Breaking Bread: Skill Share and Community Dinner
2025-11-22 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Hewett Hall, 949 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
Skill Sharing: Fibre Arts of All Kinds
Do you sew, mend, knit, crochet, or felt? Have you wanted to learn or expand your knowledge and confidence? Do you like sharing what you are currently creating? Would you enjoy teaching folks of any age how to fix a hole in their favourite shirt or sew on a button?
Back before 2020 interrupted life, we used to have a monthly Make and Mend circle to extend and repurpose garments and fabric in our lives. This month’s dinner is an opportunity to share a skill you have around fibre arts, learn from others, get help fixing something and enjoy a meal together!
What should I bring?
Please bring your curiosity, something you want to mend, or a project you are working on.
For our meal please bring something to share; a side dish, dessert, bread, or drinks so that we will always have enough to fill our tummies as well as our spirits. Hosts will provide a couple large main dishes such as soup or pasta.

Blanket Fort Solstice Dinner
2025-12-20 17:00 - 20:00 | Hewett Hall, 949 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
Come together for rest and renewal with food and fun! This will be our second annual Solstice Blanket Fort Dinner. We’ll eat family style and after dinner the Fireside Room will be dedicated to building a blanket fort for storytime and in the Hall we will create an evergreen spiral labyrinth with electric tea lights.

Breaking Bread: A New Year Game Night
2026-01-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Hewett Hall, 949 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
Connecting in the New Year with dinner and board games
The Lifespan Programs Team is excited to host a monthly series of family centred events for building community, friendships, skills, and fun. For January, each table will have one or two games to play. Do you have a favourite game at home? Bring it along!
What should I bring?
Please bring food to share; a side dish, dessert, bread, or drinks so that we will always have enough to fill our tummies as well as our spirits. Hosts will provide a couple large main dishes such as soup or pasta. This month you can also bring a favourite game to share! (appropriate to play around kids please)

Listening Circle on the State of the World
2026-01-18 12:45 - 14:15 | Fireside Room, West 49th Avenue 949, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
Led by the Healthy Relations Team
We live in both beautiful and bewildering times, and many of us feel the need to come together to try to make sense of it all.
After this Sunday’s service, there will be a lunch in Hewett Hall, so please join us after that at 12:45pm in the Fireside Room, when the Healthy Relations Team will facilitate a listening circle. We can be silent, or share the complex feelings we’re carrying about global conflicts, climate change, and the state of democracy in the world.
This will be an opportunity to be heard about how things are weighing on your heart.
For the mutually caring atmosphere we would like to hold in the room, we request you arrive by 12:45 pm, after which the doors will be closed.
If you are unable to join in person and feel you would benefit from joining a listening circle online, please let us know at healthyrelations [@] vanu.ca.

Breaking Bread: Family Centred Community Dinners
2026-03-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Hewett Hall, 949 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
Gather round for Vancouver Unitarians monthly Breaking Bread potluck! It’s a time each month when we circle back, to be community together in a family-centred dinner for all ages (think of the broadest definition of family and you’ll find that you’re invited!). In a community as large as ours, it’s easy to find our connections revolving around a small group without many chances to meet newcomers; it’s just as easy for newcomers to find themselves orbiting on the periphery of the congregation, not sure how to connect with existing members. Breaking Bread is a chance to make those connections, while celebrating the cycles of our lives and the wheel of the year.
With this month’s gathering landing on Pi Day (March 14th – 3.14), we’re celebrating all things pie/pi related! Vancouver Unitarians’ Men’s Group is hosting and will provide a few main dishes, and you’re invited to please bring something to share if you are able. Maybe chicken pot pie, or hand pies, or shepherds’ pie, or apple pie, or pecan pie, or cottage pie, or shoofly pie, frito pie, or pizza pie! The possibilities of pie are truly endless!
In addition to the tasty meal, we’ll have activities exploring circular symbols in spiritual traditions, mathemagic tricks, food/math trivia, and much more!
Please RSVP below to let us know that you’re coming and how many friends you’re bringing!

Nowruz Celebration
2026-03-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Fireside Room, West 49th Avenue 949, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
The Vanu Earth Spirit Group invites you to come and celebrate spring with a special presentation and ritual around Now Ruz, the Persian celebration of Spring.

You’ll learn about the seven items that are put on the altar and experience a joyful, welcoming of spring.

It helps us plan to know how many people are coming, so please respond on this form.
https://forms.gle/h6bCtW2bwhFPThgj6

Date Friday March 20th
Time 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Fireside Room at VanU

Book Bash at VanU: Great deals on used books!
2026-04-12 09:00 - 13:00 | Hewett Hall, 949 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
The next Vancouver Unitarian Book Sale is coming up April 12 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Hewett Hall.
As always, we will have a wide selection of books from all genres, together with some rare and antiquarian books. Please let all of your book-loving friends know about this event.
We need volunteers to help with the set-up on April 11 and with the sale on April 12. Please contact David at momus1@hotmail.com if you are able to help.

Celebrate May Day / Beltane and World Labyrinth Day
2026-05-02 10:00 - 15:30 | VanU, 949 W 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
The VanU Earth Spirit group invites you to celebrate May Day/Beltane with us.

We have several events planned and you are welcome to attend all or any of them.

10-12 noon: Labyrinth Workshop (Hewett Hall)
1-2pm: Walk as One at One: World Labyrinth Day (outdoors)
2-3:30pm – Earth Spirit Beltane ritual with Maypole Dancing

Registration appreciated: https://forms.gle/Tkw26Q1zBnnJ5pUu5

Questions: unitarianmary@gmail.com or earthspirit@vanu.ca

Listening Circle on the State of the World
2026-05-03 12:45 - 14:15 | Fireside Room, West 49th Avenue 949, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
Led by the Healthy Relations Team
We live in both beautiful and bewildering times, and many of us feel the need to come together to try to make sense of it all.
After this Sunday’s service, there will be a BBQ outside, so please join us after that at 12:45pm in the Fireside Room, when the Healthy Relations Team will facilitate a listening circle. We can be silent, or share the complex feelings we’re carrying about global conflicts, climate change, and the state of democracy in the world.
This will be an opportunity to be heard about how things are weighing on your heart.
For the mutually caring atmosphere we would like to hold in the room, we request you arrive by 12:45 pm, after which the doors will be closed.
If you are unable to join in person and feel you would benefit from joining a listening circle online, please let us know at healthyrelations [@] vanu.ca.

Vancouver Unitarians Extraordinary General Meeting 2026
2026-06-07 12:30 - 14:00 | Sanctuary, 949 W 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
The Vancouver Unitarians are holding an Extraordinary General Meeting on Sunday, June 7, at 12:30 pm in the Sanctuary and online (via Zoom).
To join the online meeting, participants must be members and must register for the event. We recommend registering in advance, please click this link to register.
In-person observers are welcome.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, we encourage you to appoint a proxy. If you wish to appoint a proxy voter for the EGM, please email derrick[at]vanu[dot]ca.
EGM Documents
These documents are available through the Member View portal.

Winn Peters - Celebration of Life
2026-06-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Sanctuary, 949 W 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2T1, Canada
A Celebration of the life for Winn Peters
Vancouver Unitarians
949 W 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2T1
This event is being livestreamed – please see below to watch the ceremony
Order of service
