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In naturopathic medicine we like to use the least invasive, gentlest methods first to treat a problem. I see it as a spectrum with diet and lifestyle on one end (I have seen diet changes alone lead to dramatic changes in menopausal symptoms). Next would come vitamins and nutrients, herbal medicine, homeopathy and acupuncture. Natural medicine has some gentle yet fantastic tools for working with the discomforts of menopause and I’ve seen some fantastic results!

At the other end of the spectrum we have hormones and drugs.

Hormone replacement therapy is the use of hormones to substitute for naturally occurring hormones. I don’t like this term, it implies that menopause is a time of hormone deficiency – rather than normal and inevitable. It’s wellness and balance we are seeking. We want to feel great and look our best – this is not necessarily the same as having the hormone levels of a 20 year old.

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy uses hormones that look exactly like the ones naturally found in a woman (as opposed to more conventional hormone therapy that uses hormones that are not identical). For this reason, the use of these hormones is thought by many to be more natural and safer. They can be very effective in reducing symptoms. In my office I use bio-identical hormones after we have tried other options. I always discuss the pros, cons and the scientific evidence available regarding safety. I would advise any woman opting for hormone therapy to ask the same of her doctor.

As women, many of us spend most of our time looking after others, we are natural care givers. Menopause is a wonderful time to focus on one’s self. Look inward, take that meditation class, start that exercise program, give your diet a makeover, and see your naturopathic doctor for help with your wellness plan.

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Canada’s oldest Chinatown amid culture, vendors, food, music and more.

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Dust off your dancing shoes, take a lesson, and dance the night away at this weekly dance series.

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The smell of burnt rubber and gasoline are just the beginning for a night at the races, every Wednesday and Saturday in August.

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hundreds of Fringe shows – comedy, drama, dance, music – over the course of the festival. Aug.21-31.

the UVic women’s soccer team take on Seattle Pacific University in pre-season action. 6:30pm at Centennial Stadium.

Head west and enjoy the community night market, Thursday nights at the Sooke Region Museum & Visitor Centre.

shapes and sizes take to the Inner Harbour for this terrific tribute to watercraft. classicboatfestival.ca.

the blues if you take in the music onstage at the threeday music festival. Aug. 30-Sept. 1.

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Regular cars are advised to avoid Oak Bay Avenue this day, because it’s collectible cars only as the street shuts down for this annual event that highlights old, classic cars to colourful hot rods. Entertainment all day on the Avenue. 8am-3:30pm. Free for spectators, $15 to enter a car.

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The German Auto Import Network presents the Vancouver Island Motor Gathering in support of Children’s Hospital Foundation of Vancouver Island and the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation. Enjoy an exciting lineup of cars and motorcycles, plus food, entertainment, pedal cars, remote-controlled cars, bouncy castle and more, 11am to 2pm. Viscount Aero Centre, 9800 McDonald Park, Sidney.

Admission: $2 donation for spectator entry and $25 for vehicle entry (register at motorgathering.com).

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Cycle the 45-, 105- and 150-km routes on which professional cyclist Ryder Hesjedal trained before winning the 2012 Giro d’Italia. Thousands of cyclists will take part in the event that sees participants take scenic, and sometimes challenging, routes around the whole of Greater Victoria. Register, starting at $97, at tourdevictoria.com.

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Victoria classic boat festival Aug. 29-31

Yachts and work boats will be centre stage at the 37th annual festival that’s dedicated to stunning watercraft.

Races, sail pasts and lots of great boats to check out are all part of the event. Inner Harbour.

Vancouver island salmon Classic Aug. 30

Anglers from all over the world congregate on the fertile fishing waters of Sooke for the 5th annual Vancouver Island Salmon Classic.

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FLAMENCO FEST - Music is commonly referred to as

a universal language, but for the members of Torontobased Ventanas, it’s just one of several languages within approved their repertoire.

Ventanas formed out of a desire in that city to bring together different cultures’ music and dance, and collaborate with one another. The six members come from Greek, Ukrainian, Indian, Mexican, Romanian and French Canadian backgrounds, and their music spans those cultures and more.

“Our music is a reflection of all the background of our members,” said singer Tamar Ilana. “People love hearing it. We get asked a lot of questions, ‘What languages are you guys singing? What do the lyrics mean?’”

The languages include Spanish, Macedonian, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Arabic, Hebrew, Serbian, Ukrainian, Ladino – with a little bit of French and English.

Ventanas returns to Victoria as part of the 2nd annual Victoria Flamenco Festival this month.

“We were there last year, at the first Flamenco Festival, which was really exciting to play the very first show at an inaugural festival, so we’re really excited to come back,” Ilana said. “Come out – you’re going to get not only music, but a lot of visual representation of the music. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Ventanas performs a free show in Centennial Square at noon on Aug. 11.

The festival features free lunch-hour performances all week, plus ticketed evening shows throughout the festival. This all leads up to a full weekend festival in Centennial Square Aug. 16-17. See victoriaflamencofestival.com.

Experience the range of St. Louis singersongwriter Olsen and her “collection of songs grown in a year of heartbreak, travel and transformation” with guests at Club 9ONE9. 8pm. Tickets, $15, at Ditch Records, Lyle’s Place and the Strathcona Hotel.

Dancing in the square UNTIL AUG. 14

Join the Victoria Ballroom Dance Society for an evening of instruction and fun. The evenings start with a lesson to learn the waltz, social foxtrot, jive, rumba and cha cha, followed by live music to show off your newfound skills.

Mondays (except Aug. 4). Centennial Square. 7-9:30pm.

Eventide music series until aug. 14

Centennial Square plays host to an eclectic mix of local talent for the weekly Thursday evening concert series. July 31 Bucan Bucan, Carousels, Ruby Karinto; Aug. 7 Mount Eerie, Chet, WAND, Hush Pup; Aug. 14 Frog Eyes, Fantasy Prom, Scars & Scarves, Hutch. 6-9pm. Free.

Saanich Music in the park until aug. 26

Saanich parks provide a stunning backdrop to stellar music every Tuesday night in August. Aug. 5 Kumbia at Rutledge; Aug 12 Shaky Ground at Rutledge; Aug 19 Kikeyambay at Braefoot; Aug 19 BackBeat at Marigold; Aug. 26 Tom Morrisey at Rudd. 6-8pm.

Details at saanichsunfest.ca. Free.

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Free music at the Cameron Bandshell in Beacon Hill Park each Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holiday Mondays, from 1:303:20pm. August features Dockside Drive (Aug. 4); The Pinnacle Brass Quintet (Aug. 9); Cookeilidh (Aug 24); and The Kingmizers (Aug. 29). Bring a blanket or lawn chair. More information and a full list of performances at victoria.ca/ cityvibe.

