Join us for an outing to a stop on the Auburn Freedom Trail! (Click the thumbnail for details)
Get out and get moving on behalf of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo on June 20th at the annual 5K zoo run!
Join the race with the Central New York Humanist Association and help support the zoo’s mission. Walk or run – all levels are welcome. The event even features a Fun Run for ages 7 and younger. Where else do you get the opportunity to burn some calories while hanging out with an array of beautiful wild creatures?
If you can’t participate, please consider supporting our team with a donation to the zoo!
Join us the afternoon of Sunday, June 6, at Clark Reservation State Park, for a potluck picnic, games, and a General Meeting—including voting for board members! Click on the thumbnail above for details.
Interested in exploring the park before the picnic? Meet us at 11am at the Small Shelter for a short-ish (30-45 minutes) hike. Hope to see you there!
Participants from various organizations helped to open the season by gardening, cleaning, and providing maintenance. It is great fun and a lovely lunch provided too! Please RSVP to Jeff Ingersoll jingersoll@me.com (716) 570-6797
For those interested, we’ll be organizing carpooling out to the museum. If you’d like to carpool, please send an email to cnyhumanists@gmail.com or look for our discussion thread in our Discord.
Join us on May 2nd to make hygiene kits for folks in our community who could use a hand! We received a grant from the American Humanist Association to purchase supplies to make the kits as part of their American Empathy Project, and we’ll get together to assemble toiletry and period kits.
We’ll have all the supplies needed, but if you’d like to donate to allow us to purchase even more supplies, you can do that here.
We will be in the Community Room on the bottom floor of the library. You can enter the room directly from the back parking lot.
We look forward to rolling up our sleeves and working with you to help those who can’t afford to buy basic necessities.
Please RSVP here: https://mobilize.us/s/67kxwy
Led by the American Humanist Association, the American Empathy Project has funded 101 service projects nationwide that will empower community members to combat our country’s crisis of cruelty. One day of action — one unified push to fight for empathy!
If you want to get involved, or support more projects like ours, you can learn more at AmericanEmpathyProject.org.
Join us to participate in OCRRA’s Earth Day Clean Up 2025 on Saturday, April 26th.
Easter is generally a slow day for blood donation. If you don’t plan to spend the morning of April 5th at church, why not spend it with us, giving life at the Red Cross in Liverpool and breaking bread at the Wolf’s Den? Please click the thumbnail for details!
Saturday, March 28th, is the third No Kings Mobilization, another opportunity to stand up for democratic principles! Click on the thumbnail for more information!
Join us for our group’s first Death Cafe. This is not a grief group. We will discuss and share thoughts, questions, and concerns around the topic of death. The objective is “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives”. To learn more about what a Death Cafe is, and isn't, see https://deathcafe.com/what/. Click on the thumbnail for details!
A day dedicated to anything/everything that is not digital! Attendees are encouraged to avoid screens, devices, and all other tech-based distractions. Let’s engage in fun analog activities with friends and community!
This event is BYOC - bring your own craft (or other analog activity!) Think: coloring books, crochet, knitting, embroidery, origami, cards, board games, even a book! Anything that does not involve screens or other digital tech.
Thanks to the Badass Cross Stitch and the Joyful Menace Society for inspiring this event!
Discussion; Science-themed snacks; Darwin Trivia: What better way to celebrate Darwin’s birthday?? Click on the thumbnail for details.
Don't Panic!
Join the Central New York Humanist Association for a book discussion of Douglas Adams' hilarious novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! With all the terrible things happening in the world right now, let's read a lighthearted tale of how the Earth gets destroyed to make way for a galactic freeway ... don't forget your towel!
Reading the book is not a requirement of attending the book discussion, though with all the absurdist humor packed into the book, you may at least want to watch the movie ;) If you're more of an audiobook fan, the audiobook is expertly read by fellow humanist, Stephen Fry!
