Here you will find featured activities at UU Santa Fe and in our wider community that can enrich your life and that of those you love.
UU SAnta Fe Featured Events and news At-A-Glance
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Upcoming Services
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Social Justice
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Upcoming ServicesWorship from the Old English weorthscipe meaning to "shape things of worth." |
Sunday, January 20 – Rev. Gail Marriner – As We Go Marching Marching…
Mid January is an odd time for marching. Inclement weather is the rule of the day and yet rain or snow or bitter cold, Martin Luther King Jr weekend calls people out of their houses and into the street to march and dance and sing and protest for a more just and equitable society. The service reflects upon the activities of the weekend and the values that undergird both the Women’s March and the Poor People’s Campaign. |
Lifelong LearningRefresh! Fellowship and Family Night signup here. UU Santa Fe Youth Events
Grades 6-12 |
FAmily Ministry
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“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”―Frances Moore Lappé 
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Adult Lifelong LearningDaring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning and Connection for the America We Want
Dates 3 Sunday Sessions, January 27 and February 10, 24, 6 pm Location in the UU Santa Fe Library Facilitated by Sherry Kraemer Sponsored by Adult Lifelong Learning and the SJ Immigrant and Refugee Teams Book Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning and Connection for the America We Want by Frances Moore Lappe and Adam Eichen Registration not necessary. You may come to any or all sessions! For more information, click here and scroll down the page! Part of Refresh! An evening of Potluck • Family Activities • Music • Adult Small Group Discussion • Beginning at 5 pm |
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*NEW* Starting Point 2019 | Particularly for Newcomers
Dates 4 Saturday sessions, January 19, February 2, 16, and March 2, 2019, 10 am-12 pm Location in the UU Santa Fe Library Facilitated by Ministry, Lifelong Learning, and Membership & Hospitality Teams Sponsored by Adult Lifelong Learning Team Registration necessary, click here For more information, click here and scroll down the page! |
T'ai Chi Chih
Begins Jan 29, sign up now!
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*NEW* T'ai Chi Chih
Dates 8 Tuesday sessions, January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 10-11 am Location in the UU Santa Fe Fogelson Hall Facilitated by Jim Eagle Sponsored by Adult Lifelong Learning Team Registration appreciated but not required, click here Cost $5 donation to UU Santa Fe per class You may come to any or all sessions! For more information, click here and scroll down the page! |
COMMUNITY life events
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Refresh! Fellowship and Family Night sign up here. |
Refresh! Fellowship and family Nights2nd & 4th Sundays 5-7 pm
Potluck • Family Activities • Music • Adult Small Group Hit your refresh button! Come share a meal. Meet with friends. Do you have children?—then come do Big Messy Something together. Musically inclined? Join the Acoustic Musicians on the fourth Sunday to play or just listen. Need to expand your mind? Join our Adult Book Discussion. Come, there is a place for you here at UU Santa Fe. Refresh Schedule | Big Messy Something Family Activity
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Issa Nyaphaga, an African cartoonist and performance artist who finds resilience in a creative process by painting his body as a canvas, will team with gong bath artist Margerita Monleon De La Lluvia to perform “Urban Way” on January 26 at Art On Barcelona Gallery. The performance will be part of a reception for HumAnimal, an exhibition of Issa’s mixed media work on canvas, which seeks to answer the question this Santa Fe-based artist from a poor village in Africa has been asking through his creative work: Can music, art, humor and gong meditation save us?
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UUWF Luncheon | january 19 | Fogelson Hall
“Art, Celebrity and Social Activism”
Dr. Sharyn Udall is an Art Historian, author, and independent curator who has written, taught and lectured widely on 19th and 20th century American and European art. She’s the author of eight books and has called Santa Fe home for 47 years. Sharyn’s luncheon presentation will focus on art’s power through the ages to serve all kinds of political viewpoints. Her presentation will feature such artists as Frida Kahlo, Ai Wei Wei, and Kara Walker. |
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Images of Tashi Kyil Monastery Visit to UU Santa Fe, January 11, 2019Tibetan Culture • Buddhism • Monks • Food • Meditation • Yoga • And More
In partnership with the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center and its Kumbum Chamtse-Ling Monastery in Bloomington, Indiana, monks from Labrang Tashikyil Monastery in Dehra Dun, India are touring the United States to teach the Dharma, educate the public about the culture and religion of Tibet, and to raise much needed funds for their monastery. Thank you to Jean and Tony House for organizing this event and making it so special!
