Brentwood Presbyterian Church has been offering live jazz music for years, but the pandemic had forced them online until this week. They will offer live weekly Wednesday night Devotional Jazz and Jazz Evensong events, along with their annual Christmas Jazz…
Jazz Evensong is a continuing Wednesday evening worship event at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, a small but creative North Burnaby congregation. The Brentwood experience is shared with a few other congregations in the Vancouver area – most notably St. Andrew’s-Wesley United…
A unique Good Friday art exhibit at St. Catherine’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver will feature the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. The 15 prints covering The Stations of the Cross, were originally created in 1992…
Union Gospel Mission is again offering Transforming Communities Grants – “leveraging local congregations to better serve their neighbourhoods.” Leslie Rosenau-Lai, Church Relations Advisor at UGM, wrote: Congregations are acutely aware of needs in their community. As they seek to answer…
At one time, it might have seemed odd to head along to church to hear some jazz music. Surely it was more suited to smoky night clubs? Non-smoky now, of course, but still not churches. Times have changed, though, at…
Usually I look forward a week or two in this Around Town column, pointing out some interesting events coming down the pike. This time I’ll start with one that won’t take place for another year – but it’s three days…
Jazz is all around us this month. Marion Van Driel writes about the jazz vespers phenomenon. After her article, I point to several free concerts at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and to the not-to-be-missed Laila Biali…
In the world of movies, all the attention, superhero-wise, will be going to Black Panther this week, but Samson will be coming to several local theatres this Friday (February 16). The Old Testament strong man is featured in a movie…
NOTE: I will be taking August off; next weekly update September 2. Carolyn Arends announced recently that she will soon take on a new role. This fall she will begin as director of education with Renovaré – the organization Richard Foster…