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2021 Jun 20 | Spring #13

Upcoming Online Worship

Sun Jun 20, 10:00am ~ “Feelin’ Groovy”

~ Rev. Meredith Garmon

It’s summer, how can you be sad? We know a beautiful day tends to lifts the mood, but what about when it doesn’t?

Sun Jun 27, 12:00pm ~ “Until Love Wins” Sunday Morning Worship at the 2021 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association

We will not hold our usual 10:00am service so everyone can attend the annual GA Sunday Worship together at noon. The service will be led by the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis, and will include a collection to benefit MICAH: Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope. We will share the GA livestream in our regular worship Zoom room so we can greet one another and use our chat to share comments.

We invite everyone to join us at a pre-worship Coffee Hour starting at 11:15am in our usual coffee hour Zoom room.

Click here to join our Sunday Worship

or phone in (audio only): 646-876-9923 · Webinar: 761 321 991 · Passcode: 468468

After worship, join our Virtual Coffee Hour

or phone in (audio only): 929-436-2866 · Meeting: 336 956 2210 · Passcode: 468468

For additional CUUC program & login information, scroll to bottom

Revisit past services anytime at our YouTube Channel

On the Journey

Click here for the June issue of On the Journey: “Justice”

Messages from Ministry

From the Minister

See this week's Minister's Post
See the Practice of the Week – Nature Practice

Review past “UU Minute” segments.

See text of past sermons at “The Liberal Pulpit.”

See videos at our YouTube Channel.

From the Religious Educator

The Time for All Ages story in worship this Sunday is Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, illustrated by Rafael López.

Information about summer camps is in our announcements doc online here. The RE Council is busy at work preparing for 2021-2022 RE. Stay tuned for updates! Families and volunteers, please keep an eye out for a survey in July. Your input is needed as we continue planning. If you already know you would like to volunteer in RE next year, Tracy (cuucwptracy@gmail.com) would be delighted to hear from you!

From the Music Director

This Sunday we are delighted to have musician Julie Licata, Associate Professor of Music at SUNY Oneonta, perform at our worship. Over the last twenty years, Julie has presented solo percussion and chamber ensemble recitals across the US, commissioning and premiering works by rising and prominent composers from the US and beyond. Be sure to read more below and in this week's music blog, and learn more at www.julielicata.com.

Congregation & Community News

Solstice Celebration

Summer Solstice Celebration, Sat Jun 19, 10:00am-4:00pm, CUUC Grounds

New York Dance for All People, a spiritual circle rooted in the revitalization of the Shoshone Naraya ceremony, will hold a Solstice Celebration on the CUUC grounds. Members of the CUUC community are welcome to join. Please note this is an intentional, spiritual gathering. Attendees are expected to come prepared, to participate, and to have clear intentions about why they are participating. Registration is required so that all can be well cared for. Please read the form in full before signing up. If you can help us get our property ready and make our guests comfortable, please contact: Bice Wilson (bicewilson@gmail.com).

Guest Worship Musician

This Sunday we welcome percussionist Julie Licata, Associate Professor of Music at SUNY Oneonta where she teaches percussion ensembles, percussion and drumset lessons, and courses in world music. Over the last twenty years, Julie has presented solo percussion and chamber ensemble recitals across the US, commissioning and premiering works by rising and prominent composers from the US and beyond. Julie’s performances range from improvisational soundscapes and works with interactive computer processing, to solo marimba, orchestra, and theater pit orchestra, to West African drum ensembles and Indonesian gamelan.

In addition to performing regularly with several regional orchestras and theater companies, Julie has presented solo and chamber performances at the Pantaleoni Concert Series in Oneonta, NY, the College Music Society Southern Regional Conference, the 10th Annual Flute Festival of Junín, Argentina, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), and CHIMEFest in Chicago, IL.

Julie is an active member of the Percussive Arts Society, having served as a new literature reviewer for the Percussive Notes journal and as a member of the PAS University Pedagogy and Diversity Committees. Julie is also a member of the Black Swamp Percussion Educator Network and is the recent past Secretary/Treasurer and Interim President of the PAS NY Chapter. Julie holds degrees from the University of North Texas (DMA), University of South Carolina (MM), and Capital University (BM). For more information about Julie’s musical activities, please visit www.julielicata.com.

