Thursday, April 25, 2013
Friends Enrichment Program's annual event will feature performances from 25 talented young people.
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Thursday, April 25
Twenty-five talented young musicians will provide the entertainment at Friends Enrichment Program’s (FEP) annual Music and Dance Medley this Sunday. Among the performers is Moorestown High School freshman Alyssa Caffrey, who will play “Angel of Music,” by British composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber, on the harp. The youngest soloist on this year’s program is 7-year-old Latrice Ellis, a Baker Elementary School first-grader, who will play “Hot Cross Buns” on the piano, and one of the oldest is 16-year-old violinist Isaac Gebremedhin, a Lenape High School junior, who will play “Gavotte” by J.S. Bach and “Gigue” from Sonata in D Minor by F.M. Veracini. Also among the oldest is 17-year-old Kenan Soso, a hip-hop dancer and Moorestown Friends School …
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Reserve your spot now at the Friends Enrichment Program's (FEP) annual dinner/fundraiser. Proceeds benefit the South Jersey Food Bank and FEP scholarships.
Nourish your body and your soul by attending the Friends Enrichment Program’s (FEP) annual Empty Bowl Dinner fundraiser this weekend. Two months ago, children in the FEP of Moorestown Friends Meeting—a program designed to serve financially disadvantaged, underserved Moorestown youths—made ceramic bowls for the annual fundraiser. Now they are aflutter as they gear up for the big event, which will be held from 4-7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in the Friends Meetinghouse, 118 Main St. The dinner is one of the children’s community service activities and they will be on hand to greet guests, sell bowls, and co-host the event along with their leaders. The Empty Bowl Dinner offers a mix of food for the body, the mind and the soul. For a freewill …
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Monday, February 25, 2013
The Friends Enrichment program once again hosted a pottery workshop for underserved Moorestown children.
Twenty-nine children recently attended a pottery workshop at Moorestown Friends School (MFS) where, under the leadership of ceramic artist and MFS art teacher David Gamber, the participants learned basic pottery techniques and made bowls, which they painted and decorated. To create unique designs, they used simple tools, such as printing blocks and their own fingers. The objective was to make one-of-a-kind bowls, each bowl bearing the initials of its maker. The workshop is a special annual project of the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) for underserved, financially disadvantaged Moorestown children. Among the participants were 22 children active in FEP and seven from Moorestown Friends School and Moorestown Friends Meeting. No one was …
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
A monarch butterfly workshop, sponsored by the Friends Enrichment Program, was held Sunday.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Forty-two people—28 children and 14 adults—gathered in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse to attend Scott Davis’s monarch butterfly workshop, an event hosted by the Friends Enrichment Program this past Sunday. By all accounts, it was an inspiring and exciting learning experience for all, with live caterpillars, chrysalises and more than 30 adult butterflies to observe and tag before sending them off on their journey to their wintering grounds in Mexico. A resident of Lancaster County, PA, Davis—who holds Pennsylvania State certifications in elementary education and secondary biology—is a gifted natural teacher. For several hours, he held everyone’s attention and invited the young people to ask questions and regard themselves as …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The Friends Enrichment Program will host a workshop to educate the community about monarch butterflies at the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse this weekend.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
FEP—the Friends Enrichment Program for financially disadvantaged, underserved Moorestown children—will host a monarch butterfly workshop from 3-5:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse. Environmentalist Scott Davis will lead the workshop. Davis is a monarch butterfly devotee and passionate master gardener, whose garden features native wildflowers and shuns non-native species. His workshop is billed as an exciting learning experience and celebration of life for people of all ages. It is an opportunity for participants to learn about monarch butterflies, their body parts and life cycle, their role in the ecosystem as pollinators of flowering plants, and their migratory patterns. Davis holds Pennsylvania …
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Friends Enrichment Program of Moorestown Friends Meeting helped 27 kids, and their families, have a fun-filled summer.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
“Why can’t I stay longer?” The girl didn’t want to go back home. She wanted to spend more time at summer camp. She is one of four Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) scholarship recipients who, earlier this month, attended a weeklong session of Camp Dark Waters, a Quaker residential camp nestled on the banks of Rancocas Creek, in Medford Township. The other three FEP children enrolled at Camp Dark Waters echoed the same sentiments when the time came for them to leave and say goodbye to their counselors and the many new friends they made at camp. “I’m getting calls for him from kids he met at Camp Dark Waters,” the mother of one of the boys said. Another mother remarked her 14-year-old son is hoping to return to camp as a …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The song and dance program will be presented Sunday afternoon at Moorestown Friends School.
On Sunday, the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) for financially disadvantaged Moorestown children will hold its annual Music and Dance Medley at 3 p.m. in the dining hall/commons of Moorestown Friends School (MFS). The event will showcase young performers from FEP, the Friends School, and the community at large in an eclectic fast-paced program of song, dance and instrumental music. The FEP dancers will perform under the direction of two teenage FEP leaders: Ashleigh Cartwright and Desiree Williams. Ashleigh, a Moorestown Friends School Upper School junior, is the FEP creator, director and choreographer of FEP Introduction to Ballet. Desiree, a Moorestown High School (MHS) sophomore, is the FEP Praise Dancing choreographer and director. …
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Children in the Friends Enrichment Program of Moorestown Friends Meeting, in partnership with Moorestown Friends School, assemble robotic vehicles with Legos.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Thirteen children enrolled in the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) of Moorestown Friends Meeting trooped into science and robotics teacher Timothy Clarke’s classroom at Moorestown Friends School recently. Quietly, they sat at eight different workstations, each equipped with a computer that displayed diagrammatically each step involved in the making of a motorized vehicle made of Lego parts. Step-by-step, children 8 and up began assembling their robots. Assisting them were four student members of the Upper School robotics team and four FEP volunteers, all working under Clarke’s direction. For two hours, the children remained engrossed in building robots. Back and forth, they moved from their individual stations to the large plastic …
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Friends Enrichment Program hosted the pottery workshop as a prelude to its Empty Bowls Dinner next month.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
On a recent Sunday afternoon, 25 children gathered in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse to attend a pottery workshop hosted by the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) for financially disadvantaged Moorestown children. Under the able guidance of ceramic artist and Moorestown Friends School art teacher David Gamber, the young people (a mix of FEP kids and young members of Moorestown Meeting) learned basic pottery techniques and made bowls. For workshop participants, it was up-to-your-elbows in clay and water, a messy hands-on activity that filled them with glee. As one boy remarked, “It’s a fun thing to do”—an opportunity for kids to play and work with clay to their heart’s content, while drawing on their imagination and creativity to …
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Eleven-year-old Karina Santos received the group's first-ever Monique Begg Scholarship.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
In a brief ceremony held in the Moorestown Friends Meetinghouse, 11-year-old Karina Santos, a fifth-grader at the Upper Elementary School and a member of the Friends Enrichment Program (FEP) for underserved Moorestown children, was recognized and honored as the first recipient of the Monique Begg Scholarship. David Gamber, a member of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Meeting, welcomed Karina and presented her with the award. Established this year by the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of the Meeting to recognize FEP chair Monique Begg’s “compassionate and steadfast commitment to serve the young people of Moorestown,” this scholarship is merit-based and is to be awarded annually to a member of FEP. To be selected, a …
BJs
12:55 pm on Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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