News and Events

Film Festival Feast 2024
Film Festival Feast 2024

Film Festival Feast 2024

Saturday Feb 3rd at 6pm – Upper Native Sons’ Hall

Join us for a delicious local feast.  Chef Bobby Herron will prepare a meal of comfort food made with an abundance of local ingredients. Starters include Hornby Island Pate, Chutney and Cobbs Bread.  Enjoy a Garden Salad with Citrus Dressing.  Warm up with Pork Tagine and Winter Vegetables or a Vegetarian option. The event is licensed and includes coffee, tea and dessert.

Tickets are $24 (limited number).

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-sales for Dinner tickets are now closed. There will be a few tickets available at the festival table in the Lobby of the Sid Williams Theatre starting at 6:30 Friday evening on a first come basis.

World Community will compile a list of payees.

Film Screening – Los Hermanos: The Brothers
Film Screening – Los Hermanos: The Brothers

Take a musical trip to Cuba with World Community’s next film series offering, Los Hermanos: The Brothers available online anytime from September 10 – 12. CLICK HERE for film trailer & link to purchase tickets ($10/ individual, $16/ household, $8/ limited income....

Film Series: March 26 – 28
Film Series: March 26 – 28

Mental Ilness was affecting 1 in 5 Canadians even before Covid 19 increased those numbers.  The new documentary, Orchestrating Change (85 min) tells the inspiring story of the Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental...

Rethinking Women’s Rights
Rethinking Women’s Rights

What influence did Indigenous women have on the women’s rights movement? Learn about this hidden history and celebrate International Women’s Day with World Community’s film screenings, available any time from March 6 – 8.  CLICK HERE to PRE-ORDER TICKETS. Without a...

Guest Speaker: Chris Dodd – Sept 19, 7pm

World Community public meeting: Monday, Sept. 19, 7pm Tsolum Building (building near the river, Lewis Park) Your morning coffee can affect more than just your own well-being. The folks at World Community ensure that drinking their fair trade coffee provides important...

World Community Film Series

-    Where to Invade Next   -   Wed.  Aug. 24,  7- 9pm  -   NIC Theatre, Courtenay Academy Award®-winning director Michael Moore is back with WHERE TO INVADE NEXT: a provocative and hilarious comedy in which Moore will stop at nothing to figure out how to actually...

World Community AGM features Transition Society Speaker

World Community Development Education Society Annual General Meeting features guest speaker Anne Davis, Program Coordinator of the Comox Valley Transition Society (CVTS). Join us at 5 pm on Tuesday, June 28 at Creekside Commons for pizza and discussion. World...

Film Screening: Lowdown Tracks – Tues. March 29 – 7pm at NIC

Back by popular demand, World Community is screening the award-winning film, Lowdown Tracks (86 min.) at the Stan Hagen Theatre, North Island College. Music is an expression of the spirit for everyone. But for some who survive on the periphery of society, it can also...

Film Screening: Mavis – Tues. Feb 23, 7pm at NIC

Mavis! is the first feature documentary on gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and her family group, The Staple Singers. From the freedom songs of the ’60s and hits like “I’ll Take You There" in the ’70s, to funked-up collaborations with...

Film Screening: Arctic Defenders – January 19th, 7pm – NIC

Award-winning film, Arctic Defenders, takes us on a journey to Canada's “true north” in World Community's first film screening of 2016 on Tuesday, January 19 at 7 pm at the Stan Hagen Theatre at North Island College. Set in the dramatic and alluring landscape of the...