SAA Presents: Collaborate!

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/1/7/4/600_454793620.jpeg

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION! How can we support one another, and what's the best way to work together? What roles do vulnerability and listening play in creating spaces open to cooperation? Everyone has a collection of experiences and ideas that are unique, and by sharing and communicating with one another, we can spark even grander concepts and foster understanding between one another! We'll explore all this and more with this month's theme: Collaborate!

Our speaker is Charlie Bennett, an academic librarian at the Georgia Tech Library. He co-hosts the “one-and-only research-library rock’n’roll radio show” called Lost in the Stacks (https://www.wrek.org/lostinthestacks/) on WREK Atlanta, and produces the irreverent podcast Consilience With Pete and Charlie (http://peteandcharlie.tumblr.com/) about the intersection of science and the humanities. His expert view of the library differs from the average person, and we may find it relates quite a bit to the theme this month!

Assemblies

Alongside our main speaker, assemblies are lively events with thoughtful musings on the theme, live music by our rock chorus, readings, members sharing their experiences, and interaction with fellow assemblers! The assembly lasts around 75 minutes.

Assemblies, and the events around them, are open to the public and free to attend!

What To Bring

Since our speaker is a librarian, we thought it appropriate to request books to donate! Bring your gently-used tomes to the assembly, and we'll make sure they go towards one of two great causes:

1. Any secular, freethinking, sciencey, or religious texts can go to start an SAA library! They will be kept and listed online for any member of our community to request and check out. (One day we might make one of those little libraries you see everywhere!)

2. Everything else will be donated to Books For Africa, an organization that ships containers of books to communities that want them to foster education throughout a continent. (Check them out!)

After the assembly, around 7:30 PM, we have our potluck! Share your favorite dish with dozens of others and enjoy what others have made! (Tell us what you're bringing later in the comments.) If you aren't a cook, feel free to bring something store-bought or make an additional donation instead. Everyone is welcome regardless.

Accommodations and Location

We'll be meeting at The Phillip Rush Center Meeting Annex at 328 Mell Ave just behind Radial Cafe. Parking is plentiful in three different parking lots. The venue is wheelchair accessible via a ramp.

We're happy to offer childcare on request. Just let us know at least a week in advance, and we'll arrange to have someone there to watch the little ones during the assembly at no charge to you. (Children are welcome at our assemblies, too!)

Comment below, message an organizer, or just email info@sundayassemblyatlanta.org.

What's Sunday Assembly?

The Sunday Assembly is a life-celebrating congregation without deity, dogma, or doctrine. Our motto: Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More. Our mission: to help everyone find and fulfill their full potential. We are here for everyone who wants to:

• Live Better. We aim to provide inspiring, thought-provoking and practical ideas that help people to live the lives they want to lead and be the people they want to be.

• Help Often. Assemblies are communities of action building lives of purpose, encouraging us all to help anyone who needs it to support each other.

• Wonder More. Hearing talks, singing as one, listening to readings and even playing games helps us to connect with each other and the awesome world we live in.

Stay in Touch!

Meetup is the best place to see all of our events, but we're all over the interwebs:

• Telling the world who we are on our local website (https://sundayassemblyatlanta.org/) and the national SA website (http://www.sundayassembly.com/);

• Chatting in our community Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/SundayAssemblyAtlanta/);

• Sharing stuff on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/SundayAssemblyAtlanta);

• Tweeting 140-character insights on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SAAtlanta);

• Staying informed with our monthly newsletter (http://eepurl.com/bvxSZv);

• And archiving assemblies on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/SundayAssemblyAtlantaOrg) (if you want to see what they're about).

We'll see you at this upcoming assembly!