THEODORE PARKER CHURCH

Fugue Music Concert
2018-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Theodore Parker Church sanctuary, 1859 Centre Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02132
Please join us for a performance by Fugue Mill on Sunday, October 28 at 7 p.m. in the Theodore Parker Church sanctuary. Fugue Mill performs an intriguing mix of jazz, bluegrass, folk, Celtic, and classical music. The ensemble is led by pianist, composer, and Berklee professor Mark Shilanksy, with Theodore Parker Church’s own Mark Poniatowski on bass. Suggested donation $20, $10 for students.

Concert: Clarone Clarinet Quartet
2018-11-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Theodore Parker Church sanctuary, 1859 Centre Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02132
The Clarone Clarinet Quartet will perform an eclectic program of classical music featuring works by the three Bs — Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms — as well as pieces by 20th-21st century composers Astor Piazzolla, Bela Bartok, and Armando Ghidoni.
The ensemble members are Stephen Bates, bass clarinet; Chester Brezniak, soprano clarinet; Karen Luttik, bass clarinet; and Julie Stuckenschneider, soprano clarinet. All are highly regarded as both musicians and teachers and have performed in orchestras and chamber groups around the globe. The range of voices of the four clarinets allows the group to play works written for orchestra, string quartet and piano which have been transcribed and arranged by various composers for the quartet.
$20 per ticket for adults; children and youth under 18 accompanied by a parent are free. Doors open at 7 p.m. The concert begins at 7:30. Refreshments will be available during the intermission. All proceeds will benefit Theodore Parker Church.

Implicit Racial Bias Workshop
2018-11-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States

Racial Justice Task Force Meeting
2018-11-11 12:30 - 13:30 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Since we hung the Black Lives Matter banner in 2016, Theodore Parker Church has been a busy congregation living our faith through racial justice work: Film series…implicit bias workshop…tabling to engage our West Roxbury neighbors in conversation…Poor People’s Campaign…Interfaith Conversations on Race…and more; details on the church website.
What will the coming year hold for our racial justice involvement? Come and create the future! We’ll have our first meeting of the Racial Justice Task Force of the church year on Sunday, November 11 after social hour to share and brainstorm. All members and friends of Theodore Parker Church are invited. For details or more information, feel free to contact Claire Barker or Mark Bauer.

Winter Fair
2018-12-01 10:00 - 14:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Don’t miss West Roxbury’s best holiday shopping opportunity! Unique gifts for all ages, fine arts and crafts, holiday decorations, baked goods, and much more. All proceeds benefit the church.

Vespers Service
2018-12-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2018-12-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
‘Tis the season of hustle and bustle; but, knowing how it can overwhelm, we’re offering a time of quiet. We’ll gather in the parish hall parlor at 7 p.m. on December 5, 12, and 19 for some vespers music, readings, candlelight, and company. All are welcome.

Family Game Night
2019-01-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Massachusetts
Join us for Game Night on Friday, January 4 at 6 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. This is a multigenerational event, and all are welcome. Please bring:

your favorite games
cash (small bills) for ordering pizza
a snack, dessert or drink (optional)
friends (optional).

We look forward to seeing you then.

Legislator Contact Training
2019-01-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Get a jump start on influencing legislation with the new Congress! The Social Action Committee is hosting a short session on how to make your values heard. Learn how we can create a TPC team of 5-minute legislative activists. We know it makes a difference. We will meet in the parish hall parlor.

Social Action Committee Potluck: Racial Equity in the Boston Public Schools
2019-01-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Your Social Action Committee will sponsor another in its series of Community Potlucks on Friday, January 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. The purpose of these potlucks is to help build community in our congregation around the “reaching out” aspect of our collective mission, and to connect it to our efforts to “reach in.”
Access to education is a critical issue for all youth and parents in the city. For those of us convinced of the “inherent worth of every person,” public support for an effective and equitable education system should be a priority, regardless of whether we have (or will have) children in the schools.
On January 11, we’ll break bread and create a circle for a facilitated discussion of education as a racial and social justice issue. Bring some food to share if you can. Childcare will be provided — email us by January 7 if you’ll be bringing children to the event.

Implicit Racial Bias: Introduction
2019-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
All members and friends are invited to learn about implicit racial biases on January 13 from noon to 1 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. This session also serves as an introduction for those planning to attend the workshop on February 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stan Gross and Kendra Pelojoaquin will lead the workshops, which will introduce ways of gaining awareness of these often hidden biases.

