RCWMS

Art Day By The Haw River
2019-07-13 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | North Carolina
Location: A beautiful studio apartment in Saxapahaw, NC
Let’s go with the flow! Bring your favorite art supplies to capture the beauty of the Haw River. Sue will demonstrate some techniques and offer one-on-one assistance to help you reach your desired effects. Some pastel and watercolor supplies will be available.
Leader: Sue Sneddon has been a full-time painter since 1984. Much of her work has concentrated on the ocean, especially the NC coast, where she now lives.
Sponsors: RCWMS and mahaloArts
Cost: $125. Bring your own lunch or yummy options will be available for purchase. To register or for more information, contact: Alison Weiner of mahaloArts, www.mahaloArts.com/sayhey/

The Ministry of Black Women's Self-Care
2019-07-14 14:00 - 16:00 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Self-care is often the component that remains a form of intervention (after the break or the medical emergency) rather than a preventative measure. When we allow our bodies, minds and/or spirits to break down in the course of doing this work, we are not only putting ourselves at risk but we are putting at risk the integrity of the work for which we are laboring. This work is a work of self-love, communal love, Womanist Ethicism, it is multi-generational, multicultural and is not finite, but is instead as infinite as the beauty in the divinity that is Blackness. Come and share in this life’s work! This program is specifically designed to offer practical tools for everyday self-care to Black women-identified individuals doing all forms of ministry, in church and community.
Leader: Kimberly Gaubault (McCrae) is an intentional lover of humanity and actively lives the self-care life about which she teaches and advocates. Her personal philosophy of interpersonal interaction is, “If I’ve not positively influenced someone everywhere I’ve gone, I’ve not walked in my purpose.”
Cost: $10-40, sliding scale. Scholarships available!
Contact: events@rcwms.org

Awareness Through Movement®
2019-08-06 17:30 - 18:30 | Garden View Offices, 2726 Croasdaile Dr., Ste. 210, Durham, NC, 27705, United States
Sometimes we retain habits and patterns of posture, movement, or thinking that date back to childhood. Sometimes we lose capabilities and flexibilities of our youth. When are habitual patterns useful or no longer useful? Can we regain or protect capabilities that may serve our present health and well-being? This series of 5 lessons will assist your exploration of these questions. The Feldenkrais Method of learning through movement invites us to think, feel, imagine, sense and move. Good for your brain and your body! You will benefit from one or from all 5. These will be on the floor lessons. Dress comfortably. Space is limited, so register promptly!
Enrich your life and expand your abilities. These innovative & generally FUN lessons allow you to observe how you move, notice unnecessary tension and improve your overall coordination, stability and ease in everyday activities at work or at play. Discover the Feldenkrais Method and discover yourself! Mats provided. Newcomers welcome!
When: Tuesdays, August 6, 13, 20, 27 & Sept. 3, 5:30-6:30 pm
Where: Lessons With Ease, Ste. 210, The Garden View Bldg., 2726 Croasdaile Drive, Durham, NC 27704
Fee: $60 for the series, or $15/session.
Teacher: Betty Wolfe, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm.
Contact: bettywolfe@lessonswithease.com, 919-794-4139. Contact Betty to be put on the waiting list.

Art of Conscious Aging: A Group for Women
2019-08-13 11:30 - 14:00, 2019-09-10 11:30 - 14:00, 2019-10-08 11:30 - 14:00, 2019-11-12 11:30 - 14:00, 2019-12-10 11:30 - 14:00, 2020-01-14 11:30 - 14:00, 2020-02-11 11:30 - 14:00, 2020-03-10 11:30 - 14:00 | via Zoom, Durham, NC, United States
During the pandemic Art of Conscious Aging is meeting via Zoom.
Contact info@rcwms.org to join the group.

RCWMS 42nd Birthday Party
2019-08-18 14:00 - 16:00 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Join us for an afternoon open house in honor of RCWMS’ 42nd birthday. All are welcome for a summer afternoon celebration filled with food, friends, and fun. Because no birthday party would be complete without something sweet, there will be Locopops. Children especially welcome.

Cost: $5 suggested contribution from those who are able
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, info@rcwms.org

Reading from Women Rise Up by Katey Zeh
2019-08-20 19:00 - 20:30 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
In a time when biblical texts are being used to shame survivors, vilify immigrants, and excuse exclusion, Rev. Katey Zeh has written Women Rise Up: Sacred Stories of Resistance for Today’s Revolution (FAR Press, May 2019) to offer an alternative witness for readers, students, leaders, and pastors who love their faith but can no longer abide its misuse in today’s revolution. A timely take on the tenacious women of the Bible, Women Rise Up connects these ancient texts to our current struggle for gender justice and invites us all to rise up for a more just, compassionate world.
Free. Books will be available for $15.

Fall Into Writing
2019-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Leader: Rebecca Welper, MFA.
Fall is the perfect time to get back into a writing practice, or to begin one for the first time. We’ll write from prompts inspired by the changing seasons, allowing us to let go of the intensity of summer days and embrace the change, balance, and acceptance that fall offers. We’ll write together, share in community, and offer each other tips and practices for keeping up a writing practice amidst our busy lives.

Cost: $10-25 (You may choose to pay $10, $15, or $25.)
Questions: rebecca@rcwms.org

A Week of Quiet and Writing in September
2019-09-22 18:00 - 2019-09-29 13:00 | North Carolina
Wouldn’t you like a week full of quiet days to think and write? Come spend a week of quiet and writing with a supportive group of women at the beautiful Trinity Center on Emerald Isle, NC. We observe silence in the daytime so participants can read, write, or rest. In the evenings we gather to reflect on the day and often share our work with one another. Room and meals are included. Everyone gets her own room. Her own space. Her own time.

Cost: $800, includes lodging and meals.
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, events@rcwms.org

Homegrown: NC Women's Preaching Festival 2019
2019-10-03 14:30 - 2019-10-04 15:00 | via Zoom, Durham, NC, United States
It’s time to make plans to join us October 3-4, 2019 at Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC, for the 8th annual Homegrown: NC Women’s Preaching Festival.
Our Vision: We believe hundreds of Christian clergywomen in North Carolina are faithfully and creatively engaging in ministries where they proclaim the Word of God, week after week. In an ecumenical spirit of love and collegiality, we will lift up the voices of local clergywomen to encourage and inspire; share and learn; and to hone our craft. Together we will hear wonderful preaching from conference attendees and have time for group conversations on the art of proclamation in all its forms. We will pray, eat, worship, and celebrate together.
This year’s preachers and presenters include Mia McClain, Dana Cassell, CeCee Mills, Margie Quinn, Tamara Franks, Rose Wright-Scott, and more to be announced! In addition to this incredible line-up, we are excited about the gifts and wisdom, joys and challenges that each of you bring to this festival every year. Learning in community for two days is the heart of who we are. We hope you will plan to join us!
Learn more about the festival: www.ncwomenpreaching.com
Questions? Contact RCWMS: info@rcwms.org

Reading: The Last Straw by Bryant Holsenbeck
2019-10-05 14:00 - 15:00 | McIntyre’s Books, 2000 Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro, NC, 27312, United States
Environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck had long wondered where trash goes when we throw it “away.” Realizing that what we discard never really goes away, she became concerned about all the disposable plastic that piles up in landfills and clogs our streams. Bryant began saying NO to single-use plastic, and she spent a year discovering ways to live without it. The Last Straw: A Continuing Quest for Life Without Disposable Plastic documents her journey and the creative alternatives she found.

Free and open to the public.

The Enneagram: A Way of Considering Your Personality
2019-10-26 09:30 - 15:30 | North Carolina
What is the Enneagram and what can it show me about myself? What do the nine personality types look like? Why do I often find myself responding in ways that I know are not helpful? How can I recognize where those responses come from and have more options? Explore these and other questions and learn more about yourself through the lens of the Enneagram.

Leader: The Rev. Marion F. Thullbery, Ph.D. is an Episcopal priest who has served parishes in Florida and North Carolina and who has served as Chaplain and Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Supervisor at five Triangle area hospitals.

Location: RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St., Durham, NC
Cost: $25-60, sliding scale. Please pay what you are able to pay. Please bring a bag lunch.
Questions: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, info@rcwms.org

Classic Meets Cool: a Concert by Barron Ryan
2019-11-07 19:00 - 21:00 | via Zoom, Durham, NC, United States
“Classic Meets Cool” when Barron Ryan meets a piano. With a concert repertoire that glides flawlessly from Debussy to Joplin, The Jackson 5 to Frederic Chopin, Ryan’s impressive talent and appeal are quickly amassing a national following. It is our good fortune that he is passing thru NC and Durham music lovers can now add their own endorsement.