25th anniversary VICTORIA SYMPHONY SPLASH Aug. 3

The city’s most skilled classical musicians from the Victoria Symphony Orchestra team up with Vox Humana choir, the Canadian Scottish Regiment Pipe and Drum Band, and junior soloist, nine-year-old Erik Lin, to put on a memorable community performance from a barge in the Inner Harbour.

Music will range from classical scores to music from popular video games.

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Run the jewels aug. 11

This hip-hop duo featuring El-P and Killer Mike perform at Upstairs Cabaret in support of their upcoming album, Run the Jewels 2. Upstairs Cabaret, 9pm.

Tickets, $20, at ticketweb.ca. annual victoria summer choir Aug. 23

Some 150 singers will be joined by a live orchestra performing forgotten gems from classical to pop music. At Alix Goolden Hall, 7:30pm. Tickets, $20, at Ivy’s Bookshop, Long & McQuade, Russell Books and at the door.

Melissa Etheridge aug. 30

Still as entertaining today as she was in the ‘80s, Grammy-winning Melissa Etheridge brings her recognizable voice to the Royal Theatre Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets, starting at $59.50, at rmts.bc.ca.

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Victoria Shakespeare Festival until Aug. 16

Camosun College Lansdowne Lawns (3100 Foul Bay) hosts The Victoria Shakespeare Society once again for the long-running festival. Check out Henry V (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and The Taming of the Shrew (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday). Tickets are $12/24 (half price for the first half of the festival, until July 26. (Upgrade later, if you like.) Tickets are available at Ivy’s Books, The Papery and various markets through the summer. vicshakespeare. com.

DANGERs of daphne Aug. 2

Intrepid Theatre’s monthly YOU Show features the story of Daphne, a 1914 actress whose aspirations to become a film star are being beaten down by the fact her only roles are as an object the Man-of-the-Week rescues. What happens when Daphne isn’t content to sit pretty? Tune in at 8pm at 2-1609 Blanshard to find out.

Boeing Boeing UNTIL AUG. 2

Perfect theatre for summer, this bedroom farce by Marc Camoletti features Bernard, who loves women, particularly airline stewardesses. In fact, he’s engaged to three: Gretchen, Gabriella and Gloria, made possible thanks to the precision timing of modern flight schedules. But his plan soon hits a little turbulence. Langham Court Theatre, 805 Langham. langhamtheatre.ca. mock the news JULY 28, aug 25

A British style comedic panel show where they take the news and have some fun with it. The monthly shows include hilarious guests, alongside host Drew Farrance and team captains Jake Gyllenskog and Shiraz Higgins. 7:30pm at Hecklers Upstairs, 123 Gorge.

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THE WAR OF 1812 AUG. 2

This Fringe Fest favourite is back for a very limited engagement before heading east to the Edmonton Fringe. Morgan Cranny, Wes Borg and cast bring to life this hilarious story of Pierre Berton’s ghost haunting a boy who’s lost his patriotism. 7pm at Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad. $25 THE BOMB-ITTY OF ERRORS AUG. 5 - 24

If you don’t know hip-hop from boogie-woogie, you’ll likely enjoy the infectious fun generated by this hip-hop version of “Willy Shakespeare’s” The Comedy of Errors. Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone, 250-385-6815. belfry.bc.ca.

VISUAL ARTS SOOKE FINE ARTS SHOW JULY 25 - AUG. 4

View some of the finest art from across Vancouver Island and BC’s coastal islands at the 11day show that draws more than 8,000 visitors. Now in its 28th year, it is the Island’s longestrunning juried art show at SEAPARC Leisure Complex (2168 Phillips). sookefinearts.com.

ARTS & MUSIC IN THE GARDENS AUG. 9-10

The Horticulture Centre of the Pacific is a spectacular backdrop to this event that features artists, musicians and more throughout the garden. A fundraiser for the HCP, it also features food, a car show, and lots of great works to purchase. Tickets available at hcp.ca. 11am-5pm. 505 Quayle.

Corvallis Knights July 25-27, the Bellingham Bells Aug. 1-3 and the Kitsap Blue Jackets Aug. 8-10. All games start at 7:11pm. Tickets at harbourcats.com.

ESQUIMALT ARTS FESTIVAL AND GORGE SWIM FEST AUG. 10

More than 30 artists and artrelated groups in the community will exhibit their work in Esquimalt Gorge Park. The event coincides with the family friendly Gorge Swim Fest, which features entertainment, food and more.

1070 Tillicum. Noon to 7:30pm.

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The Shamrocks lacrosse team take on the Burnaby Lakers July 25 and the Nanaimo Timbermen Aug. 1. All games at 7:45pm. At The Q Centre. Tickets at 250-4787625. victoriashamrocks.com.

Oak Bay artists gather for a demonstration and show along the picturesque Bowker Creek, near Oak Bay Avenue and Hampshire Avenue. oakbay.ca.

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The Rebels footballers continue their fall season with a handful of home games in August against the Vancouver Island Raiders (Aug. 2, 7pm), the Langley Rams (Aug. 16, 4pm) and the Valley Huskers (Aug. 23, 1pm). All games at Westhills Stadium. Tickets at westshorerebelsfootball.com

Doors to artists’ workshops, museums and art galleries will be open to the wandering public interested in experiencing all that Victoria has to offer.

From painters and sculptors to musicians and filmmakers, the festival aims to promote the city’s thriving and varied arts community. integratearts.ca.

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Thousands of comic books old and new are on display and for sale at this terrific event,. Buy, sell and trade comics and other collectibles. At Comfort Inn and Suites (3020 Blanshard). 11am4pm. Free.

CHINATOWN NIGHT MARKETS UNTIL AUG. 27

Fisgard Street shuts down for a weekly party that celebrates Chinese culture. Food, music, dancing and tons of local vendors are part of this annual event. 5 to 9pm on Wednesdays. 500 block of Fisgard.

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t’s all about food at the Saanich Fair. The annual agricultural fair hosts highly competitive contests with judges critiquing everything from homegrown rutabagas and garlic, to eggs and walnuts – there are hundreds of fierce categories for fruit, veggie and wheat growers. It wouldn’t be the Saanich Fair without summer food-eating contests: watermelon, cupcakes, ice cream, lemon meringue pie and SPAM. And if competitive eating isn’t your cup of tea, dozens of vendors will be on site selling delicious (and often greasy) goodness that only comes with a day – or a full weekend – at the fair.

