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"Why Are You You?"

Sat, Jun 14

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First Church Boston

Screening and discussion of a new documentary about YRUU. Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Dawn MacKechnie, Naomi Kooker

"Why Are You You?"
"Why Are You You?"

Time & Location

Jun 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST

First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston, MA 02116, USA

About the event

"Why Are You You?"

Screening and Discussion

Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Dawn Mackechnie, and Naomi Kooker


Join us in person or online for a discussion and clips from the feature documentary Why Are You You? about the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists program where adolescents discovered their true selves and were empowered to inspire positive change in the world. Forty years later, those former participants reflect on how being a part of the program shaped them and still informs their lives today.


Lindsay Caddle LaPointe — connective director, executive producer, and editor of Why Are You You? as well as a former YRUU participant — is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, videographer and an award-winning filmmaker. Her documentary Making Mill Town was awarded a gold award from Spotlight Documentary Film Awards and second place in editing from the Utah Dance Film Festival.  


Dawn MacKechnie — executive producer of Why Are You You? and…


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