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We are a liberal gathering of people from many backgrounds who meet weekly on Sunday mornings. All are welcome. Our Sunday services are held at 10:00 a.m.

We meet at Norway House, 1110 Hillside Ave., September to end-of-June. We are a liberal gathering of people from many backgrounds who meet weekly on Sunday mornings to enrich our personal and spiritual journey with shared values of respect for humanity and the planet. As well as the opportunity to get away from the everyday and address larger issues in a tolerant and stimulating space, there is the joy of meeting and being part of a gathering of wise, experienced, varied, tolerant, kind, and committed people. The Unitarian and Universalist traditions for centuries have been ones of inclusiveness. We welcome people of any age, faith, sexual orientation, or race. every Sunday. Refreshments follow at 11:00 a.m. At 11:15 a.m. all are welcome to join our "forum" discussion of the topic of the day's service. Engage more deeply with the speaker and our community!

10/31/2026

Please join us on Sunday November 1st, 2026 at 10 AM.

Title: Mission Possible
Speaker: Capital Board
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BC

Join Chairperson Peter, Treasurer Joy along with Di, Mike and Sharon for one of Capital congregations’s favourite types of service, personal stories of members. And to begin the launch of the 2027 Pledge Campaign, congregants can support the five Board members who create a vision for our congregation from their faith in the values of uplifting service, inspiring music and a caring Unitarian community and acknowledge the many hours of volunteering. Let’s hear the board's vision of possibilities going forward.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee and tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic, with board members in attendance.

10/24/2026

Please join us on Sunday October 25th, 2026 at 10 AM.

Title: Victoria’s Most Common Owl – That You Have Probably Never Seen
Speaker: Ann Nightingale
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BC

During September and October there is an unnoticed flood of a small predator through Greater Victoria. The Northern Saw-whet Owl is arguably the cutest owl in our area, and more numerous than all the other owls found in the region. Find out about this secretive migrant from Ann Nightingale, a volunteer with Rocky Point Bird Observatory.

After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic.

10/10/2026

Please join us on Sunday October 11th, 2026 at 10 AM.

Title: Agents of Flourishing
Speaker: Rev. Debra Faulk (video sermon)
Music: Provided by the Meaning Making series
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BC

How do we practise agency today, in our personal circumstances and as groups in society? What systemic factors make our agency possible (or limit it)? How do we accept our own agency and afford others theirs? How might agency and acceptance contribute to flourishing?

Bio: Rev. Debra Faulk, Minister Emeritus, now lives in an intentional community on Vancouver Island, on the traditional lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. Debra continues to do consulting work and guest preaching. Other delights include gardening, cooking, and wondering.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic.

10/03/2026

Please join us on Sunday October 4, 2026 at 10 AM.

Title: Arts Service & Open Mic
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BC

Prose, poetry, music and song are contributed by the writers and musicians of members and visitors to Capital Congregation. Writing can be original work or your favorite poem, reading or quote. Visual artists have space to display their work and talk about it in the forum.

- Craft Activity: Please bring pencil crayons, markers, coloured pens and glue sticks for the surprise craft activity at the arts service.

- Open Mic: Please bring your poem, reading, favourite quote or song for the Open Mic this Sunday. Please make your offering no more than 3 minutes each.

- Art Show: Bring your original artwork or your favourite artwork to display. You may talk about it in the forum if you like.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum.

09/25/2026

Join us on Sunday Service, September 27 at 10:00 AM
Title: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Speaker: Kim Dawson
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BC

This three question song lyric sticks with me. What do you believe - really believe deeply – is your purpose in life? Why are you here on this planet at this specific time? I want to explore the idea that we all have something to contribute – by choice or by force. We have something to “do” during this lifetime. I want to question two contradictory assumptions inherent in this idea. One is the backward-looking scientific, objective belief in a reality we hold in common. Another is the forward-looking, subjective belief in an uncertain, creative, and ever more complex, equally real sci-fi future. How do we manage this paradoxical journey through time? Bottom-line: Be they short or long, these lives will pass. As individuals who reckon with what our species has done, what are we? What is left of ourselves and what is right with us when these temporary bodies go?

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic. Kim will be in attendance.

We are inviting all to join us!

