Community and Church Events

*church events* at the Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street Victoria BC
Sunday morning meditation, 10am
with Marcus
From Marcus:
I have sat Vippasana & Zen meditations. Done a lot of qi gong & sat with various spiritual teachers over the years. I now have modified it all into a western approach via brain wave research, atomic level biology & finding myself as various bodymind states that seem to be related to levels of memory. I keep reaching out to academia, other deep divers of inner inquiry & various perceptive others to try find common ground. It would be great if others came…. I will likely offer what I can to whoever comes….
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POETRY AND SONG CIRCLE, 2 sessions IN OCTOBER: Oct 22, 2025 online & Oct 29, 2025 in person at the church

 

NOTE: We are currently trying the experiment of alternating live sessions and Zoom sessions in the monthly Poetry and Song program,  as our attempt at a hybrid session last time did not work well. So, the session outlined below is wholly Zoom, while November’s session will be live. 

Please note, however, that Rob O’Neill and Michelle Rey Teng are offering live sessions   of poetry and song in the months where the regular program involves Zoom sessions. Please visit the Church at 7p.m. on October 29 (doors at 6:45pm) for their first live session or contact them for further information at cotoffice2017@gmail.com 

If you want to attend the online session, here is the information:

 

Wednesday,  October 22nd , 2025: “Gracias a la Vida” (“Thanks to Life”): Poetry and Song Circle, 7 p.m

October is the month when Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving. In England, thanksgiving was known as the Harvest Festival, and the churches would be decorated with sheaves of wheat, apples, branches with berries, and other fruits of the Fall season. As we pointed out last month, there is an inner harvest as well as an outer one, as we reckon the outcome of our own projects and life journey at this time of year. 

We might say that the next stage of this reckoning is gratitude for the gifts that have come to us. This gratitude does not necessarily assume that everything that is happening in our worlds, smaller and larger, is positive, or that all our feelings are positive. One of my touchstones in the area of praise songs and poems is the Chilean singer Violetta Parra’s “Gracias a la Vida” (“Thanks to Life”). The last verse of this very moving song is

Thank you to life, that has given me so much
It has given me laughter and it has given me crying
So I can distinguish blessings from brokenness
The two ingredients that make up my songs
And your songs, that are the same songs
As everyone’s songs.

Though there is crying as well as laughter in (nearly) all of us, we can still have gratitude for life’s many blessings, and express this gratitude in poems and songs of praise and appreciation. If this exploration of thanksgiving appeals to you, you are invited to bring a poem or song on this topic. But as always, you are welcome to bring a poem or song on another topic, or just to come and listen.

Facilitators: Hendrik de Pagter and Chris Bullock. Series coordinator: Chris Bullock

Copy editing: Hendrik de Pager.    Zoom link provide by: Kay Stewart

Zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2600329836?omn=83854140245

 

The Zoom link should be all you need, but, just in case: Meeting ID: 260 032 9836

Passcode: FDG37H

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Whole Church Autumn Cleanup! Sat Nov 1, 2025, 9am-2pm

Please come on out and help us shine! Potluck lunch and fellowship. Possibly a big pot of soup if someone is willing to bring one to share!

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**ongoing community event: held at the Church of Truth** 

MOVING JOURNEYS – Slow Flow Free Movement 

*founded by and for those with health issues and their allies*

Free flow movement sessions for womxn of all abilities. Chairs are available for those who prefer seated dance. You have freedom to move or not—as you wish.

New world music selections weekly. Music is slow flow with some rhythm. Examples:  Luke Howard | Jaja | Zal Sissokho | Deya Dova | Clemens Christian Poetzsch.

WHEN: *NEW TIME* select Fridays **11:25am – 1pm (11:25 arrival, opening begins at 11:30am)**

WHERE: Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street

COST: $15 per session. Maximum of 15 people.

(once rental is paid, fee overage accommodates womxn of all income levels to dance)

If interested, please email valerie@iD2.ca for more details and to stay up to date.

Enjoy the resonance!

 

 

 

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**ongoing community event: held at the Church of Truth** 
Community of Song
Community song leader, Rebekah Demirel will make you feel welcome to join a fun community of song in the wonderful acoustic space of The Church of Truth, Tuesdays at noon till 1:30. Drop in for $15 or see the above link for a special early bird price for all six sessions during September and October. We can’t wait to sing with you! 
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**community event: held at the Church of Truth** 
Moving in the Mystery of Dark Times
A movement inquiry, incorporating explorations of breath, sound and movement in the ways of Continuum
(www.continuumteachers.com), How Life Moves,(Kevin Frank & Caryn McHose) an elemental and evolutionary
approach to movement, including perceptual practices of awareness in class and everyday life, …for sensuous
support as we, linger in the darkness of not knowing … crossing thresholds of transformation in the body,
movement and life.
Here, we will embrace a species-inclusive awareness, including and incorporating movement gestures from earlier
times, nature’s infinite and exquisite gestures, remembering and reclaiming our timeless instinctual nature, …to
meet these dark days of winter …and the darkness of these times.
An opportunity for weekly connection, diving together in the deep-end of life, welcomed by frequencies of a future
calling us into becoming the human’s kind we are called to be. Where visceral joy and engagement with fierce and
fiery forces of creation can find us resting in love’s embrace.
All bodies welcome!

When: 5 Sessions – Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon November 20 – December 18, 2025
Where: Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria, BC
Parking on street and behind church.
Wear: Comfortable clothing you enjoy moving in.
Bring: Water bottle, journal, yoga mat and blanket, sitting cushions if desired.
Exchange: $150.00
Reach out if finances are a barrier.
Join?: etransfer to pennyallport@gmail.com and email me to confirm! I will send small
preparations in advance.

“Because none of our senses can perceive it. It is also called “light,” because the less we obstruct it, the more
radiant we are. The gateway to all understanding: In order to understand (stand under), we have to remain in the
darkness of not-knowing.” Tao Te Ching, by Stephen Mitchel
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**community event: held at the Church of Truth** 
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**community event: held at the Church of Truth** 
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**ongoing community events: held at the Church of Truth** 
Dance Classes with Victoria Latin Dance Association

 

·       Salsa Class (Costumes and Calaveras) – October 26
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1593495078274453

·       Salsa Class (Cowboys and Cadence) – November 30
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia and Adam

     Facebook Event Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2429789090739462

·       Salsa Class (Masquerade theme) – January 25
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia and Adam

     Facebook Event Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/9579972692050909

·       Salsa Class (Valentine´s theme) – February 22
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia and Adam

     Facebook Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/519493474435054

·       Salsa Class (St. Patrick´s theme) – March 29
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia and Adam

     Facebook Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/698746335894478

·       Salsa Class (Rhythm Carnival) – April 26
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia and Adam

     Facebook Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/706276048508586

·       Salsa Class (Inferno and Chill) – May 31
Time: 4:15 – 8:30 pm
Location: James Bay at 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2
Instructor: Alicia and Adam

     Facebook Event Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/741945531723867