Calendar – Detail

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

06/22/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

06/29/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting

07/03/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Oversees and evaluates all children and youth programs; plans and carries out special events; organizes Baby Cafe; supports social justice projects that welcome children and youth; more generally, helps the wider congregation better meet the needs of families, children, and youth. Contact: cyrecommittee@uucpa.org. Chair: Edie Keating. Board Liaison: Rev. Cat Boyle

No Sunday School, childcare only

07/06/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

07/13/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

07/20/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

07/27/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/03/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

Children and Youth Religious Education Committee meeting

08/07/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Oversees and evaluates all children and youth programs; plans and carries out special events; organizes Baby Cafe; supports social justice projects that welcome children and youth; more generally, helps the wider congregation better meet the needs of families, children, and youth. Contact: cyrecommittee@uucpa.org. Chair: Edie Keating. Board Liaison: Rev. Cat Boyle

UUCPA Summer Sunday School for All Ages

08/10/2025, 10:15 am - 11:15 am UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

UUCPA Children’s Summer Sunday Schedule (subject to change, check back weekly for updates)

Sunday Summer School is all about one of our official UUCPA CYRE goals – have fun and build community. 

• We will check in and offer an activity planned for all ages every Sunday except for the July 4 weekend (July 6). 
• Supervised childcare on the playground is also available for preschool through grade 5 – so choosing between the activity or the playground is an option every Sunday. 
• Older preschoolers may enjoy some activities especially if a parent can assist them.

Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing

06/22/2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fireside Room (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Join the democratic and inclusive American song tradition of Sacred Harp music, one of the oldest ongoing music traditions in the United States. Rolling Stone magazine talks about “the soaring magnificence of Sacred Harp.” National Public Radio calls it “full-body singing,” and radio station KALW says it’s a “communal experience.” Come find out for yourself. Beginners are always welcome, and loaner books are available.

Dates:               2nd & 4th Sunday every month

Time:                 2-4 pm

Location:         Fireside Room

Facilitator:       Palo Alto Sacred Harp singers

Contact:          sacredharp@uucpa.org

Registration:   Not required

Sacred-Harp Singing

Sacred Harp Shape Note Singing

07/27/2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fireside Room (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Join the democratic and inclusive American song tradition of Sacred Harp music, one of the oldest ongoing music traditions in the United States. Rolling Stone magazine talks about “the soaring magnificence of Sacred Harp.” National Public Radio calls it “full-body singing,” and radio station KALW says it’s a “communal experience.” Come find out for yourself. Beginners are always welcome, and loaner books are available.

Dates:               2nd & 4th Sunday every month

Time:                 2-4 pm

Location:         Fireside Room

Facilitator:       Palo Alto Sacred Harp singers

Contact:          sacredharp@uucpa.org

Registration:   Not required

Sacred-Harp Singing

Board Game Night

06/21/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Room 4/5 (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Join us after the Equinox ritual for board games. Bring your favorite games and friends along for the fun!

Saturday Meditation

06/21/2025, 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

The Saturday morning meditation group welcomes all to join us on Zoom for meditation and conversation. Meditation time begins promptly at 9:10 and lasts for 40 minutes, including several short readings. Next, we share tea and conversation, talking about what is important to us in the moment – perhaps our response to the readings or something that is going on in our lives.

• Dates: Every Saturday
• Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am
• Location: Online
• Facilitator: Leadership is shared and rotates weekly
• Contact: The Zoom link is available from Susan Owicki – email susanowicki@uucpa.org by 9:00 pm on Friday.

Come Meditate with Us!

Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Grief, work, and love-Rowling

06/21/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

It was like sinking into an old nightmare; for an instant Harry knelt again beside Dumbledore’s body at the foot of the tallest tower at Hogwarts, but in reality he was staring at a tiny body curled upon the grass, pierced by Bellatrix’s silver knife. […]
He stretched out a hand and pulled the sharp blade from the elf’s body, then dragged off his own jacket and covered Dobby in it like a blanket  […]
And shortly afterward he had set to work, alone, digging the grave in the place that Bill had shown him at the end of the garden, between bushes. He dug with a kind of fury, relishing the manual work, glorying in the non-magic of it, for every drop of his sweat and every blister felt like a gift to the elf who had saved their lives.
His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. He had learned control at last, learned to shut his mind to Voldemort, the very thing Dumbledore had wanted him to learn from Snape. […] Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out… though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.
–JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:

• connect to something of supreme importance to us
• feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
• feel more intensely alive
• align our lives with our values,
• perceive or feel more deeply
• be more fully and authentically ourselves.

Resonant Reading (Wednesday)

06/25/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

How to join:

*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:

• connect to something of supreme importance to us
• feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
• feel more intensely alive
• align our lives with our values,
• perceive or feel more deeply
• be more fully and authentically ourselves.

American Humanist Association Annual Conference Watch Party

06/28/2025, 7:00 am - 2:00 pm Room 10 (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

This month, the American Humanist Association is holding its 84th Annual Conference, entitled “Humanists Move America”. We invite you to join us for a watch party, like we held last year, so we can participate in the conference together.

