Events

Peace Feast

Friends are invited to a Peace Feast jointly hosted by Quakers and Bridges for Communities at Redland Meeting House on Saturday 2 March 2024, 6.45pm.

Delicious food from Nesrin, and the opportunity to hear stories and build friendship across the community. With enchanting music from Turkish talent, Ozcan, this is set to be a wonderful evening.

Menu: Starter: Baba Ghanoush, Main: Moussaka with fragrant rice, Dessert: Traditional Arabic Sweets.

Tickets: Adult – £15, Child (5-15) – £7.50, Under 5: Free –  On sale on the Bridges for Communities website. Guests will include asylum seekers housed in local hotels.

All ages welcome, book your place now to avoid missing out.

A ‘Pay It Forward’ option is available – why not consider buying an extra ticket so that we can make a place available to somebody who would not normally be able to afford it?

 

 

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Bristol Quakers Safeguarding Adults Training

As part of the review of our Safeguarding Policy and Practices we are offering Safeguarding Training for Quakers in Bristol Quaker that would benefit from a clear understanding of Safeguarding. The focus will be Safeguarding for Adults. There are 40 places available.

This is particularly for:

• Pastoral Support friends

• Elders

• DBS Verifier

• AM Trustees

• AM Safeguarding Coordinator Trustee & Deputies

• Staff who frequently interact directly with Quakers or users of meeting houses

However, any interested Bristol Quaker is welcome to apply.

The training is on-line via zoom, and you will need a computer to work on.
(If this is difficult for you, please discuss this with Kate Hale, see below, who will help you organise how to access the training).

To book your place

Please book through our Safeguarding Administrator:
Kate Hale
dbsadmin@bristolquakers.org.uk
0771 462 6280

To download a poster about the event for display
click here

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Quaker Week Vigil for Climate Justice

You are most welcome to join our vigil.
Please bring your own poster, or join a poster-making session in the Meeting House (9.30-11am).
Redland weekly Meeting for Worship is from 11am-12 noon.
During the vigil free drinks will be served in the Meeting House lobby, alongside a ‘Questions for Quakers’ session.
Come along to find out what Quakers do and why we do it.

Main themes for the Climate Justice Vigil:

NO NEW OIL!

No new licences for North Sea drilling

Make the Polluters Pay

Life over Profit

Protect our Planet

Stop Ecocide

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Film: After the Flood

After the Flood: the church, slavery and reconciliation is showing in Redland Meeting House Library. This 67 minute documentary film is about British Churches’ involvement in slavery and will be followed by a short discussion on its relevance for Bristol Quakers as we begin to look at our BYM to reparations commitment.

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The New Normal – what should this look like? – Bristol Area Meeting Day Conference

The day includes a Zoom plenary at 4pm.

 

This year’s QPSW conference will focus on sustainability and social/ racial justice.

 

Keynote speaker Manu Maunganidze (environmental activist and educator) will offer a challenging perspective on ‘Decolonisation: responsibilities and priorities in a post-covid world’.

He will be followed by Roy Kareem, speaking on ‘Bristol’s Black and Green Ambassadors’.

There will be a short Q&A session after each speaker, then (after a break) small group discussions asking ‘How can Bristol Quakers be part of a just transition to a sustainable world?’.

 

We hope that as many Friends as possible will attend the morning conference at Redland Meeting House, from 10am – 1pm. There will also be a Zoom option for Friends who cannot come to the Meeting House, with an opportunity to hear the speakers and take part in the Q&A and in Zoom discussion groups. The conference is free and open to Quakers and non-Quakers.

 

Discussion group leaders will draft a minute of record which will be brought to a plenary Zoom session at 4pm. Everyone is welcome to this concluding session. After acceptance by the conference, our minute will be sent to Area Meeting in session, as a contribution towards shaping Bristol Quakers’ sustainability strategy.

 

During Saturday afternoon, the Quaker Teens Group will take part in a woodlands activity led jointly by Manu Maunganidze and Kirsty Philbrick at Boiling Wells (St Werburgh). The younger children will also link into the conference theme through a Sunday morning visit to Grow Wilder (17 October).

