Unitarian Society of Hartford

Twilight Fire Circle Samhain Celebration - Fellowship Hall
2025-11-01 15:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)

Disability Support Group - Zoom
2025-11-01 10:30 - 12:00
This group meets online on the first Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. The zoom link is sent a few days prior to the meeting. In this group, participants discuss the challenges of physical disability (chronic illness, chronic pain, impaired senses, impaired mobility) and emotional pain (loss, mental illness), and the stresses of caretaking a loved one. What is said in the group stays in the group. To confirm scheduling, please Email Susan Hope or call 860 463 6407

Helping Parents Heal - Library/David's Den
2025-11-01 10:00 - 12:00
Helping Parents Heal — Hartford is an affiliate chapter of Helping Parents Heal (https://www.helpingparentsheal.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting parents whose children have passed. Our support group allows for an open discussion of spiritual experiences and afterlife evidence in a non-dogmatic way. We welcome everyone regardless of their religious or non-religious backgrounds.
Helping Parents Heal recognizes several factors that contribute to the healing process: caring support from others, interaction with people who have also experienced the loss of a child, service to others, personal transformation, and discovering a reason for hope. This hope comes from acknowledging our spiritual/energetic natures and understanding that our loved ones continue on in another realm after physical death.
Parents, grandparents, and siblings of a child who has passed at any age are welcome to join us. Our group meets on the first Saturday of each month from 10:00 a.m. – noon. Please contact Pamela Hamad if you would like more information at hphhartford@gmail.com or (941) 544-1083.

Hands & Hearts Group - ON HOLD
2025-10-31 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-24 13:00 - 15:00
Welcome all Creative Spirits and Crafters to the new, weekly group ‘Hands & Hearts’ on Friday afternoons from 3-5pm in Murray. Many of us already know the kind of meditative solace and cadent creativity that working with your hands can offer. This group is an opportunity to talk, share, relate, and relax as we work on our projects together. Bring your knitting, crochet work, sewing, quilting, hooking, (any kind of handwork you enjoy), as well as your news, your thoughts, your worries, and whatever’s on your mind. There will always be available supplies in our ‘fiber library’ if you’d like to start a new project, or try something new. If you are not a crafter but would love the camaraderie and the chance to meet new friends, you are very welcome.

For more information, please contact Deana

Hartford Gay Men's Chorus Acting Rehearsals - Fellowship Hall (Rental)
2025-10-30 19:00 - 21:00

Mtg - Socinus
2025-10-30 09:00 - 22:00

Halloween Howl - Pumpkin Decorating and Poetry - Fellowship Hall
2025-10-29 19:00 - 21:00
Bring your pumpkins & your poems to Fellowship Hall on Wednesday night, October 29 from 7-9 pm for an evening of spirited Halloween fun! Spooky potluck dishes are welcome and costumes are optional as we carve jack-o-lanterns and have a good old-fashioned poetry slam! Bring original poems or your old favorites. We’ll have Mad Libs-style poetry prompts for kids and adults with acrostics challenges and festive games. It’ll be a boo-tiful night for pumpkins and a real monster mash-up of poetry!

Connection Circles - David's Den
2025-10-29 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-28 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-10-22 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-10-21 13:00 - 15:00

Helping Parents Heal Book Club - Library
2025-10-28 17:00 - 18:30, 2025-10-21 17:00 - 18:30

Hartford Gay Men's Chorus (HGMC) Rehearsal - Chapel and Fellowship Hall
2025-10-27 19:00 - 21:30

Board Meeting - Library
2025-10-27 18:30 - 20:30 | David’s Den/Library
USH Board Meeting
Fourth Monday of each month, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. (If a holiday, the meeting will be held on the following Tuesday)
In-person in the Library and on Zoom
Board meetings are public and all are welcome to attend.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81272126940
Meeting ID: 812 721 26940

Gentle Yoga - Meditation Sanctuary
2025-10-27 10:00 - 11:00
Gentle Yoga, Monday Mornings at 10
Gentle Yoga meets weekly on Monday mornings, in the Meditation rooms. Led by experienced yoga practitioner and teacher LU Giammatteo, these hour-long sessions incorporate gentle stretching and strengthening positions and movements in a supportive, encouraging environment. Stand or sit, according to your preference and ability… all levels are welcome.
If you’d like to learn more before showing up, email LU with your questions.
Participants are asked to donate $5 per session (proceeds to USH) if their situation allows.

