Qualicum Beach Farmers Market
- Apr 29, 2023 to Dec 30, 2023
- Location: Qualicum Beach Community Hall / Veterans Way 644 Veterans Way Qualicum Beach
- Description:
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Visit Qualicum Beach Farmers Market every Saturday from 8:30am-12pm, Year Round and enjoy an incredible selection of fresh produce and locally produced goods. Our vendors make, bake, or grow the products they offer for sale.Get to know who produces your food. Discover the wealth of mid-Island production from a wide variety of local home and commercial providers. Learn from them in person the joys and challenges of delivering quality fruits, vegetables and berries, maintaining heritage varieties and assuring the freshest and best flavoured homemade products.We love your fur babies too, but please leave your pets at home when visiting the market. - Created by: Events OCAC
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Errington Farmers' Market
- May 6, 2023 to Sep 30, 2023
- Location: Errington Community Park Next to the Errington War Memorial Hall 1390 Errington Road Errington, BC
- Description:
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Since 1973, the Errington Farmers’ Market has served the communities of Errington, Coombs, Hilliers, Whiskey Creek, and Parksville.“Make it, Bake it, Grow it” is the basic tenet of farmers’ markets. This means that in order to sell at the market, each vendor has to be directly involved in the making, baking or growing of their product! Customers are encouraged to ask questions of the farmers, food producers and artisans to receive knowledgeable, accurate answers.Shopping at farmers’ markets is a way to truly “Support Local”, and it’s a great way to connect with people in the area, learn new things, and try different foods.Finding us is easy! We are only 2 km off the Port Alberni Highway on your way to Englishman River Falls Provincial Park.
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TRANSITIONS: National Mosaics Conference 2023
- Jul 1, 2023 to Aug 27, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
TRANSITIONS: National Mosaics Conference 2023: We are so thrilled to be hosting this National Mosaics Conference at the MAC this summer! We will be welcoming Mosaic artists from across Canada, who will be hosting a wonderful series of Artist Talks, Workshops & Classes AND a community mosaics project, for all of our summer visitors to participate in! Bring your summer visitors and come and be a part of this exciting, innovative, educational, juried exhibition.
Running July 1- August 27, 2023. Opening Celebrations: July 1st, 1-3pm. Check out the MOSAICS Artist Talks and Classes and be a part of the wonderful activities this summer at the MAC!
More details HERE
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- Categories: Exhibition
Plein Air
- Jul 9, 2023 to Aug 6, 2023
- Location: See Information Below
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- Categories: Class
Creative Kids Summer 2023 Classes
- Jul 11, 2023 to Aug 17, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
Join us for a summer of fun in our Community Art Garden!
We have nine new classes for Creative Kids ages 8-12. Our instructors Shania Frampton and Alex Carr will be here to lead the way!Classes run Tuesdays through Thursdays from July 11- 27 and repeat from August 1 – 17.
Choose between am (10-12) and pm (1-3) classes so you can hit the beach before or after your class.For details and registration information on these fun and new class offerings click HERE
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Creative Kids Summer 2023
- Jul 11, 2023 to Aug 17, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
Sign Up HERE
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- Categories: Class
The Play that Goes Wrong
- Jul 12, 2023 to Jul 30, 2023
- Location: Village Theatre 110 W 2nd AveQualicum Beach, BC, V9K 1S8Canada
- Description:
The Play that Goes Wrong
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Sunday, July 30, 2023By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
Directed by Gary Brown
The smash hit farce! On the opening night of "Murder at Haversham Manor'", things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show – an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences. Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award-winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter.
More Details HERE
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- Categories: Theatre
Parksville Beach Festival
- Jul 13, 2023 to Aug 13, 2023
- Location: Parksville BC
- Description:
Parksville Beach Festival
For more details click HERE
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- Categories: Fun
Uptown Market - Qualicum Beach
- Jul 13, 2023 at 5:00pm to Aug 31, 2023 at 9:00pm PDT
- Location: Qualicum Beach - Second Avenue West, from Memorial Avenue to Primrose Street.
- Description:
Each Thursday night in July and August the Uptown Market will be taking place from 6pm to 9 pm on Second Avenue West, from Memorial Avenue to Primrose Street.
Each Thursday, starting July 6 and ending August 31
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- Categories: Markets
101 Days of Live Patio Music at the QBC
- Jul 14, 2023 at 3:00pm to Sep 4, 2023 at 5:00pm PDT
- Location: Qualicum Beach Cafe 2690 Island Highway W Qualicum Beach, British Columbia 250-752-8146
- Description:
Support Local! Support Live Music! Spend those beautiful, sunny summer days on the Qualicum Beach Cafe patio with some of Vancouver Island's best musicians to serenade you!
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- Categories: Music
Vancouver Island Symphony’s popular Summer Pop Up Concert Series
- Jul 15, 2023 to Aug 12, 2023
- Location: Various Locations See FULL DETAILS below
- Description:
Yellow Point • Cedar by the Sea • Nanaimo • Parksville • Comox
Expect the unexpected with the return of the Vancouver Island Symphony’s popular Summer Pop Up Concert Series featuring 3 VIS Ensembles performing exciting, entertaining and enchanting live concerts. These 3 concerts take place in beautiful garden settings from Yellowpoint to the Comox Valley.
