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!
Description: As a social geographer, I find it important to know something about the history and geography of the place I live. Like many cities, Victoria has largely erased evidence of original Indigenous inhabitants. As a settler interested in the nature of prior Indigenous residence in this city, I researched the history of Lekwungen dwelling here and the European myths and assumption that led to their dispossession. I share some of this research with you in this talk.
Bio: Formerly a professor and Canada Research Chair in social geography, Evelyn Peters’ research focused on the histories and characteristics of urban Aboriginal people in Canada. Now retired, she has lived in Victoria for 6 years. For her, part of learning what it means to be a settler in this territory requires understanding the history of the Indigenous people on whose lands she now lives.
Sunday August 28th Celebrate James Bay
Musicians from the James Bay United Church and Capital’s Dick Jackson and Cathy Baker will support the United Church Rev. Karen Dickey and UU speaker Peter Scales. This will be an outdoor service at 10 a.m., in Irving Park next to James Bay New Horizons.
(Irving Park is right beside James Bay New Horizons)
This morning we are celebrating a 40 year old UU tradition of a Water Communion. The Google dictionary defines “Communion” as “the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level.” Join us for an exploration of this poignant water ritual.
Hanna Leavitt lives in Victoria, is blind, has service dog ‘Ogden’, and has recently written a book. Hanna recently won a $14,000 Arts Council grant and went to Montreal to research the history of residential blind schools in Canada.
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The CUC is hosting “Unsettled and Unafraid,” a national service to honour The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Join Elder-in-Residence Sharon Jinkerson Brass, Rev. Danielle Webber and folks from across the country as they reflect on what the process of un-colonizing looks and feels like to them.
This will be followed by a FREE 2.5-hour art therapy workshop facilitated by Rev. Karen Fraser Gitlitz and Ceremony Keeper Carey Jeanette Sinclair. It will be based on their popular, multi-day workshop, “Unsettling Our Spirituality.” (Details to follow.)
A pre-recorded service will be available to congregations on September 21. Please contact amber.bellemare@cuc.ca to receive the link.
Join us on Zoom. For those calling in on landlines, the toll-free number is 1-855-703-8985.
Meeting ID: 873 6525 5786
Password: 742984
You can also watch live on the CUC’s YouTube channel.
The biographer of CUUC member Dr. Murray Enkin (1924-2021) will talk about the challenges of writing what became a much larger book than intended in order to draw together the threads of a ‘large life’.
-And just what can we expect to receive, anyway? And by the way, what does this have to do with Thanksgiving??? Join us as we explore the mysterious power of Asking.
As an art student of visual art and art history, I spent 2-4 art history classes a week in a darkened room with projections of art on the wall. One of the strongest and most persistent questions from this very potent period of my life has left me with, is; what is spirituality in art? The first art, in western art history, that was defined as abstract was spiritual. These early 20th Century artists endeavored to paint spirit, beauty, the soul as personal spiritual beliefs rather than religious beliefs, while also being very engaged in the advancements in science.
The covid-19 pandemic had many people debating “the science” as each new shred of data hit the news and social media. Politically, ‘science’ was often stated as the chief reason for important policy decisions. What is science, though? One of the sources of UUism is “Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against the idolatries of the mind and spirit.” Dr. Sepideh Heydari has been a neuroscientist at UVic and is now an IT analyst at Island Health.
