners such as washing up liquid and detergent.
Up to 1,000 people a year benefit from this service in Hereford.
Please ensure your data consent form is returned to Mary Rhodes by 23rd November.
For further information about Quakers, please contact:
Clerk: Ruth Stanier – ruth.stanier@smquakers.org.uk