YM24 Planning

Planning for Yearly Meeting in Adelaide in 2024

Next year, Yearly Meeting 2024 will be hosted in Adelaide in July. It will be a hybrid meeting, with face-to-face and online meetings and gatherings. This will be the first face-to-face gathering at a Yearly Meeting in Australia in five years.

Following the restrictions of Covid, many Friends have said that they are yearning for a face-to-face Yearly Meeting, a place where they feel truly gathered.  We aim to give Friends the opportunity to attend Yearly Meeting in the way which meets your particular circumstances, in person or online. Online registration may not be able to cover all the activities which occur in a fully online meeting. 

We look forward to greeting all Friends, whether you are with us in person or online. We invite you all to join us in this experiment for Yearly Meeting.

The YM24 planners will present a Share and Tell session on Thursday July 6th at 3pm.  We will show photographs of the planned venue, including meeting spaces, accommodation, dining areas and the surrounding landscape. We will be there to answer questions and, most important of all, we want to hear from Friends. 

YM24 will be an experiment, just as the first digital Yearly Meeting was in 2020.  What are we hoping to have at our first hybrid Yearly Meeting? What do we need to retain from online Yearly Meetings?  If we can’t manage to do everything, what can we let go?  Please come with your ideas and suggestions for YM24, join in the discussion with the YM24 planners and the current Yearly Meeting Organising Committee and make a note to attend the Share and Tell session on Thursday 6th July at 3pm.

Jo Jordan, Harald Ehmann and Topsy Evans
YM24 planners in SANTRM