Five Hole For Food returns to Victoria for the fourth year July 18th 2014 at Save On Foods Saanich Plaze (2-6pm). I first learned about Five Hole For Food through Twitter in 2010 from friends of friends when I started following Dixon Lam, VP media relations. Five Hole For Food (and now—world-wide—Footy for Food) is the brainchild of Richard Loat. The concept is simple. Register a team to play ball hockey, come to play and bring a food … [Read more...]
Firewall by Target Theatre at Belfry Festival SPARK Festival 2014. A review.
March 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Firewall by Target Theatre at Belfry Festival SPARK Festival 2014. A review. My father, who would have been 93 this year, had an email address before I did. I was on Twitter before either of my two sons (in their twenties) and I’ll be 60 this year. My point, and more importantly, the point of Target Theatre’s Firewall, currently at the Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival (until March 23rd)—technology knows no age-barrier. People’s desire to … [Read more...]
Call for Victoria’s Second Youth Poet Laureate. Deadline November 25 2013
November 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Did you know that the City of Victoria is the first city in Canada to have a Youth Poet Laureate? Aysia Law, a current UVic creative writing student, was chosen in January 2013 to represent Victoria. She was active in the community, performing at Pop-Up Poetry events in April to celebrate National Poetry Month, and at council meetings and Culture Days events, as well as organizing a Diversity Slam this past summer. Photo: City of … [Read more...]
Mustard Seed’s Fair Start School Supply Program accepting donations
August 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever had to shop for school supplies? For most families, it's a significant expense as they prepare for the return to school. For some families, already feeling financial pressure, it's one more thing they cannot reasonably afford. The Mustard Seed's Fair Start School Supply Program provides support with packages of school supplies. Started 16 years ago by Linda Matthews and Vera Webb, and carried on by a team of staff and volunteers … [Read more...]
Music in the Park. The Rutledge Park Series 2013.
August 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Music in the Park. The Rutledge Park Series 2013 (corner of Cloverdale and Inverness), Tuesdays in August, from 6 – 8pm. Free concerts for the entire family. Years ago when I lived just off Quadra, near the intersection of Cloverdale and Inverness, the area now occupied by RutledgePark was populated with houses that were past their prime. The district of Saanich has long had a policy of buying up properties in areas where they wish to … [Read more...]
Ross Bay Villa Grand Opening. August 4 2013.
August 1, 2013 By 1 Comment
ROSS BAY VILLA GRAND OPENING: On August 4, 2013 The Ross Bay Villa Society and TLC open the doors of this special historic house museum to the community for a lawn party, house tours and to celebrate 13 years of restoration. I've written before about the restoration of Ross Bay Villa. Here's an earlier post on the Oil Cloth Project from December 2011. Now, you can tour the house, and view the results of thirteen years of careful restoration … [Read more...]
Five Hole For Food Victoria – help the Mustard Seed Food Bank – Friday July 19th 2013
July 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Join the team from Five Hole for Food (FHFF), this Friday July 19th at Saanich Plaza from 2 to 6pm, as they play Canada’s favourite pastime – road hockey - and raise donations of food and cash for Victoria’s Mustard Seed Food Bank. I first became aware of Five Hole for Food, founded in Vancouver in 2010, through my online social media connections, and am happy to lend my support to their ongoing efforts to raise awareness of, and support … [Read more...]
From the Heart: enter into the journey of reconciliation. July 10 – 27th 2013.
June 28, 2013 By 2 Comments
I grew up in Ucluelet on the traditional lands of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, but it wasn’t until I was in Grade 5 or 6 that the first aboriginal students joined us at the local elementary school. The nearby residential school (called Christie or Kakawis) on MearesIsland was the last such school to close in BC in 1983. So, why did I think it had closed when I was 11 or 12 (in the mid-60s)? Our settler’s memory can be very selective, even … [Read more...]
Black History Month 2013 in Victoria BC
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A Black History and Heritage Day, an evening of poetry and song, a documentary film, a solo show, a cemetery tour and three presentations make up the very ambitious schedule in celebration of BC Black History Month February 2013 in Victoria. Many people are not even aware of the significant role black citizens played in the establishment of the City of Victoria– including the founding of a precursor to the Victoria Police Department; nor that … [Read more...]
Dr Andrew Weaver – acclaimed climate scientist and – actor?
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dr Andrew Weaver, acclaimed climate scientist, Nobel Prize winner, Oak Bay Gordon Head Green Party candidate and – actor? It was a chance comment by “Corky Blanshard” (in real life, actor Kathryn Popham) that lead me to the story of Dr Weaver’s transformation. I knew he had been a guest of Derwin Blanshard (Wes Borg) for Episode Two of Derwin Blanshard’s Extremely Classy Sunday Evening Programme, but how had he come to have a recurring, if … [Read more...]
