Sunday Service | May 5, 2019
Sunday’s subject will be forgiveness — and how Jesus thinks we should and may be infinitely forgiving. “Seven times seven.”
Joe Biden’s apology will join decarceration and adultery as topics. How do we get good at forgiveness?
Following service the first meeting of the “Discovery” group will happen at 1 p.m. It is especially for newcomers to Judson, and acts as an orientation to deeper participation.
The Congregational Meeting is May 19th. Mark your calendars now.
-Donna
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Read Micah's Latest Film Review for Spirituality and Practice!
Sauvage/Wild
In a surprisingly quiet scene part way through Camille Vidal-Naquet’s visceral and riveting debut feature Sauvage/Wild, 22-year-old sex worker Leo (Félix Maritaud) ends up in bed with an elderly client. After fumbling together for a few moments, the client decides he’d simply like to be held, and as the two lie together, the client softly says, “At night, sometimes I wake, and I don’t know where I am.”
Read more here!
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Holy Week 2019—Photo Recap
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Maundy Thursday - April 18th
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See more Maundy Thursday photos here!
Photos by Michelle Y. Thompson for JMC
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See more Good Friday photos here!
Photos by Michelle Y. Thompson for JMC
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Judson + Lab/Shul Freedom's Feast 2019: Multifaith Seder for Justice - April 20th
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See more Freedom's Feast photos here!
Photos: Ali Levin Photography
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Easter Sunday - April 21st
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See more Easter Sunday photos here!
Photos by Michelle Y. Thompson for JMC
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Lifehacker: Be a Better Ally by Understanding What Ramadan Is All About
The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on May 6 this year. As an American-Muslim, I find that many of my non-Muslim friends and colleagues still don’t know much about it.
In the video above, I sit down with Aniqa Nawabi, Executive Director of the Muslim Community Network, to discuss the basics of Ramadan and its significance to Muslims around the world.
Read more here!
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How to Be a Good Ally to Muslims During Ramadan
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Lauren Maul's BUCOLIC
Saturday, May 4th | Assembly Hall
8:30PM
"Bucolic" is a dark comedy musical based on bizarre true stories from my hometown in Nebraska.
Tickets are $20 at the door on the night of the performance. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime and seating is limited.
Orange drink and animal crackers will be provided.
Starring: Michael Harren, Lady Kate Weber, Kiirstin Marilyn, Tim Girrbach, Tahlia Robinson, & Jenn Wehrung
Creative Consultant: Wendy Seyb
Created & Composed by Lauren Maul
A Maul Face, LLC Production
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Judson Discovery
Sunday, May 5th | Garden Room
1PM
Dear Spring 2019 Judson Discovery cohort:
We have a great group assembled and we're eager to see you all this weekend.
As you all know, the next incarnation of our new-ish, focused, three-session program for welcoming new members, called "Judson Discovery," will kick off THIS Sunday, May 5th, after our worship service, from 1pm to 2:30pm, in the Garden Room (ring bell and enter at 239 Thompson Street).
This Sunday's session will start with an exploration of the past. We'll be talking about Judson's history and your own histories and relationships with spirituality, justice-seeking, and creativity.
Vegan-friendly food from Mamoun's will be provided.
If that doesn't appeal to you, please feel free to bring something you'd like to enjoy during the session.
This three-session series works as a no-pressure, collaborative way for any membership-curious Judson congregants to learn more about Judson and one another, for us to learn more about all of you, and for us to discover how we can more actively and intentionally invite each of you into deeper congregational participation and spiritual nurture.
The sessions build upon one another, looking at history, current programming, and future hopes, so participation at all three sessions is desired.
Our spring set of Judson Discovery sessions will breakdown as follows:
Sunday, May 5th, 1pm to 2:30pm
Sunday, May 12th, 1pm to 2:30pm
Wednesday, May 15th, 6:30pm to 8pm (at JAW: Judson Arts Wednesdays)
Those who do decide to join will be invited to do so at the Sunday, May 19th service.
We look forward to experimenting with you!
Let us know if you have any lingering questions.
Excitedly,
Micah, Donna, Roy, & The Membership Committee
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Celebrate May Day with Paul Knopf!
Sunday, May 5th | Meeting Room
2:30PM
Join Paul as he plays his original compositions and protest songs, featuring flutist, Patty Nohara and vocalist, Michelle Y. Thompson.
Doors open at 2PM | Concert at 2:30PM
All are welcome!
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Harm Reduction Family Love Feast
Sunday, May 5th | Assembly Hall
5:30PM
Join us for some beautiful, powerful, harm reduction love and spirited community. All welcome!
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Doris Diether to be Honored at This Year's Lemlich Awards!
Monday, May 6th | Museum of the City of New York
6:30PM
Clara Lemlich Awards at the Puffin Gallery for Social Activism at the Museum of the City of New York.
Reception at 6:30pm
Program at 7:15pm
This year we honor five amazing women - Elba Cabrera, Doris Deither, Ronnie Eldridge, Melissa Freeman and Philoine Fried.
Free! RSVP required, via e-mail to info@LaborArts.org
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Movement Research
Monday, May 6th| Meeting Room
8PM
Featuring works by:
Nora Sharp, David Appel, MarinaLaRivera, Pele Bauch
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 Scott Shaw
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Judson Arts Wednesdays
Presents, StoryLab @ JAW
Wednesday, May 8th | Meeting Room
8PM
StoryLab @ Judson Arts Wednesdays presents:
Visual Art From the Resistance!
