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**Spring Forward**
Don't forget to set your clocks ahead by one hour on Sunday at 2AM**
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Sunday Service | March 10, 2019
Donna will be preaching about a constellation of news around Judson as well as the joy of foot massage, using Jesus’ unorthodox washing of his disciples’ feet as a text. What is a constellation? Lots of things glowing at once. What is Judson? A congregation of seekers and hopes. Should we remove from our bulletin, “A church that is a little bit different and intending to make a difference?” If so, why. If no, why not. Yes, this is a survey and the winning entry will be the modern testimony.
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The Villager: Elected Officials Celebrate Village Political Icon Keen Berger
BY ED YUTKOWITZ | Elected officials joined members of the Village Independent Democrats on Sat., March 2, to honor longtime District Leader Kathleen “Keen” Berger on her retirement.
The occasion was a breakfast kicking off the Democratic club’s petitioning effort on behalf of local candidates in the next election, including Ashlee Crawford and Robert Rosenthal for Civil Court judicial positions; Democratic County Committee members; and Jennifer Hoppe, Berger’s likely successor as district leader.
Tony Hoffmann, a former president of V.I.D., presented Berger with a gold clipboard to commemorate the many hours she spent tirelessly petitioning for Democratic candidates. Read more here!
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Fatoumata Gassama Granted Asylum!
Friends,
Fatoumata Gassama, with the steadfast help of Joshua Bardavid, Esq. was granted asylum in federal immigration court on Tuesday, March 5th. AND, the US government attorney went on the record, saying they would not appeal the judge’s decision.
Many thanks to Judson folks for their prayers and support over these many years
-Marlyn Klee
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William Corwin's Lenten Altar
Through Sunday, April 21th Meeting Room (see below for viewing hours)
The Judson space has never been a static one, and Corwin’s pieces reference processional objects and liturgical tools and furniture that would have been handled and physically venerated: practical sculpture for practical magic. They draw on a fluidity of ideas and history as well, finding inspiration in symbols and representations of deities and natural forces from ancient Sumerian, Egyptian and Babylonian sculpture, as well as contemporary Judeo-Christian, Islamic and Hindu imagery as well. Many of his archaic examples are found specifically in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, a museum also founded by my family. It will be exciting to see Corwin’s art activated by the ideas and enthusiasm of the Judson congregation that uses the space for a variety of wonderful purposes. His objects will absorb the passion of the Lenten services, Ash Wednesday, and Easter, of course, as well as the vital social programs of the church.
More about the art and artist here!
Viewing hours:
**Ash Wednesday Mar. 6: 7:15pm-8pm;
**Thursday Mar. 7: 5:30pm - 8pm (OPENING RECEPTION)
Sun. Mar. 10: 11am-1pm; Wed. Mar. 13: 3pm-5 pm; Thur. Mar. 14: 3pm-5pm
Sun. Mar. 17: 11am-1pm; Wed. Mar. 20: 7:15pm-8pm; Thur. Mar. 21:3pm-5pm
Sun. Mar. 24: 11am-1pm; Wed. Mar. 27: 7:15pm-8pm; Thur. Mar. 28:3pm-5pm
Sun. Mar. 31: 11am-1pm; Wed. Apr. 4: 7:15pm-8pm; Thur. Apr. 4: 3pm-5pm
Sun. Apr. 7: 11am-1pm; Wed. Apr.10: 3pm-5pm; Thur. Apr. 11: 3pm-5pm
Sun. Apr. 14: 11am-1pm; Wed. Apr.17: 7:15pm-5pm;
Maundy Thursday Apr. 18: 2pm-4pm and 5:30pm-7:30pm
Fri Apr. 19: 2pm-4pm and 5:30pm-7:30pm
**Easter Sunday, Apr. 21: 11am - 3pm
and by appointment: william_corwin@yahoo.com (917) 355-7826
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NY, NY 10012
(212) 477-0351
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We Are Lent
Sunday, March 10th | Meeting Room
1PM
As we move into a season of Lent, let us reflect on our humanity and that which connects us in a time of division. Matt and Rev Ali, both Community Ministers, will be co-facilitating a We Are Lent Series beginning Sunday, March 10 from 1-2:30pm in the Meeting Room. Come prepared to stay after service for interfaith worship, grieving, sharing and healing as we create a circle to rage, rejoice and rise.
RSVP here!
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‘Bricks and Mortals’ with Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper and President Joel N. Lohr
Monday, March 11th | Hartford Seminary
2PM
Please join us for this special two-part workshop on Monday, March 11, from 2-4 p.m. in the Meeting Room at Hartford Seminary.
