Preview: http://www.artopenings.ca/laundry.html The Laundry Room: Airing our Linens This exhibition brings together three talented fibre artists at historic Goward House. Visitors to the heritage home and senior’s centre will delight in the almost 60 unique textile-based creations. Included are installations of antique laundry artifacts such as irons and sewing machines.

Join us for the first talk in the Fall 2022 series of the City Talks by urban scholar Yonn Dierwechter on "Climate Change and the City Region: Seattle in Metropolitan Context." This event is free and open to the public, located at the Legacy Gallery in downtown Victoria, BC (630 Yates St.). For more details, see: https://www.facebook.com/events/768673994424420/?ref=newsfeed

Ryan Sobkovich is an accomplished young phenom from Wasaga Beach, ON. Scouted and nurtured from a young age, Ryan has been professionally exhibiting in galleries since he was sixteen. Aware of the importance of education, Ryan consciously took the time to advance his education and graduated from Georgian College, School of Design and Visual Arts in 2016 with Honours in the Advanced Fine Art Program. Now at twenty-seven he is already a veteran and one to collect in Canadian art. Ryan's love of nature inspires him to paint wilderness scenes of Canada while hiking, camping and kayaking around the great lakes and other areas across the country. He utilizes dynamic, impasto brushwork and layered complementary colours to convey emotions, feelings and thoughts while on site in the wilderness. Ryan particularly enjoys painting 'en plein air' and painting in large scale. His works are collected by private, corporate and public collectors nationally and internationally.

Celebrate women in music with us! Renowned Canadian early music soprano, Jane Long, joins an all-female ensemble performing an all-female-composer programme. Experience luscious vocal and instrumental gems, spanning the Italian and French Baroque to the Canadian contemporary. Programme includes: Barbara Strozzi: Cantata Che si può fare Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: Laudate dominum Bianca Maria Meda: Cari Musici Jocelyn Morlock: Revenant Isabella Leonarda: Motet Purpurei Flores and Trio Sonata Op. 16 No.3 And instrumental numbers by Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre and Isabella Leonarda Musicians Jane Long, soprano; Soile Stratkauskas, flute; Christi Meyers, violin; Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith, violin; Natalie Mackie, viola da gamba; Christina Hutten, harpsichord Accessible Seating St. John’s is wheelchair accessible through the Garden doors on the north side of the church. Accessible seating can be arranged by emailing Victoria-baroque@shaw.ca before noon on Friday, October 7. Ticket Pricing If the regular ticket price isn't an option, please contact us and we’ll be happy to reduce it.

Join us for a special book talk with award-winning writer, conservation photographer, book author, and documentary filmmaker, Isabelle Groc. This evening will include a conversation with the writer about her book Conservation Canines: How Dogs Work the Environment. Isabelle will provide a rare glimpse into dogs’ working lives, celebrate the human-animal bond, and revisit our relationship with dogs in our lives and the natural world. Isabelle will share her passion for wildlife conservation and the relationships between people and the natural world, especially about how dogs work with humans to protect endangered wildlife. There will also be a special canine scent demonstration by Victoria-based dog instructor Janet Parker, who will show us how nose work can also benefit pet dogs! A book signing will be available after the talk and demonstration. RSVP at https://batemanfoundation.org/event/book-talk-conservation-canines-with-isabelle-groc/ to reserve your spot.

Upcoming Solo Exhibition - ‘Encounters with Life’ – William Liao October 13 - 24, 2022 Specializing in florals, landscapes and portraits, William Liao's paintings combine traditional mediums with modern techniques, providing his audience with another dimension of experience. Recognized for his talent, William has won the Art Battle Vancouver, received the Silver Medal at the Signature Medal Show at Federation Gallery, as well as First Place in the Acrylics in Action show. This is William’s first solo show at The Avenue Gallery and the excitement is building. The Avenue Gallery 2184 Oak Bay Avenue Monday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 4pm

The largest and liveliest celebration of books and booklovers, Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) is celebrating seven years this fall. From September 28 to October 2nd, VFA will host 30 authors, taking part in 11 offerings including panels, readings and conversations with authors at indoor and outdoor venues around Victoria. With land and environmental concerns being forefront in the minds of many in Victoria, VFA has focused half of our programming on ecology, climate emergency, the Land Back movement, and connections with the protected forests just outside our city. This includes the panel Climate Acts, Land Sings which examines how we cultivate respectful relationships with the land, its original peoples, and its lifeforms. Keeping with the theme, an evening curated by Planet Earth Poetry (PEP), A Corrective Lens, features poets “gaz[ing] on a glorious world…that we humans have irrevocably changed.” VFA2022 Indigenous Curator, author Monique Gray Smith, will host an event with Shelagh Rogers on National Truth and Reconciliation Day and Forest to Poet/Tree Walk is back, featuring four poets reading from their new work as audience members stroll the trails of Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary. Monique’s event with Shelagh is one of four solo author events this year. Bob McDonald of the popular radio program, Quirks and Quarks, is discussing climate solutions and his new book The Future is Now with Elin Kelsey. Jane Billinghurst is leading a forest walk at Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary, and Jennifer Egan is chatting about her new novel, The Candy House, with Zsuzsi Gartner. Our festival opens with New Works, showcasing four local writers who are gifting us a sneak peak at their manuscripts in-progress. And Saturday evening, as usual, is a night to listen to new fiction with a musical accompaniment—this year provided by Jen Severtson/Peach Pyramid. Because VFA is committed to accessibility, all events feature closed captioning, and most in-person events will be livestreamed. There are also four free/ by donation virtual events. Visit victoriafestivalofauthors.ca for more!

