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