• Format: In-person
• Host: Humanists at UUCPA
• When: Saturday, June 28, 7am-2pm (In-person conference is in Chicago)
• Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
• Room 10, the meeting room closest to the parking lot
• 505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306

Sessions:

• 7am Swipe Left, Swipe Right: The Future of Mating and Marriage – A Humanist’s Perspective with Darrel Ray
• 8am The Future of Civic Power: How Humanists Can Reimagine Democracy with Sharon Welch
• 9am The Secular Case for Reparations with Cynthia McDonald
• 11am Fighting Back in the Courts: How AHA’s Legal Strategy Is Evolving for 2025 and Beyond with Amitai Heller
• 12pm From Representation to Power: How Humanists Can Build a Political Movement with Wil Jeudy, Sarah Levin, Karina Quintanilla, and Stephanie Vigil
• 1pm Center for Freethought Equality Annual Meeting with North Dakota State Senator Ryan Braunberger and former Colorado State House member Stephanie Vigil

Being a member of the humanist and atheist community is no longer an effective opposition issue in today’s politics.

AHACON25 Schedule with links to speaker biographies: https://www.conference.americanhumanist.org/schedule

This month, the AHA is holding its 84th Annual Conference,

Saturday Meditation

06/28/2025, 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

The Saturday morning meditation group welcomes all to join us on Zoom for meditation and conversation. Meditation time begins promptly at 9:10 and lasts for 40 minutes, including several short readings. Next, we share tea and conversation, talking about what is important to us in the moment – perhaps our response to the readings or something that is going on in our lives.

• Dates: Every Saturday
• Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am
• Location: Online
• Facilitator: Leadership is shared and rotates weekly
• Contact: The Zoom link is available from Susan Owicki – email susanowicki@uucpa.org by 9:00 pm on Friday.

Come Meditate with Us!

Resonant Reading (Saturday)

06/28/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:

• connect to something of supreme importance to us
• feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
• feel more intensely alive
• align our lives with our values,
• perceive or feel more deeply
• be more fully and authentically ourselves.

Resonant Reading (Wednesday)

07/02/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

How to join:

*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:

• connect to something of supreme importance to us
• feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
• feel more intensely alive
• align our lives with our values,
• perceive or feel more deeply
• be more fully and authentically ourselves.

Resonant Reading (Saturday)

07/05/2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:

• connect to something of supreme importance to us
• feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
• feel more intensely alive
• align our lives with our values,
• perceive or feel more deeply
• be more fully and authentically ourselves.

First Monday Film Discussion Group

Party Girl

07/07/2025, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

We gather via Zoom on the first Monday of the month for an hourlong discussion of a movie we have chosen and each watched ahead of time. Group members add to the list of movies, the only strictures being that they must be available on Hoopla or Kanopy and be free. (You will want to register for Kanopy for ease of future viewing.) Then, each month, the group votes on the next movie. Menlo Park residency not required. 😉 That’s where the group originated, and the name stuck.

Email Bruce England with any questions and to receive the Zoom link.

Resonant Reading (Wednesday)

07/09/2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

How to join:

*This activity was formerly called “Sacred Text Reading.” That proved misleading–for one thing, more often than not our sources are secular–but it’s worth describing the qualities of a sacred text, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:

• connect to something of supreme importance to us
• feel more connected to other beings or to the universe
• feel more intensely alive
• align our lives with our values,
• perceive or feel more deeply
• be more fully and authentically ourselves.

Summer Solstice

06/21/2025, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm UUCPA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

On Saturday, June 21 we will celebrate the longest day of the year with a Summer Solstice Celebration.  Please join us at 6 p.m. for a ceremony to mark the moment, then we will share food and conversation in a potluck afterwards (more details coming soon). Children and adults are welcome! Following the Solstice Celebration those who wish can stick around for s’mores and board games to make it a whole evening of connection.

Meanwhile – save the date and enjoy some sunshine!

☀️Rebecca Shapley, ☀️Edie Keating,☀️ Maricia Scott and ☀️Laura Corbett ☀️

Board Game Night

06/21/2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Room 4/5 (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Join us after the Equinox ritual for board games. Bring your favorite games and friends along for the fun!

Bay Area UUs at SF Pride

06/29/2025, 10:30 am - 1:00 pm TBA (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Unitarian Universalists from all over the Bay Area will parade together at SF Pride, one of the first and biggest Pride events in the world. To indicate your interest, please fill out this form.

Campus Vision Groundbreaking Celebration

07/06/2025, 11:30 am - 12:00 pm (Add to calendar: Google, iCal, webcal)

Yes, it’s really happening. After years of planning, meeting, raising money, and permitting, we are finally going to break ground. What started in 2021 as a kitchen remodel project has turned into so much more: New Kitchen + Electrical Upgrade + Electric Heat Pump HVAC + Updated Choir Room + EV Chargers + Bathroom and Shower for our unhoused guests. When we are done, our carbon footprint will be reduced by more than half. Construction will likely begin at the end of June or the beginning of July. The Campus Vision Task Force requests the pleasure of your company at a formal Groundbreaking Celebration on Sunday, July 6, immediately following the service. Think shovels and hard hats, balloons and music, cheese, crackers, and bubbly. Please join us to celebrate this milestone.

Sally Ahnger, Randy Helmonds, Kevin Crane, Edie Keating, Jeff Cashdollar, and Barbara Smith-Thomas