David Bucura and Rachel Bugenimana joined the Vancouver Monthly Meeting on World Quaker Day (05-Oct-2025) to talk about their work with the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI). The African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) strengthens, supports, and promotes peace activities at the grassroots level in the Great Lakes region of Africa Continue Reading
Patrick Diaz
Draw the Line – Climate Mobilization Event
Vancouver Monthly Meeting has endorsed the 20-Sep-2025 climate mobilization event. Find more details in the poster below. Those considering attending may wish to contact Agnes Black, a Vancouver Friend who will be attending the event.
The Margaret Lorenz Trust
Margaret (Peggy) Lorenz was a devoted and longtime member of Vancouver Meeting who left a bequest in her will to support activities at Vancouver Meeting. See the poster below for details about the Margaret Lorenz Trust.
Linda Taffs – The Occupation Hurts the Occupier and the Occupied
On 11-Mar-2025 Vancouver Island Quaker Linda Taffs gave the following talk at the Vancouver Quakers meeting house. In November 2024, Linda Taffs participated in a witness pilgrimage to the occupied West Bank and southern Israel organized by the Canadian Friends of Sabeel, an ecumenical Palestinian liberation theology centre in Jerusalem. Continue Reading
Anna Stewart – Coast Salish art in the public sphere: the Welcome Post Gateways by Susan Post (Arranged by the VaMM Reconciliation Committee)
On 05-Jan-2025 the VaMM Reconciliation Committee arranged the following talk by committee member Anna Stewart who discussed her work on the Welcome Post Gateways in Stanley Park. In Anna’s words; “The commissioning of Point’s works for the Stanley Park site is a particularly important contribution to Indigenous public art in Continue Reading