Music on Centre: Joe Jencks
2019-01-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Singer songwriter Joe Jencks performing songs of peace and justice. “Joe Jencks is a songwriter whose craft and artistry will remind you of the best efforts of Phil Ochs, Stan Rogers, and Woody Guthrie. The troubadour tradition is alive and well in the 21st century with the music of Joe Jencks.” -Ron Olesko, WFDU
Berklee ensemble Samodivi opens with lively, innovative music inspired by the Balkans.
Email for reservations and information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfamE-b44K0

Film: Imprisoning a Generation
2019-02-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
This 50-minute documentary follows the lives of four young Palestinians who have been detained and imprisoned under the Israeli military system. Join us for the screening, plus food and conversation. Sponsored by Theodore Parker Church and UUs for Justice in the Middle East.
More information: Imprisoning A Generation Flyer

Implicit Racial Bias Workshop
2019-02-09 10:00 - 17:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Stan Gross and Kendra Pelojoaquin will lead a day of workshops on implicit racial bias, which will introduce ways of gaining awareness of these often hidden biases.

The Great Kindness Challenge Family Edition Wrap-up Celebration
2019-02-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Participate in the Kids for Peace Great Kindness Challenge with your family. Then, join us for the party — fun and friendship, games and music, pizza and snacks. Your checklist of Acts of Kindness is your ticket to enter. Complete one or many!
www.greatkindnesschallenge.org #GKCfamily
Hosted by the Religious Exploration Committee. All are welcome.
Believe in the possibility of peace, one act of kindness at a time.
For more information, contact the TPC office: 617-325-4439 or email Aoife Barrington-Haber, dreaoife@gmail.com

Adult Religious Exploration: Begin Again
2019-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Have you had experiences that brought you into a space you might call Holy? “Holy” is capitalized to convey how deeply tender and vulnerable these experiences may feel, and also how they may shine, feel wondrous, and widen our sense of reality beyond anything explicable. Some of us may label them with words like Spirit, Goddess, or God. Sometimes they feel mystical or like a special communion with something unnamed.

Steve Greene, Nancy Wilber, and Rev. Anne hope you will gather with us to share, listen, and appreciate one another’s experiences. This is a time to attend deeply, to listen to what our experiences have to say to us and perhaps gain new meaning from them. In time, we may invite additional conversation about how we are enriched and sustained by these experiences as well as the language that works for us to draw sustenance from them and connect us with others on our spiritual journeys.

We will meet in the parlor. If you plan to attend or have any questions, please contact Steve or Nancy

Film: This Ain't Normal
2019-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Jamaica Plain UU Church, Eliot St. at the Monument
The Theodore Parker Church’s Racial Justice Task Force is a co-sponsor of this film being shown at the Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist Church (6 Eliot Street).
Stories of gang-involved youth, entangled in the intractable violence haunting Boston’s neighborhoods, and the StreetSafe Boston social and street workers tasked with helping to transform their lives. Click here for film details.

Annual Fellowship Fest
2019-03-09 18:00 - 21:30 | Massachusetts
All are invited to our annual Fellowship Fest. Guest musician Adam Feldman will kick off the evening as we gather to celebrate and begin our Gather & Grow Pledge Campaign. It’s a festive pot luck affair with great hors d’oeuvres, music, and community.

Natural Durations: The Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen
2019-03-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Theodore Parker Church sanctuary, 1859 Centre Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02132
Yukiko Takagi will offer a special performance of “Natural Durations,” a piano cycle from “Klang” (“Sound”), the seminal work of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Ms. Takagi is the pianist at the Theodore Parker Church. She has been invited to play from “Natural Durations” as part of full performance of Stockhausen’s “Klang” at the Festival of New Music in Montreal on February 28, 2019. Takagi performs regularly with the Boston-based Callithumpian Consort and is on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory.
The concert is free.

Contra Dance
2019-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Come dance with us! A band of enthusiastic musicians from the TPC community will play for the dance, and there will be a professional caller who is experienced with teaching contra and folk dance styles. All are welcome, including newcomers.

Contra dancing is a lively and fun tradition, strong in New England since Colonial times. Typically danced to live, fiddle-based music, the tunes draw from English, Celtic, Appalachian, and French-Canadian styles. Dancers form pair of lines, facing (contra) one another, with the lines moving opposite one another as the dance progresses. A caller first teaches the steps of each dance, and then calls the steps as the music plays. The contra community is friendly and inclusive, and the dances themselves make a natural mixer suitable for all ages and abilities — no partner required, come as you are!

"Music for Food" Benefit Concert
2019-04-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Theodore Parker Church sanctuary, 1859 Centre Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02132
New England Conservatory faculty, students and alumni will perform music by Mozart, Brahms and Park to benefit Music for Food: all concert proceeds will go directly to support the Roslindale Food Pantry.
The concert features Roslindale-based pianist Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, violinists Leonard Fu and Haruno Sato, violist Daniel Orsen and cellist Jamie Clark. The program will include the world premiere of Benjamin Park’s quintet for piano and strings. Park is a resident of West Roxbury and also an alumnus of NEC and MIT.
Admission to the concert is a suggested donation of $25 ($10 for students and seniors), collected at the door.

