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June 23, 2025 06:00 PM 11:00 PM
This event began 2025-06-07 and repeats every day forever
11am - 4pm June 7 & 8
Artists and Creatives in the greater Fernwood area are opening their studios, homes, and gardens to visitors
For online map & information about participants in the 2025 Fernwood Art Stroll: www.fernwoodartstroll.ca
20 locations in both Fernwood and Oaklands, featuring more than two dozen artists showing a wide variety of local art: paintings, ceramics, jewelry, garden art, printmaking, photography, & collage. There’s even a venue featuring storytelling!
Since 2007, this free, family-friendly event has welcomed guests who enjoy & support Victoria's art scene. Visitors can stroll leisurely through leafy streets dotted with heritage homes & delightful gardens, exploring back yard studios with private gardens full of art in one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Victoria.
Keep an eye out at local businesses & stores around town for the Fernwood Art Stroll brochure that includes a detailed map of the venues & details about the participating artists.
Some artists venues offer activities for families with children. Spend the day getting in your steps whilst soaking up contemporary culture - then indulge in the tasty food & beverage on offer in Fernwood’s popular cafés & bistros.
For online map & information about participants in the 2025 Fernwood Art Stroll: www.fernwoodartstroll.ca
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June 24, 2025 02:00 AM
Tickets on sale now!
"Anthony has a natural feeling for swing and groove, scintillating technique and a penchant for such feel-good pianists as Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, and Monty Alexander.” – WholeNote Magazine
Toronto’s Anthony D’Alessandro is a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He has performed around the world, at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Teatro Nescafé de las Artes in Santiago, Chile, Smalls Jazz Club in New York, and Koerner Hall. He regularly collaborates with Canada’s top jazz musicians, including Caity Gyorgy, Neil Swainson, Terry Clarke, Pat LaBarbara, and Ernesto Cervini, as well as notable NYC musicians Summer Camargo, Alexander Claffy, and Joe Farnsworth. D’Alessandro’s debut full-length album Searchin’ (2024), featuring trumpeter/vocal star Benny Benack III, debuted to critical acclaim, and was described as an “uplifting and feel-good jazz record” by the Paris Move.
TICKETS
$38 (service charges may apply)
Available Through:
Victoria Jazz Society Office (250-388-4423 | 975A Alston St.) no service charges
Royal & McPherson Box Office (250-386-6121 | rmts.bc.ca) plus service charges
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June 24, 2025 03:30 AM
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“Over the last five or six years, drummer Makaya McCraven has migrated from the enlightened margins of the modern-jazz mainstream to someplace near its pulsing center, while earning the sort of outside acclaim reserved for the hippest forms of crossover.” – WBGO
Prolific drummer, composer, producer, and “beat scientist” Makaya McCraven has been aptly referred to as a cultural synthesizer. He has a unique gift for collapsing space, destroying borders, and blending past, present, and future into arrangements of post-genre, jazz-rooted, 21st century folk music. Profiled in Vice, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and NPR among others, he and the music he makes today are at the very vanguard of the phenomenon that is jazz. After cutting his teeth in the Western Massachusetts music, McCraven soon found himself immersed in both the creative and straight-ahead jazz scenes of Chicago. Within five years, he’d established a name for himself, gigging alongside scene stalwarts like Willie Pickens, Marquis Hill and Jeff Parker. His 2015 LP release In The Moment was hailed by JazzTimes as “one of the year’s most mesmerizing releases.” McCraven continued to hone his process of live improvisation and sampling with Highly Rare (2017), Where We Come From (2018), Universal Beings (2018), Deciphering the Message (2021), and In These Times (2022). Last appearing at TD JazzFest 2019, he will be releasing a percussion-forward studio album this June, just in time for his return to the festival!
TICKETS
19+ Venue
$42 (service charges may apply)
Available Through:
Victoria Jazz Society Office (250-388-4423 | 975A Alston St.) no service charges
Royal & McPherson Box Office (250-386-6121 | rmts.bc.ca) plus service charges
Note: This venue will have limited seating.
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May 24, 2025 04:00 PM October 27, 2025 12:00 AM
Architectures of Protection reflects on ideas and modes of protection and refuge – with regards to oneself, to community, knowledge, culture, identity, and land. What are these spaces and practices? What is protection for some and not for others? Together, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and in the current global social and political climate, the artworks in Architectures of Protection direct critical attention towards systems and structures that shape and impact everyday and sacred environments and encounters, alongside individual and collective relationships with the land.
This exhibition features artworks by Dana Claxton, Jessica Karuhanga, Emilio Rojas, Beth Stuart, and France Trépanier.
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Hours of operation: Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10AM – 5PM Wednesday: 10AM – 5PM Thursday: 10AM – 9PM Friday: 10AM – 5PM Saturday: 10AM – 5PM Sunday: 12PM – 5PM Admission is always free for: • Visitors aged 25 and under • AGGV Members • Indigenous Peoples • Support Workers Feel Free – Free Gallery Days Supported by TD Bank Group: Admission is free on the first Saturday of the month from 10 am – 5 pm, and every Thursday evening from 5 pm – 9 pm. *Accessibility: The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is committed to providing a welcoming and accessible destination for all to enjoy. The main entrance is wheelchair accessible with a ramp on the left side of the entrance with no handrail. There is one set of power doors located at the left side of the entrance at the top of the ramp.
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June 24, 2025 06:00 PM June 25, 2025 12:00 AM
This event began 2025-06-24 and repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 2025-07-13
Venue: Gage Gallery Arts Collective, 19 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
Dates: June 24 - July 13, 2025, Tuesdays to Sundays, 11:00 to 17:00
Come join us for an immersive experience at the Gage Gallery Arts Collective! Explore a diverse collection of mixed media art inspired by nature by Barb DeRousie with guest artists Royden Josephson and Don DeRousie. Let your senses be captivated by the intricate details and vibrant colors. This event is a celebration of creativity and the beauty of the natural world. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with art and nature in a unique way!
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 1 - 3pm
We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the traditional, unceded territories of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.
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