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Speaking to me from a hotel room across the Pacific, Joe Powers has no misconceptions about the career he chose.

“Harmonica music isn’t big anywhere – that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone. But there’s an amazing live music scene over here in Japan, and people still pay good money to hear good music,” says Powers, a 36-year-old professional musician from Portland. “People come out to the shows and buy CDs – things you don’t necessarily get in North America.”

As we chat, he periodically pulls out his harmonica to demonstrate his skills over the phone. He’s good. Really good. It’s still early morning in Japan, and I’m pretty sure hearing a flawless chromatic scale on the mouth organ from the hotel room next door, following by some blues and tango, is the coolest way to wake up.

Powers got his first harmonica as a Christmas present at two years old.

“I think my aunt thought it would be something fun to give to the kid, maybe annoy my parents, but I don’t think she expected me to pursue it for the rest of my life,” he says. “It really resonated with me. I love the fact that I could put it in my pocket and take it anywhere. … But also since it was my first instrument, I really connected to it. It became my musical voice early on.”

In Powers studied music at the University of Oregon. It high school, was there that he got exposed to tango music.

Powers was the He moved to Argentina in 2000 to study ballroom lead singer and dance. While he was there, he heard the music of harmonicist in a band Hugo Diaz, a tango harmonicist, and immediately that covered Jimi Powers knew his calling.

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“After every single performance I hear, ‘I didn’t know you could do that with a harmonica.’ So that’s my mission in life: exposing people to the possibilities of the instrument and the music,” he says. “People tend to have an idea that it’s either a children’s instrument or a folk instrument or a blues instrument, but it’s all these. And it can also be a lot more sophisticated. I think people will be quite surprised if they come hear me play.”

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PAT BENATAR & NEIL GIRALDO

THE FAMILY THAT PLAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER Monday Magazine: Take me back to the summer of 1979. How did you and Neil first meet?

Pat Benatar: It was really early on in the recording process. I was working with a bunch of studio musicians and another producer, who will remain nameless. We had cut maybe four songs, and I remember sitting in the control room thinking, ‘This is not what I was talking about at all.’ We had the best dudes in New York playing, and it was so bland, there was no soul and certainly no edge. It was horrifying. Mike Chapman got called – that’s who they originally wanted to produce – and so after four or five weeks of making this terrible record he was now available.

But he wasn’t able to do the entire record, so he was going to give us his main engineer, Pete Coleman. I remember explaining to him why that first attempt failed: we didn’t have the right partnership going.

I didn’t want to be like Linda Ronstadt in front of a band that didn’t matter. I wanted a partnership – Plant and Page, Jagger and Richards. And he told me about Spyder, who came down, we met, and it was just so right on every level.

MM: What was the chemistry like between you two, professionally?

PB: It was amazing. We had What remains this musical chemistry from on Benatar’s bucket list? the instant he played the first chord. The moment “I still want to do the we played together, it theatrical thing one time was just like kismet, it on Broadway. I love the was meant to be. Forget theatre so much still. But the chemistry on a perI’m so fricking old; I don’t sonal level – that was off know what roles I can play the charts. anymore.”

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In July 1979, as Pat Benatar was recording her first record, In the Heat of the Night, guitarist Neil “Spyder” Giraldo walked into the studio, forever changing the singer’s professional and personal life. The pair maintained a strict work relationship – for just two months – before their hearts got the best of them. The rock singer spoke with Monday editor Kyle Slavin about her 35-year career, with the love of her life by her side for the whole ride.

over the years, as your personal relationship has evolved?

PB: I don’t know that it has. Our relationship is basically the same as it was, but it has become much more incestuous. We have children together, we’re parents, lovers, husband and wife, we run a business together. He’s still the nice one, I’m still just a bitch.

MM: How do you ensure that those roles – he’s a nice guy, you’re a bitch – in a professional setting don’t impact your personal relationship?

PB: I wish I could say I’m super smart and have a brilliant answer to that, but I don’t. For some reason, and it’s not by design, it simply doesn’t. We began like this. We were players before we were lovers, so these are separate worlds. The two things are together, but separate. We have a studio on our property – we work where we live – and it just disappears, we don’t carry (any professional arguments) in with us, ever.

MM: You and Neil have been married now for 32 years. What’s the secret to a long marriage, especially one where you work with your partner every day?

PB: As he is fond of saying, ‘She’s always right.’

And I’m fond of saying, ‘Good answer.’ We have an intense respect for each other on so many levels; that kind of sets a tone about how you’re going to behave.

MM: How has music changed in the last 35 years?

PB: The interesting thing is that it’s basically still the same. Even though the way to get the music out is different, everybody is still doing the same thing: writing songs. The great thing is that it’s so easy to put out a product, which, to me, is amazing. You don’t have to sign (with a record label) to get your music out there. My young one is a musician and singer; she can write a song, they’ll produce it in one

day and it’s up on YouTube. The power stays with the artist, which is what I love. I don’t ever have that thing, ‘Oh, music was so much better in the ‘70s.’

That’s such bullshit. It’s an art form. It is a living form. It needs to be constantly propelled forward in order to be relevant and make sense.

MM: How do you guys spend your time when you’re not focused on your music?

PB: There’s always so much going on. Spyder has a biography he’s working on, I’m working on a novel, we have a cookbook coming out. The thing for me is to just expand and do things that are fun. Everything needs to be fun from now on. I’m going to be 62 years old; we have no idea how much longer we’ll be able to do this part of what we’re doing.

MM: You and Neil played in Victoria last summer.

Why is our city a regular stop on your tours?

PB: We love the city. It’s just one of our favourite places. I love the whole beauty of the Island and the waterfront in Victoria. We have a great time when we go there; the audiences are amazing, so we’re coming back for more.

MM: Is it still just as exciting as it was 35 years ago to get onstage and perform?

PB: Neil and I are still loving what we do, that’s the truth. We are so amazed and so grateful when we go out there every night and see everybody there. I expect one day we’ll come out and there’ll be eight people in the audience, and we’ll say, ’I guess it’s time to go home.’ Nobody could anticipate being here 35 years later. We were hoping for five good years of really going for it. To be able to still get out there and perform for amazing fans is a miracle on every level.

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo play the Royal Theatre Aug. 3. Tickets are available at rmts.bc.ca.

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While most people my age spend their summers outdoors engaged in highly physical sports like soccer and tennis, a laid-back game of bocce in the shade is my idea of a perfect summer activity.

