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Blues Jam at The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 92
2024-11-17 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Royal Canadian Legion Branch 92, 120 Blain rd, Salt Spring Island Bc, V8K2G8, Canada
The Jazz and Blues Society holds weekly jam sessions at The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 92 every Sunday from 3:00-6:00 pm alternating weekly. One week Jazz, one week Blues.

My Sense of Sin(g)
2024-11-17 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-11-16 19:30 - 21:00 | ArtSpring
Viva Chorale, and Vancouver jazz/folk band Illiteratty are joining forces to bring you the bespoke tale of Mr. Anxiety, a trepidatious soul who, despite his fear of joining in, craves connection and community. He bravely decides to attend a community choir rehearsal one night (completely out of character!) where he has a somewhat traumatic yet transformative experience and learns for himself about the power of music to bring people together, create community and foster an atmosphere of joy.
This is not your regular choral concert! The set list was co-curated and co-developed by our Artistic Director Caroni Young and Illiteratty founder and composer Earle Peach. In fact, Earle has written new arrangements for a couple of his pieces just for this show.
For the price of a regular ticket you get a multi-faceted performance by our choir AND a band of super-seasoned and talented musicians all swinging together…. perhaps even inviting you to join in!
Tickets are available online through www.artspring.ca or by calling their box office.

Salt Spring Island Radicchio Festival
2024-11-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Bullock Lake Farm, 360 Upper Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, V8K1R7, Canada
Radicchio is an incredibly diverse and cold hearty vegetable and brings flavour, nutrition and beauty to our tables during the cold months. Supporting the cultivation of vegetables that thrive during cold Fall and Winter months strengthens our resilience and food security here on island, and makes the darker days much more delicious! Join us in celebrating this vegetable and all of the creative ways it can be enjoyed!
Price of ticket includes samples of delicious dishes prepared by :
True Love Pizza
Oxeye Galiano
Francis Bread
Love’s Galettes
Deli Kinome
The Hen and Hound Brasserie & Feast
Woodshed Provisions
Nance Bakes
Pacos Tacos
Cassette Bar & Cafe
Plus tea from Tea Mistress and more!
Local radicchio growers include Bright Farm, Bullock Lake Farm, Heyday Farm, Duck Creek Farm, Quarry Farm, and Glorious Organics Farm (from Aldergrove BC).
Finally, cool merch will be available from Culinary Breeding Network, the organization connecting farmers, chefs and seed breeders that is the inspiration for this event!
The event is not-for-profit; all funds will go to covering food and event costs and the time and investment from the chefs. 5% of ticket sales will be donated to Stqeeye’ Learning Society. Feel free to donate if you have the means, extra funds will go to creating an even better event next year!

DRAMA QUEEN with JOHNNY PAYNE at MOBY'S
2024-11-16 21:00 - 2024-11-17 00:30 | Moby’s Pub, 124A Upper Ganges Rd, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2S2, Central African Republic
Salt Spring’s synth pop quartet to perform at Moby’s for the first time, bringing Victoria’s Johnny Payne (The Shilohs) along for the ride.
DRAMA QUEEN
Drama Queen in a Salt Spring Island-based synthpop band, and the latest invocation from Knick Tomlinson formerly of “Superfeather.” The group consists of Knick on Synthesizer, Pierre Vincent Forgues on Synthesizers, Harley Dunn on bass guitar and Ben Frey on Drums. Effortlessly channelling the essence of the past while crafting a sound distinctly their own, Drama Queen weaves a tapestry of neon melodies and pulsating rhythms. They transcend the ordinary and envelope listeners in a vibrant sonic journey reminiscent of an electrifying ’80s dreamscape dancehall.
https://www.instagram.com/drama.queen.band/
JOHNNY PAYNE
Do you remember rock and roll radio? The harmonies, the hooks, the choruses? Johnny Payne does. Or more specifically, he remembers that beautifully fucked up arc of let’s say ’70 to ’76, that time when the impossibly bright lights of an entire generation’s youthful idealism gave way to the muted amber glow of adult burn-out. Payne has set out on his own as a bona fide solo singer-songwriter and Impossible Way Of Life podcaster.
https://johnnypayne.ca/

Emily: Artist, Poet, Singer! A New Musical by Gordon Clements
2024-11-16 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-11-15 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-11-15 13:30 - 15:30 | Agricultural Hall mayne, 430 Fernhill rd, Mayne island, V0N2J0
Mayne Island Little Theatre presents a new musical and world premiere of Emily: Artist, Poet, Singer! by Gordon Clements. The life story of Emily Carr in her own words.
4 Evening Shows and 2 Matinees, located at the Agricultural Hall on Mayne Island this November!
Evening shows, 8pm: Nov 15th, 16th, 22nd, & 23rd
Matinees, 1:30pm: Nov 15th, 22nd

2024 Pender Island Short Film Festival
2024-11-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Pender Islands Community Hall, 4418 Bedwell Harbour Road, Pender Island, British Columbia, V0N 2M1, Canada
Details about the 9th Annual Pender Island Short Film Festival are coming soon!
Submissions are still open! If you have created a film or have a captivating idea, this is your chance to showcase your work! The submission deadline is October 15th and films must be under 20 minutes in length.
Submissions are open to all creators from the Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. All submissions can be sent to penderfilmfest@gmail.com for entry.

