›› Laurie Rubin
Yes, it is the popular annual Vining Street PARTY on the PLAZA (VS POP). Mark your calendrer, Sunday, September 11th, noon to 6pm on the grounds of Victoria High School. One and all are invited. It is free family oriented fun.
This year we are honouring our cultural diversity through our entertainment. Join us as Mayor Lisa Helps opens the festivities. Live entertainment includes: the Songhees and Esquimalt Dancers, Mr.Mojo, Victoria Irish Dancers, BC Fiddle Orchestra, Veselka and Entangados. You will be on your feet dancing.
For the kids and you VS POP presents a Community BBQ, combined with The Great Giffoni, The Sunshine Clowns, hula hoops, bubbles, face painting, animal balloons, cardboard castle, a science and art fair. There will be loads of fun activities for the kids.
For everyone VS POP stages a Giant Silent Auction with $30,000 worth of auction items ranging from the practical to the eclectic. Then shop at VS POP’s Vendors and Exhibitors Market. You will find everything under the sun.
As you know VS POP is volunteer driven (thanks to the residents of Vining Street).
VS POP receives neither outside nor government funding. VS POP thrives due to your generosity. Net proceeds from VS POP 2016 again will go to the Learning Curve Society (www.ldasvi.bc.ca) to support their work with vulnerable children through their reading and writing programs. For more information visit us at facebook.com/Vining.Street.Block.Party, or at viningstreetparty.com.
Contact VS POP Coordinator Laurie Rubin at 250-995-2696 or lrubin@shaw.ca. Watch for post cards in your mailbox late August. See you all September 11th on the grounds of Vic High.