FULL DETAILS HERE
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- Categories: Music
FLUX AND FELINE KAT CEARNS
- Jul 18, 2023 to Jul 31, 2023
- Location: McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street PO Box 1662 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H5
- Description:
Kat Cearns is an emerging artist and illustrator based in Coombs here on Vancouver Island. Her practice is ever-growing and evolving, driven by daily inspiration and a fundamental need to create. She works in a wide range of mediums including ink, watercolour, acrylic, block printing, oil, encaustic, and more. Art has always been a way for Kat to communicate with people. As a shy individual, expressing her inner self through an art practice has been a wonderful and fulfilling way to open up to new relationships and connections. Her subjects are often animals, both in natural states and settings, as well as whimsical and fantastical scenarios. Kat aims to depict and express her feelings of awe and gratitude for the minute, often overlooked moments in life that, when added up, make every day beautiful.
MORE DETAILS HERE
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- Categories: Exhibition
Sheryl Sawchuk
- Jul 18, 2023 to Jul 31, 2023
- Location: Bayside Restaurant
- Description:
Sheryl Sawchuk Artist Statement
I love to paint! Since I was a child who could barely hold a crayon until today I have never lost the fascination and enjoyment of using colours and lines to represent the people and things in the world around me.I moved to Vancouver Island in 2003 and leapt into the challenge of becoming a full time artist, for subject matter I simply look around, living on Vancouver Island there is almost always something beautiful to see at every turn. It doesn’t matter if I’m on the beach, hiking in the woods, or in my garden, I like to examine things up close so I can explore the details and really appreciate the intricacies that I see.
I hope that when people view my art they can sense and share in the amazement and appreciation that I have for
the subject that I am so happy to experience and paint!MORE DETAILS HERE
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What's Your Jam?
- Jul 20, 2023 to Aug 31, 2023
- Location: Memorial Plaza Memorial Avenue Parksville, British Columbia
- Description:
THURSDAYS - 3PM to 6PM
What's your jam? Join us for open jam afternoons on Memorial Plaza.
Come with your band members, perform solo, sit in with other musicians, or be part of the audience. Everyone welcome!
Musicians, bring your own equipment (power is available).
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- Categories: Music, Fun
Classes for Fiddler on the Roof JR
- Jul 24, 2023 at 10:00am to Aug 13, 2023 at 4:00pm PDT
- Location: See description below
- Description:
This workshop has been offered every summer since 2010. Some past workshops have included Little Mermaid Jr., Aladdin Jr., Guys & Dolls Jr., Beauty and the Beast Jr., Godspell Jr., to name a few. Numerous teens have taken the workshop summer-after-summer. Many have (subsequently) taken post-secondary studies in music / theatre / dance. And a few have become professionals in the performing arts.
Over the 3-week period, and under the tutelage / direction of experienced professionals, led by Hilary Whelton and Miranda Murphy, participants will undertake to audition, prepare, rehearse and perform this lively, beloved, teen-adapted musical classic .
The purpose of the program is to provide an opportunity for youth to participate in a stimulating, high-calibre, performing arts experience during the summer months. Participants receive instruction / training from superbly-qualified professionals in a friendly, supportive, purposeful environment.
Through the program- participants will develop and
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- Categories: Class, Theatre
Nanoose Place
- Jul 30, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
- Location: 2925 NORTHWEST BAY ROAD, NANOOSE BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA V9P 9J9, CANADA (250) 468-5339
- Description:
Nanoose Place opened in 1992 under the leadership of the Nanoose Bay Lions with support from the community.
The non-profit, Nanoose Bay Activities and Recreation Society (NBARS) operates Nanoose Place.
Eswyn's Alpine & Rock Garden was established in the fall of 2009 by a group of dedicated volunteers.
Activities can be found HERE.
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- Categories: Community
Arrowsmith Agricultural Association
- Jul 30, 2023 to Dec 30, 2025
- Location: PO Box 195 1014 Ford Rd Coombs, BC V0R 1M0 Email: info@coombsfair.org Tel: 250-248-4458
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- Categories: Community
Errington Hall
- Jul 30, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
- Location: 1390 Errington Rd. Errington, B.C. V0R 1V0
- Description:
The Errington Hall serves as the creative hub of our community located in Area F of the Nanaimo Regional District
We foster arts and culture through our events and programs and also support the arts-based activities of non-profit community groups and organizations.
For a complete list of events click HERE
As a Community Presenter, we arrange an annual series of concerts and dances with professional touring artists. Local musicians perform at a monthly coffee house. We produce “A Night at the Palace,” an annual vaudeville burlesque show with a live band that has a four-night run in February. New additions to our programming are a children’s choir and pre-school and after school music classes. We organize a Christmas Concert, Christmas Craft Fair, Halloween dance and the Pumpkin Trail performance arts evening in the Errington Park. Our annual Hi Neighbour Festival in August celebrates community arts, music, and pastimes. We host the annual Islands Luthiers Guild showcase as well as film
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Lighthouse Community Center
- Jul 30, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
- Location: Lighthouse Community Centre 240 Lions Way, Qualicum Beach, BC V9K 2E2
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- Categories: Community