This concert is presented by and to benefit RCWMS and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. Spend the evening with friends, hear fabulous music, and support your favorite nonprofits. More about Barron Ryan: barronryan.com.

Location: Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church, 927 Trinity Avenue, Durham, NC. (Church is fully accessible.)
Suggested donation: $25, to benefit RCWMS and the Pauli Murray Center
Questions: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, info@rcwms.org

Reading: A Green Bough by Nancy Corson Carter
2019-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Nancy Corson Carter will read from A Green Bough: Poems for Renewal. The author calls her poetic quest a journey “to hold in tension the opposites of a celebration of the natural world and, in a time of great destruction, a call for its repair.” Through her timely and beautiful work, she hopes “to evoke a saving love for the bodymindspirit of this amazing planet that is our home.”
Leader: Nancy Corson Carter, professor emeritus of humanities at Eckerd College, has published two poetry books, Dragon Poems and The Sourdough Dream Kit, and three poetry chapbooks. Some of her poems, drawings, and photos appear in her nonfiction book, Martha, Mary, and Jesus: Weaving Action and Contemplation in Daily Life and in her recent memoir, The Never-Quite-Ending War: a WWII GI Daughter’s Stories. She and her husband live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Free and open to the public.
Contact: info@rcwms.org

Art Day by the Haw River with Sue Sneddon
2019-11-16 09:00 - 16:30 | MahaloArts Studio, Saxahahaw, NC, Saxapahaw, NC, United States
Let’s go with the flow! Bring your favorite art supplies to capture the beauty of the Haw River. Sue will demonstrate some techniques and offer one-on-one assistance to help you reach your desired effects. Some pastel and watercolor supplies will be available.
Leader: Sue Sneddon has been a full-time painter since 1984. Her work reveals an abiding interest in nature in all its forms, especially the play of light on water. She lives at the NC coast and is known for her representations of the ocean.
Sponsors: RCWMS and mahaloArts
Cost: $100. Bring your own lunch or yummy options will be available (for free & for purchase.)
To register or for more information, contact: Alison Weiner of mahaloArts, www.mahaloArts.com/sayhey/

Celebration of Elder Wisdom, by Anita McLeod
2019-12-08 15:00 - 17:00 | King’s Daughters Inn, 204 N Buchanan Blvd., Durham, NC, 27701
We are so pleased to announce the publication of Elder Women: Searching for Truth in Circles of Women, a book of Anita McLeod’s collected writings. Join us for a celebration of Anita and the book on December 8, in the season of what would have been her 80th birthday.

We are forever grateful for Anita McLeod’s many roles and influences at RCWMS. Anita embodied feminist principles in her leadership style: she trusted groups of women to learn from and teach one another without her having to be the kind of teacher who tells participants everything they need to know. She trusted the groups more than the “experts.” She often said, “I wanted to learn, to have meaningful conversations, and to contemplate my choices in a circle of thoughtful women.”

We hope you will join with Anita’s friends and family for the launch of this labor of love and esteem. Elder Wisdom will be for sale at the event.

Holiday Sale
2019-12-15 13:00 - 17:00 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Come by to visit, have a cup of tea, look at our art, and buy great gifts.
We will have cards, books, jewelry, animals, and more made by: B. J. Fusaro, Galia Goodman, Bonnie Wright, Bryant Holsenbeck, Laxmi Hummel, and Jeanette Stokes
Judy Dearlove will be on hand to sign copies of her new novel, Play On!
Bring friends and family!

Interfaith Celebration & Dances of Universal Peace
2019-12-21 18:00 - 21:30 | Durham Friends Meeting, 404 Alexander Ave, Durham, NC, 27705, United States
We gather to reflect on the fading of the light and the promise of its return, on community and connections, on loss and love. All spiritual paths and religious traditions are welcome.

We hope you will join us for a potluck supper and a celebration of song, readings, and dance designed to include and connect us all. Potluck begins at 6:00 pm and the Celebration at 7:00 pm. All are welcome. Bring a candle.

Suggested donation: $5-10.

Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, events@rcwms.org

How Did I Get Here and Where Am I Going?
2020-01-18 09:30 - 15:30 | Durham, NC, United States
As we enter the next chapter of our lives, let’s explore where we are and how we got here. We can then think about what we want and need to enrich our days ahead. Come to a women’s retreat and have time for self reflection and interaction with others who are also learning about the journey of midlife and onwards. In sisterhood and silence, you will clarify your visions, learn new skills, and pave a path towards what you hope for.
Leaders: Lisa Baron, PhD, LCSW has a private psychotherapy practice in Carrboro. Cathy Meerbergen, MA has a Masters of Arts in Counseling.
Location: In a cozy house with a cat in Durham, NC
Cost: $75 (sliding scale for those who need it)
Contact: RCWMS,919-683-1236, info@rcwms.org

Hearts for Sale
2020-02-09 13:00 - 17:00 | RCWMS Office, 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Come for tea and Valentines, cards for all occasions, art, jewelry, handmade books, and more by B. J. Fusaro, Galia Goodman, Jeanette Stokes, Bonnie Wright, and The Travel Penguin. Valentine’s Day is not just for sweethearts anymore. It’s a time to tell friends and family that you love them. Recent books published by RCWMS will be for sale, including Play On! by Judy Dearlove and Elder Wisdom by Anita McLeod. To purchase books: rcwms.org/publications/. For more information, call Jeanette, 919-683-1236.

Finding Your Medium: A Weekend of Art with Sue Sneddon
2020-02-14 16:00 - 2020-02-16 14:00 | A lovely cottage in Emerald Isle, NC
“I can’t draw a straight line.” Well, who said you should? Isn’t it time to pack up some art supplies and head to the beach? Sue Sneddon will be in residence at The Boat House on Emerald Isle for a weekend of exploration into various media for painting and drawing. These will include: pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, pastel, oil pastel, watercolor, gouache, acrylics, and some mixed media options. Let’s find the ones that float your boat! Sue will provide all art supplies needed for the workshop. You may also bring any art supplies you have.
Leader: Sue Sneddon has been a full-time painter since 1984. Much of her work has concentrated on the ocean, especially the NC coast, where she now lives.
Cost: Workshop and food, $375. (Lunches and dinners included.) Plus housing in a beautiful beach house, $125 double or $225 single.
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, events@rcwms.org

Making Your Art: An Advanced Workshop with Sue Sneddon
2020-02-20 19:00 - 2020-02-23 14:00 | North Carolina
This retreat is for women who have already taken Sue’s “Finding Your Medium” workshop. It takes place in a lovely cottage on Emerald Isle, NC.
Leader: Sue Sneddon
Cost: Workshop & some meals, $400, plus housing in beautiful beach house, $125 double or $225 single.
To register, be in touch with Jeanette at RCWMS, 919-683-1236, events@rcwms.org.

Labyrinth Walk at Duke Chapel
2020-03-03 08:00 - 20:00 | Duke Chapel, 401 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, 27708, United States
The labyrinth, a 40-foot circle containing a winding path, is an ancient spiritual practice of meditation and self-centering found in religious traditions from around the world. This labyrinth is a copy of the labyrinth in the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France from around 1220.

“Walking the labyrinth is a wonderful way to set aside some time for quiet retreat, unwind and listen for our deepest wisdom,” said the Rev. Jeanette Stokes of the center. “While physically engaged in following the curving path, the mind can be free to rest or focus on a particular thought or issue, and the heart can be free to listen for the leading of God. The labyrinth is a wonderful container for our hopes, questions and concerns. As we walk, new insights often arise.”

Plan to allow about half an hour for your labyrinth walk. Please wear clean socks. The event is free & all are welcome.

A Writing Workshop with Carol Henderson
2020-03-13 19:00 - 2020-03-14 15:30 | Comfortable home with cat, located off Old Erwin Rd in Durham, NC, Durham, NC, 27705, United States
This event has been CANCELED.

Using evocative prompts and aspects of craft, we will write about ourselves and our times. We will probe memory, metaphor, and points of view outside our own. Come prepared to write a lot and to leave with deeper insight and fresh perspective on your life as well as plenty of material for further inquiry and writing. Bring a bag lunch. Coffee, tea, and snacks provided. For women only.
Leader: Carol Henderson is a writer, editor, workshop leader, the author of Losing Malcolm, and Farther Along: The Writing Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers, and the editor of Wide Open Spaces: Call Stories.
More: www.carolhenderson.com
Time: Friday 7-9 pm, Saturday 9:30 am-3:30 pm
Location: A comfortable home off Old Erwin Rd in Durham. The house has a cat. Participants will be sent address and directions.
Cost: $125
Contact: RCWMS, 919-683-1236, events@rcwms.org.

NOTE: IF the workshop is SOLD OUT, contact events@rcwms.org to ask to be added to the WAIT LIST.
