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
November read is the graphic edition of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. We break for the holidays and will meet again on Saturday, January 24, 2026. January’s pick: On Tyranny 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.
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 in the Marge Gardner Room. We supply the coffee for a morning of engaging conversation. BYOB (bring your own breakfast); or a treat to share is always welcome.
Saturday, November 8, 1:00 pm: we’re partnering with UUAIM and showing 1966’s Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner; directed by Francois Truffaut. A talkback will take place after the showing.
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.
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
