Join us on Sunday, September 27 at 2 p.m. in Rooms 1 & 2 on the Main Floor for a conversation with D. Grant Campbell, author of Surviving Dementia Care: The Realities of Caregiving. Admission is free, books will be available for purchase, and donations in support of the Interfaith Lunch Program at Beach United are warmly welcomed.
Jazz & Reflection: Laurel Tubman — October 10
Join us for an afternoon of Jazz & Reflection featuring one of Toronto’s most versatile and up-and-coming voices, Laurel Tubman.
Known for her ability to cross genres — from soulful jazz and reggae to the Great American Songbook — Laurel brings warmth, energy and an expressive voice that makes every song unmistakably her own. She’ll be joined by Jacob Damelin on piano and Jesse Visser on bass.
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · 4:30 p.m.
Beach United Church · 140 Wineva Avenue · Main Hall
Free Admission · Donations Welcome
Come enjoy great live music and the welcoming community of Jazz & Reflection at Beach United.
Stories That Refuse To Be Silenced — October 14
Stories That Refuse to Be Silenced
Join us for a compelling evening with two acclaimed Canadian women writers — Kim Echlin and Justine Abigail Yu — exploring storytelling, identity, belonging and whose voices get heard.
Giller Prize finalist and internationally acclaimed author Kim Echlin will read from her new book, Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil. She’ll be joined by award-winning writer, storyteller and Living Hyphen founder Justine Abigail Yu, whose work amplifies the experiences of hyphenated Canadians.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 7:30 pm
Beach United Church · 140 Wineva Avenue, Toronto
Tickets: $20 · Coffee & dessert included
All proceeds support Beach United’s Interfaith Lunch Program — the only weekly lunch program in the Beach operating 51 weeks a year.
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Come for the stories. Stay for the conversation. Help support community in the Beach.
Strings & Pipes: A Christmas Jazz Concert for Organ and Guitar
Beach United Church welcomes father-son duo Christopher & Simon Dawes on Saturday, December 20th at 4:30pm as they usher in the season with a dynamic program featuring jazz duets on the guitar and organ based on well-known Holiday favourites.
All proceeds help support Beach United’s music and community programs. As always, our concerts are pay-what-you-can, with a suggested minimum of $15.
CHRISTOPHER DAWES is a Toronto-based freelance performer, conductor, media professional, and consultant who performs throughout Southern Ontario and beyond with many of Canada’s finest musical institutions. Chris currently serves as Director of Music to Rosedale Presbyterian Church in Toronto, as Collaborative Accompanist and Coach to the orchestral and choral conducting programs of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and as a Director of Canada’s Summer Institute of Church Music. Chris’ graduate work in the area of Music Criticism and musical genre has led to occasional blogging and podcasting under the banner Ideas About Music, speaking at conferences, and eventually founding the Celtic-crossover band Chroí in 2013. He is at best a hobbyist jazz player, albeit with interest renewed by recent developments in his son Simon’s musical career.
SIMON DAWES, middle son to Chris and Marcia, is a talented multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter, and first-year jazz guitar student at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, where he studies with Harley Card. His musical interests have ranged from folk and classical to hardcore, but he can now mainly be found drumming for the Kitchener-based indie band Amanda Braam and the Paper Cranes, and tearing up the Toronto youth jazz scene at jams and other venues in Toronto, Guelph and Kitchener/Waterloo.