[BES Friends] This weekend: Poetry, Desserts, Fritz, & AVAM

[Stephen Meskin]

*SATURDAY: * May 3 at 7:00 pm: 1st SATURDAY COFFEE HOUSE
poet Emily Peterson and musician Brian E. Langston
Poetry . Music . Refreshments . Open Mic . Donation Requested
EMILY PETERSON is a massage therapist, student, and mother who lives and 
works in both Baltimore and Annapolis. Her passions are health, 
philosophy, poetry, and languages. She will graduate with a B.A. in 
Philosophy from the University of Maryland College Park in May 2008. 
There, she has studied Arabic and medieval Islamic political 
philosophy.  She compiled her third personal chapbook "Stats on Loved 
Debris" this spring.
BRIAN LANGSTON is a transplant to the East Coast from the idyllic 
Southern California town of Santa Barbara, where, among other things, he 
performed as the guitarist in the punk/hard rock power trio, 
Babelfish42. During his tenure, Babelfish42 self-released a 6-song EP 
entitled "Bipolar" and played numerous gigs on the SoCal scene, 
culminating in an opening slot for the major-label band Cold. He is also 
a poet -- for some poetry and more information about that part of his 
life, see www.mayhemonward.com .
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*SUNDAY: *May 4: MOVABLE TREATS
Please bring your dessert contributions with you and place them on the 
table in the corner of our meeting room. And remember that there's a box 
for canned and dry good contributions for Moveable Feast near the 
bulletin board in our entrance area. We're accepting these contributions 
every Sunday.
Dessert Guidelines:
1) Use sandwich bags or snack bags to wrap your desserts in serving-size 
portions and label them to indicate generally what they are.
2) Mark your desserts if they contain nuts or peanuts.
3) Avoid desserts with heavy icings or containing alcohol.
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May 4 at 9:30 am: POETRY GROUP
No rhyming required! Bring poems that move you or that you have written 
to share and discuss. Each meeting we look at poems that loosely relate 
to a specific topic, announced ahead of time via e-mail. Facilitated the 
first Sunday by Karla, BES' "poet in residence", and the third Sunday by 
Kirk Mullen. Want to join in? Contact poet at BaltimoreEthicalSociety.org
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May 4: at 10:30 am: "The Long and the Short"
FRITZ WILLIAMS, Leader Emeritus,
In his last talk as Leader of the Baltimore Ethical Society, Fritz 
Williams reflects on what this work has meant to him and what he's tried 
to accomplish. He speaks about developing his own message about a good 
life that is grounded in emotional and moral health and is shaped by 
everyday encounters and experiences. He reflects on how he has attempted 
to use storytelling as a means of examining the process of moral 
development. And he expresses his gratitude for the opportunity to do 
this work within a religious movement with an unwavering commitment to 
human worth. It is work that will continue in the next phase of his life 
with a greater emphasis on writing and publication.  
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May 4, 1 PM, AVAM Tour with Rebecca Hoffberger "ALL FAITHS BEAUTIFUL"
Join BES at the American Visionary Art Museum to view the current show 
on faith, in which agnosticism and atheism are acknowledged along with 
traditional faiths. We are fortunate to be guided through the exhibit by 
Rebecca Hoffberger, AVAM's Founder and Director.  Hoffberger writes 
about this exhibit, "Whereas much has been made of interfaith discussion 
(surely meritorious) the deeper reality is that faith is never a 
monolithic thing, but rather a most personal, individualistic phenomena."

Admission to AVAM (800 Key Highway in the Inner Harbor) is $12 adults 
($7 for groups of 10 or more, that will be us!), $8 for seniors and 
students. There is no extra charge for the tour.

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