Calendar of events

Here you will find all of our congregation’s Sunday Services, Board and Committee meetings and other events. Use the calendar controls to see events for past or future dates. For a quick look at recent Sunday Services, click here!

May
20
Sun
Dana L. Seaborn “Flower Communion”
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Dana L. Seaborn "Flower Communion"

Come join us as we celebrate spring with this unique Unitarian tradition! We’ll each bring a flower to place in the communal vase (if you cannot find a flower, one will be provided to you). We’ll explore some of the metaphors of spring, and how they can enrich our lives. Come celebrate the renewal of life! Celebrate the return of light and warmth! Celebrate flowers! What’s not to like? Join us!

May
27
Sun
Karen Christie “Belonging”
May 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Karen Christie "Belonging"

Karen will address the topic of belonging, which has countless perspectives. She hopes to stimulate thoughts about belonging to a community, whether it is religious or spiritual, or neither of those. She will link it to personal experience with being part of a faith-based institution, in her case, Unitarianism, and expand through examples to the greater whole in Canada, the Canadian Unitarian Council.

Jun
3
Sun
Per Dahlstrom – ShelterBox – Emergency Shelter Relief
Jun 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Per Dahlstrom - ShelterBox - Emergency Shelter Relief

Hear first hand accounts of implementing adaptive shelter relief solutions in response to natural disasters around the world.

 

Per Dahlstrom has been an advocate for ShelterBox shelter relief efforts and an active Shelterbox Response Team member since 2009. As a dual Canadian-Danish citizen interested in world affairs and global community service, Per has studied and worked in Scandivania, South Africa and South Korea. While not on deployment he struggles to keep up with his busy wife and 3 active (and hungry) sons in various pursuits in and around the Cowichan Valley.

Jun
10
Sun
Leigh Waters – Exiled back to Mexico
Jun 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Leigh Waters - Exiled back to Mexico

Learn the stories of Mexican nationals deported or self deported back to Mexico from the USA. Concerned citizens and visitors in San Miguel de Allende have been inspired to organize help. Unitarian Universalists started the group “Caminamos Juntos” (we walk together) to help these deportees.

Leigh Waters is an Victoria artist and arts administrator who sought out the desert climate of Mexico for health reasons. She has visited 2 areas of Mexico and has an interest in local organizations who do social justice work in those communities. Leigh is always open to meeting Mexicans and getting to know their life stories.

Jun
17
Sun
Jane Dawson – Abraham: A Father’s Day Reflection
Jun 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Jane Dawson - Abraham: A Father's Day Reflection

Come join us this Father’s Day as we explore the story of Abraham, the founding father of the three Abrahamic faiths – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What are the elements of this story and how are they still relevant for us today?

Dr. Jane Dawson is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. She is working on a project exploring how the symbolic elements in the stories of the Bible can help us reflect on our own life experience.

 

Jun
24
Sun
Anna Isaacs – Truth, Healing and Reconcilliation
Jun 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Anna Isaacs - Truth, Healing and Reconcilliation

Unitarian Universalists in Canada are committed to truth, healing and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Learn more about this nationally and locally.

Jul
1
Sun
Cathy Baker and Dick Jackson – A Canada Day Circle of Song
Jul 1 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Cathy Baker and Dick Jackson – A Canada Day Circle of Song

Cathy Baker and Dick Jackson have been sharing their mutual love of music and group singing for several years with the Capital UU community. They have served as music program directors for our Islands-regional Summer Camp and have led monthly music with the Salt Spring Unitarians. Dick and Cathy have recently become the co-directors of Victoria’s own well known and loved Gettin’ Higher Choir. On Canada Day, come join us as Dick and Cathy lead a circle of song and explore how singing together can inspire, empower and remind us how to be our best selves, as individuals and as members of our overlapping communities.

Jul
8
Sun
Murray Rankin, Member of Parliament for Victoria
Jul 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Murray Rankin, Member of Parliament for Victoria

Murray Rankin will share with us about his work in Ottawa on behalf of Victorians and Canadians.

Jul
15
Sun
Nancy Dobbs “Circle of Song”
Jul 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Nancy Dobbs "Circle of Song"

Join Nancy Dobbs for a morning of singing in community. We’ll be singing as many songs as time allows, mostly from the Teal Hymnal. You’ll leave our song circle humming the songs that have touched your mind and/or spirit.

 

Nancy Dobbs led the Children and Youth Choirs at First Unitarian Church of Victoria for 20 years. She took the Community Choir Leadership Program from Denis Donnelly and Siobhan Robinsong in 2012. In the fall of 2018 she will be leading weekly intergenerational singing (preschoolers to extended care residents) for Peninsula Recreation.

Jul
22
Sun
Dale Rasmussen “Songs of the heart: a musical reflection”
Jul 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Dale Rasmussen "Songs of the heart: a musical reflection"

In this presentation of music and spoken word, Dale will share songs that bring him meaning and inspiration. There’ll be familiar favourites interspersed with some beautiful lesser-known pieces, and the congregation will be encouraged to join in.

Dale Rasmussen is a respected pianist, singer, guitarist and mandolin player. He’s founded and directed a number of pop and jazz choirs in Vancouver, Kamloops and Victoria, and he’s a popular seminar leader at music workshops throughout BC. Over the years Dale has performed with jazz, pop, roots and children’s music groups, and he currently has an ongoing piano gig at the Fairmont Empress Hotel. He and his partner Mark arrived in Victoria in late 2013 and are part of First Unitarian’s Gordon Head Neighbourhood Group.

Jul
29
Sun
Jazmin Saunders-Scales “The Lasting Effects of Music”
Jul 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Jazmin Saunders-Scales "The Lasting Effects of Music"

During this music filled presentation, explore the ideals of the ever-lasting effect music can have on a person’s life through first-hand experiences.

Jazmin Saunders-Scales is a seventeen year old soprano. She has been singing since she was very young and has already gained experience in the performing arts and on stage. When she was younger, Jazmin attended the Capital Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Aside from singing, Jazmin now provides childcare at First Unitarian Church of Victoria.

Aug
5
Sun
Christine Johnston “The ebbs and flows of growing a national Canadian UU movement”
Aug 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Christine Johnston "The ebbs and flows of growing a national Canadian UU movement"

A local Unitarian Univeralist historian will share the history of the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) from its beginnings to the most recent national conference this spring.

Christine Johnston has been a UU for the past 55 years, participating in CUC activities since 1965 including serving on the CUC Board, and receiving the Knight Award in 2014.