Everyone is welcome to attend our June activities and programs!
Room Locations: The Assembly Hall, Chapel and Conference Room are downstairs. The Gallery and Front Lounge are next door in the John Haynes Holmes Community House at 28 E. 35th Street, the building with the red door! Always check the signs at the front doors as room assignments are changed occasionally.
Weekly:
Hatha Yoga with Nafisa Degani
Tuesdays, 6-7:30 pm / Saturdays, 10:30-12 pm, Rear Lounge
Hatha Yoga is a branch of yoga which concentrates on physical health and mental well-being. Hatha yoga uses bodily postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation (dyana) with the goal of bringing about a sound, healthy body and a clear, peaceful mind. Please bring a yoga mat to the class. Requested Contribution $15/$5 Students (No sessions on some holiday weekends)
NYC Street Singers
Most Tuesdays, 6 pm, 3rd Floor Classroom
The NYC Streetsingers are now doing community outreach with Sing for Hope, a volunteer artists program that performs in Healthcare facilities throughout NYC. Open to all who also believe in the transformative power of the arts to inspire and unite, please join us on Tuesday evenings. For more information please contact clisbin25@aol.com.
Pranayama Breathing Exercises with Nafisa
Fridays, 1:15 pm, Chapel (by appointment)
Learn the breathing technique which improves breathing capacity, opens the upper chest muscles, strengthens the lungs and opens air passages while releasing tension through the spine and shoulders. Requested Contribution: $20
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CER and DRUUMM New York City Area Gathering with Potluck Lunch
Saturday, June 1, 10 AM - 4 PM, Community Church Front Terrace
We invite UU People of Color in the Greater New York City area to gather for lunch and meeting facilitated by the Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson. Please RSVP with Rev. Joseph Santos Lyons - jsantoslyons@uuma.org or 503-512-0490 by May 31.
Caring for Community – 3 Workshops to be Offered
All members and friends are invited to attend. All sessions will take place in the Chapel. Contact Dr. Janice Marie Johnson for additional information – jmjohnson@uua.org
Care of Self: Identity Awareness (June 2, 9:45-10:45 am)
Care of Others: Communication Transformation (June 9, 9:45-10:45 am)
Care of the Community: Cultural Responsibility (June 12, 2-3 pm)
Speech Support Group
Tuesdays, June 4 and 18, 6:30-8:15 pm, 3rd Floor Classroom
This monthly group is open to Community members and friends. It welcomes anyone who is a secondary stutterer – that is an adult who acknowledges he/she does stutter, and one who always has "anticipatory anxiety", the expectation to fail, to be dis-fluent. Our meetings start with relaxation breathing, then follows with specific exercises and then conversation using the taught techniques. There is a $2 fee per meeting.
Secular Humanist Society of New York Book Club
First Thursdays, June 6, 7-8:30 pm, Front Lounge
Some of us will have dinner together afterwards at a nearby (inexpensive) restaurant. Please join us. Join us even if you haven't finished reading. The book club is open to all ... and free! See www.shsny.org for titles.
Gallery35 at Community – BLUE - Closing Reception
Saturday, June 15, 6-8 pm, Gallery
BLUE is the third in a series of exhibits which move around the color wheel. Earlier exhibits featured Green and Red. In this exhibit, artists explore the rich possibilities of the color blue from blue moods to beautiful blues.
The Hearing Loss Association of America, NYC Chapter Meetings
Tuesday, June 18, 6:30-8:30, Assembly Hall
The Hearing Loss Association of America, NYC Chapter, (HLAA NYC), holds their monthly meetings here at Community Church. Community members and friends are warmly invited to attend to learn more.
Juneteenth
Friday, June 21, 5:30-8 pm, Gallery
oin us for our annual JUNETEENTH celebration as we commemorate the "official" end of African American slavery in the U.S. that occurred June 19, 1865 with the abolition of slavery in Texas. Music/Poetry/Potluck ~ Please wear your Afrocentric attire (those who have) and bring food or beverages to share. For more information, contact Rose Crayton or George Duckett.
Church Meetings ~ Governance/Committee Meetings:
Board of Trustees Meetings – 4th Wednesdays, 6 pm, Gallery
Church Council Meetings – Meets Quarterly 7:30-9 p (next meeting date TBA)
Finance Committee – 3rd Wednesdays, 6 pm, Gallery
Shelter Committee – 2nd Sundays – 9:30-10:30 am, Shelter Kitchen
UN and Global Affairs Committee – 2nd Sundays, 1-2:15 pm, Conference Room
Gallery35 at Community – 1st Wednesdays, 6:30-8 pm, Gallery
Other Opportunities:
People's Voice Café – Most Saturdays, 8 pm – More information at www.peoplesvoicecafe.org
Resumes in September
Esperanto Society – Third Fridays, 7-9 pm, 3rd Floor Classroom (Oct-May) – Everyone is welcome.
