UUCB provides enriching adult education classes that delve into religious exploration, promoting spiritual growth, alongside engaging courses in music comprehension, fostering a well-rounded learning experience for individuals seeking intellectual and cultural development.
UUCB Brown Bag Breakfast Banned Book Club with Mary Lou and Sharon
October 5 - 11, 2025, is the American Library Association’s official Banned Book Week. This year’s title is "Censorship is so 1984.” (http://bannedbooksweek.org) The UUCB’s Banned Book Club will be honoring this week with a book sale:
On Sunday, October 12, Burning Books Bookstore (http://burningbooks.com) will have a table full of books for sale after our 10:30 service. They will have copies of our upcoming titles: John Green’s Looking for Alaska (October), Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (November), and Timothy D. Snyder’s On Tyranny (January), as well as a number of other children’s, YA, and adult titles. Perhaps some crossword puzzles and other fun items as well! Stock up and read rebelliously!
Here’s a link to the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s page on Banned Book events and information: https://www.buffalolib.org/banned-books.
On Saturday, October 25, the Banned Book Club will be meeting at 10:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall to discuss John Green's Looking for Alaska. Coffee and coffee cake are available! Bring your own snacks, too. For more information, email us a uucbbbc@buffalouu.org
Music with Michael
Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
695 Elmwood Avenue; Buffalo, NY 14222
13 Zoom Meetings; Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
September 3 to December 17, 2025
Cost: $75 for full course, or $10 per session
This course shows how America found its own cultural voice in the 1920s and became a modern nation as well; we meet on the Zoom platform online. To register, send your check [payable to UUCB] to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo; 695 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14226. Put ‘Roaring 20s’ on memo line of check. For more info, call 716-885-2136
THE ROARING TWENTIES!
A CENTENNIAL BACKWARD GLANCE
What made the decade of the 1920s roar was the unprecedented speed of change in the post-World War One era. This course will track the many modernist trends of the time: Prohibition, women’s right to vote, radio, movies, jazz, The Great Gatsby, and the Charleston. We’ll decide if there are any parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s!
Week by Week Syllabus
Session One (Sept. 3): Ending the War to End All Wars – Woodrow Wilson,
The Treaty of Versailles and The League of Nations
Session Two (Sept. 10): Two Amendments that Changed Everything – The 18th
(Prohibition) and 19th (Women’s Right to Vote)
Session Three (Sept. 17): Innovators of the Jazz Age – Louis Armstrong and
Duke Ellington
Rosh Hashana (September 24) – No class
Session Four (Oct. 1): Inventing the Broadway Musical – Rodgers & Hart,
Jerome Kern, Cole Porter
Session Five (Oct. 8): An American Tragedian -- Eugene O’Neill
Session Six (Oct. 15): The Flapper Age – Social Dance, Modern Dance & Ballet
Session Seven (Oct. 22): Making Music Modern – American Experimentalists
[Henry Cowell, George Antheil, Aaron Copland, et al.]
Session Eight (Oct. 29): Making Fiction Modern – F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis
No class on November 5
No class on November 12
Session Nine (Nov. 19): The Harlem Renaissance and “The New Negro”
[Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson et al.]
Session Ten (Nov. 26): Making Poetry Modern – Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot
Session Eleven (Dec. 3): Birth of Mass Media – Radio
Session Twelve (Dec. 10): Movies – Silent vs. Sound, Walt Disney
Session Thirteen (Dec. 17): The Party’s Over – Wall Street Crash of 1929
