A free meeting place where voluntary repairers with skills in sewing, carpentry, electrical and bikes can help fix your item on the spot. Plus knife sharpening and tech help with digital devices. For details and to volunteer: www.repaircafenorthsaanich.ca or email: repaircafenorthsaanich@gmail.com.

Cordova Bay United Church
813 Claremont Ave, Victoria, BC

The Victoria Arion Male Choir is one of the newest choirs in Victoria, BC. In 2018, the Arion Male Choir (founded in 1892) merged with the Victoria Male Voice Choir (1907).

Our mission is to maintain the great tradition of male-voice choral music, and to share that music through two more public concerts each year.  The choir also performs at senior residences, at the Victoria Remembrance Day ceremony at the BC Legislature that the Arion choir has done since 1929 as well as other public events.

We support music education through our choral scholarship program, which allows up to four student musicians to sing with us each year. We welcome new members: come and share with us the joy of male choral music!

Our musical director, Sean Lampard-Quicke, joined us in 2020 and our collaborative pianist, Jennifer Mitchell, joined the choir in 2019.

We are actively seeking new singers for our non-audition choir in January 2026, with open houses on Monday January 5^th, 12^th, and 19^th. The choir sings four-part harmony, and our repertoire covers classical, spiritual, folk, and contemporary music.

We meet Monday’s, 7:00PM at Cordova Bay United Church, 813 Claremont Ave. We are also looking for choral scholars. For more information on becoming a member or if you want to know more about the choral scholarship program please contact Jim Johnson at jimmysj@shaw.ca or check out our website at www.vamc.ca.

Lambrick Park Church, 1780 Feltham Road, Victoria

Show admission is by donation and a fancy Tea with homemade scones and goodies (and coffee) is available for $5. There is a silent auction and the plant sale features potted lilies and a wide variety of other plants specialty items from some local growers. The judged show includes lilies, roses, perennials, foliage, succulents, fruits, vegetables and more.

The public (including children) are welcome to submit their own  entries that meet the Show Schedule  criteria at no charge. The 2026 Show Schedule can be viewed at https://victorialilysociety.ca/services-2/.

Lambrick Park Church, 1780 Feltham Road, Victoria

This year’s Sooke Philharmonic Fling will take place on July 5^th at 2:30 PM. The theme is Music and Movement. Everyone is encouraged to bring their dancing shoes, at least in spirit!

David Stewart, well known in Sooke for his involvement with the Harmony Project as well as for his wonderful violin playing, will return to conduct the orchestra.

The program includes a Beethoven ballet overture, Bach gavottes, Grieg’s Norwegian Dances, excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet, and a patriotic march by Sibelius. We are thrilled to welcome the Sooke Folk Music Society to this summer’s Fling.

“Come dressed up and ready to dance!” suggests Stewart. “Wear a traditional costume: a Norwegian bunad, your tutu and pointe ballet shoes, cowboy hats and boots, a baroque costume (late baroque, please), or anything else you have stored in your attic. Now’s the time and place to use them!”

Bring a blanket or chair, plus your sunscreen and hat along with your dancing shoes. The day’s events include a 50/50 draw and a prize draw. 

This free annual event, open to all, is brought to you by the Sooke Philharmonic Society, orchestra members and many volunteers.

In case of bad weather the concert will be moved to the Sooke Community Hall.