BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260306T181738Z UID:867-688900@bc.anglican.ca DTSTART:20260213T030000Z DTEND:20260213T040000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260204T095228 DESCRIPTION:As part of the University of Victoria's The City Talks lecture series\, Anglican priest and author Maggie Helwig (Encampment: Resistance \, Grace\, and an Unhoused Community) will be in conversation with Gregor Craigie\, host of CBC's On the Island and author of Our Crumbling Foundati on: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis. \nThis event is being held at U nited Commons (932 Balmoral Road) on Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 at 7 PM . The event is free and open to the public. \nAbout Encampment \nThe hou sing crisis has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022\, s ome of them pitched tents\, formed an encampment\, and settled into the ya rd beside the Toronto Anglican church where Maggie Helwig is the priest. S he has spent the last three years getting to know the residents and fighti ng to allow them to stay. Her book confronts our society's callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands\, by bringing their stories to the fore\, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace.\nAbout Mag gie Helwig\n\nMaggie Helw ig. Credit: Sandro Pehar\nMaggie Helwig (she/they) is a white settler in T karonto/Toronto\, and is the author of fifteen books and chapbooks. Helwig is a long-time social justice activist\, and also an Anglican priest\, an d has been the rector of the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields since 201 2. LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T095228 LOCATION:Victoria SUMMARY:The City Talks URL;VALUE=URI:https://bc.anglican.ca/events/the-city-talks/2026-02-12 ATTACH;FILENAME=The City Talks.png;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0. cloudfront.net/2026/02/06/18/19/41/86ce4265-7479-4288-ae62-9bbd54dd90e0/Th e%20City%20Talks.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR