This Sunday you have two options to gather and explore joy together. Our friends at First Unitarian Society (FUS) have invited us to join their services (Sunday at 9:00 or 11:00 or Saturday at 4:30) and a Trans Liberation workshop. If you can’t make it to FUS, our Folk Group is offering a music-filled gathering at Reeb on Sunday at 10:00. Details for each event are below.
“Joy Is the Secret of Resistance” with Heather Vickery, at First Unitarian Society
Saturday 11/15 at 4:30 pm, Sunday 11/16 at 9:00 or 11:00 am
Click here for video of this FUS service
Alice Walker says “resistance is the secret of joy” but the inverse is also true. Joy is the secret of resistance. In these tough times we often focus on resistance and forget to be joyful together. But Joy is essential! Our joy is what scares them, our joy is what we are fighting for. Join us to hear about some of UUSC’s joyful resistance and to learn about how you too can lean into joy in these troubling times.
Heather Vickery (she/her) is the Coordinator for Congregational Activism at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and she supports UU congregations and other groups that want to do their justice work more effectively and faithfully. In both her paid and unpaid organizing work, she works deeply for trans and migrant liberation through the Pink Haven Coalition and the Community Accompaniment Program with Asylum Seekers. Heather is also an aspirant for UU ministry and a student at the Starr King School for the Ministry. When she is not working and organizing, you can find her and her rescue pup Nova hiking, gardening and cooking with their loved ones.
See FUS’s website for more information and a link for this service.
After the service on Sunday 11/16 at 1:00-2:30 pm, at First Unitarian Society
Info and Organizing Session for Trans Liberation
Do you want to start organizing for trans liberation but don’t quite know where to start? This workshop will ground us in the realities for 2 spirit, trans and gender expansive individuals and families during this increase of fascism in our country and start the process of organizing to support them as they flee legislatively unsafe states and relocate to Wisconsin. You’ll learn more about the Pink Haven Coalition and how local groups plug into this national effort. There will be some light snacks provided between the 11:00 service and the workshop – or bring your lunch and eat together at FUS.
“Joyful Noise” with Stephen Rich and members of the JRUUC Folk Group
At JRUUC at 10:00 am
If you can’t attend the services at FUS, come join the Folk Group for a celebration in music, from popular hymns to well known secular tunes. This will be a very simple service – we’ll light a chalice and then celebrate in a song circle format. Some songs will be led by Stephen or folk group members, and participants will be invited to lead any songs of their choosing. Let’s make a joyful noise together!
The service will not be streamed over Zoom, but there will be a virtual coffee hour at 10:00 am. Links for the FUS services and the JRUUC virtual coffee hour will be published in the 11/12 enews and on this page on the day of the service.