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).

                                                              

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Date / Time: 
Repeats every year on February on the third Sunday until Sun Feb 21 2027 except Sun Feb 16 2020. Also includes Sun Feb 18 2018, Sun Feb 17 2019, Sun Feb 16 2020.
Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 10:00am - 1:00pm
Sunday, February 18, 2018 - 10:00am - 1:00pm
Sunday, February 17, 2019 - 10:00am - 1:00pm
Contact Name: 
Melinda Ewen

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
Sunday, November 6 from 12 noon to 1:30 pm. The exhibit will run through the end of the month.
 
“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.
 
The Mogalakwena Foundation has been instrumental in supporting and enabling the local Pedi community to rediscover and develop craft skills such as beading, embroidery, and weaving. Mogalakwena currently employs over 30 women at the project and is also implementing language, literacy, childcare, and other skills development programs. Practical first aid courses, AIDS awareness and care training, children’s art workshops, and basic principles of cultural tourism are also taught at the foundation.
 
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.
 
For more info or weekday appointments please contact Nancy Thompson at assistant@uusm.org or 310-829-5436 ext 102. For further info about this show or about exhibiting on the Art Wall at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica, please contact our art wall director, Beverly Alison
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Heart and Soul: A Contemplative Worship Service

Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 5:00pm
Kikanza Nuri-Robins, Joyce Holmen, and Karen Hsu Patterson
In consultation with our minister, we are continuing the Heart and Soul services, now led by Kikanza Nuri-Robins,
Joyce Holmen, and Karen Hsu Patterson. With singing and instrumental music, statements and questions,
silence and sharing, we’ll explore these themes:
 
November 13 — A Community of Story
December 11 — A Community of Presence

Ministerial Transitions Workshop

Date / Time: 
Sunday, November 6, 2016 - 12:30pm
Room: 

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.

Date / Time: 
Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Contact Name: 
Peggy Rhoads
Cathie Gentile

Heart & Soul Service

Date / Time: 
Sunday, November 13, 2016 - 5:00pm
Room: 

Right Relations

Date / Time: 
Saturday, December 3, 2016 - 8:00am - 5:00pm

Right Relations

Date / Time: 
Friday, December 2, 2016 - 5:30pm - 10:00pm

Congregational Meeting

Date / Time: 
Sunday, May 21, 2017 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm

Remembrance Vespers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date / Time: 
Sunday, November 6, 2016 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Room: 
Contact Name: 
Zanaida Robles