SUNDAY ALTERNATIVE

There's a hole where the Assembly should have been. Something was lost. Things changed too fast for the organisers on Saturday to put alternative ("he-he") a...

and now we have a challenge beyond our imaginations - music that lasts too long

Last year our parent organisation, Sunday Assembly London, set all the other assemblies free, and now we merely share a common belief in the value of communi...

It's taken 3 years but at last, the Assembly is where it should be - at South Street. A lovely venue with a fab management team. The Assembly will be at Sout...

The December assembly songs

Imagine that you have concluded that you don't think drinking milk from a cow is good - for whatever reason: the taste, animal welfare issues, the yuckiness ...

“I’ve always been interested in creating community spirit and combatting social isolation, so Sunday Assembly sounded really intriguing.”

Sunday Assembly is a secular celebration of life. It's easy to imagine this involves lots of clapping, big smiles, howling whoops, matey high-fives with stra...

Keegan, 36, was born in Lincolnshire, and has lived in Reading since arriving at the university in 2001. He’s been coming to Sunday Assembly since 2017, and ...

I've attended a few of the Free Radical events and much enjoyed chatting with its founder David Robertson. And it was he who convinced me that a few improv s...

Tankata Percussion are running a workshop on the Saturday at The Field Called Wonder. Anna chats to Steve Southall about why drumming makes community. Anna: ...

I grew up a catholic. Church every Sunday, singer and instrumentalist in the choir and band, choir practise every week. Events, rituals, gatherings at Easter...

For our October Sunday Assembly we explored the concept of money. We spoke of how money was an environmental factor that caused us to think about ourselves, ...

I imagine I’m like a lot of people, in that I’m a wonderful, unique mess of a human! I’m currently a scientist with an artistic side (although this is could ...

Wendy, 74, lives in Woodley and has been a regular at Sunday Assembly since 2016. She first discovered it on the website Streetlife (now Nextdoor) in the era...

"You may find yourself the lead of Sunday Assembly Reading. And you may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here?" Early Incomprehension As a child, once in...

This is an excerpt from the hosting speech made at Sunday Assembly Reading, Nov 2018 by Stephen who was talking about the place of art in his life: performin...

Reading's most popular secular 'church' Sunday Assembly Reading delivered a £200 cheque to Launchpad, a local charity striving to prevent homelessness in Rea...

Cate, 40, moved to Reading in 2016 to work at the BBC Archives in Caversham. Before that, she studied at Leeds University and undertook archive training at A...

I've lived in Reading for 13 years, and like many residents, I'm a London commuter. I travel into London, I work, I come home. I travel into London, I work, ...