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Celebrate Spring and the Breathing Earth

Scholarship Fundraising Event at Still Point Mountain Retreat featuring Jesse Palidofsky and friends in concert
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Still Point Mountain Retreat near Harpers Ferry WV

Featuring:

✓ Jesse Palidofsky and friends in concert
✓ Alfresco dining by accolade winning retreat chefs
✓ Story-telling, poetry, drumming, fire circle and more
✓ Accommodations in Still Point cabin and Rolling Ridge Retreat House

You are welcome anytime Saturday to join the Still Point Partners, Friends of Silence staff, and Rolling Ridge Study Retreat Community in joyful spring raking and cleaning in the budding wilderness. Or come just as the shadows begin to lengthen for the main event ...

✓ 4 pm — lemonade, appetizers, and fundraising surprises
✓ 5 pm — scrumptious picnic porch supper
✓ 6 pm — festive concert, followed by fire circle
✓ Stay all night — for free

Your donation includes supper, the concert, and scholarship aid. Rain location: Rolling Ridge Retreat House. Call 240-421-1342 to check.

Friends of Silence has the wonderful opportunity to host writer and ecologist David Abram as he leads "Between the Body and the Breathing Earth" at Still Point, October 8-11. To make this amazing retreat possible for all who desire to come, we must raise money for scholarships. Please help by celebrating spring and the breathing earth with us at Still Point on May 2.

Friends of Silence is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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