July 2020
Area Meeting
This may be an All-Age Area Meeting. If necessary, we will meet in the late morning for a short business meeting.
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October 2020
December 2020
Passion and Partings Talk
Next Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk All are welcome to join the Zoomed Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk on Monday December 21st at 7.30pm, when Jane Mace will be talking about her new book Passion and Partings – the dying sayings of early Quakers. The habit of taking down the words of Quakers on their deathbed flourished in the 17th Century. Jane has sourced many of these and considers how they were used by Quakers at the time…
Find out more »January 2021
The Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk
The Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk this month takes place on Monday January 18th at 7.30pm via Zoom. It will be given by Amelia Schafer-Rutherford who will tell us about a novel called, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. Keiko is 36. While a student she took a temporary job in a convenience store and has stayed there as a temporary assistant ever since. From childhood she was considered peculiar; she never found it easy to appear a ‘normal’. But by following the rules in the…
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Quaker Library Talk with Jonathon Stedall
Forest Quaker Library Talk, Monday 17th January at 7.30pm You are warmly invited to join us for the January Quaker Library talk. The speaker is a local author, Jonathan Stedall, who will be talking about his latest book, An Enchanted Place. His talk will take the form of an illustrated conversation with Andy Vivian aided by Jude Emmet who will be reading excerpts. There will be plenty of time for your questions. Jonathan’s novel is dedicated to A. A. Milne…
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Forest Quaker Talk
February Forest Quaker Library Talk, Monday 21st at 7.30pm via Zoom Next Monday, Elyn Mitchell will introduce us to recent book called Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London’s Streets. Its author is Jennifer Kavanagh, a Quaker. In 2018, with notebook and recorder in hand, Kavanagh set off to create an oral history of the men and women who make up the street life of our modern capital. Kavanagh was inspired by a famous Victorian journalist,…
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Breeding Ground – Journeymen Theatre
Breeding ground’: researched and performed by Journeymen Theatre www.journeymentheatre.com, this play touches on the twin subjects of sustainable living and world population. Saturday 18th June 7.30pm Friends Meeting House, Greyfriars, Gloucester GL1 1TS Booking: cherryfoster99@nullbtinternet.com This performance is free but there is the chance to make a donation. Light refreshments are available at both events
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Forest of Dean Library Talk
What fungi do for you The first Forest of Dean Quaker Library Talk of the new season is by Keith Coupland of Forest Meeting and his chosen book is Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. The book reveals just how integral fungi are to life on Earth. Fungi are neither plant nor animal, yet without fungi nearly all living systems would fail. They can be microscopic but also some of the largest organisms around - weighing tens of thousands of…
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