Did you know Douglas Adams was a fellow humanist? You can read about that here.
Join the Central New York Humanist Association for a First Day Hike!
Join a naturalist-led First Day Hike and set your intention to spend more time outdoors this year. All ages welcome!
Free with Park admission ($5/vehicle). No registration required. Meet at the Visitor Center.
Let's do some good for goodness' sake at Sandwich Saturday! Click the thumbnail for details.
Join us for a relaxed potluck and some warm winter cheer! Click the thumbnail for details.
Let's do some good for goodness' sake at We Rise Above the Streets’ Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the Homeless! Click the thumbnail for details.
Join us for apple pie, Carl Sagan, and decorating a tree we’re donating to the Everson Museum! Click the thumbnail for more information.
Saturday, October 18th, is the No Kings October Mobilization, another opportunity to stand up for democratic principles! Click on the thumbnail for details.
Let’s do some good for goodness sake with crochet! We’ll be making scarves and hats to donate to We Rise Above the Streets!
Liz will be leading an introduction to crochet for anyone who wants to learn. Yarn and hooks will be provided.
If you already know how to crochet (or knit!) great! Liz has a giant box of yarn* just waiting to be turned into goods we can donate.
*For real, this yarn was sent to me by accident when Joann went out of business. I don’t have a use, or the extra storage, for all this yarn. Please help me put it to good use!
Come hear Anthony Krishock, President of the Syracuse Astronomical Society, talk about how to get started in the hobby of astronomy, including places to stargaze, organizations to get involved in, and what equipment is good for beginners. Click the thumbnail for more information!
Sign up to table, or just come by and visit. We’ll have some fun giveaways, and t-shirts for sale, too! Click the thumbnail for details.
Let's do some good for goodness' sake at Sandwich Saturday! Click the thumbnail for details.
Join us for our first time taking care of newly-adopted trail! Click the thumbnail for more information.
Let’s take advantage of the summer sun and use its light to make art!
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century to produce copies of drawings, aka “blueprints”. We can use the same process - essentially exposing specially-treated paper to sunlight - to create art!
We’ll have some items available to create your artwork, but please feel free to bring any objects from home. Anything that is relatively flat should work. Think about what might create an interesting shadow with its shape. Some common ideas include leaves, feathers, keys, jewelry, lace, etc.
Because this event is highly weather-dependent, we’ll keep a rain date of Sunday August 17.
The event will be held at Liz’s house. Please RSVP to cnyhumanists@gmail.com to receive the address.
Join us for our first time taking care of newly-adopted trail! Click the thumbnail for more information.
Grab a blanket and some snacks. We're going to see Shakespeare in the park! Specifically, a local production of Twelfth Night being put on in the Thornden Park Ampitheatre. Click the thumbnail for more information!
Let's do some good for goodness' sake at Sandwich Saturday! Click the thumbnail for details.
This event has been cancelled because the grant that was obtained by the host institution to support this program was cancelled due to an Executive Order.
Join the CNYHA as we attend an author talk with Michael Miller at the Matilda Joslyn Gage Center. Michael Miller will be discussing his historical fiction novel High Bridge. A description of the book is below. We’re planning on going out for dinner following his talk - exact dinner location TBD.
“Upstate New York in the mid-19th century is a cauldron bubbling with the lure of fast fortunes, religious zealotry, and battles for civil liberties. This fervor centers on the Erie Canal, which successfully supports scores of villages brimming with opportunity. One such village, Fayetteville, shapes the lives of two future American leaders.
High Bridge tells the stories of a young newlywed, the only child of freethinking abolitionists, and a prankster lad who grows up in the large family of an austere reverend. Despite their different childhoods and worldviews, they form an unlikely friendship. Can they combine their skills to solve a mystery and vindicate a Black man accused of murder?”
Join us for our first time taking care of newly-adopted trail! Click the thumbnail for more information.
Let's do some good for goodness' sake at Sandwich Saturday!
