On Sunday evening after our first meal together, we gather with neighbors old and new for the famous Banner Parade to Ingathering.
We come together as a SUUSI community for the first time at Ingathering, and celebrate our fellowship. If you belong to a Unitarian Universalist group, bring a banner or make one to show us who you are. Typically, members of each group gather with friends under their banner and march across campus. It's a powerful processional of 1,000 people cheering and laughing as masses of colorful banners coming down the rows of the auditorium.
Bring your drum and join us--everyone is welcome and no training is required! The parade is more of a straggle, and clearly not a march. It's organized, but loosely. (Can you image 1,000 free-thinkers all marching in step?)
Ingathering itself is our opening ceremony at SUUSI. We assemble to start the fun, meet one another, recognize the key organizers, and start building our interdependent web of connections with each other.