Review: http://www.artopenings.ca/joshua-watts.html Debut solo exhibition by Ha’wilh Way’anis Joshua Watts Accompanied by Welcome Song, a poem by Linnea Jericho.

Angela and Ryan Rosenberg of A & R Jewellery have been creating jewellery together since 2007. Their one-of-a-kind wearable art is handcrafted exclusively in Argentium Silver and authentic Gemstones. Every piece of jewellery begins with a design concept. Great attention is taken to blend design and functionality ensuring that each piece ‘sits’ correctly and endures the test of time. The Avenue Gallery 2184 Oak Bay Avenue Monday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 4pm

Join Victoria’s favourite humorist Jack Knox for the official Victoria launch of his new book, "Fortune Knox Once: More Musings from the Edge". A hilarious collection of observations on Island living, "Fortune Knox Once" gathers together Jack’s favourite columns that best sum up the absurdity of our times. This is the laugh we all need right now. • Everyone welcome • Free to attend • Books for sale Jack Knox is the author of three bestselling books, "Hard Knox" and "Opportunity Knox" (both longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour), and "On the Rocks with Jack Knox".

"Recent hikes through a forest reminded me of time spent walking through the Douglas firs in Cathedral Grove. I loved the way the light filtered through their tops, and behind their trunks and branches. The branches created a dark tracery around the shades of light, creating the impression of stained glass. This is how it felt inside a west coast forest." Lorna Dockstader The Avenue Gallery 2184 Oak Bay Avenue Monday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday 12 - 4pm

Preview: http://www.artopenings.ca/mary-molcan.html In a two-person show with Marilyn Walker September 16 - October 2, 2022 Opening September 16, 6:00-8:00 Artist talks at 6:30

Opening Friday, September 9, 7pm Deluge Contemporary Art 636 Yates Street, Victoria BC 250 385 3327 | deluge.ca Wed to Sat, 12 to 5pm In making art, it’s not that I have nothing to say, rather, I choose to say nothing—preferring the artwork find you, the viewer, held between the spatial complexity/absorption of not knowing. This recent body of work marks my continuing interest in the built environment of the city. Where our cinematic experience of space and time is shaped by informational matrixes of light, reflection and perpetual movement. What if the ephemeral aura of contemporary city life could be retrieved, or even suspended momentarily? Like the earlier futurists, my artworks orchestrate the unstable and conditional reveal of things, objects and pictures, as if dislodged fragments extracted from an urban field. With repurposed charge—these new abstractions exist like individual flashes of synchronic flotsam and jetsam captured upon your light-washed retina. I have long been drawn to the avant-garde for its brash experimentation and futurist vision. This influence has led me to develop ideas fluidly and free of didactic impulse. My practice is an open ended studio pursuit around the construction of objects, images and the ephemeral voids of light and shadow—necessary in our perception of the material world. Intuition also plays a big part in my process, helping to keep the work fresh aesthetically and intellectually tuned to the ever changing cultural/societal vagaries of time. Robert Youds, a brief narrative: I graduated from the University of Victoria in 1978 with a BFA, and completed my MFA from York University, Toronto in 1982. I have been working and exhibiting my artwork professionally since the late 70s. While I initially began my career as a painter, by the early 80s I became interested in issues of colour and space beyond the limitations of the historically pre-ordained aesthetic boundaries. These goals developed into my career-long query of real space and its relationship to the constructed object. Perhaps by today’s standards this may no longer seem like such a radical claim, but with a few exceptions of internationally known artists like Judd, Stella, Palermo, Truit, Flavin, Pfaff, Irwin—among other notables of the time—there were not many artists significantly contributing toward the jurisdictional shift away from and therefore between the identifying areas of sculpture and painting. This early change in my work was also being driven my growing interest in architecture and industrial design. I saw these professional fields as holding even further possibilities for my artworks operation within the social and psychological realms of viewer experience. I have had my work shown in prestigious galleries and institutions such as Surrey Art Gallery (2019), Site Santa Fe, NM (1999), Vancouver Art Gallery (2015), National Gallery of Canada (2010), Xi’an Art Museum, China (2014), Remai Modern (2019), Power Plant (1995), Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland (1999), Art Gallery of Ontario (2003), Mendel Art Gallery, SK,(2013), Today Museum, Beijing (2015), Glenbow Museum, Calgary (2006), Museum of Mexico City (1999) and Hamilton Art Gallery (2021), among many others.