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Light Up Your Winter: Grow Old With Me

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program presented through the UCCH Health and Wellness Team will be "A Spiritual Pilgrimage for Aging Well." This will be a four part series that includes: Curiosity - Setting Out from What's Familiar - Defining the Pilgrimage Reframing - Giving Up Expectations/Surrendering to all Experiences - Viewing aging through a different lens Generosity - Leaving Your Legacy - Deciding what to leave behind Gratitude - Thanking Yourself- Honoring your accomplishments These sessions will be presented through the UCCH Health and Wellness Team and mentored by Chip Baker.

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Light Up Your Winter: Navigating Life Transitions

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program led by Aly Breisch, Parish Nurse will be an exploration of "Navigating Life Transitions" We all experience threshold events and navigate transitions that signal endings and herald new beginnings in our lives. Faith communities also experience transitions and periods of change. These four sessions will explore how we can embrace personal and community changes, move from ways of accustomed living, and approach new ways of thinking, feeling, and being.

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Light Up Your Winter: UCC History and Theology

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program led by Rollin Russell will be a course in the theology and history of our denomination, the United Church of Christ. Learn about the history of the United Church of Christ: from its European roots, to New England Congregationalism, to the Christian and Afro-Christian movements, its German immigrant heritage and its life today.  Follow the theological development of its faith and the unique theological perspective which it brings to us. Learn why the UCC is a United and Uniting Church, a Just Peace Church, a Multi-Racial, Multi-Cultural Church and an Open and Affirming Church.

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Light Up Your Winter: White Privilege: Let’s Talk

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program will examine White Privilege: Let’s Talk—A Resource for Transformational Dialogue, an adult curriculum from the United Church of Christ. During our 2017 Light Up Your Winter, United Church of Chapel Hill will use part two of the four part curriculum.

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Light Up Your Winter: Art Classes

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, The Sacred Space Art Studio will offer four art classes during the Light Up Your Winter. We'll have picture frame decorating,  bead name badge holders, boxes with shell top, and a nail cross.  Stay tuned for more information on who’s teaching and the order of the classes.  

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Light Up Your Winter: The Authentic Amadeus

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program led by Alex Anderson, will focus on the transcendental music of Mozart and its place in an age of reason and revolution. Mozart's remarkable life spanned the American Revolution, the Bill of Rights, and the French Revolution; this turbulent period of history is reflected in his music, especially the operas. This course will examine Mozart's musical language, his remarkable life, and why the film and play, Amadeus, is historical fiction. Live performances with supplemental historic recordings. Featured works: I. Music composed in 1776. II. Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, 1788. III. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491; Excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, 1786. IV. Excerpts from Don Giovanni, K. 527, 1787. This graphic portrayal of sexual depravity, murder, self-destruction and social injustice transformed opera forever. First performed in Prague, where Mozart felt his music was most fully appreciated. Bonus (date TBD): Opera screening at 104 Tanglewood Lane, Carrboro - "Don Giovanni" from the Salzburg Festival. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, with American bass Samuel Ramey, in the title role.