Music on Centre presents Heather Pierson Trio with Mike Laureanno
2019-04-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
The Heather Pierson Trio has been making a very big wave in the folk and acoustic music world in spite of (or maybe because of) the fact that their music is very hard to pigeon hole. Mixing traditional songs, blues, honky tonk and original tunes, they have been mesmerizing audiences with their talents and diversity, delivered by piano, upright bass, trumpet, guitar and whatever instruments the melodies require.

Opening act is Mike Laureanno from Fall River whose insightful lyrics and story songs have earned several songwriting awards from Kerrville, Texas to New York City to Boston.

$20 for adults, $10 for 21 and under with a $40 family maximum. Doors open at 7:30.

Information and reservations: musiconcentre@gmail.com or call 617-327-0542. All Music On Centre shows benefit the Theodore Parker Church and its work.

Begin Again: Sharing Experiences of the Holy
2019-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Nancy Wilber, Steve Greene, and Rev. Anne invite you to the second meeting of Begin Again. In this group, we share our various experiences of the “Holy,” however we might view and name that. In this month’s meeting we will “begin again” with our feelings and reactions to God — as images, experiences, beliefs, doubts, or even the word itself — in relation to our own spirituality. We’ll also be learning to talk with one another more easily about these subjects, respecting our differences and growing from them.

Newcomers are welcome. Looking ahead, we’ve scheduled a third meeting for May 21. If you have questions and/or want to attend, contact Nancy or Steve. From them you can also get a copy of the poem “Begin Again” by Nancy Shaffer, from which the group takes its name.

Plazuelas-Parker Project
2019-04-27 15:30 - 17:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
As we move toward an Annual Meeting discussion of this idea of a Theodore Parker Church “sister” relationship with the Salvadoran community of Plazuelas, we have more opportunities to discuss the idea from various angles.

On Saturday, April 27, you’re invited to a gathering designed for you to hear from representatives of Boston-area congregations who have undertaken a project similar to this one. We’ll hear from each of 3 or 4 representatives of sister projects about what the project has meant to their congregation, and then we’ll open the floor for your questions and comments. Join us for what promises to be a fun and informative conversation.

Game Night
2019-04-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Join us for another Game Night, hosted by the Religious Exploration team, on Saturday, April 27 at 6 p.m. in the parish hall parlor. All are welcome to this fun, intergenerational gathering. Please bring:

your favorite games
cash (small bills) for ordering pizza
a snack, dessert or drink (optional)
friends (optional).

We look forward to seeing you there!

Social Justice Community Potluck
2019-05-03 18:30 - 20:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Your Social Action Committee will sponsor another in its occasional series of community potlucks on Friday, May 3 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the parish hall parlor (with the candlestick). This one will provide you with another opportunity (including a special surprise) to learn about the community of Plazuelas, El Salvador and talk about the possibility of a “sister” relationship between that community and our congregation. This idea will be considered at the upcoming Annual Meeting.

To provision this potluck, our committee will provide vegetarian and vegan options, in recognition of the impact of meat production/consumption on our bodies, on animals, and on La Madre Tierra. While all contributions will be more than welcome, we invite you to join us in this commitment.

"Transfiguration: German and American Song"
2019-05-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Theodore Parker Church sanctuary, 1859 Centre Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02132
In concert: James Dargan, baritone, and Mark Whitlock, piano
“Transfiguration: German and American Song” explores music’s ability to transcend limiting labels. Musicians James Dargan and Mark Whitlock take the high romanticism of Mahler, put it together with modern American songs (by James Dargan, with texts by Langston Hughes), and show exactly how thin the line is between these two musical ways of speaking.
The concert features James Dargan and Mark Whitlock, who created the concert program “Oh, Glory!” to celebrate the work of African American classical musicians. James and Mark brought “Oh Glory” to the Theodore Parker Church in January, 2017. They continue to offer this program at churches, schools and concert halls throughout the northeast.
James Dargan is a New York-based soloist, choral singer and teaching artist and performs widely in the U.S. Mark Whitlock, pianist, is based in the Boston area, and has been collaborating and performing with James since 2016.
An additional note from the artists: “We also want our audience to know that we prioritize having a good time, so come ready to be moved!”

All-Church Meeting on the 2019-2020 Budget
2019-05-05 11:30 - 12:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
The Standing and Finance committees and Stewardship Team have called an important meeting to present the preliminary draft of the church’s 2019-2020 budget on May 5 right after the service. We have a challenging year ahead. Please plan to attend! Watch for more information at church and in your email in the next few weeks.

Newcomers' Café
2019-05-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Theodore Parker Church sanctuary, 1859 Centre Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 02132
Are you a newcomer to Theodore Parker Church or to Unitarian Universalism? Rev. Anne will be hosting a Newcomers’ Café at noon after the service on Sunday, May 5, in the narthex (sanctuary lobby). Please join us to get some background about us and get your questions answered! We will hold our next New Member Welcome ceremony during the service on Sunday, June 2.

A History of Theodore Parker Church
2019-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Parish Hall, 70 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Jessica Mink and David Parke will present a history of our congregation from its beginnings to the present day. All are invited.
