›› Kate Wallace
On a recent walk past George Jay School, I was thrilled to see our seismic improvements had begun, giving the century-plus building a much-needed facelift. Hooray! Not only will this improve the building’s safety, but the interior and exterior modernization and beautification will bring a sense of pride to all our school families.
This […]
›› Bamsey Franks
Aubrey Burke, when & how did you first come up with the idea for the Story Booth Project?
I came up the idea because I was a bit discouraged by contemporary art and inaccessibility. The idea of having a pop-up shop that was ground level, with 24 access via window front viewing, appealed to […]
›› Shannon K. Auringer
He was hard at work shoveling, yet another pile of garden waste, as I wandered up the Chambers Street sidewalk. I was suited up in my rain coat and knee boots, as it was in true Victoria style, raining. Proving that nothing stopped him, Ed persevered forward in his jacket and shorts […]
When life gives you leaves, make leaf mold. When life gives you food scraps and garden clippings, make compost.
›› Margaret Hantiuk
Recently I attended an interesting course on soil science at our Compost Education Centre. I was reminded how important autumn is to gardening here in Victoria.
We have the opportunity to build up our garden soil […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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