Press Releases
These news releases and flyers, regarding events and exhibits at our church or of interest to our members, are available for wide distribution.
12/08/17 - Winter Holiday Services
3/22/15 - April Art Wall Exhibit - Vera Arutyunyan
2/17/15 - March Art Wall Exhibit - Bonnie Lambert
1/18/15 - February Art Wall Exhibit - Robert Soffian
12/20/14 - Winter Holiday Services at UUSM
10/27/14 - November Art Wall Exhibit - J. Michael Walker - “Angels Everywhere, Saints in Survivors”
10/09/14 - 2014 Ernest Pipes, Jr. Lecture: Sandy Banks - “Foster Care: Behind the Headlines, The Pain and Promise of Broken Families – How We can Help Them Heal”
10/01/14 - October Art Wall Exhibit - Maija Beaton
08/16/14 - September Art Wall Exhibit - Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective
05/29/14 - June Art Wall Exhibit - Pola Lopez
05/11/14 - UUJMC Spring Justice Training
02/22/14 - March Art Wall Exhibit - Inside Out Art - Exhibit by Artists with Developmental Disabilities
2/19/14 - Empty Bowls Santa Monica: Benefits Westside Food Bank
1/24/14 - February Art Wall Exhibit - Two Photograhpers: Karen Redding & Carol Ring
1/15/14 - Peace & Social Justice Committee Forum: Deportations & Racism
2/17/13 - Winter Holiday Services at UUCCSM
11/25/13 - December Art Wall Exhibit - John Christensen
10/23/13 - November Art Wall Exhibit - Zimbabwe Artists
Stewardship Event - Spa Day
Date / Time:
Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 10:00am - 1:00pm
Room:
Women's Alliance Meeting
Come Sing a Song with the Women's Alliance -- July 6
We'll raise “Songs of Heart, Spirit, Action” for our summer circle. UUs gather for services each week, all of us creating the worship together of many elements, words, music, and customs. All my life I have studied this process, and songs by UU women resonate strongly for me. You are warmly invited to the third in a heartfelt series, “A Year of Living Musically.”
Come sample several on Sunday, July 6, 11:10 to 12:30 p.m., in the Courtyard. These are songs about grounding our behavior in the heart and spirit, something many women have written and sung about over the ages. (I prepared song sheets for the Pride Parade but was so happily blown away by my first experience there that the lyrics stayed in my backpack; so let's share them soon.) All are welcome for one song or a dozen, whether you think of yourself as a singer or not.
Then on Sunday, July 20, we'll help prepare the annual Interweave Picnic, which starts likewise, right after the 10 a.m. service. If you can bring salad, hot dogs or buns, dessert, or drinks, or help with the hands-on tasks of the day, let me know.
In 1927 our church and our Women's Alliance were founded. We have continued the living tradition by providing ordinary and extraordinary opportunities for interesting programs, leadership training, fundraising, worship, friendship, good food, feminist studies, community outreach, and personal growth; see also the UU Women's Federation at www.uuwf.org
Date / Time:
Sunday, July 6, 2014 - 11:10am - 1:00pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Joyce Holmen
Women's Alliance Meeting
Come, Sing a Song with the Women’s Alliance - April 13
UUs gather for services each week, all of us creating the worship together of many elements, words, music, and customs. All my life I have studied this process, and songs by UU women resonate strongly for me. You are warmly invited to the second in a heartfelt series, “A Year of Living Musically.” For Spring the music is by Grace Lewis-McLaren, whose hymnal gifts include:
“Touch the earth, reach the sky! Walk on shores while spirits fly over the ocean, over the land, our faith a quest to understand.”
“Touch the earth, reach the sky! Hug the laughter, feel the cry.
May we see where we can give, for this is what it means to live.”
While serving as Director of Music/Organist for several UU congregations, Grace wrote a number of anthems, hymns, and chants. She taught me some at district women’s retreats when she was at the San Diego church. She has degrees from Union Seminary School of Sacred Music in New York City and Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.
