Whether you’re looking to discuss issues of the day or share a moment of spiritual communion through music, the month of May has you covered.

PT CONVERSATION CAFE

The Port Townsend Conversation Cafe has continued meeting through Zoom since the group’s switch to an online venue was profiled in the April 15 issue of The Leader, with meetings on “diplomacy versus force” on April 17 and “intuition” on April 24, leading up to their May 1 meeting on “passive resistance” at 11:30 a.m.

Organizer Mark Clark reported the group’s participants drew up a list of future topics, as follows:

May 8: Corporate sacrifice.

May 15: Humility.

May 22: Violence in streaming media.

May 29: Vacations.

June 5: Separation of powers.

June 12: Poetry’s meaning in our lives.

June 19: Abuse of power.

June 25: Nature versus human nature.

July 3: Confederation of the United States.

July 10: Shaming.

July 17: Conspiracy theories.

July 24: Leap of faith.

July 31: Polarized thinking.

Aug. 7: Tenderness.

Aug. 14: Eastern thought.

While some participants have expressed interest in sharing with others via the group’s email list, Clark clarified that he has neither the time to act as a clearinghouse for that many email addresses, nor the willingness to share participants’ emails without their permission.

“If you want to participate in email sharing, send me an email saying, ‘Yes, I want my email address to be shared with all other PTCC participants who want to share articles, recommendations and thoughts,’” Clark emailed the group. “I will send out that list to everyone who said they wanted to be on it.”

That being said, Clark suggests such sharing can also take place on the Port Townsend Conversation Cafe Facebook page.

Also, Clark reminded would-be participants that each person who wants to participate in each week’s Zoom Conversation Cafe needs to inform him each week.

“Please make a note to tell me each week if you want to participate,” Clark said. “No email note; no invitation.”

For more information, contact Clark at 360-301-6748 and sonomarko@yahoo.com.

GRATEFUL HARMONY & EVENSONG

The Rev. Simon de Voil’s “Evensong,” a “contemplative Celtic Christian service” that has been a local Sunday night tradition, will continue its relatively new custom of being live-streamed via Crowdcast at 4 p.m. on the first Sunday of the month, May 3.

Prospective attendees can register now at crowdcast.io/e/evensong2 online.

De Voil’s website at simondevoil.com features links to a number of upcoming events to be carried by Crowdcast, including the “Grateful Harmony” concert at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 1, which will serve as a celebration of Beltane, or “May Day,” with fellow musician Alana Levandoski joining online from Manitoba, Canada.

The “Grateful Harmony” concert is free for all de Voil and Levandoski’s Patreon supporters, or $10 for those who are not. If you are not a Patreon supporter and need a discount to participate, de Voil asks people to contact him in advance through the “Contact” feature of his website.

Although de Voil has another “Evensong” scheduled for June 7, possibly in person at Chetzemoka Park if the state’s social distancing rules have been relaxed by that point, May marks a farewell of sorts for him, as he conducts his last service as music director and assistant minister at Unity Church of Port Townsend — again, in person if possible — on Sunday, May 31, at 11 a.m., before he leaves for his new life in Vermont.