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
Happy Holidays from the Book Club. We’re on break and will meet again Saturday, January 24, 2026. January’s pick: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. On Tyranny is not banned nationwide, but it has been removed or challenged in at least one school district and is becoming a common read in many banned book groups across the country. On Tyranny is now available in print and graphic editions. An audible edition also available for download.
Books under consideration in 2026: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Judy Blume; Beloved, Toni Morrison; Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin; Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich, and The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien.
Gatherings are at 10:00 am on the 4th Saturday of each month. We supply the coffee for a morning of engaging conversation. BYOB (bring your own breakfast); or a treat to share is always welcome.
For more information, contact Mary Lou Hill and Sharon Walker at uucbbbc@buffalouu.org or DRE Jess Pond at jpond@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.
January 14 to April 8, 2026
Cost: $75 for full course, or $10 per session
It wasn’t just the United States that experienced the tumultuous 1920s – the whole world was transformed in that lively decade. We’ll look at the major artistic trends of the European avant-garde: Italian Futurism, German Expression-ism, Austrian Atonalism, Spanish Surrealism and more. Music, theatre, fashion, painting, architecture, literature – we’ll cover the full spectrum of 20s modernism.
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!
A Thoroughly Modern Syllabus
Session One (January 14): Goodbye to All That – Great Literature about “The Great War” (Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front)
Session Two (January 21): James Joyce vs. the Censors – The Battle over Ulysses
Session Three (Jan. 28): Who’s Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – The Bloomsbury Group
Session Four (February 4): Gershwin and Co. – Jazz Goes Classical
Session Five (February 11): Igor Stravinsky vs. Arnold Schoenberg – Musical Neo-Classicism and the 12-Tone Method
Session Six (February 18): Operatic News of the Day – German Zeitoper
Session Seven (February 25): Making Design Modern – The Bauhaus Design School and Art Deco
Session Eight (March 4): Coco Chanel and 1920s Fashion
Session Nine (March 11): Futurism and Fascism – Italy in the 20s
Session Ten (March 18): Back in the U.S.S.R. – Art and Revolution
Session Eleven (March 25): Making Movies Modern – F.W. Murnau and German Expressionism
Session Twelve (April 1): Spanish Surrealists – Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel
Session Thirteen (April 8): Utopian Visions – Karel Capek (R.U.R.), Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Yevgeny Zamyatin (We)
