The forum is a proud tradition in the life of Vancouver Unitarians In October 1926, members organized a free forum that held meetings on Sunday afternoons, usually twice a month. This was the first forum in the city that placed no restrictions on speakers, representing Unitarian values in action. Then, as now, participants discussed a wide variety of subjects, and speakers included prominent persons in the community.

Forums are usually presented in the following format:

• 1st Sunday: Environment Team
• 2nd Sunday: Social Justice Committee
• 3rd Sunday: Board of Trustees
• 4th Sunday: tba

Forums take place in the Fireside Room, Hewett Centre, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Forum coordinator: Lilia Prescod

Forums take a break for July – August usually, resuming in September.

Upcoming Forums

Sun, Nov 17, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Building Cities in Times of Climate Change and Social Divisiveness Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 24, 2019 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Meet & Greet and Book Signing Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 1, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Zero Waste Team Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 15, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 22, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 29, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Fire communion sharing Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 5, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - presented by Environment Team Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 19, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 19, 2020 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Forum - What do we call ourselves Part 2 Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 26, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 2, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - presented by Environment Team Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 16, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 23, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 15, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 22, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 29, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	5th Sunday Forum - available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 19, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 26, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 17, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 24, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 31, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	5th Sunday Forum - available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 21, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board and Task Force Forums Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 28, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	4th Sunday Forum - Available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Aug 30, 2020 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	5th Sunday Forum - available Fireside Room, Vancouver BC

Past Forums

These will give you an idea of the range and quality of the speakers and topics at our forums.

Sun, Nov 10, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Good Will Toward Men -- David Buchanan Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 3, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Creative Conversations or Toxic Debates? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 27, 2019 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	UCV Financial Sustainability Task Force-Update UCV Sanctuary, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 27, 2019 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Forum: UCV Financial Sustainability Sanctuary, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 20, 2019 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Forum: What do we call ourselves Task Force Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 13, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Social Justice Forum: Solidarity with UNITE HERE! Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 6, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Transition Towns Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sat, Oct 5, 2019 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	All Candidates Meeting Sanctuary, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 22, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Zero Waste Team - Back at it! Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 15, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Redevelopment Task Force Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 8, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	What happened to the Peace Movement? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jul 7, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Approval - What's Next? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 9, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Genders and Sexualities Alliance Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 2, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Public Transit & Housing -- A Virtuous Relationship? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 26, 2019 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Site Redevelopment Circle of Concern Workshop Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 12, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Vancouver’s Rental Housing Crisis - Is the Rental 100 Policy the Answer? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 5, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Protection of Ancient Forests Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 28, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Passing Through - Mountain Paintings and Poems Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 14, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	UCV Board Forum on Interim Ministry Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 7, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Protect the Orca: Protect the Strait Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 24, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Living With (and Without) Plastic Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 10, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: On Settler Colonization and Its Effects Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 3, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Making Climate-Friendly Behaviours Easy and Convenient Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 24, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Arts and the Filter of Mental Illness Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 17, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Discuss six CUC 2019 Resolutions Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Democracy in Canada and the Need to Protect It Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Joanna Macy’s ’The Work That Re-Connects’ Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 27, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Theatre Games and Improvisation with Diane Brown Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 20, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Redevelopment Design Process with Erika Gerson Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 13, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Meet the Social Justice Committee Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 6, 2019 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Simple Strategies For Taking On Global Warming By Eating Less Meat Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 9, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Write for Rights - International Human Rights Day Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 25, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Genders and Sexualities Alliance Forum Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 4, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Meet the Environment Team! Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 21, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	The UCV Board presents: Filling the gaps for Phase 2 of the redevelopment research. Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 14, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Why White Poppies on November 11? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 7, 2018 12:35 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Meet the UCV Kinder Morgan Arrestees Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 23, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Arts and Culture -- Kids Takeover Update and Input Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 16, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	UCV Board Forum Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 9, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	BC Referendum on Proportional Representation Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jul 22, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Testaments from Kiev Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 24, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Kids Takeover UCV - Bring Your Hopes and Fears Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 17, 2018 12:30 pm - 2:10 pm	General Meeting Main Hall, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 10, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Students Support Marpole Modular Housing for the Homeless Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 20, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - How to Stop Kinder Morgan Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 13, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Social Justice Forum- Seth Klein: BC Budget Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 6, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Environmental Assessment with John Boyle Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 29, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Mostly Listening - Principle Groups Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 22, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Space for Feminism - Vancouver Women's Library Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 1, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Films on Wild Salmon and Fish Farms Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 25, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Art with Kids and Kid-Art with Adults Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 18, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Canadian Unitarian Council Annual Meeting and Conference Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Mar 4, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Environment - Electric Cars Now Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 25, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Storytelling: Take Me With You Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Feb 18, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Board of Trustees Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 28, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Ice-Age Cave Art in Poetry and Mixed-Media Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 21, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Connect and Engage at UCV Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 14, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Renewable Energy in BC Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 7, 2018 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	From Haiku to Senryū, from Zen to Politics Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 31, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Happy New Year Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 24, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Fireside Chat with Christmas Cheer Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 17, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum Video Participant Crowd Sourcing Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 26, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Memory Sync Animated Film - Travis Johnson Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 19, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Leave a Legacy Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 12, 2017 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Annual General Meeting Main Hall, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 29, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Participatory Worship Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 15, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Constitution and Bylaws of UCV Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 8, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Circle Dancing: Heartfelt Thanks and Gratitude Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 1, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Indigenous Legal Challenges Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 24, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Does Theatre Contribute to Social Justice and Meaningful Change in Community? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 17, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Tea with the DRE Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 10, 2017 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Forum - Medical Assistance In Dying Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Sep 3, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum - Where Quakers Lead, Unitarians Follow Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 11, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Forum: Poetry for Night Vision Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jun 4, 2017 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Where Are We In Renewable Energy Development In BC? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 28, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Does Theatre Contribute to Social Justice and Meaningful Change in Community? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 21, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Covenant Group Invitation Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, May 14, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Guaranteed Basic Income: An idea worth pursuing or buyer beware? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 30, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Sacred Circle Dance Taster Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 16, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Children, Nature and Dance - Anne Catherine McConnell Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 9, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Site C Dam - Mike Church Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Apr 2, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Connection with Mother Earth - Aline LaFlamme Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Jan 15, 2017 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Re-living Our Lives Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Dec 11, 2016 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Write for Rights - Amnesty International Identified Cases Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 27, 2016 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	How Can We Farm Sustainably? Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Nov 6, 2016 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Why (and How to) Stop Kinder Morgan Fireside Room, Vancouver BC
Sun, Oct 23, 2016 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Food Security in Vancouver Fireside Room, Vancouver BC