University of Orange

Steel Pan Classes (Youth Beginner, Youth Advanced, & Adult)
2026-02-10 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-17 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-24 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-03 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-10 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-17 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-24 16:00 - 20:00, 2026-03-31 16:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) and 6 more dates | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Steelpan Classes for Youth and Adults

The Steel Pan Ensemble of Orange offers opportunities for adults and children to learn and perform steel pan music.
The Steel Pan classes are designed to introduce people to playing Steelpans, musical instruments originating from Trinidad and Tobago. Participants will get introduced to playing the tenor pan, double guitar pan, double seconds pan, and four-bass pan. Classes are taught by local steel pan musician and educator Jevaun Grant.
Winter & Spring 2026 Classes:
Youth classes are currently open to students in middle school and high school. If you have a younger child interested please fill out the form and let us know.
Adult classes are open to any and all people above the age of 18.
Classes are currently scheduled for Tuesday evenings:

4:00PM for youth beginners
5:30PM for youth advanced
7PM for adults

Winter session runs from Tuesday January 27th weekly until March 17th. Spring session will run from March 31st until May 26th.
There will be performance opportunities throughout the Winter and Spring. Dates for most performance opportunities are TBD. Save the dates: May 15th, 16th, and 17th for the 10th annual Music City Festival here in Orange.
Classes are pay-what-you-can. We suggest a sliding scale, but donations of any amount are appreciated and the amount you can afford is not a factor in acceptance to the classes. Any questions about our pay-what-you-can model or inquiries about full scholarships can be sent to info@universityoforange.org
REGISTER FOR STEELPAN CLASS HERE

What's the Story? Memoir Writing Class - Winter 2026
2026-02-11 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-18 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-25 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-11 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-18 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-25 11:00 - 12:30 | 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 January 21, 2026 – March 25, 2026.
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.
**If you are interested in joining this class, please email us at info@universityoforange.org to join the waitlist.**
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.

February Solidarity Potluck - TEFF & Lunar New Year
2026-02-16 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! This month we are celebrating the Lunar New Year, writing cards to immigrant families in detention, and hosting a screening of the Thomas Edison Film Festival. The film screening will be about an hour with thoughtful and lighthearted films by independent filmmakers from the US, Japan, China, and Kenya.
Bring a dish, bring a friend! We hope to see you there!
Potlucks meet from 6pm-8pm at the HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street.
Save the dates for more potlucks:

Monday, March 9th: Community Iftar
Monday, April 6th: Community Seder
Monday, May 18th
Monday, June 15th: UofO Graduation

Community Iftar Potluck
2026-03-09 18:30 - 20:30 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us on Monday, March 9th for our annual Community Iftar Potluck!
Iftar is the fast-breaking evening meal during the month of Ramadan. Everyone is welcome to join, whether you are observing the fast or not. Bring a friend and bring a dish to share (no pork or alcohol for that day).
Please note we begin gathering a little later than usual – 6:30PM – and will start our meal at 7PM.
We’re excited to co-host this Iftar with The HUUB, and the FAITH+WORKS UU Congregation of Orange, and the Palestinian Youth Movement NJ Chapter.

Save the date for more solidarity potlucks at the HUUB!

Monday, April 6th: Community Seder
Monday, May 18th
Monday, June 15th: UofO Graduation

Potlucks meet from 6pm-8pm at the HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street.

Autonomous Spaces Series: Learning from Our Lives
2026-03-29 15:00 - 17:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Autonomous Spaces Series: George Ygarza
“Learning from our lives”
Sunday, March 29th, 3-5pm
George Ygarza is a popular educator, militant researcher and interlocutor of critical theory between abiayala and turtle island. His main areas of research are extractivism, critical thought, biopower and popular power. He will talk with us about ‘place-informed methods’, starting with criticisms and blindspots from metatheories before discussing how our lived experiences can help us understand the structural problems we face.
REGISTER HERE
This event will be held at The HUUB:
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ

The Dr. Flava 4Tet
2026-04-03 18:30 - 20:30 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
The Dr. Flava 4Tet
Friday, April 3rd
Doors 6:45, Concert at 7pm
At The HUUB
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ
Sponsored by UofO Music City and the Musicians’ Union
feat. Bob Rodriguez, Jesus Salinas, Russ Dibona, Ray Johnston (Dr. Flava)

Community Seder Potluck
2026-04-06 18:00 - 20:00 | 35 Cleveland St, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Join us on Monday, April 6th for our annual Community Seder Potluck!
In partnership with the HUUB and Faith + Works UU we will celebrate Passover, springtime, and liberation. We will snack on the Seder plate foods, sing songs, read from our Haggadah, and enjoy a meal together.
We hope you will join us! 6pm at The HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ.
Here is our Seder Sign-Up sheet – help us gather our Seder plate items or bring a dish to share!
Save the date for more upcoming potlucks:
– Monday, May 18th @ 6pm
– Monday, June 15th @6pm (UofO Graduation)

Autonomous Spaces Series: Building Alternatives
2026-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Building alternatives beyond the state: Grassroots tactics for social change in the face of repressive governments.
In an era when many scholars and activists are questioning both the impartiality of electoral processes and the efficacy of symbolic protests, advocates are considering – and deploying – other tactics for social change. In this session Sasha Davis will draw upon his over twenty years of research on social movements and political change in colonial contexts which is featured in his new book Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail (available from the University of Minnesota Press). The session will also be an opportunity for folks to share perspectives on activist tactics and to evaluate the efficacy of different strategies for creating meaningful political change.
Sasha Davis is an activist, researcher, educator, and author. He is also a co-founder of Cooperative Action Monadnock and lives in New Hampshire.
REGISTER HERE
Sunday, April 12th, 3pm-5pm
The HUUB
35 Cleveland Street, Orange, NJ

Birding in Orange
2026-04-18 09:30 - 11:30 | NJ
Join us for a birding walk in Orange! We will walk around Orange Park to see the park’s resident birds and birds migrating through the area.
Please wear comfortable shoes, bring water, and bring binoculars if you have them! The walk will be along a paved 1 mile path.

Please REGISTER HERE!

Autonomous Spaces Series: Patria o Muerte, Venceremos
2026-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | The HUUB, inc, 35 Cleveland Street, City of Orange, NJ, 07050, United States
Patria o Muerte, Venceremos
Sunday, May 3rd,
3pm-5pm at The HUUB
Join us on Sunday, May 3rd for the fourth session of our autonomous spaces series. We will hear a report-back from Douglas Farrand who recently was part of a delegation to Cuba, followed by a teach-in about the embargo.

Register online here.

May Solidarity Potluck - Haitian Flag Day
2026-05-18 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! We will celebrate Haitian Flag Day, honoring the creation of the Haitian flag during the revolution and the enduring spirit of liberty it stands for.
Bring a dish, bring a friend! We hope to see you there!
Potlucks meet from 6pm-8pm at the HUUB, 35 Cleveland Street in Orange.
Save the date for the next potluck on Monday, June 15th.