So walking up to the 40-by-40 green at Juan de Fuca, I expect lawn bowling – which looks to be a formalized bocce match with a white-only dress code – to be a just-as-leisurely afternoon activity.

Sure, bowls could be leisurely and non-competitive, but not when you’re playing against someone as skilled as Davie Mathie, who coaches Team Canada.

I grab my bowls and quickly learn they aren’t spherical like normal balls.

They’re about the size of a grapefruit but they’re shaped more like a solid, five-pound dinner roll. And one side is more convex than the other, meaning a bowl characteristically curves as its moving along the grass.

It doesn’t take much for Mathie to teach me the basics – a forehand and backhand throw, but it’s a demanding game of inches, and it’s clear that it takes a lot of finesse and practice to be consistently good.

My weakness is throwing weight.

A lot of my bowls either end up three metres short of my target, or slamming into the back wall and stopping in the ditch. And when I do get the weight right, I wind up holding the bowl the wrong way, and it curves away into the neighbouring rink.

Eventually, as we keep playing, I start getting some lucky throws and proudly beat Mathie in a couple of ends.

“You did great. That was just an hour of work – think how good you’d be if you actually played,” he says.

Mathie is taking 10 bowlers to Scotland this month to compete at the Commonwealth Games. Either he’s super confident in his coaching abilities or he sees strong potential in me, when I ask how I’d fare on the pitch at Glasgow.

“If you gave me a week to work with you, you would do pretty good,” he tells me. “You’re not bad.

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ENTER THE DRAGON

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Dragons will soon descend on the Inner Harbour.

The 20th anniversary of the Victoria Dragonboat Festival boasts a fleet of more than 90 dragonboats from across the Pacific Northwest and Canada making their way to Ship’s Point. Festival general manager Glenys Haskins said the picturesque backdrop paired with the arrival of some of the best paddlers could make for the most exciting festival yet.

“It is not an event to be missed. We have the best grandstand you are going to see on the West Coast for watching races,” she said. “The paddlers and teams (also) blow me away every day, some with their commitment for the competition, some for com-

ing together for those who face similar struggles.”

One of those paddlers is Sue MacSporran, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 26 years ago and had trouble walking without support. She helped start the MS Warriors team seven years ago and credits the sport with giving her a new lease on life. “(When) we started the MS Warriors team … I was walking with two canes and the neurologist wanted me in a wheelchair,” MacSporran said. “If you saw me (today) you wouldn’t think there is anything wrong with me.”

She calls herself a “paddling addict” and says not only did the sport help improve her life physically and mentally, the camaraderie and fellowship has shaped her life.

“A lot of people don’t know what a dragonboat

is, but when you watch the racing … you are glued to these races because they are so close and so exciting,” she said.

Haskins, who also started off as a paddler in 2009, moved on to volunteering and working part-time to eventually become general manager, couldn’t agree more, and said she, too, still gets excited about dotting the dragon’s eye in 2014 to kick off the family-friendly festival once more.

“You don’t get to see these boats in the Inner Harbour every day. This is the only event where they allow (it). It is a stunning venue; the stunning backdrop of the Inner Harbour far surpasses that of any other event,” she said.

The 20th annual Victoria Dragonboat Festival runs Aug. 15-17. See victoriadragonboat.com.

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THE BIG PERSONALITY

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oam Lake, Saskatchewan may not necessarily give the impression of being a community where a love for the arts can flourish, but Tania Miller says her small-town roots are to thank for her musical success.

A tiny farming town, where community life revolves around the hockey rink, Foam Lake – and the kids who lived there some 30 years ago – was lucky to have access to a musician who came in to town to teach a couple of days a week.

One of those students, Miller, sat down at an organ bench for the first time at eight years old. By the age of 13, she had decided music was her calling.

“Because I lived in a small town, there was a lot of need for organists and pianists in the local churches, and I was constantly being asked to play in various places,” Miller says. “And because of that, by the age of 13 I was basically the principle musician in one of the local churches and I was leading a lot of things. I was forced into taking a leading role early on. I was really enjoying being involved in the community aspects of music that brought people together.”

It’s that same passion for community that contive music,” she says. tinues to inspire Miller today, as she enters her Today, when she stands in front of the orches12th season as music director for the Victoria tra to lead the Symphony musicians, she naturally Symphony. Kicking off the season on Aug. 3 is the recalls the moment she heard the first few notes of unique-to-Victoria Symphony Splash, where the Debussy.

55-member orchestra performs for 40,000 spectators “I think about that 16-year-old girl every time I do from a barge floating in the Inner Harbour. a concert, with adults and with children. I see those “Symphony Splash is one of the most incredible little girls especially, and these girls are coming away community-building events on the planet. I think from this concert feeling like women and girls it’s just phenomenal how our community can do anything they want,” she says. “I completely embraces this beautiful day understand what it means to come from As a teen, where everybody comes together, the most humble of roots, and to not Miller dreamed enjoys the environment, enjoys the be brought up with a sophisticated of becoming a people and enjoys the atmosphere of musical fabric of life around me. To music,” Miller says. professional pianist, know that I had in me a passion for It wasn’t until she was 16 years but tendinitis in her music that was virtually being disold – with aspirations of performing covered along the way, I now look at hands forced her to at Carnegie Hall – that she got her my audience with the same eyes; that change her plans. first real taste of classical music. Sitting each one of those people doesn’t know in the audience at the Regina Symphony yet what their own capabilities and musiOrchestra remains just as strong a memory cal loves are.” for her today as it was back then.

It was August 2003 when Miller took the stage “I still remember the impact of hearing that live for the first time ever as maestra of the Victoria sound; it was something that I’d never experienced Symphony. That performance? Symphony Splash. in my life. I remember the first piece was Debussy, And the experience blew her away.

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – it’s very evoca“I remember standing up on the stage, looking

out on the audience – I had never seen a Symphony Splash before, so it was a bit steep in terms of breaking me in to Victoria,” Miller says. “Everything is on such a grand scale. I remember feeling the unbelievable energy and enthusiasm from the audience; everyone’s just so excited to be there. It was so mind-blowing, so overwhelmingly exciting. I truly love and look forward to Symphony Splash and that opportunity to connect so many people to the music.”

Celebrating 25 years on Aug. 3, this year’s Splash features nine-year-old young soloist Erik Lin, as well as Vox Humana choir performing alongside the Symphony. The set list includes classical scores and newer music, including a piece commemorating the First World War and a mash-up of video game music.

Miller, who’ll step down at the end of the 2016-17 season, hopes she’s helping establish the Symphony as as much a pillar of community in Victoria, as hockey is in Foam Lake.

