Sunday Assembly International Conference 2022

668 13th Street,Oakland CA 94612

15 July, 2022

Description

Sunday Assembly International Conference 2022 Gather with Sunday Assembly friends and members from around the world to find inspiration on building positive and inclusive communities! In the past, this has taken place in: London 2014 Atlanta 2015 Utrecht 2016 San Diego 2017 Edinburgh 2018 Nashville 2019 And now happening July 15-17 in Oakland, California – the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area! Co-hosted by Sunday Assembly East Bay and Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley We’ll be assembling in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park, a charming neighborhood of colorful, ornate and beautifully maintained Victorian-era buildings surrounded by flowers. Two and a half days of music, speakers, and breakout sessions among your fellow interested community builders. Find your spark to bring home to your community, network with others to move our communities forward. Speaker topics to include: ---*Stem Cell & Gene Therapy *Engaging Secular Communities with Interfaith Works *Sex Positivity *Connecting to a Bigger Purpose without God Breakout session topics and activities to include choices of: *Guided tours of the African American Museum and Library at Oakland *Repair Cafe *Compassionate Listening *Writing on Religious Indoctrination, Deconstruction, and Motherhood *Improv: How to Play Your Way through Life *Poetry writing *Storytelling *Experience of Organizing Volunteering Activities *Experience of Leading Volunteers *Discussion on Having Ritual and Structure for Secular Community Group If you arrive in Oakland by July 14, join in a meet and greet with other attendees and organizers that late afternoon/ evening in the Old Oakland neigborhood. Your ticket includes lunches on July 15 and 16; and a dinner with your new and old friends under the summer evening sky in the park, around a beautiful fountain on July 16. For those that purchase a ticket by May 8, you also get a conference zip-up hoodie. Find out more about Sunday Assembly at SundayAssembly.org. As a non-profit organization, this event is a labor of love. If you are able to, we would love any amount you're willing to additionally donate to help us cover the costs for this event. Thank you! *Please note: current requirement by City of Oakland is that attendees to this mostly indoor event must show proof of Covid vaccination. Masks will be required indoors, unless while presenting, and all food and beverage consumption to be done outdoors. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Want to see more of California while you are here? Come for the week and connect with local Sunday Assembly friends for sightseeing and activities in the Bay Area! Take a short BART subway ride, ferry ride, or bike/drive from Oakland to San Francisco, with its amazing sea lions lounging on piers, the hills and natural beauty around the Golden Gate Bridge, and many other fabulous sites, food and entertainment See the many hidden gems of the East Bay, including bayside walks, redwood forests, hill hikes in Oakland, and the old bar where Jack London used to hang out as a child to hear sailors' stories that became part of his novels. Tour the vineyard-filled valleys of nearby Napa and Sonoma, and enjoy some wine-tasting Visit next-door Berkeley or Silicon Valley, the home bases for SAEB and SASV, as well as some world-renowned universities and technology entities Have even more time? Oakland is a half-day drive or less to: Yosemite National Park, with its soaring granite walls, Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America Carmel, Monterey, Big Sur and other towns along the gorgeous Pacific Coast Highway 1