Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth

Adult Religious Education

"If it's Wednesday, it must be Adult RE."

The Adult RE Committee would like to extend a special invitation to singles and new members. If you cannot drive in the evening, and would like to attend an event, please contact Win Munro, 508 548-4695, and we will arrange a ride for you.

Peacemaking

The Adult Religious Education Committee wishes to call your attention to a Statement of Conscience on Peacemaking drafted by the UUA in November 2009. Major categories of the Statement are: I. Where We Stand; II. Historical and Theological Context; and III. Calls To Action.

Programs in July 2010

We begin this month with Family Game Night on July 7. All ages are welcome. Then, on July 14 we invite all interested persons throughout the Upper Cape to an informational meeting on the Oil Spill. Here our purpose will be to sort important from unimportant issues in order to encourage meaningful action. Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night, is the focus of our next three Wednesdays, July 21, July 28 and August 4. First we spend two weeks reading the play, and then on August 4 we screen Trevor Nunn’s great 1996 production of Twelfth Night, with its all-star cast.

The Adult RE Committee would like to extend a special invitation to singles and new members. If you cannot drive in the evening, and would like to attend an event, please contact Win Munro, 508 548-4695, and we will arrange a ride for you.

Wednesday, July 7, at 7:00 pm, Family Game Night.

Adult RE joins with the Youth Group to sponsor a family game night at the Fellowship. There will be games for all ages and light refreshments. Please come and bring your children and grandchildren, your parents, and your friends. If you have a game you especially like, please bring it along. Babysitting for children too young to participate in the games will be provided.

Wednesday, July 14, 7:00 pm, Wednesday, August 4, at 6:00 pm, Response to the BP Oil Disaster: Should Deep-water Drilling be Banned or Regulated? A public discussion sponsored by Green Sanctuary and Adult RE.

July 14 will be the 86th day since BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded. The disaster has unleashed storms of outrage, floods of commentary, rapid spinning by interest groups - and an outpouring of research and action to deal with the crisis and its aftermath. In the chaos of conflicting information and views, clarity is elusive. We hope this meeting will help participants to begin sorting information from mis-information, justified outrage from political posturing, important issues from bogus ones, and meaningful from meaningless responses. We hope to identify a few key issues where right action by local people can make a difference. Please join us in this important task.

Full Agenda of the Public Discussion

Wednesday, July 21, 7:00 pm, Play Reading: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, [Acts 1 & 2].

The play, Twelfth Night, scarcely needs introduction. Its text is love, and its subtext human foolishness – a usual mixture in Shakespeare’s comedies. At its center is Viola/Cesario - delightful, witty, lovable as man or woman. [Shakespeare’s audience would have seen a man, playing a woman, playing a man. One might compare Victor/Victoria – delightful, witty, lovable - a woman, playing a man, playing a woman.] Perhaps modern readers can see better than Shakespeare’s audience how little difference gender makes to love. Tonight we will talk a little about the play and read the first two acts. Everyone who wants to do so will have a chance to read during the evening. The Fellowship owns eight copies of the Folger Shakespeare Library text edited by Barbara Mowatt and Paul Werstine. You may borrow a copy before the reading if you promise to come read with us. Come join the fun.

Wednesday, July 28, 7:00 pm, Play Reading: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, [Acts 3 through 5].

Tonight we will read acts 3 through 5.

Programs in August 2010

Wednesday, August 4, at 6:00 pm, Film and potluck, Shakespeare, Twelfth Night [1996, PG, 134 minutes, director Trevor Nunn, starring Imogen Stubbs, Helena Bonham Carter, Toby Stephens, Mel Smith, Richard E. Grant, Ben Kingsley, Imelda Staunton and Nigel Hawthorne. ]

Alan Dessen, Cynthia Dessen’s husband and a Shakespearean scholar, calls this production of Twelfth Night one of the best films ever made of a Shakespearean comedy. The cast is illustrious and all of its members are intimately familiar with the play – so that the spoken words and action come alive for us. Readers of the play will notice omissions and transpositions introduced by the director, Trevor Nunn; but his version, set in the 19th century, is still very close to the original, while being very modern in its sensibility. Some critics find Nunn’s direction has stifled the madcap fun of the play by taking the characters and the story too seriously. You will have to judge the results for yourself.