“I hope to leave behind, more than anything, a sense that music and an orchestra in a community is imperative to a great life,” she says. “I want to leave this mark that the orchestra is so much embedded in the fabric of the community that it plays an enormous role in the vibrancy and quality of Victoria.”

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f Kanye West had taken up disc golf sometime over the last decade, not only would we have very little to talk about during award show wrap-ups, but we might never have muttered the “word” Yeezus at all. Looking to be taken down a peg? No easier way to stay humble has ever existed than to chuck a piece of plastic hundreds of metres through an arboreal obstacle course at a barely visible target. The recipe calls for one part humiliation to three parts fun, not unlike my time as an adult on a Razr scooter.

I meet with Dan MacDonald, board member of the South Island Disc Golf Society, for a round on a bright Saturday morning. He greets me with a bag of discs slung over one shoulder, his teenaged daughter Hailey (sporting similar accoutrements) and her friend Kari McLeod. With me is my best bud from childhood, Justine Simons, someone who, like me, tried out the Salt Spring Island disc golf course at Mouat Park in high school when we were buoyed by the trappings of our youth (read: blind confidence and inebriants).

I’m about to have my ass handed to me by not only everyone in the group who tosses a Learn more about the disc with intention, South Island Disc Golf but all those who Society, their petition for a pass by us this morning, children course and their upcoming and dogs included. tournament at sidgs.org.

This is where I pause and mention that we’ve met at a private location in the

Highlands, because despite its popularity, the group hasn’t been able to find enough support to build a proper course on park land. This summer SIDGS is making strides to legitimize their sport with a fundraiser tournament tentatively set for Aug. 31 at Prospect Lake golf course. Until then, the locale is officially under wraps, but as I hear from Dan: “If you want to throw discs, you’ll find somewhere to throw them. If you’re passionate, you’ll find a way.”

So back to the part where I begin hurling a little red disc at the closest tree, rock, bush, etc. with no clear idea where it’s headed and no style points awarded. But they wouldn’t count anyway. One of One of the the things I actually love things I about this activity is that there is no wrong way to actually love throw the disc. None. As about this long as you’re not walking activity is that around with it, you’re free there is no to launch it as you choose.

Try the underhanded wrong way to throw the disc. “Grandma” or the closerange lob of the “Flapjack.”

None of these work for me, but I like that the options exist. Sun spills through the trees along a well-worn path and I’m happy to laugh at my shortcomings. There are many.

Cut to me standing below a rock face, tossing Dan’s disc 90 per cent of the way to the summit and watching it roll back down to my feet before I pick it up and toss it 90 per cent of the way to the summit and watch it roll back down to my feet...

Dan launches his discs with power and precision in a style he likes to frequently refer to as an “Anhyzer” for its wrap-around trajectory. Still, Hailey impresses me the most as she begins each hole with an overhead tomahawk move, one that

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Grab a disc, grab a friend and set your targets as you go. sees the disc slide effortlessly from its vertical starting position to horizontal flight midway to the pin before it lands at a respectable distance from our target. Dan calls this the “Bon Jovi.” He can’t explain why, so I assume it has something to do with attracting unsuspecting middle-aged women to the pastime. McLeod, only on her fourth round to date, seems to be developing a solid and reliable set of skills. Simons has her moments of splendour, too.

I learn the classic backhand is where I should focus my efforts. While I frequently catch a finger on the lip of the disc and throw it in the exact opposite direction I’m expecting, its flight is generally free from wobble. Dan says it shows promise. Hungry for validation, I cling to this. It also feels better to send a shot that looks decent out into the hinterlands, rather than watch a shadow of your ego roll towards the pin a metre at a time in front of your feet.

But now we’re at our mark, somewhere towards the end of our 18-hole extravaganza, each of us hoping that we’ll release our discs and have them met with the warm sound of contact with the tonal pin. Instinctively, I thrust my disc straight forward like I’m inserting a floppy disc. This is my legacy; I present to you: the “Floppy Disc.” It may work for me at close range, but put to the test, the move would prove cumbersome, useless.

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NATALIE NORTH arts@mondaymag.com Every year some 20,000 people sample from an offering of more than four dozen independent shows and free community events around the city during the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival. Intrepid Theatre’s annual convergence of mind- and genre-bending theatre has a devoted following on all fronts: audiences, volunteers, performers – and those people who take on all roles.

“People are happy to talk to each other and to hang out and make friends in a way that in your normal everyday life you wouldn’t get to, necessarily,” says Fringe devotee Rose Jang, who has experienced the festival from all angles and this year became the first to see it from inside the guest

producer’s seat. “Getting to be the Fringe version of myself is something that I love.”

Jang has worked for festivals big and small in a variety of positions. The arts lover’s experience with the Victoria Fringe stretches back the better part of a decade, to her beginnings first as an audience member, then a volunteer and later as staff. Organizing the Fringe Block Party, FringeKids Fest and the Fringe Club under the mentorship of longtime Intrepid Theatre producer Janet Munsil is an opportunity for new arts administrators such as herself to break from mostly junior roles, Jang says, and learn in a safe environment – albeit a fairly intense one.

“We have over 50 shows this year,” Jang says. “It’s not physically possible to see more than about 40 every festival. Every year there’s someone who

Events on the Fringe

Aug. 20: Fringe Block Party in Centennial Square from 1-10pm will feature about 20 different shows each doing a two-minute preview. Crafts for kids, food trucks, a beverage garden and more.

Aug. 23: FringeKids Fest children’s performers, face-painting, crafts and a cardboard castle for kids to paint. 11-4pm in Market Square. Free.

Nightly: Fringe Club, a place where reasonably priced alcohol meets all kinds of entertainment, with a dash of children’s activities for adults.

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Rose Jang, guest producer for this year’s Fringe, says the annual event attracts a handful of diehards who try to see every show over the course of the festival.

will try to figure out in the schedule, Club each night between performanchow to see the most possible. There’s a es. “That’s the real spirit of it: just parsmall group of about a half dozen who ticipating, taking it all in.” will go to as many as possible.”

