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Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms Workshop – Sept 24, 2014

Workshop Wednesday, September 24 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm

This workshop will offer an introduction to the amazing world of mushrooms and cover everything you need to know to grow your own mushrooms where you live. We’ll each inoculate a 5 gallon bucket of oyster mushrooms to take home-like in the picture!

Learning to grow mushrooms is a […]

By |September 16th, 2014|Events|0 Comments

Victoria Anarchist Bookfair – Sept 6 & 7, 2014

This weekend, we are pleased to be hosting the 9th Annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair, located on unceded Lekwungen Territory in Victoria, British Columbia. The Bookfair is for anarchists and non-anarchists, with participants from all over North America and beyond.

The Bookfair always includes workshops on a wide range of topics. We seek to challenge colonial attitudes, introduce […]

By |September 4th, 2014|Events|0 Comments

Community Animation Project

This fall, filmmaker and educator Morgan Rhys Tams is working with the Pandora Arts Collective and the Fernwood community to create a:
COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY ANIMATION PROJECT
Using stop motion and rotoscope animation techniques, community members, young and old, are invited to contribute to an animated film by painting, colouring, and drawing onto their very own sections of a […]

By |August 28th, 2014|Buzz, Events|0 Comments

Vancouver Island School-Based Weather Station Network

>> Peter Levett

Through the cooperation of Victoria VeloTech and Fernwood NRG, data from the weather station on the roof above the Cornerstone Cafe is now available online as part of the Vancouver Island School-Based Weather Station Network. Fernwood NRG is the fourth weather station in Fernwood to connect to the network, joining stations at Victoria […]

By |August 28th, 2014|Buzz|0 Comments

Belfry Theatre 2014-2015 Season

›› Michael Shamata

Seven wild Rez ­Sisters, two estranged Best Brothers, Vanya and Sonia and Masha (his sisters) and Spike (Masha’s boy toy), one theatre director and one Greek ­goddess. Plus one Greek god, one Bollywood dancer, one lesson in lighting design and 14 ­musical theatre triple threats.

That’s the Belfry Theatre’s 2014-2015 Season in a nutshell. […]

By |August 13th, 2014|Buzz, Events, Village Vibe|0 Comments

The Tragedy of the Common(s)

>> Lee Herrin

This past month, Spring Ridge Common(s), the “garden” at the corner of Chambers Street and Gladstone Avenue in Fernwood failed in its ambition to be an “edible urban oasis.” There is no doubt that edible plants abound at the site. However, these past few months it became more of an oasis for drug […]

By |August 13th, 2014|Editorial, Village Vibe|0 Comments

How do you get around Fernwood?

›› Kelsey Singbeil

Whether you’re walking, cycling, skateboarding, bussing, or driving, Fernwood has most of your daily essentials (coffee, food, beer, childcare, haircuts, yoga, tattoos) within easy reach. I ride my bike or walk to the square to meet friends at the Inn, pick up groceries at Aubergine, and check out plays at the Belfry.

The village […]

By |August 13th, 2014|News, Village Vibe|0 Comments