Meet Dan Barker: Music and Casual Conversation with FFRF’s Co-President

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2:30-4:30 p.m., January 18, 2026

Enjoy this special opportunity, either in person or online, to relax, converse with and enjoy the secular music of Dan Barker, leading church-state separation advocate, author, composer, and co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. You can look forward to an energizing mix of thoughtful discussion, live music, and engaging freethought conversation.

THIS EVENT is the third of five stops on Dan Barker’s Western Tour in January, with events in Olympia WA, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Sacramento CA, and Salt Lake City UT. The day before this event, January 17, in San Francisco, Dan will speak about his book, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction.

All events are open to the public, and everyone, members, friends, newcomers and strangers alike are warmly invited to attend.

HOSTED BY the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Atheist Community of San Jose, Humanists at Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, and the Bay Area Humanists and Humanist Community.

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