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Field Notes: Impressions from the Pacific by Cindy Wright
untilField Notes: Impression from the Pacifics evokes the idea of a scientific journey as seen through the eyes of a marine scientist during their career. The subtitle is also a gentle play on words that describes the primary intaglio printing process developed by the artist to capture the exquisite textural details of marine organisms. In this exhibition, Wright composes her love letter to the beautiful and strange creatures that inhabit the watery realm of the Pacific Ocean. This exhibition consists of intaglio prints, with some cyanotypes that are portraiture images of marine organisms collected from the shoreline and at sea during scientific expeditions. Opening Friday November 8, 2024 Artist Talk: Sunday November 17, 1:00 Cindy will give an artist talk and discuss how her career as a marine scientist influences her art and how she uses mark making and experimental methods to produce her prints. Artist Workshop/Demo Sunday November 24, 12-3:00 -
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Carols for Christmas
Via Choralis has been entertaining Sidney audiences for twenty five years. This Christmas, audience participation will be a key part of the performance, with much loved carol favourites interspersed throughout the choir’s carefully curated program. The 40 voice ensemble led by Kathryn Whitney will present familiar classics, including an arrangement of the Boar’s Head Carol by the choir’s founder Nicholas Fairbanks. The centrepiece of the concert is the extended Fantasia on Christmas Carols by English composer Ralph Vaughn Williams -
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Celebrate A Life
untilA Memorial Time of Reflection and Remembrance with Victoria Hospice Sunday, December 8th 1:30 – 2:45 Administration Building - Woodward Room- Royal Jubilee Hospital Join us to remember and celebrate our loved ones who have died. The Spiritual Care Team will lead us through a quiet time of words, music and candle lighting. All are welcome! Complimentary Parking available in lot J directly behind the Administration Building Sponsored by Earth's Option -
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New Biodiversity Strategy fails to address crisis in Saanich Parks
I find Ted Lea's article to be very enlightening and informative with its presentation of facts, photos and references. It is strikingly obvious that the concerns addressed have been brought to the attention of decision makers over a significant period of time with compelling evidence. The article provides access to key documentation including Management Guidelines, Strategies and Implementation Plans, letters and other references that substantiate these concerns and validate the critical need for action. It is baffling how matters of such significance to us all can be ignored, dismissed and abandoned by the few with the means to react proactively and significantly. Perhaps there would be even more public engagement in the care and maintenance of these environments if officials displayed their concern and appreciation through substantiated action that all can witness and acknowledge. Inaction is not easily concealed and is, in fact, woefully blatant. T.E. Leonard Kelowna, B.C. -
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A Season of Light
untilJoin the Victoria Children's CHoir as they celebrate the coming of winter, a season of light! VCC presents 150 young singers, ages 7-20, from the Prelude, Recital, Concert and Youth Choirs performing across two concerts! A Season of Light is a concert that promises to wrap audiences up in the warmth of song with works by Handel and Lauridsen, and Canadian composers Rupert Lang, Andrew Balfour and so many more. Come and enjoy this beautiful offering with us December 7th and 8th, at 2pm in Alix Goolden Hall, 900 Johnson street. For tickets visit: https://www.showpass.com/a-season-of-light/ -
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Hampton Concert Orchestra Fall 2024 Concerts
untilUnder the baton of Charles Encell, and featuring soloist Elene Antontceva (Russia), the Hampton Concert Orchestra will perform: W.A.Mozart - Don Giovanni Overture E.Lalo - Cello Concerto in D minor - Elena Antontceva (cello) F.J.Haydn - Symphony No.104 in D major "London" Admission by Donation. -
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Hampton Concert Orchestra Fall 2024 Concerts
untilUnder the baton of Charles Encell, and featuring soloist Elene Antontceva (Russia), the Hampton Concert Orchestra will perform: W.A.Mozart - Don Giovanni Overture E.Lalo - Cello Concerto in D minor - Elena Antontceva (cello) F.J.Haydn - Symphony No.104 in D major "London" Admission by Donation. -
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VJS Presents: Stephane Wrembel Quartet ft. guest pianist Jean-Michel Pilc
untilGRAMMY-winning French jazz musician/composer Stephane Wrembel remains one of the preeminent guitarists in the world specializing in the traditional style inspired by Romani guitar master, Django Reinhardt. Wrembel’s exceptional grasp of this style transcends jazz, blues, flamenco, and rock while adding his own distinct flair. Stephane Wrembel has released over 20 critically praised albums, produced his own globally recognized annual music festival "Django A Gogo" since 2003, and had his original compositions featured in filmmaker Woody Allen’s motion pictures. In addition to his song “Big Brother” in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wrembel’s irresistibly catchy “Bistro Fada” in the Oscar-winning Midnight in Paris secured the GRAMMY win for “Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media” in 2013. Wrembel continued to turn heads in the jazz world in 2019 when he released the highly regarded Django L’Impressionniste, refocusing the spotlight on 17 of Reinhardt’s illustrious preludes for solo guitar. His NYC-based group, Django New Orleans, sold out eight shows at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2021. He has headlined Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Town Hall in NYC, and The Lyon Opera House in France, as well as shared stages with Esperanza Spalding, Mark O’Connor, Sam Bush, Elvis Costello, The Roots, and Al Di Meola. Now, Stephane Wrembel brings his 2024 three-part recording series, Triptych, to Sidney’s Charlie White Theatre at the Mary Winspear Centre in time for Django Reinhardt’s 115th birthday on January 23. Joining Stephane Wrembel’s Quartet on stage will be special guest and Paris-born, Montreal-based piano virtuoso Jean-Michel Pilc. This evening is set to be a truly unparalleled live experience for all music-lovers. -
