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
9
Sun
Janet Vickers “Infinite Power”
Apr 9 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Janet Vickers will read from her second trade book of poems Infinite Power (Ekstasis 2016). Infinite power, in her eyes “is not a zero sum game but a journey / a stone thrown in a lake”. The danger of our age is that we have lost contact with that power, made it something to possess like a personal bank account. In writing these poems she hopes for a reconnection to that sacred universal relationship.

Janet is a member of the Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo, and lives on Gabriola Island with her husband of forty six years. Her poems have appeared in chapbooks published by the CUC, other anthologies in Canada, the UK, in literary journals and online magazines. She has been a Unitarian since 1985.

Apr
13
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 13 @ 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
16
Sun
Kimberly Bramadat-Ramsey “Flower Communion: exchange of love and synergy”
Apr 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Kimberly Bramadat-Ramsey "Flower Communion: exchange of love and synergy"

Honoring the UU flower communion, from 1923 by the Reverends Norbert and Maja Capek to our present day exchange of love and synergy.

Kimberly Bramadat-Ramsey was born UU in Winnipeg and now volunteers with youth and OWL sexuality education at First Unitarian Church of Victoria. She is passionate about all types of healing and meditative ecstatic dance, and works as a school educational assistant and a community support worker in the summer. Kimberly is the proud mom of daughter Kisha Raven Bramadat, is married to Michael Ramsey, and is the daughter of Rev. Jane Bramadat.

Apr
20
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 20 @ 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
23
Sun
Lillie Lentz “Earth Day: Places on the Map and Places in my Mind”
Apr 23 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Lillie Lentz "Earth Day: Places on the Map and Places in my Mind"

It is good to celebrate. We celebrate our contributions to the Earth and the Earth’s contributions to us. Let us explore the inherent worth and dignity of all things; Compassion in relationships; and the interconnectedness of all existence.

Lillie has been a member of the First Unitarian Church of Victoria since 2002. Before that she belonged to the Unitarian Universalist (UU) communities in Ottawa and in Vancouver. She has been a UU practioner for more than 24 years. Most recently she attended our Homily Creation Workshop and the Lay Chaplaincy program. She was a Worship Associate and continues to support the Youth in every way possible. In her other work as a communication coach, she is an active member of the Inclusive Leadership Cooperative, is a pagan, a permaculturalist and a Compassionate Communication (NVC) practioner.

Apr
27
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Apr 27 @ 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
30
Sun
Murray Enkin “Myth from the Ice Age to Mickey Mouse”
Apr 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Myths make the glue that has held humankind together since the Agricultural Revolution. Do the myths of today really, really, differ from the myths of then?

May
4
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
May 4 @ 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
7
Sun
Elizabeth Atchison “The Inclusive Community”
May 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Elizabeth Atchison "The Inclusive Community"

What is it about this community that makes it so important to you and me? Let us think about this together.

May
11
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
May 11 @ 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
14
Sun
Don Vipond “Not wanted on the voyage”
May 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Don Vipond "Not wanted on the voyage"

Before the days of easy trans-ocean flights, the way to travel was on great ships. Even luxury staterooms couldn’t handle all of the trunks of stuff rich people want with them, so some trunks got labeled, “Not wanted on the voyage” and disappeared into the hold. What if that label was applied to people? In fact, we do it all the time. Every time we look away from someone crouched on the sidewalk, with their dog beside them and a hat inviting hand-outs, we tell them “not wanted on the voyage.” Specifically, we tell them “YOU are not wanted on the voyage.”

 

 

May
18
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
May 18 @ 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.