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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

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.

The Regular Breathe meditation sessions on Monday evenings invite reflection on spiritual writings from various traditions, and using music, poetry and silence to create space for contemplative connection with the spirit. This short service will follow a common format but each time, we’ll use different music, poems and readings and contemplative practices from various traditions. 

100 panels from  Loving Earth Project are currently on displaying the Old Crypt at St John’s and this will be an opportunity to reflect more deeply with them.

Register here and please aim to arrive at 5.45 to settle in before the meditation starts.

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”

This event is part of the Exploring Spirit Season at St John’s.

Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist and writer, with a keen interest in ancient philosophy, as well as the illumination of inner life. His writing covers subjects from friendship and beliefs, to wellbeing and living in the modern world. He’s currently working on a book about local artist William Blake and his talk will look at Blake’s understanding of spirit, mysticism and the natural world.

REGISTER HERE.                   

This Loving Earth exhibition, at Wimborne Library will run from 31/10/23 – 27/11/23

With an Art and Textile workshop on 20 November:

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Wimborne
Dorset
BH21 1HH
01202 882770
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