World Music Dance Party with Shane Philip

Saturday Sept 4, 8:00: Set your spirit free to the intoxicating rhythms of one‐man phenomenon, Shane Philip at Beaver Point Hall. Didgeridoo, Kona lap-slide guitar, Djembe drums…Shane is described as a master of unique instrumentation who brings strange sounds together to form a seamless music mosaic. “Swelling in primordial pulses and wholloping whoops, the tacit [...]

Moving With Classical Music at Ganges Yoga Studio

” Enjoy each day in great big chunks and give just as much back ,” that is what I try to live by. After teaching pump primers (a coed conditioning aerobic,  heart rehab class — loads of fun!!) on Salt Spring for 20 years I moved into offering guided stretch classes with Celeste at Ganges [...]

Dan Jason’s Seeds

Dan Jason ships about 80,0000 packets of seeds from Salt Spring Island to locations around the planet every year.  He has eight growers on Salt Spring working cooperatively to produce hundreds of varieties of seeds, many of them old, unusual or endangered.  His seeds are tried and true, tested for countless generations and adapted to [...]

Zero Mile Diet Book Launch at the Organic Islands Festival

July 10th, 2010 at 2:30 PM at the Organic Islands Festival in Victoria, BC -  author Carolyn Herriot will be launching her new book The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food as the key note speaker on the event’s main stage. Carolyn’s book  is about securing food security in uncertain times, and [...]

Sign The Plea

Dear Friend of Children, You are invited to become a Signatory in a campaign of global importance. We have become increasingly alarmed by the prevalence of violence against children worldwide. We believe the times provide an opportunity for a new religious moment, in which the public and the world’s spiritual leaders act in concert in [...]

Field to Fork Dilemma

I recently returned from Tunisia.  My husband and I go to a different country every year for one month.  When we arrive in a foreign city, we seek out monuments, ruins, forts, churches and mosques.  One by one we check off these touristic testaments to empire, war and devotion in our guidebook. We travel to [...]

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  • Afternoon Celebration in the United Church Meadow

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  • The Malahat Revue Concert with Jeremy Fisher and Friends

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