 

Please will all conference attenders register as soon as possible through Eventbrite, to help us plan the day: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/171814270107

Zoom details will be sent later to all registered participants.

 

Julia Bush, Nicky Coates, Graham Davey, Christopher Gwyntopher, Elinor Kershaw, Kate Taylor, Rosaleen Thayer (QPSW conference planning group)

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Reflect and Connect – A Quaker Day Conference

Saturday 20 March 2021 on Zoom
10am to 2pm

A chance to reflect and share experiences of an extraordinary year in a supportive environment. The Quaker community, like others, has been engaged in many new and different activities during this time: ranging from small changes in personal practices, to carrying out tasks, learning crafts, caring and supporting others in new ways, to activism, learning, discussion and more. The conference will include:

  • Short talks
  • Informal chat in small groups
  • Quiet time
  • A chance to appreciate and have fun as well as look at the challenges
  • Discussion:
    – What has helped?
    – What has been difficult?
    – What discoveries have you made?
    – How does any of this influence our Quaker faith and practice?

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New Redland Reading Group!

The first session of a new reading group convened by Kit Fotheringham. The group will be reading Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I am no longer talking to white people about race. To participate in this group you will need to obtain your own copy of the book.

Fortnightly meetings will run through to Wednesday 2 December. You will find the Zoom link in our Notices for 30th August 2020 or it is available from Kit.

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Meeting for Learning – What does it mean for Redland to be a Sanctuary Meeting?

Caroline Beatty will lead us in considering this question. It is a timely discussion, following the Sanctuary Everywhere annual meeting on 26 January at Redland Meeting House.  This meeting for learning is open to all friends, and will include discussion of the connection between our Sanctuary commitment and other concerns of the Meeting, such as climate change and homelessness.

Meetings for Learning are usually held monthly in the Meeting House upstairs library. They start at 10.00 prompt, and end at 10.45 so Friends can then go to Meeting for Worship. Everyone is welcome.  Just turn up in time for a 10am start, prepared to be stimulated, challenged or informed – or all three!

Ideas for topics and offers to lead sessions are very welcome. We would especially like Friends to offer to lead sessions on living our Testimonies of Peace, Equality and Truth in today’s world.

Linda Ewles
Coordinator, Learning and Action Hub

 

 

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Ceilidh

…with The Werburghs Trio

Everyone welcome! – Fundraiser for Extinction Rebellion, Bristol  

Celebrate our climate successes and have a bit of a ho-down! Dancing instructions will be given so you don’t need to know in advance how to ‘strip the willow’ or ‘do-si-do’.

Also XR Block Printing

– decorate your tee shirts etc with beautiful rebellion designs.

£7 full / £5 conc

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Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture 2020: “Human Security – Is it possible?” by Diana Francis

Saturday 14th March 2020, 11 am – 12.30 pm 
at
The Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol BS8 1RL

The 2020 Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture is being given by Diana Francis, a lifelong peace activist, former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and co-founder of Rethinking Security.  Her lecture will look at:

  • What is human security?
  • The military myth
  • Current crises: is there a way forward?
  • Human nature: do we have what it takes?
  • Vision for the future
  • Diana Francis has worked for many years with local peace actors and combatants seeking to address violence and build peace: in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.  She has written extensively on the basis of that experience.

All are welcome to this free lecture.  Please book through Eventbrite [click here or search “Human Security” on the Eventbrite site]

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Family Film club

Everyone is invited to this family friendly evening. Come to enjoy a meal and a great film together with friends and family.

Film club meets at the EARLIER TIME OF 5pm in the library at Redland Meeting House.

Please bring some food for a shared supper which we will eat BEFORE the screening on this occasion. If you are able to bring about £3 to help pay for the licence, that would be a help, but come anyway! Children, refugees and asylum seekers come free.

The evening will end by about 8 pm.

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Redland Meeting Sharing Lunch

Sharing Lunch takes place on the 2nd Sunday of the month after Meeting for Worship – all welcome!

It is a very friendly and informal opportunity to share some food together and get to know more about other Friends of all ages in the Meeting. Bring something to share if you can but if not, come anyway –  there will be plenty!)

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