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Radicle City: Snapshots of Bangalore
untilArjuna Keshvani-Ham October 30 to November 23, 2024 Deluge Contemporary Art 636 Yates Street, Victoria | Wed to Sat, 12 to 5pm Presented as an installation in the Deluge space, Radicle City is a cinematic essay which imagines a future in which Bangalore’s gardens no longer exist. Narrated as a poetic address by a voice who has grown up in a city without trees, the work’s hybrid documentary and fictional narrative recovers and reinterprets footage of an unknown walker’s journey along a park that marks an old line of colonial segregation in the city. This is an old border with new lines: today the city is India’s “silicon valley,” an IT hub at the heart of a network of global capitalism, an incubator for the apparatuses of Modi’s digital technocracy and one of India’s most unequal and divided cities. Moving restlessly back and forth between past and possible future, the film is at once an investigation into the city’s complex colonial entanglements and their afterlives, and an elegy to the city’s gardens, fragile spaces of resistance in a metropolis which threatens their destruction. -
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The Avenue Gallery – Feature Artist – Bob Leatherbarrow
untilWe are thrilled to welcome Bob Leatherbarrow to The Avenue Gallery! Bob is a self-taught artist who has been creating with kilnformed glass for over 35 years. He specializes in working with glass powders to create his signature-style organic textures. Bob's fascination with textures developed during his working career as an exploration geologist. Observing and interpreting subtle textures in rocks while on the job evolved into seeing textures as a familiar but important part of our everyday visual landscape. Bob's current Homecoming series revisits a previous series, but with a difference. By substituting transparent powders for opaque powders, Bob has created a bold new collection of jewel-toned vessels. Transitions in colour are created by careful layering of powders and multiple firings in the kiln. The top and bottom surfaces are polished to enhance colour clarity. View Bob's collection on The Avenue Gallery's website: https://theavenuegallery.com/artists/glaziers/leatherbarrow-bob/ -
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A Christmas Concert with the Victoria Scottish Gaelic Choir
Nollaig Chridheil! Join The Victoria Scottish Gaelic Choir for our annual Christmas concert featuring traditional Gaelic songs and holiday favourites Enjoy a warm and cheerful afternoon of traditional Scottish Gaelic music along with new and old holiday favourites. There will be tea and light refreshments following the performance. 2:00 PM December 8th at 2964 Tillicum Rd (Trinity Presbyterian Church) Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at https://www.eventbookings.com/b/event/victoria-gaelic-christmas -
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Victoria Choral Society Celebrates 90 Years of Choral Music!
untilThe Victoria Choral Society, under Music Director Brian Wismath, is delighted to present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, Laudate Dominum, and Ave Verum Corpus at Christ Church Cathedral at 2:30 pm on Sunday, November 16th, 2024. Please join us in celebrating this significant milestone. Tickets are available online or at the door starting October 1st at https://www.victoriachoralsociety.ca/concerts/ Adults $35, Student / Income Accessible $10. We recommend purchasing tickets online and arriving at least 20 minutes early as we expect a full audience. This glorious program features a 150-member choir accompanied by an orchestra of musicians from the Victoria Symphony, as well as local soloists Jennifer Turner (soprano), Jennifer Lang (mezzo), Jan van der Hooft (tenor), and Nathan McDonald (baritone). “I fear I am writing a Requiem for myself.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Unfinished at the time of Mozart’s death in 1791, “[…] the Requiem Mass for the Dead, arguably the most potent and all-embracing of the Church’s liturgical rites, encompasses the whole range of human emotion from terror and awe to confidence that the dead can indeed depart in peace. Mozart’s music takes us deep into the human condition with pleas to be heard and comforted (Voca me), pleas for healing (Salva me), finding the still centre in the rest (Requiem) at the end of tears (Lacrimosa) [...]” – Elizabeth Courtney, VCS Alumna Mozart composed Laudate Dominum in 1780 as part of “Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K. 339,” a six-movement liturgical work. Set as an extended aria for soprano and chorus, its long luxurious melody for solo soprano is answered and supported by the chorus. This short masterpiece was in great demand in the nineteenth century and inspired all kinds of popular arrangements for different combinations of instruments. It was in 1791 in his final six months that Mozart composed Ave Verum Corpus. This short motet of 46 measures is a choral gem recognized for its beauty and simplicity. The text, a 14th century Eucharistic hymn, contemplates suffering and redemption, while elements of the composition foreshadow the magnificent Requiem. About the Victoria Choral Society The Victoria Choral society, founded in 1934, is a mixed-voice auditioned symphonic choir dedicated to presenting the finest choral music from baroque to contemporary, achieving excellence through innovation and collaboration. It continues to play a leading role in Victoria’s cultural life. -
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Fab5 Meraki Show
untilWe are a group of artists who met through the Peninsula Newcomers Club and came together through our love of art