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SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS
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Justice Team Meeting Times
Open to All
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engage | Opportunities for Public Witness
Northern New Mexico Women's March | Saturday, January 19, 11 to 2 pm
We will once again take to the streets to march to bring attention to the work of gender justice issues. We will begin at the Capitol/Roundhouse, march to the Santa Fe Plaza. Immigrant and Workers Day of Action | Monday, January 28, 11 am March from the Railyard Park, Noon rally at the Capitol Join immigrants and workers as we continue fighting for more fairness for our families and prosperity for all. Show up – Wear your 'Side with Love' yellow t-shirts! UU Santa Fe Sanctuary Discernment
Immigrant and Refugee Justice Team. UU Santa Fe is in an intentional period of discernment regarding whether or not to become a sanctuary church. We have had five panel discussions, three world-cafe style discussion circles and one of two lifelong learning opportunities. Please engage! We have an important community decision to make and you need to be informed. You may find more information about sanctuary and working for immigration and refugee justice here (please scroll down).
Remaining Discernment event: January 20, 12 pm, Congregational Town Hall - What Do You Think About UU Santa Fe becoming a sanctuary church? (discussion) See also The New Sanctuary Movement
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Cooking and serving at Pete's Place is one of UU Santa Fe's major social action initiatives! Your hands are needed!
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MELD–meet each life with dignity (MELD - food & shelter team)PETE'S PLACE!! FEBRUARY 10-16 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!! UU Santa Fe is responsible for providing hot meals and volunteers at Pete's Place every evening from February 10 (Sunday) through February 16 (Saturday). We need volunteers to cook nourishing meals, volunteers to help serve the meals, and volunteers to assist the regular Pete's staff in their duties. Sign ups have started. Look for the Social Justice Table in Fellowship Hall or find one of our MELD group. We can answer any questions you may have about participation in this wonderful project. Any assistance you can offer is welcomed. Cooking a single dish or a batch of cookies helps tremendously. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
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Chad Frischmann | We the Future
100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming |
Environmental Justice team | Education and action
Just Transition Convergence | Building a Just Transition to Clean Energy for New Mexico Monday, January 28, 9 am to 2 pm, at UU Santa Fe Sponsored by New Energy Economy. They kindly request that everyone who wants to attend the Just-Transition Convergence take part from the beginning in the morning to ensure a shared understanding and commitment to a just transition that is led by those most directly impacted by the energy sector. More information and sign up here.
For more information about upcoming ways to take action on climate change please check the events calendar at New Mexico Climate Action here. |
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Film Festival and JusticeFriday, January 25, 7 pm | Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
A film on the former U.S. Attorney General and human rights activist by Joseph Stillman at UU Santa Fe. Suggested donation – $10. Santa Fe Film Festival at UU Santa Fe UU Santa Fe Social Justice Teams are proud to announce that we will be both a venue and a sponsor for the Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, with special presentations and ten films shown in our Fogelson Hall from February 14 to 17. On Sunday, February 10, Greer Garson returns to UU Santa Fe. Join us for a screening of Strange Lady in Town, the only NM made film with Ms. Garson. The screening is free, but you can get delicious goodies to enjoy - and support our Social Justice projects. Stay for the discussion Memories of Greer as several UU members who knew Greer Garson during her local residency will recollect on her time in New Mexico. Here (download and print) are details on the ten films being screened at UU Santa Fe, February 14 to 17. Join us and help us establish successful community wide activities to support our Social Justice programs. To express interest and/or willingness to help, stop by the Social Justice table in Fellowship on Sundays. |
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save the date! Mother Jones in Heaven
Legendary Labor organizer comes to life in story and song in this one-woman performance―with one foot in the folk tradition of storytelling and acoustic guitars, and the other in the true American art of musical theater.
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Sunday, February 3, 12 pm, Special Congregational Meeting - vote on 1) spending money from the Permanent Endowment Fund to purchase heat pumps in the Fogelson wing of the church building, and 2) sanctuary or other support initiatives. The sanctuary vote will most likely be a ranked choice ballot with four choices: a) sanctuary here at UU Santa Fe, b) offering to house someone in the process of seeking asylum, c) making a firm commitment to help an agency that helps those folks, or d) continuing our support at the level we have been at now. This vote is preceded by an information and discussion Town Hall on these subjects, Sunday, January 20, 12 pm, in Fogelson Hall. Fellowship Lounge Makeover is Over! A work of the last 18 months.
Thank You To:
Board of Trustees (BoT) December News. At the December Board Meeting, the BoT spent most of its deliberation on our Immigrant Sanctuary Discernment process, recommending an all-electric heating and cooling option for the sanctuary, kitchen, library, staff offices and meeting room and scheduling a Congregational Meeting February 3 to ask the congregation for permission to use Permanent Endowment funds for this capital improvement, as well as approving a provisional Child and Youth Safety policy, remitting Congregational Safety Report recommendations to the Facility Committee, updating policy, strategic planning and our 2019 annual canvass drive.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.
Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.―Bill Watterson