George Takei at Unitarian Society of Ridgewood Sept. 20

Unitarian Society of Ridgewood invites all to join us for Sunday Service on September 20, 2015 at 10:00 am with Special Guest George Takei, who will speak on “Embracing Change.”

George Takei is best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek. He’s an actor, social justice activist, social media mega-power, star of the upcoming Broadway musical Allegiance, and subject of To Be Takei, a documentary on his life and career. Takei’s acting career has spanned five decades, with more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television guest-starring roles to his credit.

With the outbreak of World War II, Los Angeles, California-born Takei and his family were placed behind the barbed-wire enclosures of United States internment camps along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans. Takei spent most of his childhood at Camp Rohwer in the swamps of Arkansas and at wind-swept Camp Tule Lake in northern California. At the end of the war, Takei’s family returned to their native Los Angeles.

Inspired by this difficult chapter of American history, Takei developed the Broadway-bound musical Allegiance, an epic story of love, family and heroism in which he stars alongside Tony Award winner, Lea Salonga. Now a community activist, Takei serves as chair of the council of governors of East West Players, the nation’s foremost Asian Pacific American theater. He is also a member of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender political organization.

His first book, his autobiography, To the Stars, was published in 1994, and in 2012 and 2013 he published his second and third books, Oh Myyy! There Goes The Internet, and its sequel, Lions And Tigers And Bears: The Internet Strikes Back – both about his forays on social media and the internet, making the Amazon e-book and paperback best-seller lists in 2012 and 2013.

Takei and his husband, Brad Takei, were married at the Japanese American National Museum on Sept. 14, 2008.

Musicians: Kathleen Palatucci, soprano & Lois Hicks-Wozniak, saxophone.

Location: Unitarian Society of Ridgewood

113 Cottage Place

Ridgewood, NJ 07450

http://www.uuridgewood.org

201 444-6225