Her tunes, harmonies, and lyrics are carefully crafted, reflecting a life fully lived in family, community, and spirit. Here’s a fun one; you can play tambourine on the chorus to make it sound just right:
“The inherent worth of all, value comprehensive, this our UUology, sacrament intensive. ”
“Yah, yah, yes I am, I’m a Unitarian, Yah, yah, yes I am, I’m a Unitarian. You can count on me. Hey!”
“When it comes to questioning, I am in my glory. If you want to preach to me, better know your story.”
“Yah, yah, yes I am, I’m a Unitarian, Yah, yah, yes I am, I’m a Unitarian. You can count on me. Hey!”
Come sample a few Songs of Grace on Sunday, April 13, 10:10 to 10:55 a.m., in the Courtyard. All are welcome, whether you think of yourself as a singer or not.
—Joyce Holmen
Date / Time:
Sunday, April 13, 2014 - 10:10am - 10:55am
Room:
Contact Name:
Joyce Holmen
Women's Alliance Meeting
Come, Sing a Song with the Women's Alliance on January 19
UUs gather for services each week, all of us creating the worship together of many elements, words, music, and customs. All my life I have studied this process, and songs by UU women resonate strongly for me.
You are warmly invited to the first in a heartfelt series called, "A Year of Living Musically." Three of Carolyn McDade's wealth of songs you know from our hymnal: "Spirit of Life," "Come, Sing a Song with Me," and "We'll Build a Land." At annual women's retreats across what she has called "a continent in song" she has taught dozens more. These are insightful, healing, empowering works to cherish each soul, build community, honor the earth. Come taste a few of these on Sunday, January 19, 10:10 to 10:55 am, in the Courtyard.
All are welcome, whether you think of yourself as a singer or not.
Carolyn is leading a women's retreat nearby on Friday-Saturday, February 21-22, at the United Church of Christ in Simi Valley. Registration: joanmcclel@aol.com; recordings: CarolynMcDadeMusic.com
-- Joyce Holmen, mort4@earthlink.net
Date / Time:
Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 10:10am - 10:55am
Room:
Contact Name:
Joyce Holmen
AAHS Event - Peter Boghossian, author and philosopher speaking engagement.
Friday, December 20 at 7:30 pm, UUCCSM presents Dr. Peter Boghossian, philosopher and author of " A Manual for Creating Atheists":
As Unitarian Universalists, we uphold the 4th of the 7 Principles, "a free and responsible search for truth and meaning" both for ourselves and others. But at what point can we make the argument that letting others freely persist in faith is a violation of the responsible search for truth? Dr. Boghossian argues in his new best-seller that faith is an "unreliable path to the truth" and that we can and should engage believers in constructive conversation that can lead them to give up (in the words of Mark Twain) "believin' what you know ain't so."
Currently the #2 book on Amazon in both Philosophy and Atheism, the best-selling "'A Manual for Creating Atheists' offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than twenty years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
After Dr. Boghossian's talk there will be a Q&A, followed by refreshments in Forbes Hall. Copies of his book will be available for purchase and signing.
Please join us for what should be a thought-provoking (or provocative, depending on your outlook) evening with one of the leading thinkers in the secular movement.
Please contact Mark Warkentin (aahs@uusm.org) or Ian Dodd (ianbdodd@me.com). http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=496d882477bb9468e6669ebff&id=b8f2636...
Date / Time:
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Contact Name:
Ian Dodd
December, 2013
John Christensen
Celebrate Life Through the Paintings of John Christensen
The vibrant paintings exploring everyday life as observed by Venice, California-based artist John Christensen will be on display in Forbes Hall throughout December for all art lovers to savor.
Christensen describes his creations as American primitive art. You and fellow art aficionados will have fun recognizing locations you’ve visited as represented in his bold works featured in the show “Full of Life.”
