Upcoming Events & Summer Camps!
Hello to all of us,
The Center is here for our gathering. Throughout the retreats, arts and movement classes, new and old programs, preschool and teen studio keep the light of hope alive. Come together in purposeful creation and healing, recognizing the gifts that everyone has to share.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monthly Potluck Brunch - Feb 23rd
Seed Swap & Printmaking Workshop - March 8th
Clothing Swap - April 5th
April Vacation Camp: April 21st - 25th
Welcome Spring!
Wake up the earth with camp fires, planting seedlings, music, friendship and picnics!
Registration opens February 15th
SUMMER CAMPS 2025
YES! Get Excited!
Adventure, Friendships, Amazing Arts, Forest, Farm, Let’s Make Music, Theater
This summer Ajanku Brothers return with a West African Dance and Drumming week
June 30th - August 1st
Monday through Friday
5 Weeks of Daycamps for ages 5 - 12
June 22-July 18
Teen Camps & Workshops for ages 13 - 19
Registration opens February 15th!
We welcome Campers of all abilities and from all financial and economic situations.
75% of our campers attend through scholarships, so ask Us! Our intention is to make these programs financially accessible to all campers and families.
Jeffery P. Smith Farm Camp Scholarship
due by March 31st
Available to all Cheshire county youth ages 5 to 18
Additionally, we are supported by the Local Acworth Conservation Commission, the Alstead Conservation Commission, and More. Monadnock Development Services provides camp scholarships to their agency’s families.
Our intention in our work with youth is to create honest and direct attention towards peace, learning how to find our way together.
We believe in many ages coming together for chance meetings with beauty and wholeness.
ONGOING PROGRAMS
Leaders are excited to welcome you to these classes. Please contact them directly to sign up. Teacher leaders will update you on cancellations and changes by teachers directly.
Quaker Meeting Sundays, 9:30 - 10:30 am
Radiance Yoga with Elizabeth Bunker Tuesdays, 4:15pm
Walking Tree Zen Meditation Tuesdays, 6:30pm
Shapenote Sing 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, 6:30 pm
Orisha Inspired Dance Class Thursdays 6:30 pm
Orisha Dance continues on and hopes to grow as Elemental Rhythm and Flow, led by Kamala Burden. To contact Kamala to join the contact list, email kamaladance@gmail.com
Gratitudes
Thank you Jules and Bunny and Gia - for coming out in all the weather to be with our wonderful preschool Co-op families.
To the parents at the preschool co-op and the many ways they help and participate in gatherings, song, food while caring for our children and the future.
Thank you Alissa! We’ve known Alissa for a long time and in the last seven years she’s been lifting us up and focusing our energy, bringing all our senses together again after the pandemic. Collaborating with Andrea to create website with Sammy to form and create their own business as well as a thriving offering for teenagers of all abilities and ways. For gifting Eleanor time to be with the children and the people, and cohering the offerings of the Center. We love you, Alissa. We are forever thankful. We love it whenever you’re here amplifying voice, and the work for the future.
Once again to Hans for plowing and Noah for paying for it to Anton for heating units and curtains to keep the cold out. Thank you to Sammy and Eleanor for shoveling and sanding and winter maintenance.
Our dedicated leaders and teachers for bring their gifts of yoga, movement, health, attunement & massage offerings to the Center to make community health grow.
Thanks to the open Quaker Meeting space every Sunday morning, where folk of all beliefs gather to hold space for healing and finding a still place of possibility.
To Sammy, who brings sparkling light and art into a flow that has all the feelings and all the ways for peace in it.
To Andrea, for steady light streaming. Your steady warmth encompasses all of the intention and inspiration we wish to share.
Thank you to all the animals that live with us and make it through the winter with us and the unseen, and the elementals, and the trees that host true community.
For the way of generosity around here: sharing cars, finding shelters, letting the overflow flow over.
With love, towards the future,
The Center at Orchard Hill