Our resident churchmouse gets lonesome in the evenings. Come join us for our first monthly coffeehouse... Winter poems, stories and...
We are gathering again at the Churchmouse Bookshop for another After Hours coffeehouse! Those of you who were able to come to the...
It’s interesting how the Wheel of history turns, and how knowledge or attitudes that were foundational at one time in history becomes...
We need your help! Our tongue-in-cheek name for our by-donation bookshop is 'Churchmouse' - but we don't really have a good idea of...
* In my imagination, a hidden bookshop is about as exciting to happen upon as a pirate’s lair or unmapped island or lost,...
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow—Billy Collins, “Snow Day” Welcome to our first Churchmouse After Hours afterword. In...
[PLEASE NOTE! Our next Churchmouse After Hours Coffeehouse is Wed, April 26. 'Endings and Beginnings'. See info below.] Of course...
Join us for another neighbourhood After Hours Coffeehouse! ‘Endings & New Beginnings’ Change, transformation, death, birth: all...
You guessed it! Back to our regular schedule of the second Wednesday of the month, the Churchmouse is opening the doors After Hours for...
I didn’t hit me until I began choosing things to read for April’s Churchmouse After Hours, “Beginnings and Endings,” just how often...
Yes, it’s time for the Summer edition of the Churchmouse After Hours! “Churchmouse blinking in the Sun” We’re into those long days...
“In the country where I now live, there is no word for home.” That’s the first line of Isabel Huggan’s 2003 memoir Belonging: Home Away...
Because we can, or because we must, humans and creatures of the wild have forever embarked on journeys into the great unknown....
. . . a matter of sense—the thousand-eyed, thousand-eared alertness of a flock. The strategies are given names— I don’t know them....
Ghosts, memories, regrets, half-forgotten dreams—what haunts us through the long, dark nights? Some poets, storytellers and songwriters...
Last month at Churchmouse After Hours we plodded through deserts, rode ships, dug tunnels and escaped tyranny. We followed T.S....
Toronto poet Gwendolyn MacEwen died in 1987. She was exactly the age I am now: 45. Circumstances aside, no one can really say why...
Dear Churchmice, In the cultural weather forecast for this evening, watch for a storm or two at sea courtesy of Newfoundland bard...
Part of my own motivation, when we planned a “storm chasing” night for After Hours, was curiosity. Why do people chase storms? Why is...
Sound & Silence Drip, clunk, ping, ring, crunch, bang, rustle, hush, hum, roar. The soundtrack of our lives contains music,...
Time, help, empathy, a trinket, a fortune, a heartfelt offering—or one refused. We give, we receive, and the results are often...
I offer here an aural collage to introduce the upcoming edition of After Hours, the first of 2018: Sound & Silence. Time to...
The trick is finding your own pocket of silence within sound. This is what I was thinking when Stephanie Khoury and James Hamilton,...
St Mary’s are excited to announce that we have been granted matching funding from our Diocese of British Columbia Vision Fund, in order...
Chicano poet Alberto Ríos, who served as Arizona’s first poet laureate from 2013-2015, grew up in the U.S. near the Mexican border,...
Light & Dark Light & Dark affect us so profoundly that they stand in for just about any opposing archetypes you can think of:...
Four Evenings of Creativity in Community On Wednesday evenings this spring at St. Mary’s Centre for Community, come eat soup with us...
Animals, domestic & wild We’ll brave the wilderness, consider the zoo. We’ll wander the furred and feathered world seeking...
Rob Winger’s poem, “Liquid Light,” from his 2007 book Muybridge’s Horse, investigates the early photographers’ role as “necessary...
An Invitation to our Free After Hours Arts Cyber Open House For those who could not attend our Open House in May, we have started a...
Lost and Found Umbrellas. Keys. Hope. The way. Let’s master the art of losing, and court the luck offinding. Everyone is welcome as...
After Hours Arts Cyber Open House & Workshop, Part 2 For those who could not attend our first After Hours Arts workshop on May...
During our “Field Trip into Poetry” at our first Wednesday evening’s After Hours Arts session, we discussed the poem “Lull,” by Molly...
Cabaret Dig up your old French poets, your Satie, your jazzy favourites for a rollicking evening of music and words! This special...
Hello AHA'ers! The Stories in the Air workshop is a gem of a workshop. If you didn’t get a chance to work with Anne this session,...
Tales from the After Hours Cabaret We promised a cabaret in June for the last After Hours Coffeehouse of the season, and the...
Normally, these are chronicles from the Churchmouse After Hours Coffeehouse. I have woefully failed to share chronicles over the past...
The moon.Our mysterious, enduring companion in the sky.Tide-puller.Destination of our imaginations... Fifty years ago humans walked on...
A free spirited force both gentle breeze or chill autumn blast. But stretch it and we’re winded or winding down or long winded….! Our...
Two and half years ago, the community that brought us the Churchmouse Bookshop branched out. Thanks to the leadership and vision of...
Our topic this month is a complete Mystery! Seriously, our theme is Mystery. A mystery can be dramatic, tense, scary, and murderous....
Our theme this month is travel! What does travelling mean for you? Is it a state of mind, an adventure, or blissful relaxation? Wander...
Companionship. One definition is a bond built on shared experiences that is steadfast and trustworthy. Think of our connection with...
UPDATE March 16, 2020: In order to protect the public, all public events in Anglican churches are cancelled, and the facilities closed...
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