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August 23, 2025 06:00 PM August 24, 2025 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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August 23, 2025 07:00 PM August 24, 2025 05:00 AM
Featuring local and international artists in Victoria's Inner Harbour Free to attend performances during the day, ticketed event at night. Alligator Records’ American electric blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. Daughter of the late blues legend Johnny Copeland, the multi-GRAMMY nominee is honored worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs. Her latest Alligator Records release, Blame It On Eve, came out in 2024. She’s sung with Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Dr. John, James Cotton and more, and has shared a bill with The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Trombone Shorty, Gary Clark, Jr. and more. She has showcased on PBS’s Austin City Limits, and was featured in a six-minute story on the PBS News Hour. In April 2022, she performed at the United Nations General Assembly Hall to a worldwide audience of millions as part of International Jazz Day celebrations. Don’t miss her Victoria debut at Harbour Blues ‘n Roots Festival 2025! Opening for this evening will be Nanaimo’s up-and-coming blues-rocking collective James Vickers Band. ALL THREE NIGHTS for $99!
Available Through:
VJS Office (250-388-4423 / 975A Alston St.) No Service Charges
Royal & McPherson Box Office (250-386-6121 | rmts.bc.ca) Service Charges Apply
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August 24, 2025 02:00 AM
Alligator Records’ American electric blues vocalist Shemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. Daughter of the late blues legend Johnny Copeland, the multi-GRAMMY nominee is honored worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs. Her latest Alligator Records release, Blame It On Eve, came out in 2024. She’s sung with Bonnie Raitt, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Dr. John, James Cotton and more, and has shared a bill with The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Trombone Shorty, Gary Clark, Jr. and more. She has showcased on PBS’s Austin City Limits, and was featured in a six-minute story on the PBS News Hour. In April 2022, she performed at the United Nations General Assembly Hall to a worldwide audience of millions as part of International Jazz Day celebrations. Don’t miss her Victoria debut at Harbour Blues ‘n Roots Festival 2025!
Opening for this evening will be Nanaimo’s up-and-coming blues-rocking collective James Vickers Band.
TICKETS
https://www.rmts.bc.ca/production-detail-pages/2025/shemekia-copeland/
On sale Friday, May 30!
$42
ALL THREE NIGHTS for $99!
Available Through:
VJS Office (250-388-4423 / 975A Alston St.) No Service Charges
Royal & McPherson Box Office (250-386-6121 | rmts.bc.ca) Service Charges Apply
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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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August 24, 2025 07:00 PM August 25, 2025 05:00 AM
Featuring local and international artists in Victoria's Inner Harbour Free to attend performances during the day, ticketed event at night. Toronto-based 7-piece supergroup Bywater Call mixes southern soul, blues, and roots music with the passion to create a powerful and moving experience for listeners. Shows have been praised by European media for years, with lead singer Meghan Parnell lauded as one of the best female voices in blues and roots today. The band has also received multiple Independent Blues and Canadian Maple Blues Award nominations including “Entertainer, Electric Act,” and “Best Female Vocalist” for the 2024 Awards Season. Their newest album, Shepherd (2024), has garnered rave reviews, and was selected as the “Blues Album of the Year” by the UK’s Classic Rock Magazine. With elements of jam band, traditional blues, soul, and rock and roll, touches of New Orleans, Alabama, and small-town Ontario, influences from The Band, Duane Allman, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Black Crowes, and the Tedeschi Trucks Band, and gritty, raw, emotional vocals, Bywater Call strikes to the core. Opening for this evening will be Victoria swing band Slim Sandy’s Atomic Cocktails. ALL THREE NIGHTS for $99!
Available Through:
VJS Office (250-388-4423 / 975A Alston St.) No Service Charges
Royal & McPherson Box Office (250-386-6121 | rmts.bc.ca) Service Charges Apply
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