A big THANK YOU for everyone who came out for Justice Theatre auditions last week. It was the biggest turnout in years, and the director has selected a great cast with lots of familiar faces.
Come see all of their hard work pay off and support free legal aid in Oregon by coming out for the show at the end of March! You can reserve pay-what-you-can tickets right here: https://buytickets.at/uufc.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
The next meeting of the Global Partners Team is on Sunday, February 8 at 11:45 AM in Room 3.
The Global Partners Team (previously known as the Partner Church Team) commits to sustaining long-term relationships with Unitarian and UU communities worldwide. Cultivating authentic personal relationships deepens our understanding of faith. Exchanging ideas and experiences makes human rights and religious freedom real and relevant.
Come join us as we build and strengthen our many relationships. Contact Team lead Heather E for more information.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
The recent woes in Minnesota have taught many lessons and opened many eyes. Those who have learned and seen have wisdom to share, and we have the luxury of learning – and offering our support – from relative comfort. Here are some resources worth looking at, learning from, and sharing.
A directory of charitable efforts and works in Minnesota that need financial support. Itself a passion project, “just two ladies running this thing as volunteers”.
Resources for 3D-printing whistles, information on how to use them, and instructions on building whistle packets to spread the information. If you decide to carry and use a whistle, please be sure you understand the patterns being used in your area. Blowing alarms no one understands won’t help!
The Democracy Action Team meets this Tuesday, February 3 in the Social Hall at 5 pm. We will watch part of “What’s the Plan”, a video by Ezra and Leah, the high-energy couple who reveal weekly their view of how American citizens are doing in our attempt to undo Project 25.
We’ll see their interview of Erica Chenowith – acclaimed political scientist and author of Why Civil Resistance Works, and of the 3.5 threshold rule. Everyone is welcome.
This Tuesday, January 27 at 6:30 PM at First United Methodist Church of Corvallis. Come hear Rev. Heather and Rev. Alex share what they learned from organizers in Minneapolis so we can start preparing here. Courage, creativity, and flexibility are key. Strengthening neighborly relations matters. The church’s parking lot is accessible from NW Jackson. Enter the church using the front steps.
The Secure Housing and Food for All team will meet for 15 minutes after the end of the service on Sunday, January 18 in Room 3. This will be a short meeting to enable everyone to attend Jaclyn Moyer’s talk at 12pm.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
Join us for an evening of community and learning! Discover how to make your own tamales! Materials and instruction provided. Participants will leave with ready-to-cook tamales. Suggested donation to support our immigrant neighbors $20-$50.
Friday, January 30, 5:30-7:30 PM in the Social Hall
Corvallis resident Jaclyn Moyer will read excerpts from her book On Gold Hill, a 2025 Oregon Book Award winner. Moyer’s story combines food and culture. In raising wheat and vegetables on a 10-acre California farm, she discovers her Punjabi ancestry and the origins of organic agriculture.
Sunday, January 18, 2026, 12 noon – 1 PM in the Sanctuary.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
The Justice Theatre Team is gearing up for its 8th annual production! This year’s show will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 27th and 28th, and the team will be staging 12 Angry Jurors, a play by Reginald Rose that will be directed by Sarika Rao. Proceeds from the production will go to the Campaign to Support Equal Justice in Oregon, a legal aid organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income and senior Oregonians.
Auditions will take place on Monday and Tuesday, January 26th and 27th at 7pm at the UUFC. NO experience is necessary to try out for these productions, and it’s a great way to make social connections while lending your talents to a great cause. Auditions will consist of reading excerpts of the script with other actors, and it will be low-key and lots of fun!
These auditions are for an unpaid, amateur performance opportunity. For maximum accessibility, this is a memorization-optional production—actors will have the option to carry some or all of their lines in a notebook or on a clipboard prop if they so choose.
If you have any questions about the team, the production, or the audition process, please reach out to justice.theater@uucorvallis.org.
About the play
A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. “He doesn’t stand a chance,” mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others’ eyes to the facts. “This is a remarkable thing about democracy,” says the foreign-born juror, “that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a person; of a man or woman we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing.” But personal it is, with each juror revealing their own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated. The jurors’ final verdict and how they reach it t will electrify the audience and keep them on the edge of their seats.
About this year’s beneficiary
Learn more about the supported organization, the Campaign to Support Equal Justice in Oregon, by CLICKING HERE: https://cej-oregon.org/
About the Company
Justice Theatre @ the UUFC is a community theatre venture aimed at staging small-scale productions with pay-what-you-will performances supporting social justice causes. Past beneficiaries have included the ACLU, the Corvallis Cold Weather Mens Shelter, CARDV, and the Mid-Willamette Trans Support Network. Our mission is to create theatre that fosters discussion about the world around us, to make theatre that is completely open and accessible to audience members of any income level, and to use performance to generate donations for good causes. The company is part of the Fellowship’s larger commitment to justice work under the auspices of the Justice Council. Organized by the Justice Theatre Team, the Fellowship generally stages one production every year or so with amateur actors who donate their time (which helps to maximize profits for donations!), and these productions are intended to comment on something going wrong in the world while raising money to help right that wrong.
Childcare is available!
Free childcare can usually be arranged for any Fellowship event by using this link 1-2 weeks prior to the event.