You may relate to his depiction of driving on a freeway but then might be surprised by the sky above filled with hawks. Other works tell stories about fighting in the streets of Venice, hanging out at a favorite lifeguard station, or catching the perfect wave. His intriguing, multigenerational subjects are captured pursuing common life activities on the pier, at work, or riding the bus.
Self-taught, Christensen grew-up in the city of Santa Monica and seeks out strange, funny, and meaningful activities of people and animals. He is particularly interested in the world’s penumbras and in-betweens and in the places where differences of all kinds meet. Some of his favorite things are road-trips, early morning coffee, and just walking around. Faith, humor, wonder, and the fun of discovery motivate his work.
Don’t miss your chance to meet the artist and talk about his style and choices at the opening reception Sunday, December 1.
— Teri Bond
Exhibit Infomation:
Admission is free, all works are for sale
Opening Reception: Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 12:00 - 1:30
Meet John Christensen. Light refreshments.
Closing Reception: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 12:00 - 1:30
Open Sundays in December from 9AM - 1 PM
Open by appointment Monday through Friday
Contact: Nancy assistant@uusm.org, 310-829-5436, ext. 102
Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica
1260 18th St, Santa Monica 90404 (corner of 18th and Arizona)
Sunday parking in structure on 16th Street south of Arizona Ave.
Art Wall Opening Reception
Join us in May as we invite the UUSM youth to hang their art and present their talents! You’ve seen the art from around the community, now you can see the art from within our community! Please contact Director of Religious Exploration Kathleen Hogue for a sign-up sheet, dre@uusm.org.
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Repeats every month on the first Sunday until Sun Jun 04 2017 except Sun Jun 07 2015, Sun Jul 05 2015, Sun Aug 02 2015, Sun Sep 06 2015, Sun Oct 04 2015, Sun Nov 01 2015, Sun Dec 06 2015, Sun Jan 03 2016, Sun Feb 07 2016, Sun Jul 03 2016, Sun Sep 04 2016, Sun Oct 02 2016, Sun Nov 06 2016, Sun Jan 01 2017, Sun Mar 05 2017. Also includes Sun Jul 10 2016, Sun Sep 11 2016, Sun Oct 09 2016, Sun Jan 08 2017, Sun Mar 19 2017.
Sunday, May 3, 2015 - 12:00pm - 1:30pmSunday, March 6, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, April 3, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, May 1, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, June 5, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, July 10, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, August 7, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, September 11, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, October 9, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, December 4, 2016 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, January 8, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, February 5, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, March 19, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, April 2, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, May 7, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sunday, June 4, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Contact Name:
Beverly Alison
Art Wall Opening Reception - John Christensen
Full of Life
An Exhibit of the oil paintings of John Christensen
Opening Reception: Sunday, December 1, 2013 from 12:00 - 1:30pm
John Christensen grew-up in the city of Santa Monica and now lives in Venice. He often paints local scenarios or just the stranger, funnier, or more meaningful everyday doings of man and animal. Many of the subjects will be familiar to residents of Santa Monica and Venice.
Christensen describes his paintings as American primitive art. He is particularly interested in the world’s penumbras and in-betweens and in the places where differences of all kinds meet. Some of his favorite things are road-trips, early morning coffee and just walking around. Faith, humor, wonder and the fun of discovery motivate his work.
Izzy’s Night
Admission is free, all works are for sale
Opening Reception: Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 12:00 - 1:30
Meet John Christensen. Light refreshments.
Closing Reception: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 12:00 - 1:30
Open Sundays in December from 9AM - 1 PM
Open by appointment Monday through Friday
Contact: Nancy assistant@uusm.org, 310-829-5436, ext. 102
Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica
1260 18th St, Santa Monica 90404 (corner of 18th and Arizona)
Sunday parking in structure on 16th Street south of Arizona Ave.
Full of Life, December Art Wall Exhibit at the UU Church
John Chistensen's Website
Date / Time:
Sunday, December 1, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm