Passover Seder - Cancelled
Date / Time:
Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Contact Name:
Teri Lucas
Prayer Bead Workshop
Week One: Rev. Jeremiah will share the history of prayer beads in various cultures and religions--
Rosary, Tasbih, Japamala, Catholic, Anglican, Islamic, Pagan, Buddhist.
Types of prayer and ways to adapt them to fit various UU beliefs.
Week Two: Keeping in mind what we have learned about the purpose, intention
and symbolism of materials in prayer beads, we will make our own prayer beads.
For further information Bettye Barclay at bfbarclay@me.com or Sue Stoyanoff at sue.stoyanoff@yahoo.com
Sign up at the RE table.
Date / Time:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Contact Name:
Bettye Barclay
Sue Stoyanoff
Prayer Bead Workshop
Please plan to attend both sessions.
Week One: Rev. Jeremiah will share the history of prayer beads in various cultures and religions--
Rosary, Tasbih, Japamala, Catholic, Anglican, Islamic, Pagan, Buddhist.
Types of prayer and ways to adapt them to fit various UU beliefs.
Week Two: Keeping in mind what we have learned about the purpose, intention
and symbolism of materials in prayer beads, we will make our own prayer beads.
For further information Bettye Barclay at bfbarclay@me.com or Sue Stoyanoff at sue.stoyanoff@yahoo.com
Sign up at the RE table.
Date / Time:
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Contact Name:
Bettye Barclay
Sue Stoyanoff
Parent's Group
Parent’s Group Meeting Kickoff!
Are you interested in joining a parenting group at UUCCSM? We will convene our first monthly meeting on Dec. 15 at 11:30am in the cottage. The meeting will last an hour and a half. Childcare will be provided.
Come join to discuss the joys and challenges of parenting in a group setting!
Questions? Email Chris Brown at chrislymanbrown@gmail.com.
Date / Time:
Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 11:30am - 1:00pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Chris Brown
Dr. Christopher Cameron: Black Freethinkers
Short Description:
Dr. Christopher Cameron: Black Freethinkers
Join AAHS and friends for an evening with Dr. Christopher Cameron, whose new book, “Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism,” argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought (encompassing atheism/agnosticism/humanism and other non-traditional orientations) has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present.
Long Description:
Dr. Christopher Cameron: Black Freethinkers
Join AAHS and friends for an evening with Dr. Christopher Cameron, professor at UNC Charlotte and author of the new book, “Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism.” Signed books will be available.
“Black Freethinkers” argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present. Freethought encompasses many different schools of thought, including atheism, agnosticism, and nontraditional orientations such as deism and paganism.
Christopher Cameron suggests an alternative origin of nonbelief and religious skepticism in America, namely the brutality of the institution of slavery. He also traces the growth of atheism and agnosticism among African Americans in two major political and intellectual movements of the 1920s: the New Negro Renaissance and the growth of black socialism and communism. In a final chapter, he explores the critical importance of freethought among participants in the civil rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Examining a wealth of sources, including slave narratives, travel accounts, novels, poetry, memoirs, newspapers, and archival sources such as church records, sermons, and letters, the study follows the lives and contributions of well-known figures, including Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker, as well as lesser-known thinkers such as Louise Thompson Patterson, Sarah Webster Fabio, and David Cincore.
CHRISTOPHER CAMERON is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the founder of the African American Intellectual History Society, the author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement, and a coeditor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern, 2018).
Date / Time:
Friday, December 20, 2019 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Room:
Contact Name:
James Witker
November, 2019
Vera Arutyunyin's Abstract Expressionism
The Opening Reception for Vera Arutyunyan’s Abstract Expressionist exhibit of personal and moving images will be held at UU Santa Monica on Sunday, November 3, 2019 from 11:00 am until 12:30 pm. At the reception, you’ll be able to ask her about her journey that started in Armenia and has transformed into envisioning her art as expressions of emotional words to find spiritual and and self-fulfillment. Light snacks will be provided. The exhibit will be open every Sunday from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon and on weekdays by appointment through November 24th. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Vera is an Abstract Expressionist with a flow of figurative expressions―all emotionally and spiritually charged. Painting is her inner outcry. Her unique bare hands technique of brave strokes is a clash of emotions―color-infused visions of action painting forever frozen in time. She feels she is possessed by many thousands (and more) moments when all her inner visions and emotions about the world and herself are crying out loud to come out and be heard – words of the soul in search of philosophical and existential answers of what lies deep within the human psyche, words of despair in a world in which we are strangely at home and yet lost at the same time, words of powerful love for life and spirituality, emotional words so natural and powerful that could only be expressed through paintings to be understood, to obtain identity and significance, to become securely existent.
Vera’s art has earned international acclaim. She has participated in a variety of solo and group shows, biennales, galleries and museums in the United State as well as in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Russia, Armenia, China, South Korea, Canada, Japan, Ireland, Switzerland and Monaco.
Contact Art Director, Beverly Alison for further information about this show. For appointments contact the church office: Cyndee at assistant@uusm.org 310-829-5436 x102
On Sundays, follow the signs to church parking. Handicap parking is available behind the church.
Committee Team Meeting
All members working on communications channels are welcome to come enhance synchronicity. Committee chairs and others interested in all the moving parts of communications are invited. Please bring a side dish to share. Contact CommTeam@uusm.org
Date / Time:
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Contact Name:
Lois Hutchinson
Esoteric Spirituality
Esoteric Spirituality - The Diamond Approach, Saturday, January 11 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm in the Sanctuary. The Diamond Approach offers an immense and precise body of knowledge about the nature of reality and the process of spiritual realization. Many levels of engagement with this approach are available ranging from on-line courses to three day retreats. Vince Draddy, will give us an introduction to this approach along with a Q&A session.
Contact AdultRE@uusm.org for more information and to sign up.
Parking will be available at the UCLA lot on the corner of Arizona and 16th street.
Date / Time:
Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Room:
Contact Name:
Mark Berlin
International Folk Dancing with Instructors
They say that dancing is combining fun with exercise and friends! Learn international folk dancing with instructors Sandy Helperin and Teri Hoffman. Folk dancing is for anyone who loves to move to traditional music. New dancers are welcome – there are no partners required. Donations accepted.
Please enter from the Arizona door.
Future Date - May 16
Date / Time:
Saturday, April 18, 2020 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Contact Name:
Bob Dietz
International Folk Dancing with Instructors - cancelled
They say that dancing is combining fun with exercise and friends! Learn international folk dancing with instructors Sandy Helperin and Teri Hoffman. Folk dancing is for anyone who loves to move to traditional music. New dancers are welcome – there are no partners required. Donations accepted.
Please enter from the Arizona door.
Future Date - Apr 18
Date / Time:
Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Contact Name:
Bob Dietz