Author Event with Theresa Southam
2024-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Salt Spring Island Public Library, 129 McPhillips Ave, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2T6
Theresa Southam recently published ‘Transforming Trauma through Social Change: A Guide for Educators’
Southam will walk through the arc of her book with a special focus on the case of Salt Spring resident Dr. Briony Penn. Briony and other Salt Spring women understood the full implications of clearcutting the Garry Oak forests and rewrote its narrative. Their work inspired other island communities and contributed to positive social change.

SIMRES SeaTalk: Myxos & Me
2024-11-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Saturna Community Hall, 105 E Point Rd,, Saturna,, V0N 2Y0
Fungi expert and Saturna Island resident Pam Janszen will share her knowledge and research about the wonderful species of Myxomycetes, aka Slime Moulds, that quietly inhabit our world.

Salt Spring Island Foundation – 40 Years of Giving Celebration
2024-11-16 13:00 - 15:00 | ArtSpring
Join us for our 40 Years of Giving celebration event November 16th at 1PM at ArtSpring!
The Foundation is excited to welcome everyone from the community and highlight the many impactful projects, volunteers, and donors that have come together to make Salt Spring a healthier and more caring community.
This event will feature:
-Grant stories and Giving stories
-Local live music
-Delicious food from local caterers
-A photography exhibition featuring photos from 40 years of Salt Spring charitable organizations
-Guest speakers
and more!
We look forward to seeing you there!

Monica Tap at allthingy, plein air session
2024-11-16 11:00 - 14:00
Join painter and activist Monica Tap for a plein air session on Saturday, 16 November, at the allthingy roadside platform, in Salt Spring Island.
Monica will guide a hands-on plein air session while conversing about painting as a form of activism, focusing on her current involvement at Ontario Place. Painting/drawing materials will be provided or bring your own.
Date/time: Saturday 16 November, 11 am – 2 pm
Location: by the Mount Erskine Juniper trailhead, near 270 Trustees Trail (we will move indoors nearby in case of rain)
Cost: Free
Monica Tap is a painter interested in how location and landscape can trigger memory, and has recently been using painting as a form of activism and community resistance in the fight to save Ontario Place in Toronto, a public park, from becoming a private spa.
Instagram: @monica.tap, @ontarioplace4all.
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allthingy is a multi-purpose roadside platform for production and presentation, operated by artists Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere and our neighbours. We gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts towards the 2023-24 Hemlock Micro Studio artist residency and allthingy programming.

Sea Talks
2024-11-16 | South Galiano Community Hall, 141 Sturdies Bay Road, Galiano Island, V0N1P0
Talk on Myxos, aka Slime Moulds

Tim Johnson Quartet - live at Bridgemen's Bistro - Port Browning
2024-11-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Bridgeman’s Bistro at Port Browning, 4605 Oak Road, Pender Island, BC, V0N 2M1
An evening of grown up music featuring:
Tim Johnson – guitar
Karel Roessingh – keyboard
Charlie Knowles – bass
Dan Weeks – drums
All fresh material, jazz, Latin jazz, originals from Karel and Tim.
Dinner and drinks available.
Catch the late ferry back to Victoria after the show.
Tickets at Talisman Books – Pender Island, BC

November Canning Workshops
2024-11-15 14:00 - 16:00 | The Root, 189 Beddis Road, 189 Beddis Road, Salt Spring Island
🌱 Preserve the Flavours of Fall! 🍁
Join us at The Root this November for hands-on canning workshops with expert facilitator Kayla Siefried! Learn food-safe techniques that will let you enjoy your seasonal harvests all year long. 🌽🍐
👩‍🏫 Kayla, the Site Manager and Adult Education Coordinator at the Compost Education Centre in Victoria, will guide you through the essentials of safe canning and food preservation.
🗓️ Workshop Dates & Registration:
Friday, November 8th, 6PM – 8PM
https://revenue-can.keela.co/food-preservation-canning-workshop-november-8th
Friday, November 15th, 2PM – 4PM
https://revenue-can.keela.co/food-preservation-canning-workshop-november-15th
📍 Location: The Root Food Hub | 189 Beddis Road
Don’t miss out on this chance to add food preservation to your toolkit. 🌟
#CanningWorkshop #FoodPreservation #TheRoot #SaltSpringIsland #FallHarvest

Community Gatherings with Live Music
2024-11-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Pender Islands Community Hall, 4418 Bedwell Harbour Road, Pender Island, British Columbia, V0N 2M1, Canada
🎵 Join us every Friday from 12-1pm at the Pender Community Hall for free live music with local musicians!
If you can’t make it in person check out the livestream on the Community Hall’s Facebook page.
Enjoy homemade soup and coffee or tea while listening and meeting your friends and neighbours.
Produced by Ptarmigan Arts (music), the SGI Neighbourhood House (food), and the Pender Island Community Hall (venue).

