UQM update

07/09/19 22:18 Filed in: UQM News

Dear Friends

Welcome to the September 2019 edition of the Ulster Quarterly Meeting Central Committee newsletter. Below you will find some events and information that Ulster Friends have shared for circulation around Meetings. This newsletter will be circulated at the beginning of each month. If your Meeting is planning any events that would be of interest to Ulster Quakers and that Friends from other meetings could attend or you have any information to share, please send it to me and I will include it. The deadline for the October 2019 edition is Friday 27 September 2019.

Ulster Quarterly Meeting to be held on Saturday 21 September 2019 at 10:30am in Bessbrook Friends Meeting House
Please see attached programme for details.

EcoQuakers Ireland Event on Saturday 19th October
Attached is the poster for the EcoQuakers Ireland event on Saturday 19th October to be held in South Belfast Meeting House. All are welcome to attend - just email the ecoquakersireland@gmail.com email address to let EcoQuakers know you are planning on attending. Feel free to distribute this poster further.

European Heritage Open Days 2019
Frederick Street Meeting House will be open on Saturday 14th September from 11.00am-1.00pm for the European Heritage Open weekend. They are coordinating their opening times with seven of the other buildings in the North Belfast Heritage Cluster, which means Friends will also be able to visit Clifton House, the Indian Community Centre, Carlisle Memorial Church, St Malachy’s College Chapel and Library, North Belfast Working Mens Club, Carnegie Old Park Library and St Anne’s Cathedral on that Saturday morning. Most of these buildings are within walking distance of the Meeting House. Refreshments will be served during the morning, with donations going to Quaker Service. More information on the individual properties can be found in the EHOD brochure, available from your local Visitor Information Centre, library or council office, or visit the website www.discovernorthernireland.com/ehod.

War School Film at South Belfast Meeting House
War School is a new film about the battle for the hearts and minds of British children. The film was made by an independent director with financial support from Britain Yearly Meeting. Set against the backdrop of remembrance of previous conflicts, this is a controversial and challenging documentary. It reveals how, faced with unprecedented opposition to its wars and a severe shortage of military recruits, the British government is using a series of new and targeted strategies to promote support for the military. This film is being shown on Wednesday 11 September 2019 at 7.30pm in South Belfast Meeting House, 22 Marlborough Park North, Belfast. Tea and biscuits available from 7.00pm. The film is 85 minutes long. Please share this event.

Friendship Lunches at South Belfast
The dates for the upcoming Friendship Lunches at South Belfast Meeting are below. Meeting for Worship starts at 12:15pm with lunch at 12:45pm. Everyone welcome! Please also see the attached flyer.

THU 5 SEP
THU 3 OCT
THU 7 NOV
THU 5 DEC
THU 2 JAN
THU 6 FEB
THU 5 MAR
THU 2 APR
THU 7 MAY
THU 4 JUN

Kind regards

Karen
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Karen Nicholson
Administrator
Ulster Quarterly Meeting
admin@ulsterquakers.com

SOUTH BELFAST QUAKERS

Quakers (or the Religious Society of Friends as they are also known), have held Meetings for Worship in Ireland since 1654. After a previous failed attempt to establish a lasting Belfast Meeting around 1665, the first permanent Belfast Quaker Meeting was established in 1799, and in 1810 it moved to Brewery Lane, now known as Frederick Street. It wasn’t until 1956 that a second Meeting was approved for Friends who lived in Belfast, this time based in the south of the city. South Belfast Meeting House is an active Meeting with approximately 45 adult members and attenders who worship together each Sunday. Children & Young People also play a large part in our meeting, and we have on average 22, 1-18 year olds joining us for the last 10 mins of our worship, after their own activities.

Meeting for Worship takes place at 10.45am each Sunday at our meeting house ( see address and directions on the contact page )

Alternatively you can join us on Zoom with the following details:

Meeting iD: 4613195026
Pass: 143412

South Belfast Meeting is part of the larger Ireland Yearly Meeting (see details of Quakers in Ireland below)