Atheists United Meetings

Atheists United has a regularly scheduled General Meeting once a month in the Hollywood area and special meetings throughout the year. Our affiliate organizations have meetings throughout the month and all around the grater Los Angeles area.

The General Meeting is held on the 4th Sunday of each month from 11:00 a.m and usually last 3-4 hours. They’re free for first time visitors and always free for members. Each General Meeting is followed by a complementary lunch social and attendees are welcome to take lunch plates to people who cannot attend.

General Meetings are held at the Center for Inquiry-West building:
4773 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90027

The programs rotate each month but we try to stick to the following schedule:
Educational Presentations – January, April, July and October.
Freethought Arts Showcase – February, May, August and November.
Solstice/Equinox Celebrations – March, June, September and December.

Our future and past events are listed below. We also host a meetup.com group that you can join and RSVP.

General Meeting: Movie – Chocolat

April 26, 2012

Date: Sunday, May 27th, 2012 at 11am. This month we’ll be showing the critically acclaimed movie Chocolat. Vianne Rocher, an expert chocolatier, travels with her daughter to a tranquil French village that closely adheres to tradition. Vianne opens a Chocolaterie just as the villagers begin observing the forty days of Lent, much to the chagrin [...]

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Special Event: Highway Cleanup

April 26, 2012

Update: Here’s a group picture from this event. Thanks to everyone who came out to clean up the highway with us! Original event information below Atheists United supports the community by sponsoring the highway cleanup of the Glendale (2) freeway. AU members keep a 2 mile stretch of road near Holly Drive clean. Please help [...]

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Special Event: Proving History – Baye’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus

April 12, 2012

Update: Here are pictures from the celebration: Below is the original event description Date: Friday, April 20th from 6PM to 9PM A champagne reception to celebrate Richard Carrier’s new book Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus. Meet Richard and fellow atheists from 6pm to 9pm to discuss the book and [...]

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Atheists United At The Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books

April 2, 2012

Update: Saturday, April 21st, 2012 & Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 was the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and we had a great showing at our booth. Here are a few of the pictures from the event: Below is the original posting for the event Date: Saturday, April 21st, 2012 & Sunday, April 22nd, [...]

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General Meeting: Janet Heimlich – Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment

April 1, 2012

Update: Janet Heimlich gave an excellent and informative talk on religious child maltreatment. Bethany Brittain followed with a heart breaking story about how she grew up in a psychically abusive household that used religion to justify their behavior. Atheism 101 for this meeting was: Frida Kahlo – Famous Mexican Surrealist Artist (Painter) Event date: Sunday, [...]

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Special Event – Reason Rally Eve Dinner And Drinks – Washington D.C.

March 21, 2012

Join atheists from around the country on Friday March 23rd at 7:30pm in Washington D.C. for the Reason Rally eve dinner. We’ll to get to know each other over some food and drinks and strike up conversations on anything interesting. We’re not formal, we chat about whatever we want, atheism related or not. We have [...]

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General Meeting: Vernal Equinox Party

March 7, 2012

March 20th is the Vernal Equinox to astronomers, the beginning of spring to lovers, and the countdown to party time to Atheists United members. At the annual Atheists United spring party, Diane Hart will moderate the popular bingo-esque quotation game called Blingo. Members will play for fun and prizes.

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Katherine Stewart – The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children

March 7, 2012

In January, 2009, Katherine Stewart learned that the Santa Barbara public elementary school her children attended had added a Bible study class called the “Good News Club” to its afterschool program. Stewart’s curiosity turned to concern as she discovered that the specific yet unstated purpose of the club, which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism [...]

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Highway Cleanup

February 11, 2012

Atheists United supports the community by sponsoring the highway cleanup of the Glendale (2) freeway. AU members keep a 2 mile stretch of road near Holly Drive clean. Please help keep Los Angeles clean and join us in the cleanup effort!

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General Meeting: Steven Paul Leiva – Traveling in Space

February 11, 2012

Steven Paul Leiva will read from his new satiric science fiction novel, Traveling in Space, a Gulliver’s Travels for the 21st Century with Homo sapiens as the Lilliputians. Steven will also bare his (non-existent) soul and present “Confessions of a Homo sapiens chauvinist.” Traveling in Space was recently given a positive review by Russell Blackford, [...]

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