"Why Are You You?"
Sat, Jun 14
|First Church Boston
Screening and discussion of a new documentary about YRUU. Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Dawn MacKechnie, Naomi Kooker


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…