Update: The Spring 2020 session of Blue River Quarterly Meeting has been canceled. Our next session will be in September 2020 at the DuBois Center.

The 2020 Spring Gathering of Blue River Quarterly Meeting is scheduled for April 3–5 at Camp CILCA, near Springfield, Illinois. Registration is due by March 22.

The theme is “Borders Don’t Stop Dreams,” and the program includes a viewing of the film ‘Ay Mariposa’, which tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. As the director of the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has become a leader of wall resistance in the Valley, a position that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions and an emotional odyssey as she tries to navigate the ever-shifting sands of border policy. Zulema Hernandez, a life-long migrant worker, immigrant and great grandmother, has been a dedicated advocate for all migrants, both wild and human-kind. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall.