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Here are a couple of the events happening around town this weekend!   Friday Victoria Shamrock's playoffs best of 5 series vs New West at the Q Center  Game starts at 6:30 https://www.victoriashamrocks.com/home    Friday - Monday The Sooke Fine Arts Show. It provides the opportunity for the finest artists from Vancouver Island and BC's coastal islands to showcase and sell their work each summer. The Show is Vancouver Island's longest-running juried fine art show. It will celebrate its 37th anniversary in 2023. https://sookefinearts.com/    Saturday & Sunday Noon - 6pm both days  Viva! Victoria Latin Fest It is a Latin American inspired cultural event that will feature live music, dance, food, cultural activities, and more. This daylong event is free for the whole family. Happening in Centennial Square  https://vivavictorialatinfest.ca/  Friday - Sunday Sunfest at Laketown Ranch in the Cowichan Valley  Blake Shelton, Billy Currington and Lainey Wilson are the headliners  https://www.sunfestconcerts.com/    Saturday & Sunday Noon - 5pm both days THE RELOVE MARKET in Market Square The ReLove Market is a Premier Secondhand & Vintage pop up Market, offering the finest in Preloved garments at affordable prices.  https://relovegeneration.com/  Sunday, August 6 Cadboro Bay Fest 9am – 4pm  https://www.saanich.ca/EN/main/news-events/events-list/saanich-community-events/cadboro-bay-festival-2021.html 

For the past five years, the Greater Victoria Folk Festival Society has produced Folktoria, a celebration of the cultural diversity found in Victoria. Victoria's Centennial Square will host 39 cultural groups, associations, and individuals performing this year. This doesn't include the opening ceremonies with Jamie Orr and Philip Louie and the several food trucks and vendors. https://www.folktoria.ca/ - photo from the Folktoria Facebook page. Intro and outro music: Mind Games - Mathew Mcguire.

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - On the eve of the 2020 provincial election, Premier John Horgan declared, “I'm committed to keep moving forward to protect old growth, create good jobs, and maintain family-supporting livelihoods in communities across the Province. A re-elected BC NDP will implement the full slate of proposals from the Old Growth Strategic Review Panel. We will act on all fourteen recommendations and work with Indigenous leaders and organizations, industry, labour and environmental organizations on the steps that will take us there.” It has been almost two and a half years and very little of this has come into being. A number of local businesses and environmental organizations are among the more than 170 signatories of a petition calling upon Premier David Eby and the NDP Government to fulfill their commitments to protect old-growth forests. Their joint declaration states, “Our coalition is bringing a broad-based mass mobilization to the BC Legislature on February 25, 2023, that reflects the majority of public will in BC for progressive solutions to the crisis in the woods.” They are to meet in Victoria's Centennial Square and then descend upon the lawn in front of the provincial legislature

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - According to CHEK News, hundreds of people marched from Centennial Square to the steps of the B.C. Legislature on Saturday, November 20th. The “Funeral for the Future” was organized by Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Island, and featured Dr David Suzuki as a speaker. “No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threat will be lost,” said the former host of the Nature of Things. “We are in a sixth spasm of species loss. In May, a United Nations report announced a million more species are in imminent danger of extinction … There's no mystery to why species are vanishing so rapidly. We are the cause. There are too many of us demanding too much from Mother Earth.” Suzuki added, “The planet is not in trouble. It did fine for 4 billion years without us and will carry on after we're gone.” He pointed to the environmental crisis which humanity is bringing upon itself after a mere 200,000 years of existence. Suzuki traced the roots of this threat to a “mindset that regards everything around as a potential opportunity for us,” complex legal systems and the artificial ”boundaries of nations, provinces, and municipalities.” “Nature doesn't give a damn about human boundaries,” he said. “While laws define human and property rights, what about the right of a songbird to live its life as it evolved to live? What about the right of the forest to exist as a community of organisms or a river to flow as it has for millennia? Who the hell do we think we are?” “ … So while most scientists believe the economy must shrink, politicians and the business community continue to push for more and fail to address the important questions. What is it economy for? Are there no limits? Are we happier with all this stuff? How much is enough? What are the necessities of life?” The IMF reported that the fossil fuel sector received $5.9 trillion in subsidies during 2020. “Yet the rich countries will not provide the $100 billion annually to help the victims of climate change,” said Suzuki. Ignoring this speech, most media coverage focused on a comment Suzuki made to CHEK news: “We're in deep, deep doo-doo and they've been telling us – the leading experts – for over 40 years. This is what we've come to. The next stage after this, there are going to be pipelines blown up if our leaders don't pay attention to what's going on.” BC's Minister of Public safety, Mike Farnworth, shot back, “I think statements like that are not helpful.” Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said, “This type of rhetoric is dangerous and undemocratic.” BC Liberal leadership candidate Ellis Ross said, “You can't tell me he didn't know exactly what he was inferring.” Suzuki called the suggestion that he was inciting people to violence ‘absurd' – “It's exactly the opposite of what I was trying to say.” Campbell River resident Don Goodeve, who organized the Extinction Rebellion event, told Cortes Currents, “We demand that our government get response. That they get aligned with the science that they take the actions in British Columbia which we need. That they declare an emergency and get organized around what is going to be necessary to protect the safety and livelihoods of British Colombians now and into the future.”

