Live Events During 30 Days of Love 2021

Each week of 30 Days of Love, there will be a weekly theme with a menu of do-it-yourself activities in the following categories:

  • Read: Articles, book excerpts, poems,

  • Watch: Videos, concerts and roundtables discussion

  • Participate: Artist workshops, writings and actions

  • Listen: Music, meditation, lectures, poetry

  • Worship: Worship moments - alone or together - to refuel

Our General Participate events require pre-registration to participate. Most will also be livestreamed on the Side With Love Facebook page, but not all, depending on copyright and/or creator request.

We have menus for our general, kids, youth, and multigenerational/family audiences. Use one or all of the menus, or pick and choose from each!

Be sure to follow us on Facebook for our livestreams, discussion posts, and other updates!

Jan 21 @ 12pm ET / 9am PT

Side With Love Conversation

With Everette Thompson, UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, UUA Co-Moderator Rev. Meg Riley, UUA Organizing Strategy Team Director Rev. Ashley Horan, and UUA Director of Congregational Life Jessica York.

Jan 21 @ 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Conversation with Rabbi Rachel S. Mikva, Ph.D.

Rabbi Mikva is the Herman Schaalman Chair in Jewish Studies, Senior Faculty Fellow, InterReligious Institute and author of Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon Press) (75 min).

Jan 26 @ 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Conversation with Zach Norris

Norris is the author of Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment (Beacon Press). Zach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement, violence prevention, juvenile justice, and police brutality, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families, both of which focus on the power of community action.

Jan 28 @ 7pm ET / 4pm PT

What We’ve Lost: Writing About Grief in the Time of COVID

In this creative writing workshop, we will reflect on the deep emotions of 2020, writing through themes of grief and mourning experienced through the last year. Whether you lost a loved one or whether you feel a sense of mourning for the life you lived and the connections you had before the pandemic began, you will have the chance to write about these feelings of loss in a creative and supportive environment. Led by Willona Sloan, Strategic Storyteller & Literary Host - willonasloan.com.

Feb 3 @ 7pm ET / 4 pm PT

Reading, Writing, and Racism with Dr. Camika Royal and Dr. Bree Picower

Join for a conversation with Dr. Camika Royal, Assistant Professor of Urban Education at Loyola University of Maryland School of Education and Dr. Bree Picower, Associate Professor at Montclair State University in the College of Education and Human Development.

Dr. Royal is an urban education expert whose current work focuses on the intersections of race, politics, history, and urban school reform. Dr Picower's new book from Beacon Press, Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom, is an examination of how curriculum choices can perpetuate White supremacy, and radical strategies for how schools and teacher education programs can disrupt and transform racism in education.

How are we perpetuating white supremacy culture in our education, and how can we change that?

NOTE: This will only be available to watch on Facebook for 48 hours after the original airing.

Feb 4 @ 7pm ET/4pm PT

Addressing Race, Racism, and Bias

In this writing workshop, Willona Sloan, Strategic Storyteller & Literary Host, will lead participants to tackle issues of racism, bias, and social justice through guided writing prompts, and look at ways to engage in behaviors and attitudes that demonstrate respect for one another’s identities and better cultural understanding. The workshop will include writing, reading, and discussion, and will offer a safe and inclusive environment for learning.

NOTE: This is an interactive Zoom workshop with a participation limit of 40 people. We will open the Zoom at two minutes before start. Once we hit capacity, you can participate via the livestream on Facebook but will not experience the interactive element with the instructor.

Feb 9 @ 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Gather At the Table

In this webinar, Morgan and DeWolf talk about the circumstances behind their book Gather At the Table (Beacon Press). Sharon Leslie Morgan, a descendent of slaves on both sides of her family, began a journey toward racial reconciliation with Thomas Norman DeWolf, a white man from rural Oregon who descends from the largest slave-trading dynasty in US history. Over a three-year period, the pair traveled thousands of miles, both overseas and through twenty-seven states, visiting ancestral towns, courthouses, cemeteries, plantations, antebellum mansions, and historic sites. They spent time with one another’s families and friends and engaged in deep conversations about how the lingering trauma of slavery shaped their lives.

Gather at the Table is the chronicle of DeWolf and Morgan’s journey. As DeWolf and Morgan demonstrate, before we can overcome racism we must first acknowledge and understand the damage inherited from the past-which invariably involves confronting painful truths. The result is a revelatory testament to the possibilities that open up when people commit to truth, justice, and reconciliation.

Feb 11 @ 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Envisioning Restoration and Repair: Art for Our Time

With the world being what it is, it can be hard to imagine what it might take to even begin a process of restoration and repair, on any front. However, the practice of artistic creation can be and has been a way for people to do just that. Join us for a time of looking at and talking about works of art that respond to or have been shaped by crisis. No art historical background is necessary. The focus of our conversations will be about the art itself and what it might have to teach us about restoring and repairing our hearts, our country, and our planet. Offered by Rev. Tony Coleman.