Thursday Open Mic with Rough and Tumble-Royal Canadian Legion Branch 92
2024-11-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Royal Canadian Legion Branch 92, 120 Blain rd, Salt Spring Island Bc, V8K2G8, Canada
Every Thursday starting at 7:30 your local Legion Branch 92 hosts an Open Mic. The house band is Rough and Tumble. Open to all ages and abilities.

Poetry Open Mic
2024-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Salt Spring Island Public Library, 129 McPhillips Ave, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2T6
Poetry Open Mic featuring: Lorna Crozier
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honorary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Her book, What the Soul Doesn’t Want, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. In 2018, Lorna Crozier received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Steven Price called Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats), her latest nonfiction book, “one of the great love stories of our time.” After That is her most recent collection of poetry. Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island.
Sign-up for the open mic starts at 6:45. One poem per reader, max. 3 minutes.
Library Community Program Room.

Full moon 9:29pm
2024-11-14 - 2024-11-15

Singing for Fun, Singing for Joy
2024-11-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Fireside room, Anglican Church hall, 4703 Canal Road, Pender Island
Join Mary Reher for a fall session of Singing for Fun, Singing for Joy! This program is for both novice/reticent singers, and those more experienced who love to sing. All ages and abilities are welcome! Rather than working toward a performance, our aim is to have an enjoyable music experience within a small group, and to build confidence in our voices and musicianship. Singing is every person’s birthright!
Weekly sessions begin with a warm up. Designed to settle the nervous system, it assists in opening the lungs and building breath capacity. The warm-ups are sometimes quirky and creative, as we have fun while exploring vocal range and physical resonance.
Singing in both unison and harmony can bring awesome feelings of sensory well-being, while connecting us in community. We may experience poignant, sacred, uplifting, or humorous moments, as we sing old songs, folk songs, rounds, chants, and sometimes dances.
Register by September 26.
Thursdays, 4pm to 5pm.

Best of the Fests: BEETHOVEN’S NINE: ODE TO HUMANITY
2024-11-13 19:30 - 21:30 | ArtSpring
Don’t miss BEETHOVEN’S NINE: ODE TO HUMANITY, the first film in the Salt Spring Film Festival’s annual “Best of the Fests” series at ArtSpring, at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, November 13, featuring a live performance by Cicela Månsson & Don Conley!
You don’t have to love classical music to fall in love with this uplifting and profoundly moving film about Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, Beethoven’s timeless Ninth Symphony was the first in history to be accompanied by words – words about love & freedom, hope & peace – written both as a love letter to humankind and as a powerful piece of protest music.
Canadian filmmaker Larry Weinstein travels around the world and delves into the deeply personal to explore the question: How far have we come in the past 200 years since Beethoven wrote his Ninth Symphony? Are we finally worthy of the hopes & dreams of this highly evolved and thoroughly modern artist?
If the horrific wars raging in Ukraine & the Middle East have you questioning why as a species we seem so intent on destroying one another, this timely reminder of our shared humanity will leave you incandescent with hope for the future. Perhaps only music and art can save us from ourselves.
Tickets are $14 via the ArtSpring box office.

Jane Siberry Salon
2024-11-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Blue Raven Farm
Jane Siberry – Concert at Blue Raven Farm on Salt Spring Island
Join us for a memorable evening with the legendary singer-songwriter Jane Siberry at a cozy concert in our Barn on beautiful Salt Spring Island. Get ready for an unforgettable experience as Jane performs her iconic songs in a unique setting. This will be a rare opportunity to see Jane up close and personal in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. Reception following the concert with an opportunity to visit with Jane. Don’t miss out on this chance to enjoy live music in a one-of-a-kind setting on Salt Spring Island!

Jane Siberry Live on Salt Spring Island
2024-11-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Blue Raven Farm
Jane Siberry – Salt Spring Island – Blue Raven Farm
Join us for a memorable evening with the legendary singer-songwriter Jane Siberry at a cozy concert in our Barn on beautiful Salt Spring Island. Get ready for an unforgettable experience as Jane performs her iconic songs in a unique setting. This will be a rare opportunity to see Jane up close and personal in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. Reception following the concert with an opportunity to visit with Jane.
Don’t miss out on this chance to enjoy live music in a one-of-a-kind setting on Salt Spring Island!
Tickets $50
