• Fireside Chat: Expanding Protections for TN Renters with SOCM

    *Sponsored by Carson and Paige McSailor* Statewide Organizing For Community Empowerment (SOCM) is a 53-year-old, member-led organization dedicated to empowering Tennesseans by training local leaders and sustaining locally rooted membership organizations. Members work toward a Tennessee where all people are treated with dignity, the environment is protected, and corporations and officials are held accountable. Join us […]

  • Vegan Potluck

    Vegan Potluck
    The Philosopher's House 117 W Fairview Ave., Johnson City

    Calling all vegans and/or vegan curious! Join us for a community potluck. Please bring ONLY vegan dishes to share. Materials required:  Vegan covered dish or dessert to share. Please list ALL ingredients on notecard to set next to dishes. Ice water provided.  Please bring your own cutlery and plates to minimize waste. Cost: Beverage purchase […]

  • Poetry Writer’s Workshop

    Poetry Writer’s Workshop

    *This group is currently full, but if you would like to be added to the waitlist please email Kayla at nichols.kmichelle@gmail.com * This bi-weekly sharing circle is open to poets of all levels.  Participants are encouraged to share their poetry in a friendly, constructive, and welcoming atmosphere.  Attendees often discuss poetic themes, share resources and book recommendations, […]

  • Ride JC Meeting (5/1 Canceled for Mother’s Day Holiday weekend)

    Ride JC Meeting

    Ride JC helps all people be healthier and happier by educating about alternative transit and improving connectedness in the Appalachian Highlands. We encourage everyone to Bike, Walk, Bus, or Roll around their communities through group rides, educational classes, and advocating for infrastructure. Join us for planning and organizing! Materials required: None needed. Location: Meditation/classroom space […]

  • Drawing and Tea Social

    Drawing and Tea Social
    The Philosopher's House 117 W Fairview Ave., Johnson City

    Drawing and Tea Social: We support and appreciate each other's artistic journeys. We have weekly challenges, sketchbook tours, art mentoring and more. When: Saturdays at 4:30 - 5-30p Location: Tea Table, 1st floor Organizer contact: Benjamin Abbott with The FADE Initiative. Email: benjaminabbott3@gmail.com or Laura Carlson at Laura@fadeinit.org What to bring: any dry art and dry materials you […]

  • Advanced Level Japanese Language Table

    The Philosopher's House 117 W Fairview Ave., Johnson City

    Come practice Japanese! This immersive group includes native English-speaking community members, native Japanese-speaking community members, and ETSU students in the Japanese language program. No expectations, just a relaxed time to practice your Japanese! While group members have varying levels of Japanese proficiency, all conversation will be in Japanese only, no English allowed! Location: The Meditation Room, […]

  • Chai Hour

    Chai Hour

    Weekly on Fridays You are invited to gather with Eriel to learn and explore the ancient system of Ayurveda from where we now know as India and parts of Pakistan. Ayurveda’s singular goal has always been to “reduce suffering.” Our gatherings have two main goals: release and fortify, in order to reduce suffering. How to […]

  • Drawing and Tea Social

    Drawing and Tea Social
    The Philosopher's House 117 W Fairview Ave., Johnson City

    Drawing and Tea Social: We support and appreciate each other's artistic journeys. We have weekly challenges, sketchbook tours, art mentoring and more. When: Saturdays at 4:30 - 5-30p Location: Tea Table, 1st floor Organizer contact: Benjamin Abbott with The FADE Initiative. Email: benjaminabbott3@gmail.com or Laura Carlson at Laura@fadeinit.org What to bring: any dry art and dry materials you […]

  • Steeped in Stories Author Meetup

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    Twice-Monthly meet up for local authors on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays: The goal is to be in community and encourage fellow authors on their current projects. We'll do group feedback, discuss local events and collaborations, and have various discussion topics on the craft of writing, and the business of selling, books. Feel free to […]

  • Fireside Chat: Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and Racism in America with Historian Luke Peace

    The Philosopher's House 117 W Fairview Ave., Johnson City

    Reconstruction, Civil Rights, and Racism in America Civil War Reconstruction is often viewed by historians as a programmatic failure concerning race relations. African Americans were granted constitutional freedoms but left in the same racial subordination they had been for centuries. Why did it take a civil rights movement a century later to even begin to rectify […]

  • Chai Hour

    Chai Hour

    Weekly on Fridays You are invited to gather with Eriel to learn and explore the ancient system of Ayurveda from where we now know as India and parts of Pakistan. Ayurveda’s singular goal has always been to “reduce suffering.” Our gatherings have two main goals: release and fortify, in order to reduce suffering. How to […]