Victoria, and especially Fernwood, is home to an incredible mix of artists, designers, performers, entrepreneurs and innovators who contribute to a vibrant arts and culture scene. The City of Victoria is developing Create Victoria, a five-year Arts and Culture Master Plan, designed to nurture conditions for this creativity to flourish. The plan will align ideas, […]
“If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.” Jaime Lerner
>> Hazel Lyder
If these words resonate, then we’ve got two projects at the Oaklands Community Association that will be right up your alley!
Are you up for the challenge of designing, sourcing and constructing an environmentally friendly […]
›› Kathryn Juricic & Mila Czemerys
Our generous neighbourhood has, once again, outdone itself in supporting The Gift of Good Food. Together, through grassroots fundraisers, hundreds of community members and lots of creativity, we raised $64,000!
Thank you, on behalf of the eleven community centres and transition houses, from Sooke to Saanich, for helping us provide 125 […]
Good food is needed not just at Christmas, but all year long
>> Alex Harned
December is officially here! After many months of waited anticipation, it is finally permissible to engage in the bounty of holiday cheer. Frosted snowflakes and Rudolph sightings are commonplace in downtown shop windows, glowing strings of lights line the neighbourhood streets, and […]
>> Tania Wegwitz
Music and the sounds of winter festivals from around the globe are cascading through the hallways of École George Jay Elementary this time of year.
Encouraged and led by teacher Annie Shum, the students are finding joy in weekly music classes. From younger students trying their hands at rhythm instruments and xylophones generously donated […]
>> Hazel Lyder
Many of us have so much. So much that we feel somehow vaguely or overtly oppressed by it all: our stuff a burden that anchors us uncomfortably in a place, or in the past, something to trip over, to dust.
And now we find ourselves once again at the Season of Giving. How many […]
>> Erin Macklem
It’s the first day of rehearsal for the This Little Light, the Belfry Theatre’s brand new holiday family musical set right here in Fernwood Square. Brad L’Écuyer, the composer and music director, is teaching students from the Canadian College of Performing Arts their songs and harmonies, and the hairs on the back of […]
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