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THE ETHICAL YEAR
Holiday and Special Days in Ethical Societies:
Traditions and Opportunities

AUTUMN: SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER
 Opening Sunday
 Labor Day
 Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur / Sukkot
 9/11 Anniversary
 Columbus Day
 UN Sunday (on or before October 24)
 Halloween / collecting for UNICEF
 All Saints Day
 A favorite of Felix Adler’s – for
remembering people
 DST ends
 Election Day
 Veterans’ Day
 Harvest festivals e.g. Wampanoag
 Stone Soup
 Sunday before Thanksgiving?
 Thanksgiving
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WINTER: DECEMBER - FEBRUARY
 Hanukkah
 Winter Equinox
 Winter Festival (before Christmas
or after New Year’s)
 New Year
 Superbowl Sunday (Feb 2, 2014)
 Sometimes it’s lower attendance, a kind
of anti-holiday
 Martin Luther King Day
 Groundhog Day
 Valentine’s Day
 Darwin Day / Lincoln’s Birthday
 Presidents’ Day
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SPRING: MARCH - MAY
 Spring Festival (various formulae)
 April Fool
 DST begins – some may come late
 Hold a pre-meeting brunch?
 Tax Day
 Spring Equinox
 Passover (moveable feast)
 Palm Sunday, Easter (moveable)
 Earth Day (April 22)
 Day of Reason (May 1, 2014)
 Cinco de Mayo
 Buddha’s Birthday
 Chinese/lunar calendar dates: 2014/5/6;
2015/5/25; 2016/5/14
 Founder’s Day (around May 15)
 Mother’s Day (2nd Sunday in May)
 Memorial Day
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SUMMER: JUNE - AUGUST
 Flag Day
 Father’s Day
 Last meeting before summer
break?
 4th of July / Independence Day
 Interdependence Day (July 4th)
 Bastille Day
 Felix Adler’s Birthday
 Ramadan – 2014: June 28 – July 28
 moves around the year
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YOUR
TURN
Moving Into the Future

YOUR TURN
 What holidays does your society celebrate now – listed or not?
 What holidays does your society deliberately not celebrate?
 What are your annual themes (by month? by season?)
 What would you like to have your society begin to celebrate regularly?
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