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Celebrate with us 3rd Sundays • Next Celebration: April 19 • 1924 Cedar Street in Berkeley
Sunday Assembly
Live better. Help often. Wonder more.
Live better. Help often. Wonder more.
At Sunday Assembly, we celebrate living our lives.Â
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.
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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
Lunch Bunch
Hiking Smoup
Living Better Book Club
Movie Smoup
Board Game Night (~weekly)
Help Often:
Serve OthersÂ
Help Often:
Serve OthersÂ
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 CelebrationÂ
12:00pm–1:00pm Potluck
In February 2026, we’re meeting at BFUU, 1924 Cedar Street in Berkeley.
Visit our Meetup page for more info.
Next Celebration: April 19
20 Years of Maker FaireÂ
Note earlier start time (10:30am)
and different venue: 1924 Cedar Street in Berkeley
Maker Faire Founder Dale Dougherty will share how he put into practice "If you imagine it, you can make it" to make a huge event beloved in the Bay Area and beyond for the past two decades. The first Maker Faire in 2006 at the San Mateo Expo Center brought an explosion of art, craft, engineering, fashion, green design, music, technology, and so much more to the Bay Area. Over the next decade or so, the event expanded to more than 200 licensed Maker Faires in more than 40 countries, and many more smaller events at schools. SAEB President and Maker Faire Crew alumna Michelle Hlubinka exhibited at that Maker Faire 2006 and joined its crew the next spring. She'll be in conversation with some of the key players who made the event—and a whole movement!—happen.
SAEB has been invited by BFUU* to share our Monthly Celebration with their community.
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.Â
Meet SAers worldwide
Meet SAers worldwide
Sunday Assembly Conference • July 16–19, 2026 • Atlanta, Georgia
Early bird ticket pricing until March 1st.Sunday Assembly Conference • July 16–19, 2026 • Atlanta, Georgia
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 Atlanta, Georgia hosts the next gathering.
Learn more about the Conference and its theme Welcome Y'all! đź‘‹ Â
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