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UUSM Peace Vigil January 31, 2003
UUSM UU the Vote Team Planning Meeting
UUSM UU the Vote Team Update Meeting
UUSM Volunteer Day - POSTPONED
Save the Date: Volunteer Day, Saturday, October 11,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come help beautify our church campus. On this workday, the congregation has a chance to roll up its sleeves for a while and make the place shine. We will be cleaning, painting, sorting, organizing, straightening. Indoor and outdoor jobs. Talk to Karl Lisovsky for more information. Everybody is welcome. Childcare available.
UUSM Youth Artists

ART SHOW BY OUR OWN KIDS! Come see our exciting art show at the Art Wall in Forbes Hall in May. Featuring Famous Works by Our Kids. Who will be in the show this year??? Come and find out! Opening Day will be Sunday, May 1, in Forbes Hall. Join us for some art and refreshments. Come out to the show and support our kids with their wonderful art!

Venice Beach regulars: Painting the Unseen Faces Around Us

Stuart Perlman continues his life mission as a psychologist and psychoanalyst helping people in private practice in
West Los Angeles for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in clinical psychology and a second Ph.D. from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, and has been a faculty member at both. He is a training analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published many articles in psychoanalytic journals, and has authored the book, “The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma.”

After a hiatus of many years, Stuart has returned to one of his early passions, creating portraits and landscapes with lush colors and emotional tones. His current project of two years is Venice Beach Regulars: Painting the
Unseen Faces Around Us. He has been illuminating the faces of the homeless, and their humanity and pain. Stuart paints them on location, and he also collects their stories, histories, art and music. This project has been featured on KPCC Radio, and the front page of the Los Angeles Times for June 11, 2012. He has had a number of shows and sells his artwork.

Links: LA Times article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-mehomeless-portraits-20120611,0,4347380.story
Stuart's website: www.stuartperlman.com

A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, August 5, at 11 a.m.

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.
 
Vespers Service
Vespers Service
Vespers Services

Vespers services are shorter worship services of silence, readings, candlelighting and music, held in the evenings. Nurture your spirit and end your day with intention, in the embrace of a peaceful community.

Veterans Day - Church Office Closed
Veterans Day - Church Office Closed