Mozart & Haydn Festival: March 1st to Friday, March 6th

The Victoria Conservatory of Music (VCM) presents Mozart & Haydn Festival: Two Friends from Sunday, March 1^st to Friday, March 6^th, 200. Full details:

http://www.vcm.bc.ca/mozarthaydn.html

For a humorous take on white people and classical music read:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/09/01/108-appearing-to-enjoy-classical-music/

Seedy saturday: seed and garden show Sat 21 Feb

The James Bay community market is hosting a annual seed and garden show. There will be guest speakers, a seed swap and more. Check out all the details at:

http://www.jamesbaymarket.com/seedysaturday/seedy_saturday.htm

Veggie planting workshop Feb 28

I recently received an email about this veggie planting workshop:

LifeCycles Fruit Tree Project (FTP) is offering the following workshop: Seed planting workshop: WHEN: Saturday February 28th 10:00 -12:00 WHERE: Fernwood Community Center 1240 Gladstone Avenue COST: $20 PRESENTED BY: Amy Crook certified Master Gardener in conjunction with FTP WHAT: Bring a few of your favourite seeds and/or go to Seedy Saturday to collect some great local specimens. We will discuss successful seed planting techniques for our local area. Participants will then plant some seeds and take home various plantings. Proceeds of workshops go to support LifeCycles Fruit Tree Project. Please contact fruittree@lifecyclesproject.ca or 250-479-5475 for more information and/or to register for workshops. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED as space is limited. — Thank-you Erich and Renate Nahser-Ringer Program Coordinators LifeCycles Fruit Tree Project www.lifecyclesproject.ca fruittree@lifecyclesproject.ca

Tea festival 14/15 Feb

According to SWPL “It is a known fact that white people consume, on average 25 different teas in a given year.” If you are behind on your recommended annual intake don’t fret you have the chance to catch up at the 3rd Annual Victoria Tea Festival – February 14th & 15th, 2009!

LOVE HURTS Valentine’s Gorelesque Bloody Betty and Her Deadly Sins

Not excited about the idea of receiving a dozen red roses and going out for a dinner for two this Valentine’s day? Then check out LOVE HURTS Valentine’s Gorelesque Bloody Betty and Her Deadly Sins at the Lucky Bar

8:00pm $10adv/$15door ($12 w/costume)
Valentine’s Gorelesque show!!!

more details see: http://luckybar.ca/

Victoria Film Festival

The Victoria Film festival is finishing the weekend. There is some interesting stuff on including

Apology Of An Economic Hitman

John Perkins is a self-confessed economic hit man, reformed and repentant. From 1971 to 1981 he was employed as an economist by consulting firm, Chas T Main. His job‾ To structure huge international loans to Third World countries (in Perkins’ case: Indonesia, Panama and Saudi Arabia), loans to Third World countries for massive construction projects that would funnel the money back to U.S. contractors, enriching the ruling elite at the cost of national self-sufficiency and independence.  By this means, Perkins asserts, the US has turned the World Bank and the International Monetary fund into tools of Empire.  Perkins premise is that Economics – not inteligence – is where the real cloak and dagger stuff happens.

For details of all festival events and films see:

http://www.victoriafilmfestival.com/

For a humorous take on film festivals see SWPL: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/18/3-film-festivals/

UPDATE:

The Irish film hunger took first prize at the Victoria Film festival

Hunger

World Perspective

(UK, 2008, 100 mins)

35mm

Directed By: Steve McQueen

Producers: Laura Hastuings-Smith, Robin Gultch
Screenwriter: Edna Walsh, Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender
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If nothing else, Hunger is a film that is both brutal and breathtakingly beautiful in a way you probably never thought a film could be. It plunges viewers into the world of the early 1980s H-Blocks uprising and of republican prisoner Bobby Sands (played with formidable force by Michael Fassbender), who died 66 days into a hunger strike. In 1981, the UK was in the thick of the Margaret Thatcher years and in Belfast’s Maze prison, the IRA prisoners had started a blankets and no-washing strike, refusing to conform to the prison rules until they were recognized as political prisoners and not criminals. Davey Gillen, a new prisoner, has come in at the height of this protest and fallen in line with his cellmates including Bobby Sands, H-block’s leader. What should be just passive resistance takes on a terrifying tone as the brutality of the IRA outside the prison through several well coordinated executions soon makes the guards realize that no one is safe. As it seems that the strike can’t get any worse, in walks a priest with a few words for Bobby.

Be A Tourist in Your Own Town- March 4th – 8th

Be A Tourist in Your Own Town

59 venues are participating this years Annual Be A Tourist in your own Home Town line-up. This is a great event for those watching their budget. During this period it is  free to get into many attractions including the Victoria Art gallery (usually $12 per adult!).

For a list of attractions check out:

http://www.attractionsvictoria.com/be-a-tourist/index.html

“Dine around Victoria”

“From February 19th to March 8th, 2009, enjoy a three-course dinner at some of Victoria’s hottest eateries for $20, $30, or $40 CDN per person”

http://www.tourismvictoria.com/content.aspx?f=Content\1.+Visitors\6.+Packages+And+Promotions&p=3.+Dine+Around+And+Stay+In+Town+Menus.html

Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Bigleaf Maple Syrup Festival

Since moving to Victoria two years ago I’ve become what Harbour news calls a big “picker-maker”. I make jam, quince paste, jellies, cordial, preseves, dried fruits and I pick black berries and (with lifecycles) apples, pears, and quince.  So this maple syrup festival (Saturday, February 7th, 2009  10:00 AM to 4:30 PM) caught my eye. Sounds like a lot of fun and very interesting.

BC Forest Discovery Centre 2892 Drinkwater Road, Duncan

More details:   http://bcforestmuseum.impgroup.bc.ca/?special-events,48