In this week’s Question Box, Rev. Lisa explores: “How do UUCM and UUism recognize July’s disability pride month and address the ableism and ageism of our society? After all everyone is temporarily able bodied.”
For more information about UU’s work for disability justice, check out the resources at EqUUalaccess.org and the UUA’s Uplift Access blog.
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The CYRE Fall and Winter Calendar is ready for the school year ahead! There are so many events coming up for kids and families at UUCM from game nights to movie nights and the return of some of our annual favorites. Check out the full calendar here.
Registration is open now for the annual UUCM Women’s Retreat! It’s coming up this fall on Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28. Click here to register and view more information about the details. Please sign up by September 18.
It’s time for another year of choir at UUCM! All are welcome, invited, and encouraged to join in singing with the UUCM choir. We sing about 10 times each program year and rehearse for an hour to an hour and a half on Wednesday evenings at 7 in the UUCM Sanctuary. Our choir is open to all who wish to sing, regardless of experience level. We use printed notation, but you don’t need to be fluent in reading music to join. Recorded practice tracks are provided to help in note learning and Music Director Paul Winchester and other experienced choir members are eager to help teach skills and practices to make singing with the choir fun and comfortable. If you’re interested, please reach out to Paul at musicdirector@uucmtka.org for more information. Or you’re always welcome to show up on a Wednesday night and get a taste for the joy of UUCM choral singing!
Registration for the fall series of Beloved Conversations (Virtual): Within through the Meadville-Lombard Theological School is open through August 31st. Sign up here. Scholarships are available! This virtual course is meant for white people who are ready to learn more about how knowledge, hope, imagination, love, and community can come together to combat racism in all its forms. Join dozens of your UUCM peers in completing this reflective education that is a great first step towards your own growth and helping our entire congregation on our journey to becoming anti-racist. From the Beloved Conversations: Within website on outcomes: “The aim of Beloved Conversations is to underline that racial justice work (and the self-understanding and personal work that are essential to it) is the work of our lifetime, and we engage it in different ways…everyone has work to do and we will all have different learning goals and outcomes. And the learning is never done- it only shifts and changes over time.” The course includes a series of 6 virtual lessons that drop to your inbox every other week from September 10 through December 3, 2024. Each participant is also assigned to a virtual study group that will meet every other week (at a time of the group’s choosing) via Zoom to process the lessons. Please contact Karen Zais with any questions.
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