Part One: RemovethePews.com: A Long Think, Done in a Short Way, about Bricks and Mortals and What Is New and Next
What does it mean to be proactive in removing the pews? The Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper will offer a primer about how to shake up the way we use our sacred sites.
RSVP here!
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A Livable New York Panel Discussion
Monday, March 11th | The New School - 12th St Auditorium
7PM
A Livable New York: The Future of Community Green Space and Affordable Housing
MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019 AT 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Auditorium, Room A106, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
Little Italy's Elizabeth Street Garden is a community sculpture garden with over 100,000 visitors a year and year-round free public programs. Currently, the City and NYC Housing Preservation & Development (HPD) plan to destroy the garden to develop affordable housing, office space, and luxury retail, despite a proposed alternative site for the planned development. These propositions have set up a false choice between the community's needs for public green space and affordable housing, and reflect crucial issues with City planning and the livability of New York.
Join community garden representatives, activists, and scholars, as they explore access to public green space and the availability of affordable housing in a constantly changing city through the lens of Elizabeth Street Garden.
The panel will be moderated by Kai Wright, a WNYC reporter and host of the podcast “There Goes The Neighborhood." Introductory remarks will be provided from Mia White, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at The New School, and Joseph Reiver, Executive Director of the Elizabeth Street Garden.
RSVP here!
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Movement Research
Monday, March 11th | Meeting Room
8PM
Featuring works by:
Tatyana Tenenbaum & Collaborators, Benjamin Kimitch, DaEun Jung, Susannah Simpson
About Movement Research at Judson Church:
Movement Research presents a high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons. Movement Research at the Judson Church supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
Photo by Ian Douglas
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What's Your Occupation: Kiki Ball
Friday, March 15th | Meeting Room
5PM
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Farewell Celebration for Molly, Judson's Senior Administrator
Sunday, March 17th | Meeting Room
12:30PM
On Sunday, March 17th we will have a farewell celebration for Molly, our beloved Senior Administrator who will be leaving Judson at the end of the month, to start a new and exciting position.
Molly has given Judson extraordinary gifts. She has built multiple administrative systems. She has taken us through phase one of a capital campaign, during which time we raised the money to put on a new roof. She has been on the ground during leaks and building emergencies, both at Grace House and at the church itself.
We will miss her terribly -- and hope she will continue to think of Judson as one of her spiritual homes.
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Healing & Accountability by Dismantling Whiteness
Sunday, March 17th | Garden Room
1PM
This is the inaugural session of a new meditation and discussion-based space dedicated to supporting and organizing white people in undoing both internalized and systemic whiteness. At this first meeting, participants will discuss questions of how to foster supportive and accountable practices within the group, as well as center racial justice in the work of healing. We will also develop ground rules for cultivating a brave space to ensure efforts to challenge ignorance with compassion, address racial trauma as one of the many roots of racism, and organize for antiracist action can take place without perpetuating harmful behaviors and systems. While the conversation aims to support and organize white people in dismantling whiteness, and responds to calls for white people to hold one another accountable and be responsible for the work of supporting one another’s healing, this group is open to everyone regardless of race.
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The Judson Book Group
Wednesday, March 20th | Host Jane Treuhold
6:30PM
- The 3rd Wednesday of the month: discussion of a selected book in a home (in Manhattan).
- Enjoy a robust discussion and meet other Judsonites
- All are welcome! Snacks provided
- For further information, contact Mary Russell at mcrussell42@aol.com
The next Book Group book will be:
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
New York Times bestseller, An NPR pick for Best Books of 2018, One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018, One of Newsweek's Best Books of the year
A timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. Unsheltered is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it.
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute?
In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it?
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Save the Date: Illuminations on Market Street
Sunday, March 24th | Assembly Hall
4PM
On AIDS Activism, Sex, and Estrangement a book launch for Illuminations on Market Street, the new novel by Benjamin Heim Shepard.
A reading and conversation between Benjamin Shepard and Micah Bucey, as well as a panel of AIDS activists Eric Sawyer and Karen Ramspacher discussing the sex and social justice of AIDS work in pre protease New York and San Francisco, when death was in the air, and treatments were nowhere to be found.
Shepard traces the story of a young caregiver in San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh out of college. It is the middle of a recession, before the dot-com boom, and AIDS is an immediate and untreatable reality. A story about AIDS and sex, acting up and praying for the dead, this is a story about living and fighting in the face of insurmountable challenges insurmountable challenges as one writer searches for his own story.
Doors open 3:30PM
Event starts at 4 PM
RSVP here!
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