This is a free, ticketed event. Please register here.

Every year on December 23, HumanLight celebrates humanism’s positive secular vision of reason, compassion, and hope. It's a time of reflection on the year ending and preparing for the year ahead.

We're moving the tradition online with a special Zoom event. The Chicago Humanists teamed up with the American Humanist Association, Foundation Beyond Belief, Washington Area Secular Humanists, Freethought Society, Baltimore Coalition of Reason, and Black Nonbelievers of DC.

Join us for candle lighting, music with singer Lea Morris, comedy with Krish Mohan, poetry, discussion, games, and beautiful decorations by Margaret Downey and Emily Wilson.

The event is free and welcome to all.

HumanLight is a secular holiday on December 23rd. The date was chosen to not conflict with other holidays. It’s designed to celebrate and express the positive, secular, human values of reason, compassion, humanity and hope. HumanLight illuminates a positive, secular vision of a happy, just and peaceful future for our world, a future which people can build by working together, drawing on the best of our human capacities.