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!

Mar
10
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Mar 10 @ 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.

Mar
13
Sun
Nina Belmonte – Imagining Perfection: The Importance of Utopian Ideals
Mar 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Why dream of castles in the air when the roof of our hut is leaking? This talk will give an introduction to the history of the Utopian imagination, its basic claims and motivations, and its continuing importance in shaping our communities and ourselves.

Mar
17
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Mar 17 @ 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.

Mar
20
Sun
Rosemary Morrison “Putting the NEW in Renewal”
Mar 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

The concept of renewal is embedded in many faith traditions. How do Unitarians envision ‘renewal?’ How does renewal play out inter-religiously? Looking at renewal from different angles may help us understand ourselves and the need for renewal in our own lives.

Mar
24
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Mar 24 @ 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.

Mar
27
Sun
Amanda Tarling “Myth-busting the History of Ostara & Easter”
Mar 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Mar
31
Thu
Capital Coffee Cove @ James Bay Coffee and Books
Mar 31 @ 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
3
Sun
Sara Comish Ph.D. – Wisdoms
Apr 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

We all know wisdom when we see it, but what is it? And how can we build in more of it into our lives?

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.