Bring your lunch and join UUSS members and home herbalist Donna Jennings and community herbalist Melissa MacKinnon for an afternoon learning about herbal support for the winter time. We’ll share herbal beverages you can taste, discuss their benefits, and if you like you can make your own blend to take with you. We’ll focus on … Continue reading Herbs for Winter Resilience
The Board invites you to join us on Sunday, January 21st at 3pm on Zoom for discussion of this year's open questions: What are your perceptions of the congregation now? What are your hopes for who the congregation can become? How might we get there from here? These Open Questions, and the discussions we have … Continue reading UUSS Board’s Open Question Event #2
The UU Schenectady Philosophy Group meets online on Wednesday, January 10th from 10:00 am until 12 noon. Books we have read delve into the ideas and the written word about - knowledge, truth, reality, reason, ethics, and government. NO prior knowledge of philosophy is needed to participate. Join us to discuss The Soul of America … Continue reading Philosophy Group Discussion
Columbia’s Daughters: The Political Equality Clubs of Warren and Washington Counties 1891-1917 Speaker: Tisha Dalton, Librarian/Historian at the Folklife Center, Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls Born and raised in Washington County, NY, Tish Dalton has worked as an interpretive ranger at Saratoga National Historical Park, the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, and at numerous museums … Continue reading EBWA Program: Librarian/Historian Tisha Dalton shares stories of two local suffragists
Happy New Year! A next year of reading BIPOC authors and being with you to share ideas, perspectives, and learnings. Hooray! We begin 2024 with James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, written in 1974. Join us for the book discussion on Monday, January 29, at 6 pm. Thanks to those who have sent book … Continue reading BIPOC Book Group Discussion
The UU Schenectady Philosophy Group meets online Wednesday, January 31st from 10:00 am until 12 noon. Books we have read delve into the ideas and the written word about - knowledge, truth, reality, reason, ethics, and government. NO prior knowledge of philosophy is needed to participate. We are currently reading The Soul of America - … Continue reading Philosophy Discussion Group
Grief is our human response to loss, and losses can result from so many different things: a death, a change in employment, a relationship, a move, a diagnosis, an accident, and more. All of this can be complicated even more during and after holidays and in the winter. If you are grieving, you are invited to join … Continue reading Grief Group
Plan to join the Alliance on Thursday, Feb. 1, at noon at the Turf Tavern in Scotia for lunch and an "Art Unites Us!" presentation by Heather Hutchison, co-founder and executive director of C.R.E.A.T.E. Community Studios. C.R.E.A.T.E. has studios on Erie Boulevard in Schenectady as well as in Saratoga, and is opening a third studio … Continue reading “Art Unites Us!” presentation Feb. 1 at noon
Gather with UUs from around the region on Friday, February 2nd, from 7-8:30 pm for a multigenerational, multicongregational trivia night! As in past years, there will be multiple rounds of questions covering a variety of topics, including a few questions about UU history, plus the ever popular “name that UU hymn,” music round. We’ll make … Continue reading Multigenerational Multicongregational Online Trivia Night!
Do you like to sing with others? Join us at choir rehearsal, either Tuesday evening or Sundays before the worship service, or both! Then on occasional Sundays, the choir will sing as part of the worship service. Questions? Contact Maria Elmer, UUSS Music Director, at music@uuschenectady.org.
