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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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Michael Sullivan Reflects on 2022 Compass Rose Experience
Belonging Reflections on the 2022 Compass Rose Society Gathering —Michael Sullivan I stood at the west door of Westminster Abbey and stared down the nave, mesmerized. With the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier steps in front of me, I could not believe I was there. Alone. Just me in the space claimed sacred since the...
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Spring Concerts at Kanuga
Kanuga’s 2023 Music in the Pines series kicks off on Sunday, March 26 with a performance by Free Planet Radio, with special guest Simon de Voil.  March 26: Free Planet Radio: Sounds for the SOULstice March 18-April 16: Simon de Voil: Musician-in-Residence  April 14: A Day with Simon de Voil: Celtic Christianity-Finding Our Home in...
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