FRSUU Events Calendar

This calendar lists FRSUU activities inside our buildings and in the community. It also shows when FRSUU spaces are being reserved by outside groups. Click on an event to see its location and more information.

If you need to reserve space for your meeting or event, please fill out [this form].

For questions regarding church ministry related events and meetings, please contact the Church Administrator at diane.carroll@frsuu.org.

For external inquiries including private events and rentals please contact nick.place@frsuu.org.

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  • December Journeys: An Evening of Jazz, Chamber Music, & Poetry for the Holidays

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    FRS Sanctuary 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States +1 more

    Friday, December 6, concert at 7:30pm, Sanctuary. Row Twelve presents a holiday concert featuring Andy Brewster on bass, Katherine Kleitz on flute, Marc Lauritsen on piano, Jeffrey Wu on saxophone, and poet Karen Henry. Free admission. LMH Room A is also reserved, 5-9pm.

  • Sunday Worship Service

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    FRS Church 10 Main Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Join us for services at 10:30am on Sundays, from the Sunday after Labor Day through late spring. Experience elements of the world religions, including our Christian roots and humanism. Find inspiration in choral and instrumental music (including organ), congregational singing, a time for children, readings, an offering, and meditative silence. Hear a sermon on social justice, spirituality, dealing with life’s challenges, or other issues. We may celebrate a holiday, act out a skit, hold a coming-of-age ceremony, or hear a member’s Journeys of Faith. Services end around 11:30am and are usually followed by a 30-minute fellowship gathering. For a relaxed service with music from the jazz tradition, come to a Jazz Vespers. Our Christmas Eve service and Christmas Candlelight service are community traditions.

  • Green Team Meeting

    LMH Main Room 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Wednesday, December 11, LMH Main Room, 6-7:30pm. The FRS Green Team focuses on education and advocacy for care of the environment and the many measures we can take to address climate change and its unequal impacts on various communities. Please join us. We meet on the second Wednesday of the month, often on Zoom, occasionally in person. Be in touch with Annie Madden at madden.anne.b@gmail.com to find out more and/or get on our distribution list for notice of meetings.

  • Jazz Vespers

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    FRS Sanctuary 26 Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Wednesday, December 11, Sanctuary, 7:30pm. FRS welcomes poet Alfred Nicol of West Newbury for readings and Mark Earley (Room full of Blues) on saxophone, Chris Plante on piano, and Josh Schultz on bass. Alfred Nicol lives in West Newbury and is an award winning poet who worked in the printing industry for 20 years after graduating from Dartmouth College where he received the Academy of American Poets Prize. A long-time member of the Powwow Poets, he edited the Powwow River Anthology. He was a recipient of the Richard Wilbur Award in 2004 for his first book of poems, Winter Light.  His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse, Commonweal, The Fromalist, The Hopkins Review,and the Best American Poetry in 2018.  Mark Earley is a two time Grammy nominated and W.C. Handy Award winning saxophonist who knows how to channel the spiritual magic of music to make the flow of a party groove in just the right way. In venues from NYC’s Lincoln Center to the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre to Le Meridien Etoile’s Jazz Club in Paris, he has collaborated with scores of world-class musicians. Jay McShann, Albert Collins, Louis Bellson, Joe Williams, James Cotton, Billy Boy Arnold, Otis Clay, Gerald Levert, Joey McIntyre, Bobby Brown, Taj Mahal, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Victor Wainwright, and Roomful of Blues are but a handful of world-renowned artists who have recognized his extraordinary talent. Equally at home as a featured performer or setting the mood for an intimate gathering of friends, Mark will share the notes from his lifelong musical journey. Chris Plante, a.k.a Modslee, is a composer and producer based in Newburyport, MA. Chris was studying classical piano and became a member of National Piano Guild from ages 5-15 before being taken under the wing of

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