Events

Merton libraries will be celebrating Libraries Week from 2-8 October, the theme this year is Green Libraries, focusing on sustainability and climate change.

As part of the celebrations, Wimbledon and Morden libraries will have displays and workshops in partnership with the Loving Earth Project. Some of the textile panels on display will be those made at previous workshops in Merton libraries.
Wimbledon Library is at 35 , Wimbledon Hill road, SW197NB
Morden Library is at Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden, SM4

For more information about Libraries Week and Green Libraries
events, go to www.merton.gov.uk/libraries

 

A large exhibition of Loving Earth panels will be held in the Quaker Centre and downstairs corridors of  Friends House, as part of a series of events in London during the autumn.

The Quaker Bookshop at Friends House will  also be selling Loving Earth project books and cards. , 

This event launches the  Out of Excuses poetry book and exhibition of textile art, to be held in the Quaker Centre and corridors of Friends  House.

A selection of poems from the book will be read by the poets.

Free, but please book your place via Eventbrite in advance .

Refreshments from 4pm;
Welcome speeches and poetry reading from 5pm.
The bookshop will remain open until 7pm

As part of St Johns Waterloo’s interfaith series of Exploring Spirit events Linda Murgatroyd will give a short talk about the origins and purpose of the Loving Earth Projet , followed by a Question and Answer session.

This will take place after the 10. 30 service and a coffee break. All welcome.

Details of this series of events are at https://stjohnswaterloo.org/worship/exploring-spirit/#nourishingthespirit

The Loving Earth Project will be exhibiting a large number of textile panels in the Crypt at St John’s as part of a series of Loving Earth events in London this autumn.

This exhibition will be part of St John’s  Exploring Spirit festival, linking up with Black History Month in October, the season of Remembrance and InterFaith Week in November.

An opening event will be held on 19th October. The exhibition will be open on selected weekdays from 9am to 5pm, on Sunday mornings, and on selected evenings, but this will depend on other events at the church.

Please check the St John’s website for full details of opening times and news of other events.