"Why Are You You?" at General Assembly
Fri, Jun 20
|UUA General Assembly
Screening of excerpts and discussion of a new documentary about YRUU. Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Dawn MacKechnie, Naomi Kooker
Time & Location
Jun 20, 2025, 9:00 AM EDT
UUA General Assembly, 1 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
About the event
All in-person UUA General Assembly attendees are invited to 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. The film will screen in full in the EduCenter portal on Whova after its June 12 premiere, and you are encouraged to watch this before the lecture.
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…