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!

Apr
7
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Apr
10
Sun
Colonel Jim Kempling – War and Remembrance
Apr 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Jim Kempling, a retired Canadian Army colonel, is now a PhD candidate in History at UVic. He is a principal author of the website, A City Goes to War: Canadian Cities in the Great War 1914-1918, a city goes to war.

Apr
14
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Apr
17
Sun
Christine Johnston – Dr Joseph Workman: father of Canadian Psychiatry and a founding father of Canadian Unitarianism.
Apr 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

A true story told by Christine Johnston of a fascinating doctor from Northern Ireland who helped to create the face of Eastern Canada in the mid-19th century. In the process he helped develop public schooling, public health, asylums and occupational therapy.

Christine, a member of the First Unitarian Church of Victoria since 1997, was for 28 years the official historian of First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto.

Apr
21
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

Apr
24
Sun
Lisbie Rae – Solidarity in the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign
Apr 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Since the Campaign began in 2006 as part of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, solidarity has developed as a key strategy and a unifying force to turn the tide of AIDS in Africa.  As we celebrate our tenth anniversary by reflecting and renewing our commitment, solidarity emerges as a crucial element of the Grandmothers Campaign.

Apr
28
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 28 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

May
1
Sun
Farhana Islam “A Muslim Woman in Canada”
May 1 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Farhana Islam will speak about her journey from a small town in Bangladesh, how she sees our cultures, her personal interests and convictions and about women and Islam.

May
5
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
May 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

May
8
Sun
Susanne Garmsen “Honoring Our Mothers”
May 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Mothers exist in many forms: our actual mothers, matriarch, Gracious Mother, Matrix of Creation, Mother Nature, Earth Mother, Ancient Mother – Grandmother Spirit, etc. On this Mother’s Day,
let us reflect together on the opportunity to mother, to be or to have been mothered, and the ways in which these experiences are expressed on a grander scale. Happy Mother’s Day!

May
12
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
May 12 @ 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Attention all Visitors, Members and Friends! Please come for ‘coffee’ and conversation in the alcove at James Bay Coffee and Books at 143 Menzies St. The coffee and topic are as you like it.

May
15
Sun
Amanda Tarling “Deep Listening”
May 15 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am