Dining for Dollars - Bidding
Dining for Dollars Bidding: Sun Feb 17, 10am-1pm. (After each service).
It’s that time of year again! Dining for Dollars is one of UUSM’s largest and most successful fundraisers of the year. Events, goods and services – it’s all there! Don’t be left out and miss the opportunity to lend financial support to our beloved community while enjoying the fellowship of community members in so many varied and interesting venues including - individual homes and spreading out onto fascinating SoCal sites!
(The second and final auction date is Sun. Feb 24th).

November, 2016
South Africa’s Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation
This November UU Santa Monica welcomes an array of artwork created by the women of the South African Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation. We look forward to seeing you at the Opening Reception
“Mogalakwena,” which means "angry crocodile” in the language spoken by the Pedi people of South Africa, is based in the remote northwestern part of Limpopo Province. The Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation was established at the end of 1994 by Dr. Elbe Coetsee, whose family has lived in the Limpopo Province for three generations. Dr. Coetsee has long had a passion for craft art: her hope when establishing the Mogalakwena Center was to support the economic and social uplift of the local Pedi community. She has since helped to create meaningful work in Limpopo, where there are millions of unemployed people.
Artists featured by the center include Regina Setata (a widow supporting three children and two grandchildren) and Liesbet Nkoadi (who supports five children). These women plus others produce a wide variety of dazzling goods, from embroidery to woven baskets and Mtwane dolls. The Mogalakwena Craft Art Center encourages self-respect, self-sufficiency, cultural pride, and dignity for many members of these communities.Heart and Soul: A Contemplative Worship Service
Ministerial Transitions Workshop
FIA- Screening of the Documentary "Profiled"
Peace and Social Justice Coomittee presents "Profiled""PROFILED knits the stories of mothers of black and Latin youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Some of the victims—Eric Garner, Michael Brown—are now familiar the world over. Others, like Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray, are remembered mostly by family and friends in their New York neighborhoods. Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri, PROFILED bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for Black and Latin people in this country and gives us a window into one of the burning issues of our time.”
Please come to the FIA Table for more information.
Heart & Soul Service
Congregational Meeting
Remembrance Vespers

