Aug
19
to Aug 23

Garden and Landcare Gathering

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Come to Silver Wattle to spend time working on the productive orchard, food garden and on the land. Work includes planting, weeding, harvesting, and preparing beds for growing food, as well as caring for the land through revegetation, weed control, and conservation of native flora and fauna. The schedule allows time for rest, reflection, and worship; walking the landscape; learning and working in community; and eating delicious, healthy meals prepared by Sam Hawker.

Volunteers are invited to contribute according to their skills, interests and abilities. You can come for part or all days. For volunteers, there is no cost. All meals and accommodation are provided.

If you do not wish to volunteer, this is also an opportunity to come to Silver Wattle as a sojourner, to do your own thing, to work on your own projects, to write or paint or study, or to be restored and refreshed, while being cared for in a beautiful landscape and warm community. Costs for sojourners are $120 per night for a single room or $100 per night for a shared room. 3 meals, morning tea and afternoon tea are included.

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Garden, Land care & Sojourners Gathering
May
13
to May 17

Garden, Land care & Sojourners Gathering

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Come to Silver Wattle to spend time in the garden, caring for the trees, or to sojourn with others. There will be time for activity, rest, reflection and worship, walking the landscape, learning and working in community and eating delicious, healthy meals prepared by Sam Hawker.

Attendance as a volunteer is free of charge

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Apr
29
to May 5

Artist's Gathering 2026

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Silver Wattle Artists Gathering 2026

After reflecting on our gatherings since 2015 we are seeking to sink deeply down to spirit that connects us to all living things and our creativity. Connect with the rhythm of the Universe… grounded and present listening for the presence of Spirit. Trust and explore the experience of Spirit, connection to the sacred land and our individual creativity.

Sink into the silence and peace of Silver Wattle at Weereewaa and be. Explore each day… allowing time to see what arises within. No plan, no direction, free to just be. Bring your creative work that you wish to complete or start, as well as any quotes, poems, books that speak to your condition. We will explore in small groups our spirituality and creativity.

Barbara Huntington is a textile artist living at Fishermans Reach NSW on the banks of Macleay River on Dunghutti land. She is inspired by her environment, using natural dyes, slow embroidery and weaving to reflect her surroundings. She is a Quaker, inspired by poetry, her relationship to the environment and the Buddhist understanding that we are all connected.

Brenda Roy is a Quaker, gratefully living in Perth, on Whadjuk, Noongar, land. She is a spinner, weaver and natural dyer who finds delight in the colours and textures of the world around her. She follows an Earth Path spirituality, seeing the Spirit in all beings and believes in the power of making clothing and everyday objects that carry sacred intent.

Jen Newton lives on the land of the Muwinina people, the original custodians of Nipaluna, (Hobart). A tribe that did not survive the genocide in Tasmania. She is a convinced Quaker and believes that her creativeness is part of her spiritual practice. Inspired by the natural environment, she explores textiles, mixed media, wearable art, photography, basketry, natural dyeing, recycled materials for sculptural pieces and in 2025 immersed herself in ceramics.

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Judith Wright: Poet and Activist for First Nations People and the Environment
Apr
9
to Apr 15

Judith Wright: Poet and Activist for First Nations People and the Environment

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Led by: Michael Griffith & Doug Amarfio

Focus: Judith Wright: Poet and Activist for First Nations People and the Environment, in the context of some poems by First Nations People around the globe.

This event is the Quaker Poetry Group face to face annual meeting. All are invited, not just poetry group members.

 Participants are invited to contribute any poems by either Judith Wright or First Nations People that fit the themes of this meeting- see below (please send poems direct to Rosegriffith@bigpond.com).

Wright lived her last decades in the Queanbeyan–Palerang landscape (which includes Bungendore, Braidwood and Lake George). She was passionately committed to working on a Treaty for Aboriginals (with her partner Nugget Coombs) and she was deeply immersed in the native flora and fauna. Her deep friendship with Indigenous poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal gave focus to her twin passions. Other First Nations poets who could be included in this context: Joy Harjo, Layli Long Soldier, Jack Davis, Evelyn Araluen, Ali Cobby Eckermann. With Judith Wright these explore ecological stewardship, colonial impacts on land, and the deep spiritual ties between Indigenous peoples and the natural world.

REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

Cost: $720 for a single room, $550 for a shared room

Please pay for this course by direct deposit to:

Silver Wattle

BSB: 633 000

Acc: 141 426 890

Please include your name & course in reference 

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Garden, Land care & Sojourners Gathering - February 18th - 22nd 2026
Feb
18
to Feb 22

Garden, Land care & Sojourners Gathering - February 18th - 22nd 2026

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Come to Silver Wattle to spend time in the garden, caring for the trees, or to sojourn with others. There will be time for activity, rest, reflection and worship, walking the landscape, learning and working in community and eating delicious, healthy meals prepared by Sam Hawker.

Attendance as a volunteer is free of charge

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Quaker Climate Action Plan and Active Hope
Feb
12
to Feb 15

Quaker Climate Action Plan and Active Hope

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Registrations Closed

Led by Jane Hope and Samara Pitt.

This course will be held at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre. Are you working for change in our troubled world? Are you passionate about taking action for a safe climate? Do you want some dedicated time with others to discover what might be yours to do? Or do you want some inspiration to keep going with the climate action work you are already involved in? If so, then this course is just right for you.

The course leaders have used the Active Hope work of Joanna Macy as a way to be encouraged, to engage with others and discover what is ours to do as we face climate change. We see that it could also empower Quakers as we enact the Quaker Climate Action Plan.

The Active Hope course unfolds as a Spiral journey through four stages: Coming from Gratitude, Honouring our Pain for the world, Seeing with New/Ancient Eyes, and Going Forth. The journey helps us experience first hand that we are larger, stronger, more creative - and more deeply interconnected - than we knew.

We will spend time experiencing nature connection, sharing in deep reflection in both large and small groups, singing and eating together, and learning some frameworks and tools for responding with and learning from Quaker depth and wisdom to the climate emergency and extinction crisis. We will look closely at how this body of work connects to Quaker practices and concerns, and how Quakers, and other activists, collectively can use its insights to respond to the confronting situation we face.

With this intention, for the final ‘Going Forth’ section of the Spiral where we reflect on our work for change in the world, we will focus on the proposed actions in the Quaker Climate Action Plan, which are relevant for Quakers and non-Quakers alike. Cost: $415 for a single room, $315 for a shared room

Registrations Closed

Please pay for this course by direct deposit to:

Silver Wattle

BSB: 633 000

Acc: 141 426 890

Please include your name & course in reference 

Registrations close: 30/01/2026

The two course leaders are from Gembrook Retreat, which is a 22 acre property on the border of Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung/Bunurong country on the outskirts of Narrm/Melbourne. It is a trust property set up by Maggie Dunkle, a Quaker woman, in 2000. Maggie believed that the property should be made available for all to experience spiritual renewal through connection with the land. In this time of climate crisis, we believe that by practising simplicity, community, land-based contemplation and engaging in the work of decolonisation, we can equip and encourage each other to live a soulful life. Jane and Samara have been running Active Hope workshops for 3 years.

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