2020 National Annual General Meeting and Conference
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2020 Annual General Meeting
WHEN: Friday, May 15 from 1:00p.m. – 4:30 pm A.T. | 12:00pm – 3:30pm ET | 11:00am – 2:30pm CT | 10:00am – 1:30 pm MT | 9:00am – 12:30pm PT
WHERE: Alumni Hall |University of King’s College | Halifax NS and online via Zoom
Preparation for the AGM:
- Proposed motions for 2020 AGM:
CUC Motions for 2020 AGM (pdf) - CUC Resolutions Feedback Form: please provide feedback to the proposers by February 28th, using a separate form for each motion
- Delegate Selection
- Preparing for the AGM
- Credentialing Numbers
- Register your delegates, both online and in-person, by April 1, 2020. Delegates who are not registered by this date will not be able to vote. Your congregation also needs to register an online voting manager, one who is comfortable operating Google sheets, who will be responsible for entering your congregation’s votes during the AGM.
Online Voting Registration
New delegates and online voting managers, or those who would like a refresher, please sign up for one of the following online voting orientation sessions. If you are familiar with the voting system used in previous years, you don’t need to attend.
- Tue, Apr 7th – 6 pm PT | 7 pm MT | 8 pm CT | 9 pm ET | 10 pm AT
- Wed, Apr 8th – 11 am PT | 12 pm MT | 1 pm CT | 2 pm ET | 3 pm AT
- Thu, Apr 16th – 4 pm PT | 5 pm MT | 6 pm CT | 7 pm ET | 8 pm AT
- Mon, Apr 27th – 4 pm PT | 5 pm MT | 6 pm CT | 7 pm ET | 8 pm AT
2020 National Conference
The CUC’s National Conference in 2020 will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia from May 15 – 17, 2020. Hosted by the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax, the conference promises to have a unique Atlantic flavour.
Theme
The theme for Conference 2020 is Making Waves! Building on the imagery of The Ripple Effect, the CUC’s campaign on water and its related environmental issues, this theme encourages and challenges UUs to make waves that practice radical inclusion, challenge the status quo, and push us to remain relevant into the future.
Our interdependence calls us to love and justice, to be a more intentionally inclusive community of belonging with adaptive skills and responses to face the challenges of a changing world. The waves we make should be far-reaching, have impact beyond UU communities, and affect diverse areas of social justice and equity: racial justice; truth, healing and conciliation; refugee sponsorship and migrant justice; environmental concerns; assisted dying; radical inclusion of LGBTQ2+ people; disability justice; under-served communities; economic and social inequalities; multi-generational engagement, and more. How do we make waves that will challenge the status quo, and have implications for our relevance into the future?
In the meantime, consider volunteering for the conference (because it takes a team to make it happen) and fill in your information here. Questions about the conference? Email conference@cuc.ca.
2020 National Conference Site
The University of King’s College‘s small campus is home to just over 1,000 students and its intimate atmosphere makes it easy to get around, with only a few minutes between buildings.
Other campus locations and hotels in Halifax were also considered, and after site visits and consultations with the Host Team co-chairs, the University of King’s College location was picked. One of the main reasons for this is cost. Meals and accommodations at hotels are priced at much higher levels, and the planning team felt that a hotel location would make it financially prohibitive for attendees. King’s small campus and competitive pricing make it a realistic choice, with the accommodations costing much less.
King’s campus is wheelchair-friendly, and accessible accommodations are located in Dalhousie University, just a few minutes from King’s. As with previous conferences, CUC will arrange for motorized scooters and wheelchairs to be available. The conference registration form will have a section on accessibility, and the Accessibility Team will be in touch with those who fill in this section.
We hope to see you in Halifax, and that you’ll extend your stay to enjoy all that the city has to offer. Registration will open in early 2020.
A Welcome from the Halifax Host Team
We hope to see you in Halifax, and that you’ll extend your stay to enjoy all that the city has to offer. Registration will open in early 2020.
The Halifax folks wrote a little ditty (based on a song by songwriter, Jim Bennet) to welcome Unitarian Universalists to their city in 2020; the second verse goes like this:
An Invitation to a musical Making Waves weekend from the Host Team