EVENTS
We are an active bunch – we love engaging in meaningful conversations with food and fun always in the mix.
TRAILMIXERS IS BACK
Trail Mixers
Saturdays, 10:00am – noon
Come walk with us, get outside, and connect—with nature and with one another.
Trail Mixers is a guided outdoor gathering where we’ll explore a local trail together, pause to notice the natural world around us, and share some lightly guided conversation along the way. We’ll make space for wonder, awe, curiosity, and the kinds of connections that often emerge when we’re walking side by side.
No hiking expertise required—just comfortable shoes, a willingness to walk together, and an openness to a little wonder. Come meet new people, enjoy the outdoors, and discover what happens when we give ourselves time to wander, wonder, and connect.
October 17 – Bellows County Park, 63 Bellows Pond Road, Hampton Bays. Led by Kent Martin
November 21 – Linda Gronlund Memorial Nature Preserve, Sag Harbor Golf Course. Led by Stuart Lowrie
December 12 – Location TBD. Led by Sue Penny and Rev. Kimberly
UCSF Board Meeting Wednesday, October 28, 6:30pm UUCSF Meetinghouse
Observers are warmly welcome. Come see how the board thinks, deliberates, and serves. Board meetings offer a chance to see the values of our congregation in action, to understand how care and stewardship translate into real choices, and to feel more connected to the life of this community beyond what happens on any given day.
Finding Latinx by Paola Ramos TUESDAYs, 6-7:30pm
Oct. 13 UU Congregation of the South Fork
Nov. 10 OLA of Eastern Long Island
Please register in advance HERE
Books can be purchased HERE.
Join us for an in depth discussion of Paolo Ramos’ illuminating book. Latinos across the United States are redefining identities and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer.
In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She introduces us to the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades.
We will discuss the following chapters on these dates:
Sept 22: “Introduction” and “Journey from West to Southwest”
Oct. 13: “The South”
Nov. 10: “Northeast to Midwest” and “Between the Shadows and the Sun”
Paola Ramos is an author and Emmy-Award winning journalist. She is a contributor for Telemundo News and MSNBC, where she is the host of “Field Report.” Ramos is a former Correspondent for Vice News. Prior to her career in journalism, Ramos was a political appointee during the Obama Administration, and served in President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Racial Justice East End (RJEE) is a community of local organizations and individuals that encourages reflection, conversation and action on racial justice issues.
Co-sponsors: Christ Episcopal Church, Children’s Museum of the East End, Eastville Community Historical Society, HARLI (Hope & Resilience LI), Ocean Zendo, and OLA of Eastern Long Island. Canio’s Cultural Cafe and Unitarian Universalists of the South Fork are founding members of RJEE.
Sitting Circle for Social Activists
Wednesdays, 5:30pm
UUCSF Meetinghouse
Engu Michel Dobbs will lead us in a time of meditation and then read together and discuss the book, “Healing Resistance” by Kazu Haga. It is a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation.
