Friendship Force of the National Capital Area

This will be a one-hour meeting to vote on the officers and board for 2021 and proposed amendments to our by-laws.

A slide presentation on the Calgary, Canada visit to Kiel, Germany journey completed the week after our own club journey to Hamburg Germany in 2019.

 Celebrate Valentines Day with friends -- no presentations just good company. Watch your email for suggestions for romantic snacks. Pick out your favorite bubbly or wine to toast to love, Friendship, and Peace.  

FFNCA Member, Russell Belcher's documentary film about his mountain town of Grundy in Southwest Virginia that was demolished to make way for a flood control project in the Spring and Summer of 2006 and onward. There are poignant scenes of the town coming down and people talking about their lives as they watched the town being erased. […]

Amanda Muir, Secretary of the Greater Washington Folklore Society (GWFS) will give a presentation for FFNCA on the Orpheus WorkshopSeries that engages the audience in their own homes to learn new styles with familiar instruments to develop existing skills and explore new artistic avenues. Cultural expressions covered include instrumental music, dance, song, and art such a […]

On March 21st at 3:00, we will hear about the Changing Face of Friendship Force International: Updates on FFI rebranding, new activities, and website and discussion of ways FFNCA can better serve its members and attract new members.

Join us for a happy hour and trivia game organized by FFNCA members. Questions will be in five categories: 1. FFI 2. FFNCA history 3. FFNCA zooms during COVID 4. Local interest (Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC) 5. Country facts (focusing on countries club members have visited on outgoing journeys) You can look for […]

Drury & Sandy Tallant will share their experiences enjoying long periods of travel. With both youth and years of travel behind us, we joined Friendship Force to expand opportunities for the kind of international experiences we would like to enjoy.

The iconostasis in the Church on Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia. Paul Gesalman has visited Russia numerous times in the past ten years and has visited all but three of the former Soviet Republics. Those visits include leading two Friendship Force journeys to Russia and one to Azerbaijan. He will speak on life in those […]

Workshop by Susan Wolf on how to better include people with hearing difficulties in FFNCA activities.