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March 05, 2024 May 04, 2024
Win big while supporting compassionate care at Victoria Hospice!
Sales are open until Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm with the draw set for 5:00 pm at Victoria Hospice. We will announce the winner at the event on May 5, 2024, or simply check the raffle website to see if you are the winner!
Buy single tickets for $10, a three-pack for $25, 10 for $50 or 50 for $200. The anticipated jackpot is $15,000 with proceeds split between the raffle winner and Victoria Hospice (tickets available online only, no tickets will be sold at the event)
Whatever the amount, you’re a winner when you support Victoria Hospice patients and families.
Big thanks to raffle sponsor Bayshore Home Health! Get your tickets today!
Chances are 1 in 20,400 to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold. Know your limit, play within it. 19+ to play. BC Gaming Event Licence # 147757
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March 28, 2024 April 04, 2024
Carolyn Houg’s clay menagerie showcases animals in lighthearted, unexpected ways, encouraging us to reflect on the shared experiences and connections we have with our fellow creatures. An award winning artist, Carolyn has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in western Canada. She studied Fine Arts at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal and the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Image: ‘Polar Expedition’ by Carolyn Houg - ceramic, 10½" x 6" x 15"
View Carolyn's sculptures on The Avenue Gallery's website: https://theavenuegallery.com/artists/sculptors/houg-carolyn/
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April 04, 2024
This event began 2023-09-09 and repeats every day forever
Free Admission! September 9 from 11am to 4 pm & September 10 from 10am to 4pm
In Sight Festival is the result of a unique collaboration between the Arts and Culture Colwood Society and Fort Rodd Hill NHS, Parks Canada. As partners in this endeavour, they appreciate the interconnections between the arts, culture, nature, and historical awareness in building strong community bonds. Expanding on last year's inaugural success, Arts and Culture Colwood president, Laura Davis has bravely augmented this year's cultural offerings with more diverse music and an expanded program. Thanks to Parks Canada, the park admission fees have been waived, which makes it a truly affordable event for everyone and a refreshing approach to bringing the community together.
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April 04, 2024
This event began 2024-03-15 and repeats every day until 2024-05-05
You're cordially invited to attend the mesmerizing multi-media surface design art show, "Current Threads 2024," presented by the Surface Design Association BC + Yukon. Join us at the prestigious Pat Martin Bates Gallery (Victoria Arts Council), located at 1800 Store Street, Victoria, B.C., from March 15 to May 5, 2024. The gallery doors will be open from Wednesday to Sunday, between noon and 5 pm.
Mark your calendars for the exhibition reception on March 23, from 3 pm to 5 pm. We warmly welcome all art enthusiasts to join us on this special occasion.
This extraordinary showcase features an array of talented fibre/textile artists who are proud International Surface Design Association members. Prepare to be captivated by their masterful use of various techniques and materials, ranging from exquisite wall hangings to awe-inspiring sculptural pieces.
Let's come together to celebrate the boundless creativity of surface design!
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April 04, 2024 02:00 AM 04:00 AM
Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors!
Patrick Grace's debut collection, Deviant, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential, Patrick Grace's confessional poetry captures profound, sharp emotions, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and cruelty that can occur in gay relationships. Later poems in the collection recall vivid moments of psychological trauma and stalking and explore the bias of the justice system toward gay men. Collecting memories, dreams, and fears about sexual identity, Deviant makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives.
PATRICK GRACE is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria, BC. He has read at literary festivals around Canada, including Word Vancouver and Versefest Ottawa, and will be appearing at the Edmonton Poetry Festival in late April. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023), and Dastardly (2021), exploring aspects of love, fear, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant, his first full-length poetry collection, continues to explore these themes. He works as managing editor of Plenitude Magazine, and is this year's judge for The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Award for Poetry.
In Tina Biello’s new collection, The Weight of Survival, in a small logging town nestled near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English.
Her family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy, to this small forested community. There are other families, from India, who share a kinship of ‘other’ with the Italian families. What happens when your voice, your food, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring, grapes in the fall? In The Weight of Survival, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness, of being shaped by two very different communities, of blending identities into one, and what is left behind in the process.
Poet, playwright and actor, TINA BIELLO was born in Lake Cowichan, a small logging town here on Vancouver Island to immigrant parents. She has honed her skills of being from ‘two places’ and speaks a few languages because of it. She believes in the power of poetry to reach in, grab hold and get us through. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane. ‘The Weight of Survival’ is her 4th book of poems. When she’s not writing poetry, she’s gardening, walking dogs and writing plays and more recently a screenplay. She was Nanaimo’s 2nd Poet Laureate from 2017-2020 and has just finished a 3 year cycle of writing librettos for composers with the Vancouver Island Symphony.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).
WHERE: In-store at Munro's Books, 1108 Government Street.
WHAT: Readings by Patrick Grace and Tina Biello, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.
HOW: This event is free to attend.
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April 04, 2024 07:00 AM
This event began 2023-09-01 and repeats every day forever
Meraki Art Show at the ArtSea Gallery in Tulista Park, Sidney
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