– by Gillian Crowley –
Local Authors Read to Support the Festival
Two well-regarded local authors will be part of a fundraiser for the 2015 Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival. Pamela Porter is an award-winning poet who writes books for children. She has received a Governor General’s award for her verse novel Crazy Man and her third collection of poetry, Cathedral, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a woman in Canada. She’ll be joined by Monique Gray Smith, author of Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, which won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nation, Métis and Inuit Literature. Monique holds her storyteller’s lens to the Indigenous experience and passes on wisdom based on her own life and her mixed heritage of Cree, Lakota and Scottish. Tickets $10 at Tanner’s Books, Sidney and Munro’s Books, Victoria.
Fri. June 5, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. (doors open 6.30). Red Brick Café, Sidney
CACSP Spring Studio Tour
Always popular, the Spring Studio Tour is a chance to visit 28 studios/venues featuring 39 local artists during a fun and informative self-guided tour. Maps are available at the Tulista Park Gallery, Peninsula coffee shops, Sidney book stores, Mitchell’s, Red Barn, Deep Cove Markets and all studio venues.
Sponsored by the Community Arts Council – Saanich Peninsula. June 6 & 7, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fun with Fibre, Cloth and Wood
Follow up the art tour with this show and demonstration of creative techniques by four fabric artists and one wood carver. Each artist has a unique approach to their medium. The artists will be in attendance each day working on projects and showing some of their favourite work. Come and see a fun show of both whimsical and serious work in wood and fibre. Artists: Kathy & Peter Demchuk, Maya Brouwer, Heather Corbitt & Dale MacEwan present quilting, collage, fabric painting, wood sculpting, beautiful bowls and whimsical animals. Free admission and parking.
June 8 – 14 at Tulista Gallery. Daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
EKSM – Eine Kliene Summer Music
Critically acclaimed Canadian cellist Ariel Barnes was recently awarded the use of the Canada Council’s finest cello. Known internationally as a mesmerizing soloist and chamber musician, he was recently appointed Principal Cellist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Don’t miss this chance to hear him perform in Tchaikovsky’s luscious A minor Piano Trio, and Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for cello and piano. Ariel will be joined by pianist Chiharu Iinuma and violinist David Gillham, violin professor at the UBC School of Music.
Sat June 27, 2.30 p.m. at the Muse Winery and Sun June 28, 2.30 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church, 5575 West Saanich Rd.
Visions of Boats and the West Coast
Three artists will present their unique visions of our marine setting at the Village Gallery this month. Misha Smart’s paintings are influenced by growing up on Piers Island surrounded by coastal beauty. Perry Haddock captures the Coast in an impressionistic style using acrylic and watercolour. And Hornby Island’s Graham Hebert is well known for his primary colour paintings of boats and
funky buildings.
Village Gallery, Sidney. Open 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
