January 2023
Art and Resistance Through Education: Youth Voices Lead
Virtual Racial Justice + Artivism Training Program
Youth Voices Lead is a digital community training program for youth organizers (ages 15-18) to strengthen their human rights knowledge and artistic tools and discover how to take action for racial justice change. This program will provide emerging youth leaders from across the country the opportunity to engage around the social justice issues directly impacting their own communities. Program Dates: February 8, 2023—June 3, 2023.
To learn more and apply visit: https://www.artejustice.org/youthvoiceslead
Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 11:59 pm ET
GROW Fellowship Fall 2022
Grounded and Resilient Organizer Workshop is a virtual cohort of cultural workers, organizers and clergy (ages 18-25) who are engaged in campaigns, base-building, art making and community care for justice. Together, we’ll build community and solidarity, study social movements and imagine new worlds. Our mission is to bolster our social movements with organizers and cultural workers who are accountable, spiritual grounded and rooted in radical imagination. GROW is for you if you’re discerning your place in social movements for justice, if you want a community of people to struggle with that aren’t connected with your paid work, if you want to infuse your justice work with a deeper spiritual practice. Come grow, struggle, build, and celebrate with us.
At the end of the fellowship, all active participants will receive a stipend of $250 as thanks for their participation. Repeating for emphasis, this program is FREE to attend for all participants.
Apply Here: LINK COMING SOON
April 2023
UU@UN Intergenerational Spring Seminar 2023
SAVE THE DATE: April 1-3, 2023, Minneapolis, MN and Online! This year’s theme will be Demilitarization & Abolition: Resist Policing and Empire. Given this year’s theme, we want to learn from movement leaders in Minneapolis and global partners who have been on the front lines of resisting police and empire.
The intergenerational seminar is an opportunity to collaborate with others while learning how to be a global activist. Through workshops, peer and expert-led panel discussions, community building activities, and worship services, participants will undergo a transformative process of learning, reflection, and growth while exploring some of the most challenging issues facing humanity today. 2023 registration is coming soon!
PAST PROGRAMS
UU the Vote Legacy Fellowship Program
As part of UU the Vote, the Unitarian Universalist Association is excited to announce the 2022 Legacy Fellowship to recognize and support the organizers within our faith community carrying on the legacy of organizing and activism. It is an opportunity to support the leadership of Young Adults and Black, Indigenous, and people of color who carry Unitarian Universalist values in their work and engage in a variety of tactics and strategies that advance electoral justice, build capacity in UUism to engage in justice campaigns, and/or build political power in BIPOC communities. For more information, visit https://www.uuthevote.org/legacy-fellowship-program/
GROW Fellowship 2022: Portland, Oregon
The GROW Fellowship is a collaboration between the UU College of Social Justice and the UUA’s Thrive Program for Young Adults of Color. This offering is designed to equip 10 UU young adults of color and white UU young adults (ages 18 to 35) with the frameworks, spiritual grounding, and community to engage in justice work within and beyond our Unitarian Universalist faith. The GROW fellows will come together to build community with each other, learn about movement history in Portland, and to craft strategic visions for our ongoing justice work.
Sowing Seeds Youth Justice Workshop
August 3-6, 2022
Join the UUA, UU College of Social Justice and other high school age youth for a 4-day experiential workshop to deepen our justice work as young UU’s. Our time together will be spent two fold: the first will be to get out and about in Pittsburgh – learning about its social movement landscape, the second will be exploring themes of change, resilience and organizing through creative arts and practices. We’ll leave with new spiritual practices, new collaborators and hope about what we can accomplish together.
