Jazz keyboarding at its finest is what you can expect with Attila taking command of our Grande Piano once again.  With his impressive international credentials, this Spirited Jazz will excite and ignite the Sanctuary in applause and wanting more.  Attila Fias is an award-winning jazz pianist, composer, arranger and producer. His special blend of sounds from across the globe reflects his rich and varied musical background, as evidenced in over 100 internationally distributed CDs, including multiple gold and platinum-selling albums. Attila has toured the world – Europe, South Korea, Brazil, Africa, Japan, Australia, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and the US, playing everything from packed stadium concerts to small clubs.

As an added treat, Spirited Jazz has invited an up-and-coming young jazz singer, Stella White, to make a return appearance.

Stella performed a couple of numbers in November’s Spirited Jazz Service and was a real hit. She’s part of one of the jazz groups at Oak Bay High and is seriously considering applying to the Eastman School of Music to work with Sara Gazarek, a Grammy winner and member of the amazing vocal group Saje.

Visit Attila’s Website for full bio and recorded samples: https://www.attilafias.com.

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Angela and Ashley are locally, nationally and Internationally seasoned musicians with a wealth of jazz in their veins. Connecting with a rising star of the next generation, jazz bassist Bella Fedrigo,(living in Vancouver, hailing from Sidney) the trio is excited to celebrate the theme of women working in music, and to realize the mission to support the arts, artists and a diverse community.

Angela and Ashley are customizing a program on the theme including female composer/lyricist pieces. With the trio as core group they have invited additional special guests of different ages with each set celebrating that diversity and timelessness in the pursuit of music.

Your Spirit Guide, and Reverend of Jazz, Shana Lynngood, welcomes one and all with admission by donation. All donations go to the musicians and received with deep gratitude. We look forward to sharing this memorable evening with you.

Please join us on Sunday November 24th at 7:15 pm for Spirited Jazz in the Sanctuary, Unitarian Universalist Community of Victoria.

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Sunday October 27th 7:15pm

Spirited Jazz invites you to an exciting session with the David Santana Organ Quartet. Featuring the incomparable Ryan Oliver on Tenor Sax, Tony Genge with the big sounds of a B3 style Hammond Organ, Miles Fuller’s dynamic stylings on drums and jazz great David Santana on guitar. This ensemble will be playing the timeless music of John Coltrane. Come experience the joy of live music and support these incredible musicians.

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Reverend Melora Lynngood – As part of this month’s theme, we consider the ultimate vulnerability:  our own mortality. We are all going to die. What happens when we are forced to consider that possibility before we are ready? Whether through age or diagnosis, what happens when we are put in the position of needing care, or put in a position in which others perceive we need care? What spiritual challenges are a part of the landscape of this terrain? Children’s story by Director of Spiritual Exploration and Learning Faye Mogensen.

This sermon topic comes to you courtesy of Cameron Egyeda who won Rev. Melora’s ‘sermon on a topic of your choice’ in the auction last spring.

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Reverend Shana Lynngood – As we begin our exploration of this month’s theme of vulnerability, we look at the personal dimension. We often guard ourselves so well as to be hard to know. How can we be our authentic and genuine selves in a way that is safe and meaningful? What would it mean to allow ourselves to be vulnerable more often? Children’s story by Director of Spiritual Exploration and Learning Faye Mogensen.

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Rosemary Morrison – Our second Unitarian principle calls us to compassion, our last principle reminds us we are connected to all existence. Connection with ourselves, others and the environment will be explored through the use of story, song and metaphor.

In 1995 Rosemary Morrison was introduced to Unitarianism in Kamloops where she spent 10 years as their music director/pianist. She moved to Victoria 4 years ago to be with her children and attends Capital Unitarian Universalist Congregation. Rosemary has been attending Vancouver School of Theology part time and will be moving to Vancouver in September for full time studies. Rosemary is an aspirant with the UUA working on a Master of Divinity degree.

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Betty Krawczyk – “What are the mental and spiritual processes involved in making decisions that may call for great self-sacrifice? Sacrifices that may lead to one’s arrest, even imprisonment? Betty Krawczyk will speak and invite conversation on this subject in relation to peaceful civil disobedience surrounding environmental protests”.

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Reverend Shana Lynngood – On this Mother’s Day we will look at the nurturing influences in our lives. How can we at every age and stage of life be encouraged toward a fullness of self? What did some of the key teachers in Unitarian Universalist history have to say about how we grow and are educated spiritually?

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Reverend Shana Lynngood and Faye Mogensen – This intergenerational service takes its title from the closing line of Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese. How do we honor creation? How do we live in such a way that our connection to the Earth is life-giving?

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Reverend Melora Lynngood – We are Christians, Buddhists, Atheists, Spiritual Seekers, and more; this Easter Sunday, we take a look at the many concepts of ‘salvation’ and consider which if any, may have meaning for us. In this season of your life, in this moment in our earth’s history, what kind of salvation might you crave?

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RideShare: A Gift of Spirit – As we struggle with the multitude of challenges facing our planet today, we will do well to remember the tribal based “Gift” economy that sustained over 90% of our species history. As Victoria Unitarian members explore aspects of RideShare, Marion Pape will remind us that we can be grateful that this generosity of spirit from the ancient ‘Gift’ economy still exists amongst the First Victoria Unitarian congregation. “RideShare; a Gift of Spirit” will include testimonials from members of the congregation.

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Dr. Doug Seeley –  “This is my personal experience around the usefulness of rationality, logic and intellectualizing, and how they can distance us from the essential vitality of life. Their abstractions and indirectness can create barriers to self-understanding, to developing thriving relationships with others, and openness to being present. I will describe my journey facing such barriers and adventures while beginning to claim my true birthright.”

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