Events

Colwood’s new arts centre is called the Goldfinch Arts Centre. Featuring visual arts and a beautiful reading space, it’s perched near the Esquimalt Lagoon, with walking trails and a poetry post nearby. Barbara Pelman and I gave the inaugural poetry reading there in October, accompanied by musicians Doug & Shelley Thorsteinson, and David Grove, one… 

Judy LeBlanc’s new collection of personal essays, Permission to Land, reflects on her mother’s First Nations heritage, and why this wasn’t discussed in the family during her lifetime. It’s a beautiful read and you can hear from it, and poetry from me too! at Nanaimo’s Harbourfront Library on Monday April 15 at 4pm.

There’s been construction all year – since last October – on Gorge Road, the third time in my life here that the road’s been dug up. This time it was for replacing storm drains, and altering the road to include concrete barriers for bicycles, removing some bus stops and narrowing the driving lanes. In the… 

Before April goes out like a lamb, let me share some cow’s milk cheeses with you – much enjoyed at the Cheese & Blues event that Hilary’s Cheese presented in Cowichan Bay last week. Pictured to the left is the king of British cheese, Colston Bassett Stilton, which goes down well with port generally but… 

The University of Victoria’s Geography department with the Office for Community-Based Research, the SOGS (Society of Geography Students), and the department of Sociology are pleased to co-present: Travelling from Agri to Culture: The secrets of Myko on Rural Innovation in Cuba by Dr. Humberto Ríos Labrada Friday, March 2nd: 3-5pm Geography dept, Social Sciences and…