Our resident churchmouse gets lonesome in the evenings. Come join us for our first monthly coffeehouse... Winter poems, stories and...
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...
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...
* In my imagination, a hidden bookshop is about as exciting to happen upon as a pirate’s lair or unmapped island or lost,...
St Mary’s Churchmouse Books and the Canadian College of Performing Arts invites you to our giant Spring Book & Crafts Fest. Here...
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...
The Churchmouse Bookshop, the by-donation bookshop in St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Oak Bay, will hold its third Summer Splash Book...
The Oak Bay News has published a great article covering the upcoming Summer Splash Book Festival here at St Mary's on July 15, 9 am - 3...
Come “Fall” into an adventure with us on September 9 for our second annual giant book sale! Of course you'll find the usual wide...
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...
It’s that time! Many thousands of quality pre-owned books available in exchange for a donation to local charities. And don’t miss the...
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,...
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,...
It’s time to “Spring” into action for our third annual Giant Spring Book Sale! You’ll find the usual wide collection of pre-owned...
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,...
Rob Winger’s poem, “Liquid Light,” from his 2007 book Muybridge’s Horse, investigates the early photographers’ role as “necessary...
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...
It’s Summer, and so it’s time to stock up on books for the beach and the lake—and help do some good along the way—at the Churchmouse...
Cabaret Dig up your old French poets, your Satie, your jazzy favourites for a rollicking evening of music and words! This special...
Tales from the After Hours Cabaret We promised a cabaret in June for the last After Hours Coffeehouse of the season, and the...
Saturday’s giant Autumn Book Sale was a great success, thanks to the generous donations of so many visitors and the efforts of...
Normally, these are chronicles from the Churchmouse After Hours Coffeehouse. I have woefully failed to share chronicles over the past...
It’s that time of the year! Come join Churchmouse Books and a cast of thousands of quality pre-owned books, available in exchange for...
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...
Once again it’s time to “Spring” into action for our fourth annual Giant Spring Book Sale! As always you’ll find the usual wide...
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