Welcome to the extraordinary SSUC!
We are focused on exploring our highest human values, including compassion, social justice, and courageous living. We are guided by nature-based, expansive spirituality and life-long learning, but we want you to come exactly as you are. All ages, sexualities, abilities, and cultures. All traditions and experiences, or none! There is a place for you here.
Join us online or in-person for our weekly Sunday spiritual gatherings!
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There's always something happening here! Whether it's programs, events, music, clubs, or lectures.
Our current programming offers spaces for Edmonton's 2SLGBTQIA+ community, our growing little ones, local artists and musicians, and anyone else seeking wellness, learning, or connection! Click below to learn more.
Community Connections:
Sunday Gatherings – Join us for a Sunday morning of music, community, spiritual reflection, and strengthening our commitment to live fully and love deeply. Sundays at 10am MDT in-person and online.
Post-Gathering Reflections – Every week at about 11:15 MDT, join in a casual zoom conversation to connect and discuss the morning’s gathering in ways it resonates and challenges. Join here.
Monthly Affirm Brunch!
Stay tuned for more details on our monthly affirm brunch. Following our usual Sunday gatherings, we’ll be gathering in community surrounding all things 2SLGBTQIA+ in our spaces, lives, and experiences.
Come as you are, expect a light, lovely meal, and some gentle community sharing.
Save the Date! Jukebox evening with Aaron Bailey
Friday, 22 November
Doors open at 7 pm
Reserve your spot now! Get your family and friends together for this musical coffeehouse atmosphere and listen to Aaron serenade us with our favorites. Enjoy a great night of music and a lot of fun. $20 gets you in (12 and under free), and tipping earns you requests! This is a general fundraiser for the work of our community, donations welcome. Donations over $20 are tax receiptable. Reserve your spot on Sundays, or in the office during office hours.
Camp Dragonfly is almost in session!
Camp Dragonfly is a summer camp for trans+, gender-creative and gender diverse kids, their siblings, and friends. Since the summer of 2018, Camp Dragonfly has hosted a summer and winter camp each year, so far serving over 160 families from Alberta and beyond. Our mission is to bring trans and gender creative children together for creativity, connection, and celebration. By hosting a summer camp that encourages self-exploration and affirmation, we embrace children of all identities and experiences. Check out our current fundraiser auction below and raise funds for this year’s campers!
Your Favourite Fair Trade Olive Oil
Support Palestinian farmers working to make a living under a military occupation. Olive Oil, Zatar spice mix, Olive Oil Soap, and Organic Dates are available. Products can be purchased during office hours or on Sundays after the gatherings.
Two really cool conversations coming up this month: the power of affirmation will be a conversation around the words we speak and how they influence our lives (and the lives of those around us), and Groundhog Day will be a conversation on perspective and what influences our own perspectives (building on the affirmations conversation).
Come enjoy a talent-filled afternoon with stories, food, and music!
On February 8th, 2025, SSUC is excited to present a special fundraising concert featuring food, storytelling, and music. An opportunity to sample some authentic Syrian dishes, hear tales of families forced to leave home and find courage in a new land and brighten your heart with cello and piano music.
The money raised will help to bring a family and their three-year-old here to Edmonton, out of a refugee camp under siege.
Find out more & get tickets here.
SSUC is seeking an enthusiastic person to coordinate and lead programming for youth aged ~11-16 both within the SSUC community and in the South Edmonton context in response to needs of queer and ally youth.
This is a contract position: 8 months, renewable. October 2024 through May 2025. Approximately 16-20 hrs/mo. $3200-4000.
See full description here and apply to SSUCapplications@gmail.com by September 30, 2024
kidSPIRIT is our weekly Sunday program for children preschool to upper elementary which leads kids in experiencing and learning values central to being the best people they can be: friendship, compassion, justice, peace, to name just a few.
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