Sundae Sunday

In honor of the history of the ice cream sundae being created in Ithaca by a Unitarian minister, we serve ice cream sundaes to the community on the first Sunday after Labor Day.

Unirondack Labor Day Camping

Each year over Labor Day weekend, we fill the Unirondack camp and conference center in the Adirondacks with 100 excited campers in cabins and tents who use the time to connect with one another and the great outdoors. Unirondack is a marvelous inter-generational camp in the Adirondacks. We cook meals together, swim in the lake, relax, sing songs and tell tall stories over campfires, play capture the flag and so much more. The friendships and bonds formed are amazing, and truly serve to build community.

For more information, contact office@uuithaca.org.

Annual Stewart Park Picnic

The last “regular” service of the year is held at Stewart Park on the second Sunday in June. We join together for our Flower Communion which is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community. In this ceremony, everyone in the congregation is encouraged to bring a flower, which is placed in a shared vase. The flowers are blessed and redistributed. This ceremony represents how the presence of each one of us changes our community and is also changed by our community. The ceremony also symbolically represents the different gifts that we each bring to the community.

This is followed by a potluck lunch by the beautiful Cayuga Lake.

Other Events

A list of weekly and one-time events can be found in the Weekly Announce email that is sent out every Wednesday (to be added to this list, email office@uuithaca.org) and on our Event page.