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March 29, 2025 02:00 AM April 27, 2025 12:00 AM
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Ho Tam
March 28 to April 26, 2025
Opening Friday, March 28, 7pm
Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates St, Victoria | deluge.ca | Wed–Sat noon–5pm
Looping back three decades to a seminal suite of under-seen paintings by the Vancouver-based visual artist and publisher.
Ho Tam is a Canadian visual artist whose practice spans video, photography, graphic design, painting and print media. His work has been exhibited in public and alternative galleries across Canada and internationally. As part of his art practice, Tam edits and publishes artist's books.
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April 19, 2025 02:30 AM April 27, 2025 02:30 AM
This award-winning musical reimagines one of the world’s most beloved characters with a refreshingly quirky, irreverent twist – featuring the incredible music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. With stunning visuals, tongue-in-cheek humour, stagecraft, and real magic, this is one walk down memory lane for the whole family that you don’t want to miss!
“...reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once.”
-New York Times
"Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" runs April 18 -26 at the McPherson Playhouse (3 Centennial Square). Tickets available at rmts.bc.ca
Rodgers + Hammerstein's
CINDERELLA
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
New Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II
Orchestrations by Danny Troob
Music Adaptation & Arrangements by David Chase
Directed & Choreographed by Naomi Costain
Music Direction by Jeff Poynter
CINDERELLA is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. www.concordtheatricals.com
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April 26, 2025 05:00 PM April 27, 2025 11:00 PM
2025 Spring Show
Saanich Peninsula Arts & Crafts Society is a non-profit organization celebrating its 72nd Anniversary in 2025. One of its main roles is to promote member artists and their work. SPAC’s annual Spring Art Show, held at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, is its premier event.
The Spring Art Show is recognized island-wide as a superior exhibition and sale of original paintings, sculpture, clay, glass, fibre and textile arts, jewellry, metal and wood. Enjoy our expanded Gallery space this year, shop in our very popular Gift Shop and bring a friend for coffee.
Dates:
Art Patrons’ Gala April 25, 2025 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Open to the Public April 26, 2024 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and April 27, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Art PatronTickets:
$175 per ticket (2 guests per ticket)
Available online until April 7, 2024
Show Tickets:
$10 per ticket
Available online or at the door. Cash, credit and debit cards accepted.
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April 26, 2025 08:00 PM April 27, 2025 12:00 AM
RAW STOCK Film Collective in partnership with FLUX Media Gallery in Victoria, are running an Analogue Sound workshop.
"Make Your Own Microphone and Noise-Box" Ever wanted to work with sound and produce something unique and original? But you had a creativity block or lacked the skills?
Well now is your chance to learn how to make simple devices which create unique and imaginative sounds and bring new inspiration to your film and video soundtracks or art projects. Instructor: Dave Johnson (founding member of RAW STOCK Film Collective)
Cost: $50
Location: FLUX Media Gallery, 1524 Pandora, Victoria
Date: Sat April 26th 2025, 1-5pm For more info or to book your place email davefilms1998@yahoo(dot)com Participant numbers will be kept low to maximise contact time with instructor! Workshop Description:
Participants will construct a microphone and a noise-box to record and create experimental soundtracks! Participants will receive materials along with a small shopping list they need
to purchase on their own before the workshop. Most items can be found at your local Dollar store! No previous knowledge of sound recording or soldiering electronics and wires required! Materials participants will be using: 2x Piezo disc (pre-soldiered), two cables (¼ inch) precut, Stripped, and labeled. Small springs, wood screws, hot glue gun, tin foil, electrical tape, drill, finishing nails, hammer, wire cutters, angle cutters. Shopping list for participants: A jar lid or small tin can (a tuna can also works well), Wooden box (Best results are about the size of a cigar box). In addition to these items, Participants are encouraged to bring materials with rough surfaces or textures.
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April 27, 2025 01:00 AM 03:00 AM
“TRANSCENDENCE” By Ainsley Guzman Jason Featuring guest artist Alfredo Guzman Schwartz April 22 - May 11 Opening reception: April 26 at 6-8pm Join us for a night of art, philosophy, and transformation. This show weaves together personal struggles, poetic and philosophical insights, and cosmic abstract creations to explore the journey from pain to faith in life. We invite you to look inward, embrace your struggles, and discover beauty in resilience.
Opening night features thought-provoking conversations, lively music, and complimentary food and drinks—all designed to uplift and inspire. Come celebrate the human spirit and its power to transcend suffering.
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April 27, 2025 08:00 PM April 28, 2025 12:00 AM
RAW STOCK Film Collective in partnership with FLUX Media Gallery (Victoria, BC) are running a Motion Picture Pinhole Camera workshop. This back to basics, hands-on, analogue photography workshop will teach you all you need to know to create your very own pinhole motion picture. From constructing a camera, shooting a mini movie, to eco-developing, you’ll learn the joy of drawing with light. All materials will be provided and participants will leave with their own camera, film and hopefully some happy memories. Instructor: Anthony Carr (founding member of RAW STOCK Film Collective)
Cost: $50
Location: FLUX Media Gallery, 1524 Pandora, Victoria
Date: Sun April 27th 2025, 1-5pm For more info or to book your place email anthonycarr1977@sky(dot)com Participant numbers will be kept low to maximise contact time with instructor! Workshop Description: Intended for analogue beginners and aficionados alike, this workshop will help participants learn how to:
*make a simple but perfectly functional analogue film camera
*use it to shoot a set of movie film stills
*develop the film stills using homemade eco-friendly, plant-based film processing
* turn the movie stills into a mini movie This workshop coincides with the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, so participants have the chance to be a permanent part of this photographic archive, alongside other pinhole masterpieces and masters of their craft.
https://pinholeday.org/ Anthony Carr is a British Canadian visual artist, working in photography, sculpture and the moving image. A champion of analogue photography and in particular lo-fi and alternative techniques including pinhole, Carr is interested in and inspired by the intersection of art and science. His work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Australasia and North America and in 2021 he was awarded the inaugural Glover Rayner Prize for sustainable photography (UK) and a Greenlight film production grant from MediaNet (Canada). As an art educator, Carr has run workshops in museums, galleries, schools, universities and charities.
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April 27, 2025 09:00 PM 10:45 PM
Revel in the music of the Elizabethan countryside. Via Choralis presents chapel and court music along with lively tavern songs. The Banquo Folk Ensemble joins on 12th & 13th century instruments. Welcome spring with beautiful Renaissance music!
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