Celebrating 13 years, the Victoria Book Prize Society is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2016 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize.
June 19th we set out on a mission to interview Hank III at his sold out show at The Venue, Vancouver BC. We managed to get a hold of him after the show where we went back to his bus for the interview. My tape recorder wasn’t working and S...
Let me preface this review by saying I’ve known Summer since she was barely out of her teens and coming out to sit in or jam at various venues I was playing at around Victoria BC. I’ve watched her career with great interest and she has ...
Saanich Scattered Artists tour giving back to the community and making it richer
Giving back to the community is a strong focus for the growing number of artists participating in the 12th Annual Scattered Artists S...
Gillian Redwood continues her experimental dance with universal energies in The Triumph of Light. This new series of expansive acrylic paintings illuminate Xchanges Gallery April 3-18. Zoom Artist Talk and Tour of the Exhibit:
Saturday, April 10th at 3:3
Preview: http://www.artopenings.ca/fired-up-2022.html
A story on west coast Canadian blues guitar man, West Coast Comerford. Comerford has played in many blues bands out of Victoria, including the Rockin' Devils, All Them Blues Band and Uncle Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band. The piece was published on Digita
Guests at the Farquhar Auditorium are in for a special experience on September 18. Tanya Tagaq, Inuk throat-singer, composer, actor, author and activist, opens the venue’s fall season. Tagaq performs qiqsaaqtuq, with the Victoria Symphony, and sivuniti
Sometimes musicals aren’t all happy and cheery like many make them out to be.
Set in the late 1800’s, the dramatic musical Fires Burning takes the audience to a disaster that hits the small western town of Caldoon’s Crossing.
In 2002, Dave Gifford and Stephen Nguyen found themselves in the not uncommon position of being art-school students with no place to live. While many would simply resign themselves to a period of complaisant couch-surfing, Gifford and Nguyen took their ho
Soprano’s Bar, Victoria’s only live karaoke joint and notorious dive bar, has closed its doors for good, going out with a bang on New Year’s Eve.
A message posted on the bar’s Facebook page on Dec. 31 served as the official annou...
Preview:
http://www.artopenings.ca/kaiser--faunt.html