Check out the 28th iteration of Chris Gabel is one of those peothe Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival ple. For the last several years, he has Aug. 21-31. The festival has an addibeen engaged in what he calls “Super tional venue this year, bringing the Fringing,” which generally total number of stages lands him in the audience (excluding “bring your The real spirit of more than 40 producown venues” such as of Fringe is just tions annually. Last year the bicycle-powered participating, that number dipped to circus tent at Vic High) 27 because he was also to eight. They will host taking it all in. acting in six performances more than 50 shows and (in the Pick of the Fringe over 300 performances An Improvised Quentin Tarantino with from around the globe. For info, see Paper Street Theatre). victoriafringe.com. Tickets can also be “How did he do it?,” Jang says, givpurchased through Ticket Rocket at ing kudos to his ability to still hand out 250-590-6291. show fliers and come out to the Fringe

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Showcasing the skills of truly talented free-ride mountain bikers, the annual JumpShip event in the Inner Harbour is a chance to watch the best show off on a set of technical dirt and wooden features. Aug. 2-3. See jumpshipcontest.com

A great Handel on music

Some of the top soloists from the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s advanced program, chorus and orchestra present George Frideric Handel’s Athalia. Aug. 9, 7:30pm. Tickets and info at vcm.bc.ca.

Commonwealth memories

It’s been 20 years since Victoria hosted the ‘94 Commonwealth Games, and the Victoria 94 Celebration reunites the people – volunteers, organizers, athletes and attendees – who made the event a success. Eat cake, check out Commonwealth memorabilia, and rub elbows with athletes. Aug. 23, 3-8pm at PISE (4371 Interurban). Check out piseworld.com for more.

She does not pull a rabbit out of a hat or cut somebody in half, but Dawn Morgan still makes magic. She says it happens in her kitchen.

“I just touch it and it goes.” It is a simple list of ingredients, including local fruit and a little sugar, which she uses to make award-winning homemade pies.

Dawn sets up her stage along the 700-block of Craigflower in Vic West. Her audience is its traffic.

Her first trick is making the drivers pull over and pick up a pie. “I just put them down and the people just come”.

The locals simply call her The Pie Lady. When the cameraman and I first spotted her, Morgan was wearing pink from head to toe, from her Crocs to her rose-coloured glasses. She always holds her unconventional magic wand, a fluorescent pink double-sided sign that says, ‘hot pies’. When she waves it, her products disappear.

“Last weekend I sold 15 pies in 15 minutes,” she says.

The Pie Lady’s most beloved trick involves turning her simple ingredients into time machines.

“It just takes them back to childhood. They say ‘I haven’t had a pie like that since my grandma made one.’ My landlord phoned me up after I made him a pie and he was in tears and says, ‘I haven’t had a pie like that since my mom died.’”

Morgan started making magic at the age of eight after her dad died. She and her six older siblings had to move to another house that

was surrounded by apple trees.

“There’s a lot of sorrow. People are looking for something to make them happy,” Morgan says.

Morgan learned to conjure comfort for her audience, but couldn’t cast it on herself. She says she was “saved” by somebody else, her 10-year-old son Davaniel. “He gave me a new lease on life, because I was living a pretty reckless life back then.”

Perhaps The Pie Lady’s most impressive feat of all is how she transformed her life.

Despite being on disability because of the relentless pain of arthritis, she has found a creative solution to the challenge of providing for herself and her son.

A car honks as it passes, followed by two more. Dawn waves back. The honks are no doubt applause for The Pie Lady, whose magic is homemade.

Adam Sawatsky is co-host of CTV News Vancouver Island at Five. On weekends, he hosts ‘Eye on the Arts’ on CFAX 1070.

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MONDAY VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN! TOP PICKS FOR CITY’S MUSIC, ART & POP CULTURE Top Band

Current Swell (currentswell.com)

These guys are busy this summer, travelling the music festival circuit in support of their fifth studio album, Ulysses. Current Swell is gaining popularity around the world, thanks to great instrumentals and vocals, and a truly engaging live show.

Runners up: Slam Dunk (facebook.com/ Slamdunkband); Mindil Beach Markets (mindilbeach. com); Zerbin (zerbinmusic.com).

Top Solo Artist

Aidan Knight (aidanknight.com)

This folksy singer-songwriter is the frontman of the quintet that bears his name. Knight, 27, a guitarist who’s lent his sound to a number of projects with local bands and artists in recent years, remains busy touring with the band at festivals this summer.

Runners up: Vince Vaccaro (vincevaccaro. com); Kytami (kytami.ca); Dougal Bain McLean (dougalbain.com).

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Top Folk/Roots Artist or Group The Archers (thearchersband.com)

Winners of the Favourite Emerging Artist/Band category in 2013, The Archers have quickly become a favourite of music lovers in Victoria. The Archers’ unique folk/rock sound is created by their ability to be multi-talented musicians, songwriters and performers.

Runners up: Oliver Swain (oliverswainmusic.com); Marc Atkinson (marcatkinson.com).

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Top Electronic Music Artist Neon Steve (facebook.com/djneonsteve)

Georgia Murray (georgiamurray.net)

They say nice guys finish last, but that certainly isn’t the case for one of Western Canada’s most talked about DJs/producers. Comfortable rinsing out everything from Future Bass to Drum and Bass, Neon Steve has a reputation for playing high energy sets that blend and twist conventional genres.

Runners up: The Krells (thekrells.com); Miami Nights 1984 (facebook.com/miaminights1984); Monolithium (monolithiummm.com); Grossbuster (facebook.com/grossbustermusic); Dan Godlovitch.

Georgia Murray won this category in 2012, and thanks to a strong start this year (the release of The Break, a new project called LIINKS with DJ/producer DWhiz) she’s reclaimed the top spot. Murray’s haunting vocals project a delicate image of soul music smattered with the eerie sensibility of classic trip-hop.

Runners up: Pigeon Hole (facebook.com/ PigeonHoleofSweatshopUnion); DJ Murge (facebook. com/djmurge); Cold Residents (facebook.com/ ColdResidents).

Top Emerging Artist or Band Space Boots (facebook.com/ spacebootsrockandroll)

They describe themselves as shirtless, long-haired dreamers who rock the fuck out with their rock ‘n’ roll/funk/punk sound and adult-themed lyrics.

That’s a pretty spot-on description of who they are and what they do when this five-man band puts on a a live show.

Runners up: Leisure Suit (leisuresuit. ca); The Carlines (thecarlines.com); Wand (wandwand.com).

Staying true to what they know and what fans love, Ulysses is yet another eclectic album from these Victoria rockers that showcases their talent and originality. The album, recorded at Vancouver’s Greenhouse Studios and produced by Nathan Sabatino, was released May 6.

Runners up: Man Made Lake – Bodhicitta: The Shepherd; The Tower of Dudes – Make Your Own Culture; Northcote – Northcote.

Top Rock Artist or Group Acres of Lions (acresoflions. com)

These pop-rockers are no strangers to performing on big stages. Acres of Lions is made up of ex-touring members of American punk band Against Me! – Jeff Kalesnikoff, Tyson Yerex, Dan Ball and Shane Deyotte. Their music has gained fans around the world, thanks to a welldeserved showing in the International Songwriting Competition, and international releases of their albums.

