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Registration will close on 7/1, or when the event reaches capacity.
This retreat will offer a refuge space for renewal, rejuvenation, and relationship building at Pendle Hill, a Quaker center open to all for retreat, learning, and community. This gathering will bring together LGBTQ+ participants from a range of ages and spiritual backgrounds, providing an opportunity to break bread together, recenter in openness to the Spirit, and create new connections as we celebrate what nourishes and sustains us across the generations.
We will explore inherited spiritual practices that sustained our queer ancestors, including the fundamental practice of building shared spiritual community.
See the draft schedule here.
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Curator of Quaker Collections, Mary Crauderueff, has started an oral history project interviewing queer Quakers. Queer history and stories are dramatically underrepresented in most archives, and in particular in our archives. This project will bring concrete material into the collections, including putting materials in our online, public repository (see our long-form interviews here: Queer Quakers Oral History Project). We acknowledge the diverse spectrum of experiences within the queer Quaker community and will actively work towards representative coverage.
We are honored to be invited to share time with you at Dreaming Sanctuary to conduct 15- to 20-minute interviews that will be part of this larger project. Participants need to be 18+, and who either currently or previously have identified as Quaker and LGBTQIA+.