Plant sale and gardening workshop 26 May

Plant sale and Gardening workshop- Tips for a successful garden Workshop 10:00-11:30 Plant Sale 11:30-12:30 Fee will include workshop and some plants for your garden. Workshop will cover: – Site preparation – tips to help your plants thrive – Crop rotation – Sheet compost gardening techniques – What to plant and when – guidelines for our local area Participants receive 1.5 hour of instruction on gardening tips and techniques as well as several packs of vegetables and flowers that will be ready to plant. Hardy vegetable and flowers ready to go in the ground will be sold at the end of class, including: kales, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, squash, leeks, chard, flowers. WHEN: Saturday, May 23 10:00AM – 11:30 WHERE: Fernwood Community Center 1240 Gladstone Avenue COST: $20 PRESENTED BY: Amy Crook certified Master Gardener in conjunction with LifeCycles Fruit Tree project coordinator Renate Nahser-Ringer Workshop helps support LifeCycles Fruit Tree Project. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED as space is limited. Please contact fruittree@lifecyclesproject.ca or 250-479-5475 for more information and/or to register for workshops.

Sustainable Home and Garden Series Saturdays 2pm to 4pm

Sustainable Home and Garden Series Saturdays 2pm to 4pm

The Greater Victoria Compost Education centre offers low cost gardening courses. If you are a member of the compost Club Members your first two courses are free and additional workshops are $10. For non members the cost is $15. Pre-registration is required.

The next course on 23 May is on growing tomatoes. The following two weeks the course is on winter veggie gardening. For full details seehttp://www.compost.bc.ca/learn/communityeducation.htm

Hunger opens this weekend

Hunger, which opens in Victoria this weekend, won the Camera d’Or, the prize for best first feature, at the Cannes Film Festival last May. But director Steve McQueen, 39, is hardly a newcomer to filmmaking, even though his films and videos have until now been shown in galleries and not theaters. A star of the art world, he won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1999 and is representing Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale. Hunger is set almost entirely within the notorious Maze Prison near Belfast, McQueen wanted to make a film about “an extraordinary world that has become ordinary,” he said. The film follows the last six weeks in the
life of Republican Bobby Sands, who died during the strike. It unfolds in three distinct movements, each with its own style. The first section evokes the dark atmosphere in the maximum-security H-blocks and the Irish Republican Army’s demand to be recognized as political prisoners.  The second act, captures an intimate conversation about the morality of suicide between Sands (Michael Fassbender) and a priest (Liam Cunningham). In the final third Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike.
Hunger debuted in at the Victoria Film Festival and was one of the most attended films at the Festival.  Other Awards for Hunger British Actor of the Year, Michael Fassbinder, who plays Bobby Sands. 2008 European Discovery Award
Best Film, Irish Film Awards British Independent Film Award, Best Debut Director

UVic Plant Sale: Sunday 3 May

The annual UVic Plant Sale will be on Sunday, May 3 in the University of Victoria’s McKinnon Gym. Doors open at 10 a.m. and the sale ends at 1 p.m.

Gardeners will find a wall-to-wall selection of annuals, perennials, rhododendrons, native plants, trees, alpines, exotics, herbs and vegetables.

Full details: http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=1029

civic orchestra of victoria – 2 May

This Saturday at 2Pm the Civic Orchestra of Victoria  giving a concert, a Serenade to music. The program is:

Strauss, R – Serenade, op. 7, E-flat major, for Wind Instruments

Bizet – carmen: Suite no. 2

The audience is invited to a celebratory reception following the performance.

For more details see:

http://www.civicorchestraofvictoria.org/concert3.html

Victoria Gallery public tours this summer

Until August the Gallery of Victoria is offering public tours of their current exhibition.
Dates and exhibition tours as followed:

April 25 – Assume Nothing: New Social Practice

May 2 – Emily Carr and her Contemporaries
May 9 – Assume Nothing: New Social Practice
May 16 – Edo: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age
May 23 – Assume Nothing: New Social Practice
May 30 – Edo: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age

June 3 – Emily Carr and her Contemporaries
June 13 – Giant Landscapes: BC Landscapes from the AGGV Collection
June 20 – Edo: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age
June 27 – World Upside Down

July 4 – Emily Carr and her Contemporaries
July 11 – Giant Landscapes: BC Landscapes from the AGGV Collection
July 18 – Edo: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age
July 25 – World Upside Down

August 1 – Edo: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age
August 8 – World Upside Down
August 15 – Giant Landscapes: BC Landscapes from the AGGV Collection
August 22 – Emily Carr and her Contemporaries
August 29 – World Upside Down

Tours are approximately one hour and start at 2PM.

Today 2pm: soundScape/SoundSites: Victoria Tour

April 25, 2009 – SoundScape/SoundSites: Victoria Tour 2:00pm – 4:00pm. Victoria Gallery docent Sheila Bradley leads a walking tour of Andrea Walsh’s project, SoundScape/SoundSites: Victoria. Wear your runners and dress for the weather. you must bring your cellphone to participate in this tour. All calls are local. Meet at the Beacon Hill Park Flag Pole.

Farm fresh fruit and veg

Sunwing tomatoes (and other green house veg) have been open almost two months and the selection of fruit and veggies that they are selling is is growing every week. We bought some lovely small sweet tomatoes, cucumbers and basil there last week. If you don’t know sunwing you can learn all about them on their website:

http://www.sunwingtomatoes.ca/who.html

Assume nothing: new social practice exhibition

The Art Gallery of Victoria exhibition Assume Nothing: new social practice is heading into its last month. This exhibition includes sculpture, video, filmes, and sound works that explore socially engaged art. The quality of the works in this exhibition varies greatly. Some works are original and provoke thought while others are rather dull. However the exhibition as a whole is well worth a look. Check it out before May 24. For a full list of artist bios, events and projects see www.aggv.bc.ca

Earth day film festival 21-22 April

Tomorrow is earth day. Open cinema, VIDEA and the Sierra Club of BC
are presenting the Annual EARTH DAY FILM FESTIVAL FRIEND & FUNDRAISER. Entry is free. For more details see:

http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/open-cinema-presents-2nd-annual-earth-day-film-festival