Runners up: The Roper Show

Top Jazz/Blues Artist or Group Maureen Washington (maureenwashington.ca)

Winner of this category three out of the last four years, Maureen Washington continues to create new musical avenues and a growing numbers of fans as she performs with a variety of artists. Washington is a popular performer at concerts, festivals and venues all over Vancouver Island.

Runners up: Gord Clements (gordclements.com); Chris Millington.

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Alix Goolden Performance Hall

The Alix Goolden Performance Hall, formerly a church sanctuary, is an elegant 800-seat venue that features fine acoustics, in a stunning setting that features a vaulted ceiling, filigree iron railings, carved wooden pews and intricate stained glass windows. Alix Goolden Hall plays host to many acclaimed international performers each year, while also serving the needs of the Victoria Conservatory of Music students and faculty and the local community.

Runners up: Phillips Backyard; Lucky Bar; Club 9one9; St. Ann’s Academy.

Top Hardcore/Metal/Punk Artist or Group

Class of 1984 (class-of-1984.com)

The current members of Class of 1984 are veterans of the punk and hardcore scene on Vancouver Island.

They’ve been performing in one band or another since the ‘90s and are bringing back the sound and feel of the old skate punk scene with their music.

Runners up: Rotterdam (reverbnation.com/ rotterdam); The Rebel Spell (therebelspell. com); Psychosomatic ITCH (facebook.com/ psychosomaticITCH).

Top Avant Garde/New Music Artist/Composer or Group The Aventa Ensemble (aventa.ca)

Aventa, founded in 2003, is an ensemble with a mission statement of performing and fostering new music in British Columbia and Canada. The group is comprised of musicians who are passionate about new music, as they regularly commission both Canadian and international composers.

Runners up: Kristy Farkas; Alex Jang (soundcloud.com/alex-jang); Christopher Reiche (christopherreiche.tumblr.com); Daniel Brandes (danielbrandes.tumblr.com).

Top Classical Artist or Group Victoria Symphony (victoriasymphony.ca)

After 73 years, the Victoria Symphony remains the premier arts organization in the region, showcasing

the skilled musicianship of more than 50 artists. The symphony season kicks off in the fall, and runs through spring. The orchestra is also the highlight of the annual Symphony Splash festival in the Inner Harbour.

Runners up: Pacific Opera Victoria (pov.bc.ca); Emily Carr String Quartet (emilycarrstringquartet.com); LaFayette String Quartet (lafayettestringquartet. ca); Sooke Philharmonic (sookephil.ca); Victoria Bach Ensemble (victoriabachensemble.com).

Top Choir/Chorus Victoria Philharmonic Choir

The Victoria Philharmonic Choir is an auditioned choir featuring the best of Victoria’s vocal talent. The VPC provides Victoria and Vancouver Island with live performances of choral music of the highest calibre.

Runners up: Gettin’ Higher Choir; Vox Humana; Ensemble Laude; The Linden Singers; Hexaphone; Via Choralis.

Top Concert Promoter Atomique Productions (atomiqueproductions.com)

It’s no wonder Atomique Productions, the brains behind Rifflandia and Rock the Shores (which happened to be voted the Top Music Festivals, one and two respectively, in this year’s M Awards) handily won this category. The guys sure know how to throw a rockin’ party, while shining the spotlight on some talented local and international musicians.

Runners up: Victoria BC Ska Society (victoriaskafest.ca); High Tide Entertainment (hightideconcerts.net); CMCT Presents (facebook. com/cmctpresents); Global Arts concerts (globalarts. ca).

Top Studio Producer Adam Sutherland

This former Armchair Cynic launched Infiniti Records in 2007. The musician/ producer subsequently built the world-class Infiniti Mastering. Sutherland has worked with a wide range of artists, including Acres of Lions, Vince Vaccaro, Steph MacPherson, David Gogo, JP Maurice and more.

Runners up: Jason Cook; Joby Baker; Myke Hall.

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Top Music Open Mic

Sunday Hootenanny at Logan’s Pub

Logan’s hosts Victoria’s most popular open mic night for the third year running in the M Awards.

The long-running Sunday hoedown, started by Carolyn Mark, is a great weekly event you have to see – and hear – for yourself.

Runners up: Friday nights at Cornerstone Cafe; Bluegrass Jam Circle at James Bay Coffee and Books; Victoria Folk Music Society Sunday nights at Norway House.

Top Supporter of Local Music The Zone @ 91-3

With the popular radio station’s “Band of the Month” program, promoting local bands and artists, it’s no surprise these modern rock supporters are receiving the M Award in this category. They also actively promote local live music and other events around town, and tune in to their programming any day of the week and you’re sure to hear some homegrown talent getting air time on their station.

Top Overall Production

My Fair Lady (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre)

Blue Bridge capped off its 2013 summer season with My Fair Lady. The show was directed and choreographed by 2013 M Award winner for Favourite Performer, Sara-Jeanne Hosie, and starred Amanda Lisman as Eliza Doolittle and Blue Bridge’s artistic director Brian Richmond as Henry Higgins.

Runners up: The Skin of Our Teeth (UVic Phoenix); Calendar Girls (Langham Court Theatre); From the Heart: enter into the journey of reconciliation (Will Weigler, Inter-Cultural Association); In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)(Theatre Inconnu).

Top Original Production

An Improvised Quentin Tarantino (Paper Street Theatre Co.)

Winners of the 2013 Victoria Fringe Festival’s coveted Audience Pick of the Fringe prize, this fully improvised show is packed with clever dialogue, grindhouse music and just enough violence to pay homage to this Reservoir Dog of a filmmaker. The group has since gone on to perform an equally-asfunny An Improvised John Hughes.

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(SNAFU dance theatre); War of the Eagles (Kaleidoscope Theatre); An Improvised Dungeons and Dragons (Intrepid Theatre Club); From the Heart: enter into the journey of reconciliation (Will Weigler, Inter-Cultural Association); Judgement Day (New Blood Theatre); El Jinete (Puente Theatre); Fractured Fables (SNAFU & William Head on Stage).

Top Improv/Sketch or Variety Show Atomic Vaudeville (atomicvaudeville.com)

Celebrating a decade in Victoria this year, Atomic Vaudeville is the award-winning performance company that produces a masterful and hilarious monthly cabaret show. They’re also known for their productions, which have been performed in Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, Bellingham, Prague and New York.