Points of Pride

In honor of Pride month, our "Time for All Ages" story last week was Pride: the Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders. In our worship chat, we shared these related comments and links:

The Pride flag continues to be updated to be broadly inclusive. Most recently https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pride-flag-month-redesign-inclusive-b1863630.html. And there are beautiful individual orientation/identity flags, e.g., https://www.seventeen.com/life/g32577915/lgbtq-pride-flags/.
We honor CUUC members Joann Prinzivalli and Tony Arrien for their activism, along with LGBTQPIA++ activists featured in these articles: https://www.insider.com/lgbtq-figures-you-should-know-2020-5#marsha-p-johnson-was-on-the-frontlines-of-the-stonewall-riots-6 and https://www.equalitynow.org/lgbtq_activists_pride.
The Gender Recognition Act just passed in the NYS Assembly https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/11/us/new-york-state-assembly-gender-neutral-id/index.html. There is a very good chance it will pass in the Senate. This is a very important bill for trans, GNC, and particularly nonbinary people! [GNC=gender nonconforming]

Notes of Appreciation

At last Sunday's worship, our choir director, Lisa N. Meyer, shared her gratitude for the artistry and hard work of the CUUC choir, and accompanist Georgianna Pappas, during this challenging year. In turn, Adam Kent expressed the congregation's thanks to Lisa for making possible the remarkable music videos that have graced our worship. You can view them at http://bit.ly/CUUCVirtualChoir. And click here for the Oxford University Press article that features the CUUC choir and others telling us what it has been like to make these videos:

General Assembly starts next Wed!

“Circle ’Round for Justice, Healing, Courage” Virtual UUA General Assembly, June 23-27

The annual General Assembly is where UUs worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process. The 2021 GA will be all virtual, and registrants can view the Ware Lecture delivered by Stacy Abrams and Desmond Meade. Anyone may register to attend; credentialed member delegates may vote. Registration is $200. Click here to register.

Nurture Nature Show

Nurture Nature Show, Thursdays through Jul 8, 4:00pm, Webinar Zoom 1991 and Facebook Live

Revs Joyner and Garmon present the “Nurture Nature Show” on Facebook Live (through One Earth Conservation) and Zoom (Webinar 1991). They highlight topics related to understanding other species; human relationships to life around us; and how to connect more deeply to nature, human and other. Come join our 20 minute live program where we share ideas and take questions from viewers.

Caring & Sharing

If we can help you or someone you know in our congregation, please reach out to our June primary caregivers: Robin Rocchi (917-656-6830, robinandal@verizon.net), or backup Janet Giewat (914-617-2137, bean1a2@aol.com). You may also contact the CUUC office (admin@cucwp.org).

June Share the Plate: Interfaith Council for New Americans of Westchester

This month we donate half our non-pledge collection to the Interfaith Council for New Americans of Westchester (ICNAW), a coalition of local congregations that welcomes refugees resettled into our area. ICNAW has provided financial and logistical support to three resettled families locally and hopes to welcome a fourth family this year. It is critical that all Afghans who worked for the US be granted their Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) and be allowed to enter the US before the military withdraws by Sep 11. Learn more about the issue in this NBC New York report, or contact Robin Rocchi (robinandal@verizon.net) or Jane Dixon (lilrhodie@gmail.com). Mail checks to CUUC with the memo "Share the Plate - Refugees" or click here to pay online, and select "Share the Plate."

Online Offering

To make your offering or donate to our Share the Plate online, use our PayPal button here. Or go to our website, cucwp.org and click "Donate." You may also click on the chalice picture at right.

For links to our Zoom online meetings, see below.

Links are also in our online Event Calendar (click on event) at cucwp.org.

Weekly Calendar and Logins

Visit cucwp.org/calendar on our website and click on an event for login information. To reserve a Zoom online meeting room, contact admin@cucwp.org.

Sat Jun 19 - 10:00am NYDFAP Summer Solstice (Parking lot or Sanctuary); 10:00am; Zen Practice (Room 43 & Zoom 7899)

Sun Jun 20 - 10:00am Sunday Worship (Zoom 1991); 11:15am Coffee Hour (Zoom 2210); 11:45am Journey Group: Miller/Walkup (Zoom 6161)

Mon Jun 21 3:00pm "A Tempo with Adam" (Zoom 5149)

Thu Jun 24 - 10:00am Journey Group: Traber (Zoom 6161); 11:30am Science & Spirituality Group (CUUC grounds or Fireside Area); 4:00pm Nurture Nature Show (Zoom Webinar 1991); 7:15pm Children's Story Time (Zoom 4635); 7:30pm Journey Group: Majsak (Zoom 6161)

Fri Jun 25 - 3:00pm "A Tempo with Adam" (Zoom 5149)

Sat Jun 26 - 10:00am Zen Practice (Room 43 & Zoom 7899)

Sun Jun 27 - 11:15am Coffee Hour (Zoom 2210); 12:00pm UUA GA Sunday Worship (Zoom 1991)

ONLINE ZOOM MEETING LOGINS

Zoom Webinar 1991 - Login: https://bit.ly/CUUC-Worship;

or phone (audio only): 646-876-9923

Webinar: 761 321 991 · Passcode: 468468

Zoom 2210 - Login: zoom.us/j/3369562210?pwd=c21oYkVjczF3Vk9UcVRSWkVILzdPZz09,

or https://bit.ly/CUUC-CoffeeHour,

or phone (audio only): 929-436-2866

Meeting: 336 956 2210 · Passcode: 468468

Zoom 7899 - Login: us02web.zoom.us/j/2898507899?pwd=TW5sV2lUYUltT0xxZ3JXMUxxU24xQT09;