Events help us build community.
Our Annual General Meeting is always a wonderful and important event. We appreciate your attendance in order to have a quorum for decisions and elections, and to help us generate as many great ideas for the coming year as possible!
Our Crafts team will have a few favourites for sale and in addition, our AGM always features a raffle. Several hand-crafted items will be up for grabs for purchasers of raffle tickets on the spot ($2 per ticket, 3 for $5).
We continue to have a table encouraging free pickup of no-longer-needed exercise clothing or gear. If you have something to donate to this table, remember to bring it along.
Marilyn will be managing a table of cycling accessories that will be available for donation. Money collected will go to the SLF.
Thanks to Marg there will be a $2 table selling books and receiving good book donations. Also, something new this year, Marg will have FREE DVD's and CD's. There are many early DVD's and CD's made by the SLF of the Grandmother events over the past 20 years. Come and have a look at all we have to offer...all in support of VG4A!
Bring your own refreshments! Bring a pen. Don't forget to Bring CASH for the raffle tickets the cycling accessories and the book table.
Here is the VG4A Structures and Policies 2026 Revised Edition. Please read through this new edition and be prepared to vote on it at the AGM. Final Draft Jan 21 2026 Revisions Structure and Policies.pdf
Click here for the: Agenda for AGM on February 7, 2026
Join our VG4A team(s) for this fun online trivia event hosted by the Vancouver Gogos. Invite your trivia-wise friends or relations to join in as well, even if they live somewhere different. Or make a family-and-friends team of your own! Each player plays from the comfort of their own home. Team members get put into a Zoom breakout room together to discuss the questions.
Trivia with VanGogos
Saturday, Feb 21 at 2 PM PST on Zoom
$15 per person
Proceeds to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign
The event will run approximately 1.5 hours. No prizes, just Bragging Rights.
Last day to sign up: Feb. 19
Event Format
How to Join
Reply YES to this invitation.
How to Pay
Mary Lou Hess who is a member of the Westwind Singers invites you to their debut concert.
Step back in time as unaccompanied voices surround you with mesmerizing Spanish sacred music, mischievous Italian madrigals, and an ethereal Byzantine chant performed by emerging artist Celeste Lingas. Whether you’re an early music lover or you’re new to the old, you’ll leave enchanted.
February 21, 2PM at the United Commons (formerly the First Met) $20-30 (pay what you choose), cash only, tickets at the door
Feel free to share this invitation with others who may be interested. Thank you.
Would you like to get fitter and stronger before spring starts in earnest? We have 16 recorded 1-hour exercise sessions (functional strength training) from a GREAT online fitness teacher, Sue Q, to share with interested members (and friends and family members, male or female) via Zoom for a 5-week period starting the week of March 9th. There will be 5 Zoom meetings scheduled each week, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 am Wednesday 9:30 am, Saturdays 4 pm, Sundays 8 am. You can choose to participate once, twice or up to 5x per week! Each time we will gather "live" from our homes and all follow the same recording.
Here is a quick sample from one of our older online workouts. We hesitate to share samples because one of the beauties of these workouts is that Sue is so good at varying things that there are few repetitions ever. She is also very conscientious about doing a full body workout, and gives good suggestions for how to accommodate sore or injured knees, hips and shoulders.
Warmup moment: youtu.be/warmup
Workout moment: youtu.be/strength
Stretching moment: youtu.be/stretching
I started Sue’s Zoom classes 2 years ago and am really enjoying them. She is an excellent teacher, giving us lots of variety and ensuring we are using good technique. I like that the classes are geared to more mature bodies but certainly do give us a good workout. And it is great to be able to do the classes at home.(Bonnie)
Sue is a wonderful fitness leader, always varying her zoom classes and challenging our capabilities. She encourages us and keeps safety in mind, giving us options to do the exercises safely. Sue rose to the occasion when the pandemic hit, and created her zoom classes with enthusiasm and energy, one very good result of the pandemic! (Jocelyn)
I have been doing Sue’s workouts for about 7 years. What I especially like is how varied each class is and how closely Sue monitors and corrects us. The sessions always include strength, flexibility and balance training. (Kay)
As I get older there are new features of my body that show me that I need a regular fitness program. I joined Sue’s classes to add strength to my bones which trend towards osteoporosis. She covers most muscle groups of the body in each class and is so enthusiastic, I wouldn’t think of leaving her training. She also provides great advice for recovering from injuries and surgeries. (Peggy F)
I always feel SO good afterwards, and I am definitely getting stronger. (Laurie).
For equipment you will need a mat, some hand weights (could use canned food), a stretchy band (could use tights or stretchy pants) and a large exercise ball (Laurie's is very old and small and half deflated but it seems to work perfectly). If you don't have a ball, borrow one. It's a great piece of workout equipment - good for balance. I'm sure we all have many acquaintances who have an exercise ball in a cupboard somewhere. Sue occasionally uses a small ball as well (about 20 cm in diameter) but it is pretty easy to replace it with a cushion.
This event is open to the public - to anyone anywhere who can live with the PST times - so if you know someone else who might be interested feel free to share the link to this event with them, or include them with your YES as a guest.
HIV In My Day Pheonix Theatre Play –
Verbatim Theatre from the stories of those who went through the early days of HIV and AIDS.
It is playing from March 12-21. Reply YES to this invitation only if you would like to join a group of VG4A members attending the March 21st matinee performance. Feel free to buy your own ticket for another date!
Ticket prices are $18-$34 (Cheaper on Tuesdays)
Author - Rick Waines
In My Day is a verbatim work of contemporary drama that exists at the cross section of disability and memorial arts. Centred around HIV’s impact on Vancouver and Victoria, it is a story of a pandemic response with extraordinary victories and heartbreaking failures.
This work is inspired by a community-based oral history research project from 2017, titled HIV In My Day. It was initiated by researchers at the University of Victoria interviewing long-term survivors and caregivers who lived through the first 15 years of the HIV pandemic in British Columbia. The collected stories and reflections honour the voices of men, women, people of colour, Indigenous folks, trans, people who use[d] injection drugs, and others, alongside those of cisgender and gay men.
After show “talk backs” allow you to question actors, the author and research participants.
https://finearts.uvic.ca/theatre/mainstage/2025-2026-mainstage-season/in-my-day/
