October 19, 2023

ARTIST: Shirley Storms

ARTIST STATEMENT: I started at WES the same year I started exploring multi media art, 2007. Before that I was a fiber artist, and a school teacher.

Many kinds of materials not usually thought of as art materials are fun to play with. I love to recycle and repurpose found things and combine them with other more familiar pieces. The labyrinth in this piece is made from broken car windshield glass I scraped up off the street. It was the first time I ever used it, but not the last. Most of my art has a story, a humanistic point, or at least a bit of whimsey. In this one I was thinking of the rainbow of people needing to find new homes, the difficult journey each one must take, and my wish for how they will be helped through their desperate time.

So Many Good Deeds, So Little Time

Hugh Taft-Morales

Join us for Platform Service. We will start at 10:30am in the Main Hall. Parking is pretty easy (and free!) around WES. We hope you’ll join us!

Music from the WES Chorus.

October 20

October 21

Register for SEEK

10am Or whenever you finish your Saturday morning coffee.

Register online here

Volunteer in SEEK

10:15am Or whenever you finish that second cup of Saturday morning coffee.

Sign up here.

October 22

Platform Service

10:30am

Main Hall or on Zoom

Nursery

10:30am

Downstairs Classroom

PreK-5th Grade SEEK Class

10:30am

Double Classroom

6th-8th Grade SEEK Class

10:30am

Adler Study

Social Hour

After Platform

Lobby or on Zoom

Creating a Caring Culture Event Series - Fear

12:30pm

Social Hall

Register here.

Sci-Fi Book Club

1:30pm

Zoom Link

Mental Health Support Group

2pm

Zoom Link

October 23

Mindfulness Group Meeting

7:30pm

Zoom

October 24

Improv at WES

6:45pm - 8:30pm

Social Hall

October 25

Visual Journaling Group

7pm

Zoom Link

WES Chorus Rehearsal

7:30pm

Main Hall

October 26

October 27

October 28

Register for SEEK

10am Or whenever you finish your Saturday morning coffee.

Register online here

Volunteer in SEEK

10:15am Or whenever you finish that second cup of Saturday morning coffee.

Sign up here.

Influenza, Coronavirus, and Rhinovirus Season are in Full Swing

The WES Health and Safety Team would like to remind you that Platform attendees are encouraged to wear a mask. Additionally, if you are not feeling well or if you or someone in your household has COVID, we encourage you to stay home and participate in platform via Zoom.

Also, new COVID vaccines for 2023-2024 are now available for people over 6 months old. We encourage you to get a booster when you go for your annual flu vaccine and/or RSV vaccine.

Creating a Caring Culture

In the WES Social Hall

The WES Community Relations Committee (CRC) & Lifelong Learning (LLL) present a series where we'll confront harmful power systems that show up in ourselves, our community, and society in general and aim to disconnect people. We'll explore how we can change our thinking and behavior to form more cooperative and collaborative ways to engage with each other.

Oct 22, 12:30-2pm - Fear

Nov 19, 12:30-2pm - Worship of the Written Word & One Way Thinking

Jan 28, 12:30-2pm - Quantity over Quality

Register Here

Save the Date!

Stone Soup

Sunday, November 12, after platform 12:30-2pm

Location: WES

WES Auction 2023: Out of this World!

Saturday, November 18, 6-10pm

Location: WES



Join WES on an intergalactic adventure and meet creatures of all kinds for good food, good fun, and a good cause: supporting WES. Tickets, bidding details, and item catalog available at https://app.auctria.com/auction/WESauction2023

WES & Lutheran Social Services Join Together for a Winter Coat Drive -- Now through November 19

The WES Immigration Justice Team invites you to the 2023 WES Refugee Coat Drive! This year we are again partnering with Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area (LSSNCA). We request donations of all sizes of new or gently-used winter coats for local refugee children and adults. They are needed by the families who are currently being resettled permanently in the D.C. area by the Lutheran refugee resettlement agency. 

Please deposit your donations in the large cardboard box in the WES cloakroom area. For questions or receipt for tax deduction purposes, please contact Katherine O'Kester with a listing your garments, sizes, and colors, along with the date you dropped them off.