January 2017: Cancelled Due to Weather!
January 2017 Assembly cancelled due to weather—see you next month!
December 2016: Winter Solstice Celebration
Please join us for our Solstice celebration! This month will be a little different from most assemblies; we won’t have a speaker, but we will have more songs, more readings from members of our community, and a potluck after...
October 2016: Jennifer Lohmann – Women’s Empowerment
Our speaker this month will be Jennifer Lohmann, a librarian and award-winning romance author. Jennifer writes and speaks extensively about empowerment in the romance reader community, and she has an interesting and powerful message about how and why this...
November 2016: Rebecca Atkins – Living Gratefully
Our speaker this month will be our very own Rebecca Atkins. Our theme will be “Living Gratefully” – we’ll talk about how we can incorporate gratitude into our daily lives, use gratitude to live better, and turn gratitude into action....
August 2016: Zach Ward – Yes And…
Our speaker for August is Zach Ward, improvisational comedian, owner and Executive Director of DSI Comedy Theater in Chapel Hill, and artistic director of the NC Comedy Arts Festival. Zach will be showing us how we can apply improv...
September 2016: Jehanne Gheith – Mortality and Loss
Our speaker this month will be Jehanne Gheith, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and tenured professor at Duke. She’ll be sharing some lessons she’s learned as a psychotherapist and grief counselor: how to talk about mortality and loss, and how these...
July 2016: John J. Wells – Poetry is for Everyone
This month’s speaker is Professor John Wells, an English teacher, published author and poet. He’ll be giving an interactive presentation on poetry: what makes good poetry good? What place does poetry have in everyday life? Can you write poetry?...
June 2016: Sylvia Pellicore – Girl Develop It
Please join us for our June assembly! This month, our speaker will be our own Sylvia Pellicore. Sylvia is a chapter leader of Girl Develop It RDU, a chapter of a national organization that provides affordable programs for adult...
May 2016: Mother’s Day
Please join us for a special Mother’s Day assembly! Our May assembly will be an intimate celebration of family: the families we are born into, the families we create, and the families of choice we build within our community....
April 2016: Kimberly Ellington – Get Outside & Camp Quest
Please join us in celebrating Spring! This month’s theme is “Get Outside.” Our speaker this month is Kimberly Ellington, who’ll be speaking about Camp Quest, a secular summer camp for kids of ages 8-17. It provides many of the...