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Celebrate with us 3rd Sundays • 11am • Next Celebration: May 18 • across from Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley (2939 Ellis)
Sunday Assembly
Live better. Help often. Wonder more.
Live better. Help often. Wonder more.
At Sunday Assembly, we celebrate living our lives.
We’re a non-religious community that meets up to enjoy each other’s company and encourage one another to do our best.
We gather as a larger group on one Sunday a month. While there’s an order to our meeting, we have no doctrine, no sermons, and no liturgy. Instead, we have speakers on wide-ranging topics, sing fun lyrics, and eat lunch together. On other days between the celebrations, we also get together to have book clubs, dine at restaurants, go on hikes, see movies, and lots more.
We currently use Meetup to list our many activities: monthly celebrations, smoups, and community service events.
Get friendly reminders of upcoming Sunday Assembly events in our our email newsletter.
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Live better: smoups
Live better: smoups
Our name for small groups is smoups.
The variety of smoups has grown out of our members’ interests and ideas. Anyone may propose a new one for just about any interest.
Philosophy Smoup
Food Social Smoup
Hiking Smoup
Living Better Book Club
Movie Smoup
Help often: serve others
Help often: serve others
We look for ways to serve our community, aligned with the heart of our motto, “Help Often.”
As a community we also strive to help one another when one of our members is in need.
Please visit our Help Often page for more information.
Wonder more: celebrate
Wonder more: celebrate
Our main event is our monthly celebration, usually held on the third Sunday.
Come for the talks, sharing, singing together, and inspiration—stay to mingle and get to know folks like you over the potluck (whether or not you bring food)!
10:30am–11:00am Meet & Greet
11:00am–12:00pm Celebration
12:00pm–1:00pm Potluck
Our regular location is
South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis Street, Berkeley, 94703
Visit our Meetup page for more info.
Next Celebration: MACRO on May 18
Next Celebration: MACRO on May 18
We welcome Josh Hayes of the Oakland Fire Department (OFD), Medical Services Division to share with us the important work of Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO), an alternative response program in the OFD for non-emergency, “quality of life” calls for service.
MACRO responds to non-violent, non-criminal community disturbances or when there is initial concern for a person’s mental health or well-being. The earlier a MACRO team can begin an intervention, the better. MACRO delivers a compassionate care first-response model grounded in empathy, service, and community in order to reduce responses by emergency services (Fire & Police) and increase access to community-based services and resources for impacted individuals.
Do not call 211, 311, or 911 to request a MACRO response—go to their website.
What should you expect from a Sunday Assembly event?
What should you expect from a Sunday Assembly event?
Our community recharges us. Whether in our smoups or the monthly celebration, we hope to solace worries, provoke kindness, and inject a touch of transcendence into the everyday. We strive to make Sunday Assembly a place of love and compassion where—no matter what your situation—you are welcomed, accepted, and loved.
Part of a larger community
Part of a larger community
While Sunday Assembly is a growing global movement with chapters in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the United States, this site is the hub for our local East Bay chapter (in the San Francisco Bay Area).
Sunday Assembly was dreamed up in 2013 in London, England, by two comedians, and their light-hearted approach infuses all chapters. Sunday Assembly hosts an annual, international conference where you can have a great time with other like-minded people from around the world. Sunday Assembly East Bay hosted in 2022, and the 2025 gathering will be held in Glasgow.
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