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Island and Dr. David Suzuki will host a Funeral for the Future in Victoria this Saturday, November 20th. It starts at 12:30 PM in Centennial Square, after which participants will march to Bellevue street opposite the Provincial Legislature. Cortes Currents reached Dr. Don Goodeve, an organizer with Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Island, at his home in Campbell River. “We could wait for other people around the planet to make a difference, but we actually have to start with what we're doing here. So what we're going on the streets for, on Saturday with Dr. David Suzuki, is to demand the climate leadership that British Colombians expect and need,” he said. “The future is going to be bleak. We are going to see more extreme weather events. More floods, more heatwaves, more drought conditions, more crop failures. This is going to get worse before we have a chance of making it better, but we have to start making it better now.” Goodeve asked, “how will future generations remember us?” As the generation that left this planet with an absolute catastrophe? Or the generation that made changes. “It's clear that the COP process for addressing this crisis is broken and it's not moving forward. We have the same old vested interests who are trying to protect their investments in fossil fuels and trying to protect the fossil fuel industry from what we know has got to be the end of it.” The province's clean BC plan would have been fantastic 20 years ago, but now we are in an emergency. What is it going to take for the province to realize that? “We have not had the action that's needed and across the board, we've got them proposing and putting money into the fracked gas industry and the coastal gasoline pipeline on the basis that, this is somehow going to be good for the province and good for our long-term future. It's clear with the events that are unfolding - they're not.”   He hopes the people of British Columbia demand that our government get responsive. “Waiting for other countries to act, as a condition for us acting, is a suicide,” said Goodeve. “We actually need an emergency declaration. We need an end to fossil fuel subsidies, which were $1.3 billion in this province during 2020, and we need to protect our forests. The floods, the landslides that have happened and so many of the effects that we've seen come down to forest management practices that have caused slope destabilization. We need to understand that the forests we have, which have become a net carbon source, can be part of the solution.” The people of British Columbia have a choice. Schedule of events for this Saturday, Nov 20, 2021: Event Starts - 12:30pm at Centennial SquareFuneral Procession - 1:00-1:30pm - down Douglas to Belleville St. Speakers - 1:30pm on Belleville St. opposite Legislature Symbolic Funeral Action -  2:10pm on Belleville St Photo credit: Looking up from beneath the waves - Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash

CBC Victoria's On the Island host Gregor Craigie and Grant MacKenzie of Our Place Society discuss tent cities and homelessness as Victoria enforces an eviction order against campers at Centennial Square. Dr. Michael Curry discusses what the return to classrooms next week means for COVID "bubbles" -- particularly those with more vulnerable people in them, like grandparents.

This year for our Outdoor Movie Month Greg took Lauren to Eat See Hear’s presentation of Groundhog Day. We share our experience watching this classic film in Centennial Square at Pasadena City Hall as well as discuss Bill Murray’s journey through the stages of grief, possible connections this film has to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Greg shares his harrowing tale of self-inflicted torture for watching this film. Music by bensound.com

A rapid-fire review episode for a busy July! Melanie, Sarah, John and Amanda chat about Blue Bridge's Drawer Boy (1:12), Illicit: A Shadow Story (5:49), Andrew Bailey's Brain Machine (11:00), Theatre SKAM's SKAMpede (15:03), and The Tempest and Pericles at the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival (20:10). Plus, could a revamp of Centennial Square make for more downtown site-specific art (25:58) and a look at upcoming arts events for July and early August (27:57).

Historian and broadcaster Carl Chinn visits Centennial Square at the centre of the city. Now a cultural hub bordered by the iconic Library of Birmingham, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Symphony Hall, this is the largest urban public square built in Europe since 1945. But, as Carl explains, its history was very different. In previous centuries this was the location of many of the industries which made Birmingham famous. Criss-crossed by canals branching out from Gas Street basin, there were large glassworks and metal manufacturers who, by the middle of the 19th century, were using 60 steam engines. John Baskerville - The Beauty of Letters Here was the home of John Baskerville whose love of letters reshaped the world of printing and brought typography into the modern era. While Baskerville made Birmingham famous for the excellence of its printing he courted controversy in his personal life. Carl tells his story and reveals how Baskerville’s fame was recognised in the emerging United States of America. Finally, Carl visits another iconic building on Centenary Square - The Hall of Memory - which sadly many walk by but few visit. KEYWORDS: Library of Birmingham, Hall of Memory, John Baskerville, Bingley Hall, International Conference Centre, Symphony Hall, Birmingham Rep, Canals, Carl Chinn, Walks, Books