University of Orange

What's the Story? Memoir Writing Class - Fall 2025
2025-10-08 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-15 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-22 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-29 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-12 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-19 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-26 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Online
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho
The class is held on Wednesdays 11:00am to 12:15pm on Zoom, and will run October 1, 2025 – December 3, 2025.
What’s the Story? A Memoir Writing Class
Do you have some stories you’d like to tell? There may be stories about your life that you want to tell your children or grandchildren, perhaps about another country or culture you came from or your parents came from. Was there an experience that changed your life or your neighborhood? How about if you were in the military and you want to share something about that? If you have a desire to share or describe anything that you are fascinated by, care about or even want to change, this class is a place to do that.

Format
What’s the Story is a 10-week writing class that intends to provoke, free and guide anyone to write a memoir that reflects their own unique voice and life experience. This is a workshop-style interactive course. Participants will take turns sharing their work and have opportunities to receive feedback and guidance from the instructor and the other participants. There is also time to discuss technical skills, confront creative blocks, and set writing goals. All writing is done outside of class at your own pace.
Like all UofO events, this class is offered for free, but your tax-deductible donation goes a long way to cover the costs of delivering the course.
Please register for the class here.
Susan Hasho is a developmental editor which is an editor involved in the mysterious process of enabling writers and anyone interested in writing to find their way through the maze of expectations, judgment and even fear to find the true heart of what they want to write. She has trained and worked as an actor and writer, and moved into the advertising field to work as a copy editor for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. She began working with writers several years ago as an editor and it became her goal to teach a writing class that would enable people to be as free of self-criticism and inhibiting expectations as possible in order to write clearly and openly with joy.

Restoration and the City Walking Tour
2025-10-26 14:00 - 17:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join UofO and Jersey Bee for a walking tour of Orange! The walk will take us between Main Street and Central Ave. This is an area where you can see the city’s history, the current real estate development boom, people’s investment in their homes and small businesses, investment and disinvestment in public infrastructure, highway development, beloved bakeries and more. UofO’s walking pedagogy orients us to the pushes and pulls on our built environment and city life.

Sunday, October 26th
Meet at The HUUB at 2pm
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ

October Solidarity Potluck
2025-10-27 18:00 - 20:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for our monthly Solidarity Potluck at The HUUB! Bring a dish, bring a friend!
Monday, October 27th, 6pm-8pm
The HUUB
35 Cleveland Street
Orange, NJ
Save the dates for upcoming potlucks, Mondays at 6pm:

November 17
December 15

Remembering Rosa Intergenerational Community Choir
2025-11-01 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-15 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-12-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Ebenezer Baptist Church, 153 William Street, Orange, 07050, United States
Join University of Orange’s Intergenerational Community Choir to sing in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Lift Every Voice and Sing! We will perform on this year’s 10th annual Remembering Rosa Concert for Peace on December 5th. Rehearsals are on Saturday November 1st and 15th at 10am, and Thursday December 4th at 6:30PM, all at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Orange. The final performance will be held on Friday, December 5th at Heywood Avenue School’s Auditorium.

Learn more and register here.

November Solidarity Potluck
2025-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for our monthly Solidarity Potluck at The HUUB! Bring a dish, bring a friend!
Monday, November 17th, 6pm-8pm
The HUUB
35 Cleveland Street
Orange, NJ
Save the dates for upcoming potlucks, Mondays at 6pm:

December 15

Remembering Rosa
2025-12-05 18:30 | Heywood Avenue School, 421 Heywood Avenue, Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us for our 10th annual Remembering Rosa: A Concert for Peace on December 5th at 6:30PM at Heywood Avenue School. The event, held in partnership with the Orange Public Schools and Ebenezer Baptist Church, will feature performances from OPS choirs, Ebenezer’s choir, and an intergenerational community choir (including a community choir + community steel pan band collaboration).

Friday, December 5th, 2025
6:30pm
Heywood Avenue School
421 Heywood Ave., Orange, NJ

Trini Holiday Party
2025-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join University of Orange’s Steel Pan Band for their second annual Trini Holiday Party. Featuring live DJ, performances from the three community steel pan bands (adult, youth advanced, and youth beginner), and a potluck dinner! Bring a dish to share and a friend! Please RSVP here.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
6pm-8pm
The HUUB
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ

December Solidarity Potluck
2025-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us on Monday, December 15th for our last Monthly Solidarity Potluck of the year! We welcome all of our community to come out and mingle and bring a dish to share.
This month we will gather in the living room of Hale House (47 Cleveland St). During the potluck there will also be a “zine workshop for collective joy” in the newly reopened Norbert Capek Community Studio! The Norbert Capek Community Studio is a collective community art space in HUUB’s Hale House, named after former Faith+Works member and founder of the UU Flower Communion tradition. We look forward to holding more art activities and open studio days in the Capek Studio in the new year!

The potluck and zine-making start at 6pm. We hope to see you there!
Monday, December 15th, 6pm-8pm
The HUUB
47 Cleveland Street
Orange, NJ
