Stay after the worship service on Sunday August 9th for socializing, savoring salads and other sweet summer sustenance (aka a potluck lunch), and singing and making music together! We'll sing our favorite hymns and any other well known songs the group would like to sing. Feel free to bring an instrument if you'd like to … Continue reading Summer Sunday Sustenance & Singalong!
Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year in 2025, our July read is the memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me, by East Indian autobiographer, novelist, playright, actor and student of architecture Arundhati Roy (352 pages). Join us for the book discussion on Monday, July 27, 2026, at … Continue reading BIPOC Authors Book Group Discussion
It's a Pride Month read with Blackouts, by Justin Torres, a Hispanic author. The historical fiction won the National Book Award For Fiction in 2023, and the reviews are numerous and intriguing. The novel is 306 pages. Join us for the book discussion on Monday, June 29, 2026, at 6 pm. If you have suggestions … Continue reading BIPOC Authors Book Group Discussion
On June 14, No Kings and the Committee for the First Amendment are coming together for Rise Up, Sing Out— an uplifting national concert event celebrating the freedoms that belong to all of us: speech, assembly, protest, religion, press, and expression. Across the country, communities will gather for local watch parties to sing along, make art, … Continue reading Rise Up, Sing out! (With the UUSS Social Justice Action Team)
UUSS member John Good will lead a poetry program on Sunday June 7th and Sunday June 21st, 9:15 - 10:15 am in the Emerson Room. All are welcome! If questions, contact UUSS at info at uuschenectady dot org.
Do you like to knit, crochet, embroider, do counted cross stitch, needlepoint, macrame, beading or even darn socks? Are you a sketch artist, adult coloring book colorer, mandela or Zentangle maker, or any other type of portable crafter who would like to work in the company of others? Drop by the Fireplace Room on Thursday evenings … Continue reading Creative Thursdays
Grief is a human response to loss, and includes a range of emotions, including sadness, anger, overwhelm or numbness, denial, guilt, and despair. If you are grieving, you aren't alone. If you have experienced a loss, whether it be a relationship. a job, a health change/diagnosis, a death, a loss of identity or meaning, or … Continue reading Grief Group
All are welcome to attend the UUSS Board of Trustees Annual Congregational Meeting on Sunday, May 31st at noon in the Great Hall, or in our Zoom Sanctuary via our worship link. Signed/active "members in good standing" are eligible to vote. Light snacks and childcare will be provided. The Board will be bringing you up … Continue reading Annual Congregational Meeting
Calling all handicrafters: if you knit, crochet, embroider, do macrame, beading, counted cross stitch or even darn socks, drop by the Fireplace Room on Thursday evenings! We enjoy sharing company with artists of all types-- adult colorers, sketch artists, zentangles and mandala makers, water colorists, if you can create it, come! We will meet Thursdays … Continue reading Creative Thursdays
Speaker: Linda Fasano, Certified Zentangle Teacher Linda Fassano came to Zentangle (the art of meditative line and pattern drawing) in 2019. During the pandemic, she joined a weekly Zentangle club via Zoom, grew to love the art and felt the draw (pun intended!) of Zentangle. Soon thereafter, she took the seminar to become a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) … Continue reading Zentangle: The Art of Meditative Line and Pattern Drawing