09/19/2026

Join us on Sunday Service, September 20 at 10:00 AM

Title: Cultivating Settler Support for Resurgence
Speaker: Kikila Perrin
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave

Climate change is impacting us all. This reality, and the reality that indigenous people are more acutely impacted by the impacts of climate change are drawing settler environmentalists into more frequent contact and relationships with indigenous land defenders, ecosystem stewards, and communities. Unfortunately, we settlers don’t always “get it right” when we show up, and sometimes we cause harm without intending to. How can the land guide our relationships while offering us an opportunity to show up in ways that are safe(r) for the indigenous people inviting us to support their projects?

Bio: Kikila Perrin (they/he) is a settler of mostly Germanic (Bavarian, English, French, Norse) and Celtic (French, British) lineage, and was born on the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation (Ottawa) before spending most of their life in Tiohtia:ke in unceded Kanein’keha:ka territory (Montreal). They are grateful and indebted to their ləkwəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ hosts for their invitations, their calls to action, and their requests for settlers to re-evaluate the nature of our being on stolen land, which was also the topic of their doctoral research. Kikila’s work explores Indigenous-settler relationships, the nature of worldview (how we understand the universe) and the nature of the knowledge and our relationship with the land.

We are inviting all to join us!

09/12/2026

Join us on Sunday Service, September 13 at 10:00 AM

Title: You Are Welcome Here
Speaker: Peter Scales
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave

Unitarian-Universalism is a “big tent” in that we welcome people of diverse beliefs about religion, belief, spirituality, the gods (if any), and also people with no fixed belief in anything metaphysical. At Capital UU Congregation you are welcome if you are single, married, divorced, or in a situationship. You are welcome here on Sunday mornings and in our many other gatherings if you are already a UU, if you are church-shopping, if you are unchurched and unsure, or if the online Belief-omatic quiz told you that you likely align with UU thought. You are welcome in our community!

Bio: Peter is a historian, lay chaplain (officiant), multi-uncle, and the Chairperson of the board of CUUC.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic. Peter will be in attendance.

This is our first Sunday service after Summer Break, and we are inviting all to join us!

06/20/2026

Join us on Sunday Service, June 21 at 10:00 AM

Title: Father’s Day Service
Speaker: Sarah Weaver, John Pullyblank, Kim Dawson
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave

Sarah Weaver, John Pullyblank, and Kim Dawson speak about being a father or the father figures in their lives. Services in which congregants share personal stories, especially on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, are among the favourites at Capital. This diverse congregation open-heartedly shares personal experiences in a safe space with a supportive membership.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic. Sarah, John, and Kim will be in attendance.

Everyone is welcome.

06/13/2026

Join us on Sunday Service, June 14th at 10:00 AM
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave
Title: Saving the Hidden Ravine
Speaker: Steve Morgan

When I first slid down the bank into the ravine and looked around, I was astonished that something so beautiful, so exotic, was hidden just a few hundred metres from my backyard. I knew the land was slated for development, and I remember saying to myself, “This place is going to break my heart.” Fifteen years later, we are still fighting to protect this landform. In the process, we are learning a great deal about the power of maps, the potential of activism, and the power and limits of local government. Join me as I tell the story of the Hidden Ravine.

Bio: Steve Morgan is a biologist, map maker, and community activist. He founded Cumberland Wetlands a decade ago to gather baseline data and advocate for the protection of wetlands and other important landforms from the effects of development in Cumberland, BC.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic. Steve will be present.

Everyone is welcome.

06/06/2026

Join us on Sunday Service, June 7th at 10:00 AM
Location: Friendship Hall, 1110 Hillside Ave.
Title: Sewatié:ron Enhsatkáhtoh Ohjistoh-kwaténion (Sometimes you will see Falling Stars)
Speaker: Ashley Ohtsijah Hall

An artist talk with accompanying visuals of her practice, shaped and informed by her cultural dichotomy, history, family stories, memories, blood memory, teachings, language, matriarchy, and motherhood. She hopes to inspire the audience to reflect on their own identity and the ways and people who have influenced them. Ashley will be showing her work in the Friendship Hall during this service.

Forum: After the service, there will be a coffee/tea break, followed by a forum at 11:15 AM to discuss the topic. Ashley will be present.

Everyone is welcome.

Address

1110 Hillside Avenue
Victoria, BC
V8T2A7

Opening Hours

10am - 12:15pm

Website

http://www.unitariancongregation.org/capital/

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