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Knitting & Quilting Retreat Celebrates 20 Years
A STORY OF FAITH AND FIBER: Varian Brandon’s Knitting and Quilting Retreat Celebrates 20 Years On a crisp western North Carolina day in 2003 while accomplished knitter and instructor Varian Brandon, originally from Columbia, South Carolina, was on a family Christmas retreat at Kanuga, she came across two knitters. One was a guest knitting during...
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Kanuga Receives Program Grant from Trinity Church
Kanuga is pleased to share that a grant from Trinity Church will make possible a new program: Kanuga Leadership Residency.  The project grant of $370,000 will fund the creation of a hybrid leadership training program for clergy and lay leaders. The curriculum will advance The Episcopal Church’s mission to restore all people to unity with...
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Kanuga Welcomes 2023 with Full Slate of Events
With a full calendar of conferences, camps, retreats, gatherings, musical performances, guest period, and more, Kanuga’s 2023 calendar offers many opportunities to connect with each other, nature, and the Creator. Kanuga’s programming is back up and running after several years of pandemic recovery. “We have focused on rebuilding based not on what was necessarily done...
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Dr. Catherine Meeks and David Whyte Headline Kanuga’s 2023 Lansing Lee Conference
Kanuga’s Lansing Lee Conference, will be held October 10-12 and feature Dr. Catherine Meeks and poet/philosopher David Whyte. The Rev. Winnie Varghese will serve as chaplain. Dr. Catherine Meeks is Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing. A sought-after teacher and workshop leader, Dr. Meeks brings four decades of experience in working...
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