A series of Programs and activities that allow adults to explore current events, culture and history and experience the multitude of natural and arts experiences in our region, while engaging with both their faith and the community.
Series include:
Trinity at the Movies: If you finished a movie and really wanted to sit down and have a substantive discussion about what you just saw, this series is for you. Join us in our café for a movie and potluck snacks and drinks followed by a guided discussion. All movies will be shown with closed captioning. Movies will be shown in the Cafe. Registration is not required, but it would be nice to know you are coming and if you want to bring something to share (again not required).
Trinity on the Go in New England: This series offers day trips to some of New England's many arts and historical experiences. Pre-registration is required. There will be costs for most tours but you can tell us this on the registration from contact Rob Powell if this is a problem and we will make it work.
Trinity at the Podium: Deep dives on a variety of topics from current events, culture, the arts and history given by community members, followed by questions and discussions. Join us in the café to learn something new. One of the fall sessions will be a Moth night format where we will be asking for people to participate.
Trinity at the Symphony: Enjoy Springfield’s world class symphony with friends from Trinity. In this series participants will get together before the concert for a pot-luck and overview by one of Trinity’s many resident music experts on the concert.
A list of planned events is given below. We urge all adults to participate in at least one event. If you have an idea for an event, have a movie you want to recommend or have a topic to present please let us know by filling out this form.
There are Costs associated with some of these programs - but tell us if you need help paying and we will make it work for you.
Trinity at the Movies: Thelma
September 20 at 6 pm in the Café
Thelma Post is a 93-year-old grandmother who loses $10,000 to a con artist on the phone. With help from a friend and his motorized scooter, she soon embarks on a treacherous journey across Los Angeles to reclaim what was taken from her. The movie will be followed by a guided group discussion for those who want to stay. People are welcome to bring snacks and drinks. Suitable for both youth and adults.
Trinity on the Go: Hancock Sharker Village, Celebrating 250 Years
Weds, October 2 - Leaving from Trinity Parking Lot at 8 am - Returning at 5:30 pm
Cost (Includes Transportation, Ticket and Tour Price): $40
Spend the day at Hancock Shaker Village. With 20 historic buildings and a working farm and garden, the museum celebrates the history and legacy of the Shakers, a religious group that lived communally and sought to realize the perfection of heaven on earth by espousing values of equality and pacifism. On the National Historic Register, it is the most comprehensively interpreted Shaker site in the world.
Includes a 90 Minute tour on Shaker Spirituality and plenty of time to explore the campus and visit the special exhibits celebrating its 250th anniversary.
Trinity at the Movies: American Fiction
October 25 at 6 pm in the Café
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. The movie will be followed by a guided group discussion for those who want to stay. People are welcome to bring snacks and drinks.
Trinity on the Go: Springfield Museums and Show
Nov 14 – Meet at the Museum Entry at 10am
Cost: Price of admission(free for Springfield Residents and $4 for the show)
Start with a guided tour of 10:30 by our own member Dawn Whitney followed by “Frances Perkins: A Woman’s Work” is a one-woman show that tells the story of the first woman to hold a Cabinet position—Secretary of Labor Perkins, whose sacrifices and leadership ushered in a range of progressive social reforms in the first half of the 20th Century and who overcame the burden of being “the first” woman in the U.S. government from the Depression, the New Deal era, through WWII. As the primary architect of the New Deal legislation, Perkins gave us Social Security, the 40 hour work week, a minimum wage, child labor laws, and more. Show goes from 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm