House Calendar

What is happening, and where, and whether you may come.

The calendar exists for logistics rather than persuasion. Most of it is cooking, travel, and the rota. Closed observances are periods during which a house receives neither visitors nor correspondence; they are ordinary and no explanation is offered for them.

Maintained at the North House and correct at the date of printing. Corrections are entered by hand at each house and reconciled in October.

Printed 2 January 2026 · thirty-first printing

The working seasons

The printed calendar is operational and differs by house. The seasons below describe when work is possible rather than when it is owed, and they are kept locally: Cedar House and South House do not keep the northern year.

Winter

Repair and correspondence

Indoors, with the tools out.

Spring

Boundaries and water

Out to the line, and what the winter did to it.

Summer

Public work and residential periods

Longer days, more people in the house.

Autumn

Harvest, reconciliation, and putting by

What is kept, and what is written down.

Entries below are marked open to visitors, members, or closed. The house year sets out the recurring forms behind them.

January

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
1	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
19–24	Karst House	Winter reading periodTomaž Vrhovec	—	Members

February

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
5	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
11–13	Briar House	Closed observance — no visitors, no correspondenceWarren Dabney	—	Closed

March

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
5	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
14	North House	Enquiries read (the annual reading)Mara Evensen	09:00	Members

April

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
2	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
9–20	Lantern House	Residential period — lighting audits and the shield benchDelia Marquez	—	Members

May

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
7	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
22	River House	Silence kept from midnight to noonAbdirahman Yusuf	00:00	Members

June

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
4	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
12	Orchard House	The Journal goes to pressNaomi Whitlock	—	Members

July

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
2	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
18–29	South House	Conservation workshop — bindings and boxesNadia Sartori	—	Members

August

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
6	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
16–18	Cedar House	Forest survey, second periodRie Katsuragawa	06:00	Members

September

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
3	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
9–11	Fell House	Closed observance — no visitors, no correspondenceIona Reid	—	Closed

October

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
1	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
17	Shore House	Reconciliation of the Common RecordPeter Amiot	08:00	Members
30	Western House	The reconciliation		Closed

November

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
5	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
9	North House	Reading of the 1976 letter (first attendances welcomed)Mara Evensen	18:10	Open to visitors

December

Date	House	Event	Time	Access
3	All houses	Introduction to the Practicethe steward of the house	18:00	Open to visitors
20–24	North House	Closed observance — no visitors, no correspondenceMara Evensen	—	Closed

Visitors should write before travelling. A house that is keeping a closed observance will not reply until it has ended, and the letter will be answered as though it had arrived afterwards.

This calendar is the houses’ own. The circles keep their own dates and are not bound to it, except for the annual return and the two reconciliations they share with their house.