Recovery Dharma Group- Meditation Sanctuary
2025-10-26 18:00 - 19:00

Sathya Sai Center - Fellowship Hall (Rental)
2025-10-26 14:00 - 18:00

SOUND MEDITATION with Tibetan Bowls - Meditation Sanctuary
2025-10-26 12:30 - 13:45
SOUND MEDITATION with Tibetan Bowls (60-75 minutes) – Offered by Lisa Burch & Terry Nicholas. Wind down with a unique sound bath and meditation with the Tibetan singing bowls and tingshas, Himalayan sacred sound instruments. Reiki, drumming, vocal toning, chimes and a crystal pyramid will be prominent as well. Build your ability to experience the present moment more fully, clearing your chakras and releasing what no longer serves you. Renew and rejuvenate in this powerful energy. Remember, everything is Vibration! Allow yourself to be nourished in this healing, sound cocoon with instruments and voice. Bring a mat, pillow and blanket if you wish to lie down. Chairs will also be available. Prepare to enter a zone of deep relaxation. This is no ordinary sound meditation. This is access to a powerful portal of healing in the deep space within each one of us. Allow this Space for Grace! A donation is requested, suggested $10/15/20. Advanced registration is requested for space planning. Call or text Lisa Burch, 860-985-9719 or email, spiritmattersct@outlook.com.

Puerto Rican Connections Group - Under the stairs
2025-10-26 12:00 - 13:30

Candlelight Concerts - Sanctuary
2025-10-25 14:00 - 23:00
Purchase Concert Tickets Here

UHart Tennis Games - Parking lot
2025-10-25 11:30 - 18:00

SpiritChats with Nicholas Bartoli - Meditation Sanctuary
2025-10-25 10:00 - 11:30

Grains of Sand - Special preview screening followed by Q&A with the director, Sarah Gross, in person.
2025-10-24 19:00 - 21:30 | Fellowship Hall, kitchen and lower level classrooms.
Suggested $10 donation requested.
Filmed over eight years, Grains of Sand accompanies the filmmakers mother and mother-in-law, artists and close friends, as they enter their ninth decade. Through conversation, memories and artwork, along with reflections by the filmmaker herself, they create together this positive, different kind of coming-of-age story.
Margot and Barbara, close friends and artists, and the directors mother & mother-in-law, meet for a work retreat in a stone farmhouse in the German countryside. They are both on the cusp of their ninth decade. As they begin to work on the large stones they have brought to sculpt, they embark on a conversation about creativity and aging, exploring what it means for them to arrive at this stage of their lives. Their wrinkled hands become dusty as they scrape and chisel the stones.
Margot was born in England and now lives in San Francisco with her husband of over 60 years. In her studio she reflects on the struggle it took for her to maintain her painting practice as she navigated expectations as a wife and mother. She visits the gravesite she and her husband have chosen outside the city. On green sloping hills of the burial grounds, Margot imagines how it will be to live alone if Peter dies first.
In her studio in Hamburg, mother-in-law Barbara explains how after her divorce she didnt have much money. She found a way to support herself with a part time job so that she would have time to paint every day. She hopes she can continue painting until her very last gasp. Barbara shares an apartment with her second husband, and observes how their relationship is changing now that they are approaching 80.

ON HOLD, No Mtgs - Genealogy Group
2025-10-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Libary/David’s Den
Meetings are currently on hold. If you are interested in learning more, contact Laura Cipriano

Are you interested in genealogy? You are welcome to join us wherever you are in your search, expert or a beginner or anywhere in between. Bring a laptop or a tablet if you want to open the websites, or just come to watch, listen, and help out. A notebook and a few names, dates, and locations is a great way to begin. Each month we will explore a different way to use free technology to learn more about your family history. Meet in the USH Library.
Contact Larry Lunden or Laura Cipriano for more information.

Social Justice Mtg - Zoom
2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:30
Social Justice Mtg.
Every month on the Third Tue, until Jul 21, 2026
Interested in justice work? Come meet with us to learn the latest about ongoing activities and discover new initiatives. Everyone’s invited!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83050365435
Meeting ID: 830 5036 5435

GHIAA - Sanctuary
2025-10-21 19:00 - 21:00

Lunch Bunch - Fellowship Hall
2025-10-21 12:00 - 15:00

Set Up - Lunch Bunch - Fellowship Hall
2025-10-21 11:00 - 12:00
