Sunday Assembly East Bay

05/05/2026

In our "Live better, help often, wonder more" style- Vita, our reader this month, invited our speaker Debra Crow of the Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) Berkeley Puppy Raising Club. She'll be accompanied by her foster puppy Namaka who will one day be a certified guide dog! Debra is a retired finance executive (the Treasurer of Yahoo!) who joined the Puppy Club in 2022.
We’ll be trying another adventure, May 17th, at the Hall of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, at 1924 Cedar Street. Berkeley, CA 94709. BFUU is in a Berkeley residential parking zone “E”, so there is no time restriction on Sunday. Wheelchair access is by ramp on the Bonita Ave. corner
10:30 am—The BFUU welcoming start.
11:00 am—Sunday Assembly’s Songs, Laughs and Thoughts (including yours!) member’s moments, a reading and our main Speaker, Debra!
12:00 pm till around 2:00—Potluck lunch...please bring food to share
Join us after the potluck for a session in the Backyard on assisting people who are blind or have low vision and interact with their Dogs! Learn how to approach a person with a disability, how to walk with someone who uses a cane or a guide dog, and understanding some of the dos and don'ts. Have some fun while learning in a safe environment.
See more at https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-sgxmfvvk/

04/27/2026

East Bay Assemblers Helped Often at some Wonderful Locations. Reinforcing the feeling of Community and Earth Day.

03/21/2026

This coming National Volunteer month we’re Doubling up on one of our three Motto’s “Help Often”. On April the 3rd we are going to get involved in what sounds like a very empathetic activity helping people in need of food with the amazingly named Group “White Pony Express”.
Then later (after Earth Day) on Saturday April the 25th we’ll be gardening in numbers at the Edible School Yard in Berkeley MLK Middle School’s Field- (see me there last month in the FB photo). And this is where the big ESY process spread-out all-over California.
Take a look at both and join through our Meetup link https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-sgxmfvvk/events/

03/02/2026

Hey, believers in Sunday Funday … March 15th is the first Monthly Assembly which we present, with completely Secular Style, in our NEW LOCATION, the astounding Hall of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists! BFUU has always sought to promote human goodness through diverse organizations.
And our Celebration this time will take an intriguingly different format to bring together both of our groups.
Instead of listening to a speaker, we’ll be speaking and listening to each other. And Shawn Shih will be our event leader who describes the event this way:
“The strength of a community is based on the bonds between its individual members. When Sunday Assembly East Bay and Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists get together to share a morning on 15 March, come join us in a “philosophical speed meeting” activity, where individuals engage in very brief shares, ranging from profound thought-inducing topics to lighthearted everyday life experiences. Let them be sparks to continue into longer discussions during the potluck lunch after, and maybe a lifelong friendship in our communities.”
Sunday Assemblies are a growing global movement with chapters in Europe, Australia, and many other parts of the United States.
We celebrate living our lives at Sunday Assembly! "Live better, help often, wonder more." That's the motto of Sunday Assembly, a new congregation that meets once a month to hear great talks, sing songs, create community, and rejoice in the wonders of our world. We’ve got the best parts of a church without any of the religious dogma. Elsewhere we have book clubs, meet up at restaurants, go on hikes, see movies, and lots more.
10:30 am—The program STARTS so please arrive earlier than usual.
Thoughts, Songs, Laughs, and the Main event.
12:00 pm to around 2—Potluck lunch...please bring food to share.
COME TO OUR NEW ADDRESS- 1924 Cedar Street. Berkeley.
BFUU is in a Berkeley residential parking zone “E”, so there is no time restriction on Saturday and Sunday. Wheelchair access is by ramp on the corner of Bonita Ave.

02/20/2026

Now the Worldwide Sunday Assembly has made it to the front page of this post where we offer you a link to the collected Happy New Year slides & videos from many S. A.'s around the world. Click or copy it and see the myriad of people and locations where we exist.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SZU7Yj5EZlaIyV4GFrmOdrFzr6KkoC812141gFyAtjA/edit?usp=gmail
Then remember to go back to the previous post and sign up for the wonderful 2026 Convention in Sunday Assembly Atlanta before the early bird pricing flies away on March 1st. I'm going!!!

CONNECTING ACROSS ASSEMBLIES WINTER PARTIES, ASSEMBLIES, & EVENTS

02/18/2026

Save the date! July 16-19, Atlanta is the 2026 Sunday Assembly Conference! WE've already got 5 or 6 people READY TO GO!!

Note: Early Bird Ticket Price available through March 1st.
Imagine this: Four days in Atlanta. Live music that makes you want to sing along. Conversations that light you up. Ideas that stick with you long after you head home. And a whole bunch of folks who get it—who know that building a joyful, meaningful community without religion isn’t just possible—such communities are thriving.
The Sunday Assembly Conference is coming to Atlanta for 2026, and we’re ready to open our doors, celebrate this one life we know we have, and dream up what comes next.
This year’s theme is Welcome Y’all—and yes, that’s genuine Southern hospitality, but it’s also something bigger. It’s about the radical act of making space for each other, for new possibilities, for all the parts of ourselves that need a home.
Read more on the Atlanta conference webpages.
https://www.sundayassemblyatlanta.org/conference

02/05/2026

On our 3rd Sunday THIS MONTH - FEB. 15TH, the Sunday Assembly will be attending an event at A NEW ADDRESS- 1924 Cedar Street. Berkeley.
The Hall of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists is our proposed NEW EAST BAY LOCATION, and their crowd will be happy to include us. Just for February we’ll see what it’s like attending a presentation made by the BFUU. A progressive Unitarian church organization, which in Berkeley has always sought to promote human goodness through diverse organizations.
And this is even more special this month because their guest speaker/musician is the local star, Lady Bianca.
After that, for three months, we’ll perform our own 3rd Sunday Assembly Celebrations (see below), at the Hall, to see if the new venue enables us to promote our Non-Religious Goals to “Live Better, Help Often and Wonder More!” And of course, -our crowd will be happy to include their members!
So, to start, please join BFUU, Feb. 15, for a musical celebration of Black History Month! Lady Bianca, a local legend who has been called “The Queen of Gospel and Blues”, will lead us on a musical journey and give us her insights.
We celebrate living our lives at Sunday Assembly East Bay! We’re a non-religious community that meets up to enjoy each other’s company, do service projects, provide mutual support, and have fun. It's true that we gather on one Sunday per month, and although there is an order to our meeting, there’s no religious dogma! Instead, we have speakers on wide-ranging topics, share thoughts, sing fun pop tunes, and have potluck lunch together. And we also get together to have book clubs, meet up at restaurants, go on hikes, see movies, and lots more.
Sunday Assemblies are a growing global movement with chapters in Europe, Australia, and many other parts of the United States.
This month’s program…
10:30 am—listen to their presentation and respond with singing etc. when asked.
12:00 -2:00 pm —Potluck lunch...please bring food to share
Make sure you come to this meetup, because we're really intent on gathering all our crowd to continue the happy assemblies in this new location.
BFUU is in Berkeley residential parking zone “E”. There is no time restriction on Saturday and Sunday. Wheelchair access by ramp on Bonita Ave. corner
OUR MAIN FEATURES FOR THE FOLLOWING 3 MONTHS:-
• Mar 15: Philosophical Speed Meeting run by SAEB, in our Monthly Celebration format, using the main room—this is a great fun option for the Sunday Assembly to “do our thing” at BFUU, because it's about us getting to know them and vice versa.
• Apr 19: Speaker—20th anniversary of Maker Faire / Maker movement.
• May 17: Speaker—Guide Dog training (a Board member works with them)

01/11/2026

"Live better, help often, wonder more." The motto of Sunday Assembly secular potluck. Hear great talks, sing songs, create community. The best parts of a church, without any religious dogma.
Our guest speaker this month will be Maude Wilson.
Maude ushers in SAEB's 2026 with love, joy, and possibility. Life presents moments that require us to pause, reflect, grieve, celebrate, or to begin again. We must mourn loss, whether it's in our personal lives or in the wider world around us. Tending our grief is the way through. As January is a time of renewal, Maude will tell us about some of the profound experiences she's had witnessing how beginnings spring from endings.
Chaplain Maude is a certified death doula who hosts the podcast “Growing Through Grief.” She holds space for tender, complex, and transformative moments—whether that’s the tension of a family discussion or the sacred hush of the end of life. Rooted in the wisdom of her African American ancestors, she follows a calling to tend to what’s hurting, unspoken, or in need of healing, walking with others through grief, transition, reconciliation, and renewal, toward wellness

Come to South Berkeley Senior Center;
2939 Ellis St. · Berkeley, CA 94703
3rd Sunday = January 18th 10:30 -1:30
10:30 am—Chat before the program
11:00 am—Speaker, Songs, Laughs and Thoughts
12:00 pm—Potluck lunch...please bring food to share

12/11/2025

"Live better, help often, wonder more." The motto of Sunday Assembly secular potluck. Hear great talks, sing songs, create community. The best parts of a church, without any religious dogma.
Our guest speaker this month, Kischka will be talking about her experiences with the book, "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher, and about her "Scanner's Daybook," which has given her the freedom to explore her many wild ideas without feeling pressure to make them reality.
Come to South Berkeley Senior Center;
2939 Ellis St. · Berkeley, CA 94703
3rd Sunday = July 20th 10:30 -1:30
10:30 am—Chat before the program
11:00 am—Speaker, Songs, Laughs and Thoughts
12:00 pm—Potluck lunch...please bring food to share

11/11/2025

We celebrate living our lives at Sunday Assembly! We’re a non-religious community that meets up to enjoy each other’s company, do service projects, provide mutual support, and have fun. It's true that we gather on one Sunday per month, and although there is an order to our meeting, there’s no religious dogma! Instead, we have speakers on wide-ranging topics, sing fun pop tunes, and have potluck lunch together. And we also get together to have book clubs, meet up at restaurants, go on hikes, see movies, and lots more.
Our speakers this month will be three of our own members.
Once a year, Sunday Assembly Groups hold an International Gathering. In October 2025, it was held in Glasgow, Scotland. For our November East Bay Gathering, those members who attended the Glasgow Celebration, Sara, Noga, and Shawn, will share their experience with us.
If this presentation piques your curiosity, the International Gathering is open to all. 2026 will be held in Atlanta Georgia.
Sunday Assemblies are a growing global movement with chapters in Europe, Australia, and many other parts of the United States. Our motto is "Live better, help often, wonder more!”
Come to South Berkeley Senior Center;
2939 Ellis St. · Berkeley, CA 94703
3rd Sunday = November 16th 10:30 -1:30
10:30 am—Chat before the program
11:00 am—Speaker, Songs, Laughs and Thoughts
12:00 pm—Potluck lunch...please bring food to share