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October 20, 2023 October 27, 2023
We are delighted to welcome Vancouver Island woodturner, Peter Hackett, whose sculptural forms echo the strength of the island trees from which they are made.
The wood for this new collection comes from a 250-year-old Garry Oak tree from Davie Street, not far from The Avenue Gallery. The owner wanted the spirit of the tree to be preserved by a local artist.
“Although heavy, I was able to get a couple of sections from low down in the trunk and quarter saw them to make the vessels. I turned the wood very thin while wet, and as the wood dried it created these beautifully organic oval forms from the perfectly round turnings. Once it dried it revealed a wonderful tactile surface with the growth rings and medullary rays each becoming quite apparent. The larger pieces are quite unique, and I know nothing like them in the world of woodturning.” – Peter Hackett
View Peter's new collection on The Avenue Gallery's website: https://theavenuegallery.com/artists/sculptors/hackett-peter/
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October 27, 2023 02:30 AM October 29, 2023 04:00 AM
Christina Penhale and Jeffrey Renn, joined by musicians Jim Shultz (Guitar and Lute) and Joanne Whitehead (Renaissance Recorder), star in this theatrical buffet, told through song, sonnet, and scene where you will fall in love with Shakespeare over and over again. "Besse's Will" is an imagined encounter between the good queen herself and the quill of her age. A love letter to the theatre, the play includes sections from more than 20 of Shakespeare's plays, as well as Elizabeth I's speeches to parliament, selections from the bible, and of course original writing by Jeffrey Renn. Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 7:30PM
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 7:30PM
Saturday, October 28, 2023 | 2PM* , 7:30PM Tickets available at tickets.ccpacanada.com
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October 27, 2023 02:00 AM 04:30 AM
A distinguished lecture series organized by the University of Victoria’s Committee for Urban Studies; discussing conflicts, pleasures, and politics of city life. Our upcoming speaker, Agnieszka Leszczynski, will explore the speculative future of streetscapes of the AI suffused city in waiting, and what these might ‘look’ like. Taking place on October 26 at 630 Yates Street Downtown Victoria, in the Legacy Gallery; doors open at 7:00 PM and the event starts at 7:30 PM.
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October 27, 2023 07:00 PM November 27, 2023 12:00 AM
Opening Reception Sun Oct 29th - 12:00 to 2:00 PM.
The show runs from Oct 27th to Nov 26th.
Gallery Hours Fri -Sun 12:00 -04:00 PM.
In Room at the Top Lomax uses dream imagery to explore the archetype of the witch and it’s associations with feminine power. A dream in which an unusually tall woman with dark hair and an old fashioned dress is standing in front of a top floor window formed the starting point for this series. Inside the forgotten building strange and unusual plants are thrive. Room at the Top is an exploration of female energy, creativity, and power.
Amber uses fluid acrylic paint as the primary medium to explore images from her dream life. She begins each painting by pouring the paint onto the canvas, working with the outcome of the pour gives her subconscious another chance to play.
Room at the Top is Lomax’s second solo show. Born in Truro, Great Britain she graduated from Reading University in 2001. Amber moved to Canada in 2010 and paints from her home on Vancouver Island.
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October 27, 2023 10:00 PM 11:00 PM
Please join us for a book signing with award-winning, globe-trotting, history-hunting storyteller, Ken McGoogan!
In his latest book, Searing for Franklin: New Light on the Great Arctic Mystery, arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.
Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage.
This book, McGoogan’s sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Métis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin’s last expedition?
The well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror—located in 2014 and 2016—promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land.
Drawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin’s expeditions, including the explorer’s lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of travelling to relevant locations, visiting the graves of dead sailors and experiencing the Arctic—one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet.
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