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The Forum Live at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, September 8, 2024
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Discounted Play Tickets for AUUF
The company presenting the upcoming Anchorage production of James Morrison’s one-man play, “Leave Your Fears Here,” an uplifting and inspirational exploration of his family’s journey after their young son was diagnosed with brain cancer, is offering the AUUF community a 50% discount for the Sunday, September 15 performance, while they last. Reservations can be made through the Midnight Sun Theatre Company website, MidnightSunTheatre.Org. Use the code Senior915 to get the discount; it will only work for the Sept. 15 performance. Tickets are being sold only on the Midnight Sun website. The playwright, TV and film actor James Morrison, will be speaking this Sunday, September 8, at the Forum at 9:00 am, in person. You can read more about him on the Speakers Bio Page for this Sunday’s Forum and on
here: (James' website) and (IMBD) here.
SEPTEMBER AT THE FORUM
Welcome to Fall and another great month of Forum programs. At least four of the five Forums in September—and maybe all of them—will be in-person. Our speaker for September 22, Rev. Matt Schultz, would love to join us in person and is trying to make arrangements for that but may not know for a week or so. Many of you have been asking about meeting in person as often as we can, so please stay tuned: As soon as we know we’ll post the info in This Week at Our Fellowship and announce it at the Forums between now and then. As always, you can join all our Forums by Zoom if you can’t make it in person.
If you missed the September 1 presentation and excellent conversation with Alaska AFL-CIO President Joelle Hall on Labor Day weekend, you can listen to it and audio recordings of our other Forums by going to www.anchorageuuf.org and clicking on the “Podcast Archives” link at the bottom of the big green box front and center on our Home Page. When you listen to one of our podcasts, remember to check the “Show Notes” before clicking on the button to start playing the recording. If our speakers show slides or video during their presentation, we post links to those in the Show Notes so you can view them while you listen to the speaker talking about them, like you would have if you’d been able to join in person. The Show Notes also contain the speakers’ bios and photos, and sometimes links to other materials related to the program. Thanks to Ken Winterberger for all his work making these podcasts available to all of us.
This Sunday, September 8, we will be joined in person by TV, film, and stage actor James Morrison, who grew up in Anchorage in the ‘70s and will be in town to perform his one-man play, “Leave Your Fears Here,” an inspirational play exploring his family’s battle with their young son’s brain cancer. He will be joined by Midnight Sun Theatre’s David Block, and Paul Brown. On September 15, our speaker will be mountaineer, naturalist, and raconteur Tom Choate, sharing reflections as he turns 90, still going strong and still stopping to enjoy the flowers. On September 22, Rev. Matt Schultz, pastor of First Presbyterian Church and known to many of you for his work on homelessness and involvement in other community activities, will talk about “Deweaponizing the Bible,” a timely topic in the run-up to the election. This may be in person. A fourth Sunday Forum would normally be Zoom-only, but we are hoping to do this in-person, so stay tuned: as soon as we know whether Rev. Matt is able to make arrangements for someone to take over another Sunday morning responsibility at his own church that day so he can join us in person as he would like, we’ll let you know.
Finally, our Forum speaker for the fifth and last Sunday this month, on September 29, will be Joe Josephson, sharing reminiscences about Bob Bartlett, one of Alaska’s first pair of US Senators. Joe is a former state senator with a long record of public service to Alaska and Anchorage, beginning with his work as staffer and aide to Bob Bartlett while Bartlett was still the territorial delegate for Alaska. He will be joined for the Forum by his son, Andy Josephson. This will be a good opportunity to learn some history and say goodbye to Joe as he begins his retirement.
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