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Upcoming Events
June 6 - Movie Night: Kumare
Kumare is described as the true story of a false prophet. A filmmaker decides to impersonate a guru and develops a following in Arizona. However, both he and his followers end up facing unexpected challenges and insights. We will show this video at 6:00 pm at Wraps on Main (150 West Main Street, GJ).
June 13 - GJ Farmers Market
HDG will participate in the Grand Junction Farmers Market for the first time as part of our outreach efforts. Our booth will be located near the Avalon theater and we'd love everyone to stop by. We'll be encouraging people to fund gifts to nursing home residents and inviting the public to learn more about Humanism.
June 14-16 - Palisade Bluegrass and Roots Festival
HDG will be tabling at this event to reach out to the nonreligious, to educate our community about Humanism and to allow people the opportunity to fund gifts to nursing home residents. We are seeking additional volunteers for this multiple day event. If you are interested in volunteering and enjoying some good music, please contact us.
June 22 - Nursing Home Good Deeds (tentative)
We are working to coordinate with a nursing home to deliver gifts that community members have funded and to spend some time with nursing home residents. If you would be interested in shopping for the gifts, delivering them and/or spending time with the residents, please contact us.
June 29 - Humanist Camping Trip
We are working to plan an overnight camping trip. We are currently thinking we'll be heading for Ridgway. If you are interested in joining the fun, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can plan accordingly.
July 4 - GJ Farmers Market
If you are interested in volunteering to staff our booth at the market please contact us. This event is in the afternoon and evening.
July 13 - Fruita Farmers Market
If you are interested in volunteering to staff our booth at the marker please contact us. This event is in the morning until just after noon.
July 20 - 2nd Annual Colorado Secular Conference in Denver
HDG created and hosted the first Colorado Secular Conference last year and we're pleased to announce that the second one is taking place in Denver. Speakers include Elizabeth Cornwell, Executive Director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation, Kathryn Steward, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children, and Seth Andrews, host of the Thinking Atheist and author of DEconverted: a journey from religion to reason. Some of our members are planning on attending and there may be carpooling options available. If you are interested in attending, please contact us.
(Events are subject to change and we are busy working on adding additional events.)
Meetup & Facebook
We'd like to once again encourage everyone to join us on meetup. We are discontinuing use of the facebook event system at this time (but we'll still be using facebook for other things). Meetup is proving to be a great way for us to organize events and to reach out to new people in our community. Click here to join us on meetup.com and to stay informed about upcoming events.
If you're not a part of our facebook group yet, but would like to be, click here to join us.
Contact Us
Ready to volunteer, need more information, have questions or suggestions? Feel free to contact us. You can reply to this email or call us.
Phone: 970-623-2598
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HDG Newsletter
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Reaching Out To Our Community
Many new people have been finding their way to HDG lately due to a number of outreach efforts we are making. We can use your help in continuing our outreach efforts as we begin to put our recent grant dollars to work in our community. We'll be setting up a booth at several upcoming events and we will be needing volunteers to staff our table and to speak with community members. This is a great way to meet new people, to answer people's questions and to help us fund future good deed events in our community. If you would like to volunteer at an upcoming outreach event, please contact us. If you would like to be grouped with people with more experience, we're happy to make that possible.
Book Club
It was recently suggested at an event by a new participant that we should consider having people select some reading material for future discussions. We had also been bouncing this idea around for awhile and want to gauge the interest level of our membership for something like this. Please vote in our poll on our meetup site to help us determine if there is currently enough interest to further pursue this idea.
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