16 Oct: Quaker Earthcare Witness – Fall Gathering – Powell House, Old Chatham, NY – (Hybrid)
Quaker Earthcare Witness’ Fall Gathering is our annual in-person and hybrid gathering of Friends from around the world. We gather to worship, learn, engage in fellowship, and hold meetings for worship with attention to business to determine the future of QEW.
19 Oct: Southeast Quarterly Meeting – Worcester Friends Meeting, 901 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA – (Hybrid)
Link: Quarterly Meeting Announcement
20 Oct: 6:00 PM – Westerly Town Council Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
21 Oct: 8:00 PM – Third Tuesdays: Protect, Resist & Build with AFSC – Online: Each 3rd Tuesday of the month – AFSC
A monthly webinar series that brings together AFSC constituents to learn about how to protect, resist, and build just peace, just migration, and just economies. Learn more about the American Friends Service Committee and find more ways to support here: https://afsc.org/get-involved
23 Oct: 4:00 PM – Waking Up the Earth | Poetry Reading – Westerly Library Auditorium
Poets have always written about the Earth. In their own words and images, poets say where they are, who they are, and what else lives with then in their surrounding world, be it terrestrial or oceanic, forested or plain, ice-bound or tropical. Margaret Gibson, former State of Connecticut Poet Laureate, and Christie Max Williams, current Poet Laureate of Stonington, Connecticut, will be reading their own poems and selections of other poets who are waking up and paying closer attention to our Earth in this time of global climate crisis.
25 Oct: Extended Meeting for Worship – Northampton Friends Meetinghouse – 9:00 am to 2:30 pm – In person and on Zoom
With joyful anticipation, Friends are invited to join us—in person or on Zoom—for a full day of worship this fall. Friends Michael Wajda and Jean Rosenberg have shared their gift of Extended Meetings throughout NEYM since 2022. Inspired by their faithfulness, we are offering the first of what we hope will be ongoing opportunities for longer periods of expectant waiting at meetinghouses in the Connecticut Valley.
03 Nov: 6:00 PM – Westerly Town Council Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
05 Nov: 5:30 PM – Westerly School Committee Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
08 Nov: Extended Worship Opportunity – Hanover Friends Meeting – 9:00 am to 2:30 pm – In person only
In earlier times Friends would often worship for hours fully expectant and deeply patient for the Living Presence to do its work in the gathered body of Friends. These gathered experiences were core to Quaker convincement, personal transformation, and prophetic challenges to the cultural behaviors in the places where Quakers lived. Modeled on a 25-year practice in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, we have begun these opportunities for NEYM Friends to experience a full day of Quaker worship. Flyer
14 Nov: FCNL’s Annual Meeting – Still Speaking Truth to Power – Nov 14 to 16 – Online Only
FCNL’s Annual Meeting 2025: Still Speaking Truth to Power is coming up! If you haven’t already registered, this is a great time for Friends and supporters of Quaker witness on Capitol Hill to discern together where we are called to this vital work. Learn more and register here!
17 Nov: 6:00 PM – Westerly Town Council Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
18 Nov: 8:00 PM – Third Tuesdays: Protect, Resist & Build with AFSC – Online: Each 3rd Tuesday of the month – AFSC
A monthly webinar series that brings together AFSC constituents to learn about how to protect, resist, and build just peace, just migration, and just economies. Learn more about the American Friends Service Committee and find more ways to support here: https://afsc.org/get-involved
19 Nov: 5:30 PM – Westerly School Committee Meeting – Council Chambers – Westerly Town Hall
23 Nov: Noon – NEYM Living Stream Project Team – Westerly Meeting House, Community Room
Please join us on November 23, 2025 as we welcome three members of the NEYM Living Stream Team, Don Weinholtz (Hartford), Noah Merrill (NEYM General Secretary) and Fran Lightsom (West Falmouth Preparative Meeting) as they gather with us in worship and share their vision of NEYM.
16 Dec: 8:00 PM – Third Tuesdays: Protect, Resist & Build with AFSC – Online: Each 3rd Tuesday of the month – AFSC
A monthly webinar series that brings together AFSC constituents to learn about how to protect, resist, and build just peace, just migration, and just economies. Learn more about the American Friends Service Committee and find more ways to support here: https://afsc.org/get-involved
10 Apr: FCNL New Intergenerational Lobbying Event – Apr 10 to 14