Visual Art From the Resistance will feature art, film and photography from Tijuana to New York to the Sanctuary Movement and more.
Doors open at 7:15pm with refreshments
Free show at 8pm
StoryLab is a new series about crossing borders, dismantling walls and resisting the attempt to criminalize the quest for freedom - we equally resist the binaries that reduce people to Us & them and the imaginary borders of states and nations.
RSVP here!
#JudsonArtsWednesdays #StoryLabatJAW
FOOD.ART.COMMUNITY.SPACE.FREE!
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Be Still and Write: Writing Together as Practice
Thursday, May 9th | Assembly Hall
10AM
Dear you, the writer in you, with the project you have started but can't finish, or the project you would like to start, or with the burning desire to just sit and write,
We will hold the space for a couple of hours, as we sit together, to write.
It is not a workshop. It is communal space, a quiet space
To get the words on the page. That's all.
I look forward to seeing you,
—Dora
RSVP here!
Questions? dorasarte@gmail.com
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Harm Reduction Kit Party
Thursday, May 9th | Judson Office
6PM
Please join us this Thursday, May 9th to assemble safe injection and safe sex kits for our friends at the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Coalition.
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Joy is an Act of Resistance: A Celebration of Our Communities
Thursday, May 9th | Meeting Room
6:30PM
"Joy is an Act of Resistance"
- Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Join us for this celebration of our communities: an evening of music, storytelling, food, massage, art, dance, and joy.
Hosted by Congregation Beit Simchat Torah and Judson Memorial Church in partnership with the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City. Massage offered by the Reciprocity Foundation. Stories and food and music and ritual offered by members of our communities.
English-Spanish translated!
Made possible by UJA-Federation of New York's Jewish Life in Action Grant
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Southeast Asian Day of Resilience: A Celebration of NYC's Southeast Asian Community Through Arts and Healing
Saturday, May 11th | Fordham Bedford Housing Corp
5PM
You're invited!
Join us for a celebration of
New York City's Southeast Asian community
through arts and healing
featuring Southeast Asian artists -
Amy Lee Sanford
LinDa Saphan
Michelle Nguyễn Bounkousohn
Saturday, May 11, 2019, 5-7 PM
Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation
2751 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10468
For more information, contact mekong@mekongnyc.org
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Save the Date: L’Hommage...A Night of Celebration, Unity and Love
Saturday, May 11th | Meeting Room
6PM
Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment (FIERCE), a community organization for LGBTQ youth, will celebrate the NYC Ballroom Community, Fashion and Social Justice.
In a special tribute for the event, American couturier Ralph Rucci will create original pieces for Icons of fashion and the Ballroom community to walk proudly for the vibrance, brilliance and love in our communities.
Hosted by Andre Leon Talley and Sandra Bernhard with Vogue MC Jack Mizrahi and DJ Vjuan Allure
Featuring Icons from the NYC Ballroom Scene and Fashion Runways: Raquell Lord Balenciaga , Gisele Xtravaganza, Dominique Jackson, Jose Xtravaganza, Javier Madrid, Nigel Mugler, and Coco Mitchell.
The legends who will be featured at the event are a combination of fashion icons, leaders of gay houses that support youth as young as ten who have no place to go, and have ten to twenty years of experience being role models for our youth.
Reserve today, here!
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The Judson Book Group
Wednesday, May 15th | Host: Alice Deakins
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
The next Book Group meeting will be:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens. This story is an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder.
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Modern Approaches for Traditional Buildings: Creative Opportunities for Religious Real Estate Through Development or Adaptive Reuse
Wednesday, May 22nd | MBD Community Housing Corp
10AM
Join Goldstein Hall PLLC, along with Bronx Borough President, Ruben Diaz, Jr., for an informative panel on Modern Approaches for Traditional Buildings: Creative Opportunities for Religious Real Estate through Development or Adaptive Reuse.
Register here!
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Save the Date: Judson Arts Wednesdays Presents, SPACES for Seekers and Sharers
Saturday, May 25th | Meeting Room
7:30PM
Judson Arts Wednesdays presents,
SPACES for Seekers and Sharers
Based on Circlesongs by Bobby McFerrin, we will mobilize, as a circle of seekers and sharers, to create SPACE for exploring spontaneous musical/rhythmic inventions and sounds.
All are welcomed to this judgement-free space, and you do not have to be a singer or musician to participate.
Come, journey with a group of amazing creatives and aesthetes from different walks of life, and join us for circlesinging, improvisation, and play.
Doors and refreshments 7PM | Gathering 7:30PM
Suggested donation $20 to benefit Judson Arts Wednesdays! Reserve today!
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Ravi to be Awarded the NY State Council of Churches' Excellence in Social Justice Award
Wednesday, May 29th | St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church
5:30PM
All are invited to attend the NY State Council of Churches Fourth Annual Awards and Fundraising Dinner to be held Wednesday, May 29 in Albany, NY. from 5:30 – 8:30 PM at St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Church, 440 Whitehall Road, Albany, NY 12208. 5:30 to 6:30 PM is a reception with cash bar followed by dinner and awards presentations from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
Tickets for the reception and dinner are $60 each, please be sure to make your meal selection at this link.
Click here to purchase tickets and sponsorships
There is a place for listing additional names and meal choices on the form. Deadline for purchasing tickets is May 20, 2019.
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