Inland Empire Atheists Agnostics & Humanists

Yes, this is the BIG one you were so sorry to miss last year. Ian Harris, our very own, home grown LA area, atheist comedian is back with new material for another fabulous stand-up set for us to help celebrate the holiday season. He's planning to bring another surprise guest this year so stay tuned for more information. Last year it was john Cleese's daughter doing a set. We'll have many of our Southern California Freethinker VIPs again. Last year it would have been standing room only but we found some more chairs, thank the gods. Reserve your seat early. Please sign up on only one Meetup site since this will be posted on several.
NOTE: Thompson’s Brewing Company is easy to miss because their signs are poor. Use Google and note that it is in the very center of the shopping strip to your LEFT of the Barber Academy as you face it.
Come see your old friends and make some new ones as we break bread together, wear silly Santa hats and enjoy one of LA’s most brash and irreverent comedians integrating skepticism and critical thinking into a smart and witty topical show. Language and concepts may be too strong for your kids, but you can bring them. Kids under 15 are no cost to you.
We have the whole upstairs reserved at Thompson’s Brewing CO, so we don’t offend anyone elsewhere at the place with Ian’s special brand of atheist humor. Your beer drink tab and the tips for that will be separate, but we’ll have enough to eat and nonalcoholic drinks that you’ll waddle out. You’ll cover $35 of your food tab and IEAAH/FAR will cover the rest. This is not a fundraiser!!!!! The cost is a little over $50 each with food, rental, decorations and top-notch entertainment so if you want to pitch in, bring more. BE SAFE! Please arrange for a designated driver.
PLEASE BRING $35 or more CASH. We will welcome any donations you can make above this amount and in keeping with our inclusive Humanist values, we’ll use it to sponsor those members who can’t afford the $35. (If you can't afford the $35 bring what you can. You should still come. Really.) Payment is on the honor system so no one will know if you can't cover the $35.
We’ll have elevated pub food and you won’t be disappointed in the high quality. Vegetarians and vegans should be sure to answer the question about that when it pops up when you RSVP so we can pre-order food properly.
The dress code is Holiday smart casual (but whatever). Break out your sequins and silks and help make it more fun.
Can you sponsor some of the costs or part of one? We'd love to recognize you at the event. Email me at Rebecca@HappyHumanistweddings.com to pledge.
Decorations $50
Tablecloths $25
Party Hats $75
Entertainment $800
Room Rental $300
Dessert $125
Tips $350
About Ian:
Ian Harris is a comedian,[1] director, and mixed martial arts trainer. He owns a Los Angeles-based MMA training center called "Fight Science", named for the unique fighting style that he created. He integrates skepticism and critical thinking into his comedy.
Comedy achievements
In the year 2001 he was on the Top 100 Comedians list of the Entertainment Business Journal,[21] and he was a semi-finalist in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots Competition. Backstage West called him Top Character Comedian in Town, and he was a finalist in the San Francisco Comedy Competition.
Comedy awards and events:
· 1995 Finalist Cal State Chico Comedy Competition
· 1998 Finalist UCSF Comedy Competition
· 2000 Finalist San Francisco International Comedy Competition
· 2001 Semi-finalist Comedy Central Laugh Riots Competition
· 2013 Ventura Comedy Festival

Family Promise www.fpriverside.org is an integrated approach to tackle poverty right here in Riverside that “…reaches beyond simple, immediate needs. It initiates coordinated local efforts that bring communities together to help families experiencing homelessness, regain housing, independence, and dignity.”

The people of IEAAH are typically Humanist in our philosophy of how to view the world and treat its inhabitants. We are teaming up with the secular group, Family Promise of Riverside, one of 200 chapters nationally, because they offer us the framework to turn our humanistic compassion into action.

Besides the needed goods we collect from you at every event, our group has committed to provide and join in eating a hot meal with them in person once per month to the around 15 people within a few families who go through the program. Studies have shown that when a family sits down to dinner every night, this practice has far-reaching positive implications for not only helping to create a cohesive family unit but is also a predictor of the children’s later success in going to college.

Family Promise carefully chooses the families (only) they bring into their program based on a rigorous background check for both the safety of the volunteers as well as the success rate of the program, which is very high. After 4 months in the program, 82% of the families have jobs and are in their own housing. Science is great!

You are a part of this by simply supporting IEAAH with your membership or your sponsorship. Tell your friends what your group is doing. If you’d like to help and attend a dinner with us, Family Promise requires that each person goes through their brief training program to meet their insurance guidelines. You must register your email address to demonstrate completion of the training sessions. Once completed, you are welcome to join us. You cannot attend without completing the training videos. You can find the training program here: https://family-promise.coassemble.com/unlock/NuQYX18

When you come to any event for IEAAH, you can help by bringing laundry pods, full containers of baggies from yours. We have a GoFundMe Graphic Novel Go Fund Me Link to collect money to buy the much-needed graphic novels because it assists the children in learning to read when they sometimes aren’t able to attend school regularly. If you have any at home, please bring them, a particular favorite. Your membership helps support our organization as well as this group. Sign up at Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/IEAAH

The second Saturday of every month we will go as a group to the shelter that rotates among several churches. They call this, “leveraging the religious communities real estate. You will be in a church building, but the church is not allowed to offer prayers, nor try to convert anyone and neither are we, as if that was something we’d do anyway. We'll supply prepared food from Costco.

Venue rotates among local churches. Currently, we're at Calvary Presbyterian, a great way to interact with kind Christians.

Questions? Comment below.