Welcome City Fields Flower Farm
›› Mila Czemerys
In backyards across Victoria, spring is starting to make its presence felt. This is especially exciting for the four flower farmers who make up City Fields Flower Farm, a new, multi-site-Fernwood included-urban flower farm offering spray-free and compost-fed dahlia bouquets at reasonable prices.
Sharing a love for the outdoors, growing, […]
Do you ever get the feeling that people don’t know their neighbours these days?
›› Jennifer Chown
If you do get that feeling, you’re right. In a 2012 survey by the Vancouver Foundation, 46% of people said that they never see their neighbours. The survey found that the neighbour-to-neighbour relationships that do exist are polite, but they’re […]
›› Ross Currie
SKAM’s origins can be traced back to short one acts in a Chinatown café in 1995. The name is an acronym for its founders: Sarah Donald, Karen Turner, Amiel Gladstone and Matthew Payne. Still going strong to this day, SKAM is under the guidance of founding member Matthew Payne as Artistic Producer, alongside SKAM’s Operation Manager […]
›› Kathryn Juricic
Teams of Garth Homer Society clients are helping Fernwood Community Centre programs run smoothly nearly every day of the week. Volunteer teams come to clean all the toys for our Daycares and Family Resource Programming. Other teams help us take out the recycling and set-up the tables for our Family Dinner.
We’ve had two […]
>> Mark Dusseault
More than 80 theatre artists from across Canada will descend on Fernwood this March for the Belfry’s annual SPARK Festival – an opportunity to see some of the best theatre in the country.
SPARK will kick off on March 9 with the premiere of the musical BlissKrieg from Victoria’s Atomic Vaudeville. AV’s last musical, […]
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 […]
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