11:00 am, December 21 2025
Backyard Comedy Club, Bethnal Green
Speaker: Alan Gregan
As a non-religious community with a history of big festive pop singalongs (Yule Rock), we know how meaningful Christmas is to so many people. What if we marked other points in the year with the same level of ritual? What traditions could we revive or create? Today’s Winter Solstice was the ideal time to explore it.
Guest speaker: Alan Gregan
Alan is a long-standing member of the Sunday Assembly London community, an atheist physics teacher and founder of the Fountayne Fire Society. What started as folk songs round a bonfire has since swelled into elaborate ceremonies to mark solstices, equinoxes and other major moments.
Our singalongs
As usual, there were four pop songs performed by our Sunday Assembly London band. It’s that time of year, and our Yule Rock 2025 spectacular was fresh in our minds, so we joined in on some festive favourites.
- Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) – The Darkness
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday – Wizzard
- Stay Another Day – East 17
- Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade
As always, the lyrics were projected on screen and everyone was welcome to sing (and dance) along.
About Sunday Assembly London
Sunday Assembly London is your regular and reliable stop for a welcoming, accessible and inspiring Sunday community, where you can hear talks and poetry, sing songs and make new friends.
Stay after for tea, biscuits, and chat in the Backyard Comedy Club. Then join us for a local meal, picnic, or a drink and card games at the pub.
→ Our next assembly: Adding Creativity into Everyday Life, 4th January
← Our previous assembly: The Sound of Movement, 7th December