Greater Victoria Social Gathering Place

12/08/2025

✨ Last Monthly Movie Night of 2025✨

Join us tonight at the EMP Theatre for our final screening of the year - and we’re going out with a classic 🎬🎄

🎶 The Moodswing Orchestra kicks off the evening with live music, followed by a cozy community screening of Home Alone, 6-9pm.

Free entry, snacks, and a welcoming space to unwind and connect!

Let’s wrap up the year together with laughter, nostalgia, and community.

See you tonight 🧡

12/02/2025

This Giving Tuesday, let’s spread warmth one cup at a time 🧡

At The Social Gathering Place, recovery doesn’t happen in silence - it happens in community. It happens through small moments of connection, the kind that remind someone they’re not alone.

Sometimes, that moment starts with something as simple as a warm cup of coffee ☕️

For $5, you can buy a Cup of Kindness - a coffee for someone in mental health recovery right here in Greater Victoria. It’s not “just a coffee.” It’s belonging. It’s a reason to show up. It’s someone feeling seen, supported, and welcomed exactly as they are.

This Giving Tuesday, we’re launching a kindness challenge:

1️⃣ Buy a $5 Cup of Kindness → https://socialgatheringplace.ca/cups-of-kindness
2️⃣ Tag a friend and invite them to buy one too
3️⃣ Help us fill our community with connection, care, and hope

You never know who needs kindness today - and these $5 acts add up to hundreds of warm, meaningful moments at our drop-ins.

Let’s show Greater Victoria what happens when we choose community on purpose.

Buy your cup today and tag your kindness crew below. Let’s keep it going!!

12/01/2025

❄️ Our Annual Winter Art Market & Social is BACK! ❄️

Sunday, December 14th · 3–5pm
Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone Ave

Join us for an afternoon of arts, crafts, live music, snacks, and community warmth as we celebrate creativity and recovery together. 🧡

Discover beautiful handmade pieces created by artists in the recovery community, connect with friends old and new, and soak in the cozy winter vibes.

This event is free, welcoming, and open to everyone - come by, support local artists, and be part of a space where connection truly matters.

✨ Save the date & bring a friend!

11/26/2025

🎨 ARTISTS IN RECOVERY — LAST CALL!

We only have a few vendor tables left for our annual Winter Art Market & Social, and we’d love to feature your work ✨

If you’re an artist, maker, or crafter in the recovery community, this is your chance to:
✨ Share your art
✨ Connect with others in recovery
✨ Enjoy live music
✨ Meet new friends
✨ Be part of a supportive, uplifting community

We’re offering full and half tables at no cost, and refreshments + snacks will be provided.

📅 Sunday, December 14th
📍 Fernwood Community Centre
⏰ 3–5pm

Want one of the remaining tables?
👉 Send us a message or email hello@socialgatheringplace.ca ASAP to secure your spot!

Let’s celebrate creativity, connection, and recovery together 🧡

11/17/2025

✨ OPEN HOUSE THIS WEDNESDAY! ✨

We’re so excited to welcome you into our new Wednesday night home at Serious Coffee Esquimalt!

📅 Wednesday, Nov 19th
🕔 5–7pm
📍 1153 Esquimalt Rd (Country Grocer plaza)

Join us for an evening of community connection 🧡

Arts & crafts
Live music
Meet our team
Free coffee + snacks
Learn more about who we are and what we do

Whether you’re a community member, peer, service provider, family member, or just curious about SGP, you’re invited.

Come say hi, explore the space, and feel the SGP warmth in action. 🙏

See you Wednesday!

11/10/2025

🎬 Monthly Movie Monday Tonight!

Join us at the EMP Theatre from 6–9pm for an evening of music, film, and community connection. 🧡

We’ll kick things off with a live performance by Ukulelians, followed by tonight’s feature film: The Terminal - a heartwarming tale about patience, resilience, and finding belonging in unexpected places.

Free entry, snacks, and refreshments provided — just bring yourself and enjoy the show!

✨ Everyone is welcome in this inclusive, community-driven space.

10/30/2025

☕ Cups of Kindness is here - This fall, we’re spreading warmth one cup at a time!

A $5 donation buys a coffee for someone in recovery - a small act that helps create big moments of connection and care at Social Gathering Place 🧡

👉 Donate your cup today and help us serve community, conversation, and compassion all season long: https://socialgatheringplace.ca/cups-of-kindness

10/30/2025

Join our friends FOM Music Society TONIGHT for a fun and spooktacular Halloween event 👻🎃

Do the Transylvania twist with us on the eve before Halloween! Minds at work will be bringing the party-vibes, with their boo-giest R&B grooves. Wear your fave costume to this monster-mashup of fun. Bring a friend, fill up on treats and enjoy the good tunes! This event is FREE and there's plenty of room, so bring your friends! (Doors Open at 5:30)

Find us in the Eric Martin Pavilon - please use the Fort St. Entrance (glass sliding doors).

About FOM Music Society:
We are a registered charitable organization that offers music programs in support of mental health. Our programs are accessed through self-referral. Regular Programs run from Sept-June, and most are continuous entry. We offer a huge range of group music lessons, performance groups, community concerts, and special events.

Come make music with us!
To become a member or get more info, please visit our website: www.friendsofmusic.ca

☆~ We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia ~☆

10/23/2025

After two years of community connection, laughter, and growth, we’ve officially launched our second drop-in social cafe for recovery - Imagine After Hours ☕🧡

Today’s soft launch was everything we hoped for, beautiful, gentle, joyful, and filled with the kind of conversations that remind us why we do this.

Recovery thrives in spaces like these: where creativity flows, coffee’s warm, and no one has to show up as anything but themselves!

Huge gratitude to our incredible peer support team for holding space with such heart, and to our amazing funders for believing in the power of connection and helping make this second café day possible. And of course, thank you to the wonderful staff at Serious Coffee Esquimalt.

Join us every other Wednesday from 5–7 pm for arts, games, snacks, coffee, and community - a place to connect, create, and recharge together.

Check our website calendar for full dates and details.

Here’s to recovery, together 🙏✨

10/22/2025

Today’s the day! 🎉

We’re so excited to soft launch Imagine After Hours - our brand-new evening drop-in café, happening every other Wednesday at Serious Coffee Esquimalt (1153 Esquimalt Rd, in the Country Grocer plaza).

Pop by 5–7pm after work or school for the same cozy vibes as our Friday drop-ins - snacks, coffee & tea, art supplies, and good conversation in a welcoming, peer-led space 🧡

10/20/2025

🎬 Movie Monday is TONIGHT and it’s perfectly spooky for October! 👻

Join us at EMP Theatre (6–9pm) for Tim Burton’s Co**se Bride.

We’ll kick things off with a live pre-movie performance by , The Haywires 🎶

Snacks, connection, and cozy vibes all included. Entrance is completely FREE - come hang out with your recovery community and enjoy a night of music, laughter, and film magic!

10/14/2025

We want to hear from you!

As we prepare to launch a second Social Gathering Place café day, we’d love your feedback. Whether you’re a community member, peer, service provider, or family member, your input helps us choose the best time, vibe, and activities to make sure our space continues to meet the needs of our recovery community.

The survey takes less than a minute to complete - and your voice truly helps shape what comes next.

👉 Take the quick survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc72xHAUu4rb6qQ5adCNlhVWY7SlYe6pYgkzYtGmvIG0ax24w/viewform

Thank you for being part of this growing community where connection, creativity, and compassion thrive.

The SGP Team ☕✨