Runners up: The Cheesecake Burlesque Review (cheesecakeburlesque.com); Paper Street Theatre Co. (facebook.com/paperstreettheatre); Sin City (sincityimprov.com); Derwin Blanshard (Wes Borg) (derwinblanshard.com); Watch 4 Bones (Launch Pad Productions).

Top Emerging Company/Artist Impulse Theatre (impulsetheatre.ca)

Impulse Theatre creates highly engaging and physical works that explore the human environment.

The company’s work is broad, looks into the dark places of the human condition, breaks them open, and shines in some light. Impulse has performed at Victoria Fringe Fest and Theatre SKAM’s Bike Ride.

Runners up: Gotta Getta Gimmick (gggarts.org); Epiphany Productions (epiphanyproductionstheatre. wordpress.com); Scrumpy Productions (scrumpyproductions.com); New Blood Theatre; Kerploding Theatre (kerplodingtheatre.tumblr. com); Break Contemporary Circus (facebook. com/BCCircus); Determined Illusions.

Top Musical

My Fair Lady (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre)

See Top Overall Production.

Runners up: Miss Saigon (Victoria Operatic Society); El Jinete- a mariachi opera (Puente Theatre); Side by Side by Sondheim (Saltwater Inc.).

Top Local Actor Amanda Lisman (My Fair Lady)

After a stint in Toronto, this Victoria native returned home to perform in Blue Bridge Repertory

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Theatre’s successful staging of My Fair Lady.

Despite a string of dramatic roles, her roots in comedy sure came in handy playing the unrefined, Cockney Eliza Doolittle.

Runner up: Jacob Richmond (True West)

Top Director

Michael Shamata (The Belfry Theatre)

As artistic director of The Belfry Theatre, Michael Shamata plays an influential role in the company’s productions each year. With up to 12 plays produced annually, Shamata leads The Belfry in staging well-crafted and innovative shows.

Runners up: Sara-Jeanne Hosie (My Fair Lady); Linda Hardy (The Skin of Our Teeth); Timothy Vernon (Pacific Opera Victoria); Christine Willes (Reasons to Be Pretty).

Top Local Dance Production Dance Days (Presented by Dance Victoria)

Not everyone’s an expert dancer, but Dance Victoria’s Dance Days provides movers and shakers of all skill levels with a slough of free classes, workshops, demonstrations and shows. From ballet and hip hop to African and Bollywood dancing, Dance Days is a terrific annual event – and a well-deserved M Award winner – that makes accessible a wide variety of dance styles.

Runner up: Bounce Dance Cabaret.

Top Local Dancer/Company Ballet Victoria (balletvictoria.ca)

Every day, 12 professional dancers and apprentices create beautiful, original works out of the dance studio behind Victoria’s St. Andrews Church. This is where innovation happens. Ballet Victoria, under artistic director Paul Destroopers, performs a number of shows throughout the year, including Frankenstein: A Zombie Love Story for 2013, and Carmina Burana earlier this spring.

Runners up: Broken Rhythms; Suddenly Dance Theatre (suddenlydance.ca); Ballet Étoile Canada (balletetoilecanada.com).

Top Improv/Sketch or Variety Performer Wes Borg

While Wes Borg can be regularly spotted sporting a guitar for his musical comedy or killing some

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Biggest Supporter of Performing Arts Allan Wilcox

This posthumous honour could not go a more deserving supporter of the performing arts in Victoria. Allan Wilcox was a staple in Victoria’s arts community and a much-loved presence at the Victoria Fringe Festival, where his dedication, dry wit and signature humour made a huge impact on countless generations of Fringers – artists, volunteers and audiences alike. He touched the lives of so many in his 17-year involvement with the Board of Directors at Intrepid Theatre, greeting audiences at the Fringe with a smile and a story (and a show recommendation), entertaining artists on the drive to and from the airport and always offering insight and a hearty laugh. Wilcox was also actively involved on the boards of Atomic Vaudeville and the Victoria Events Centre. His passing leaves a huge hole in the theatre landscape in Victoria and one that M Award voters know will be difficult to fill. Wilcox passed away on May 10 of this year.

straight-ahead standup, he is a standout when he’s put on the spot. From his gig on Sin City, the Live Improvised Serial Soap, to his monthly appearances as Derwin Blanshard or the host of Phillips Comedy Night, audiences are in good hands with the expert improviser.

Runners up: Morgan Cranny; Dave Morris; Karen Brelsford; Justine Shore.

Top Comedian Jason Lamb

As the host of The Zone @ 91-3’s morning show and Hecklers, Victoria’s professional comedy stage, Jason Lamb has carved out a place for himself in the hearts of local comedy lovers and M Award voters – and anyone who’s ever wished to meet their idol.

Remember Lamb’s video pleas to interview John Cleese and Steve Martin? We do, because there’s nothing more endearing than watching someone’s dream come true.

Runners up: Mike Delamont; Wes Borg; Kirsten Van Ritzen; Sean Proudlove; James Ball.

Top Up and Coming Comedian Ryan Bangma

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Runners up: Abdul Aziz; Shane Priestly; Shawn O’Hara; Alain Williams; Justine Auben-Drummond; Myles Anderson; Darcy Collins.

Top Comedy Night Phillips Comedy Night

The Victoria Event Centre hosts all kinds of shenanigans on the regular and provides a vital space for the city. There are few things we love more than to see illustrious host Wes Borg back a faltering amateur comedian at the piano with his fine balance of loving encouragement and well-timed sarcasm.

Apparently our readers feel the same.

Runners up: Hecklers Comedy Night; Ratfish Comedy Show.

Top Visual Artist

Rande Cook (randecook.com)

This First Nations artist doesn’t confine himself to one artistic medium. Born into a culture-rich community and having studied under master wood sculptors and metal artists, Cook showcases his skills on a wide variety of media, including paintings, rugs, and working with wood, gold and silver.

Runners up: Clement Kwan (clementkwan. com); Linny D Vine (linnydvine.com); Timothy Wilson Hoey (timothyhoey.com); Rick Silas (ricksilas.wordpress. com).

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Top Emerging Visual Artist Debra Olsen

Though a relative newcomer to Vancouver Island, Debra Olsen spent time on Salt Spring Island honing her craft and putting her mixed media pieces on display. This Iowa native says colour, texture, pattern, balance and repetition all work together in her artwork.

Runners up: Jenny Hainsworth; E.R Gott; Cameron Kidd; Alan De Haan.

Top Art Event

TD Art Gallery Paint-In (Moss Street)

There’s no better way to explore the natural beauty of Moss Street than to have it filled with talented Victoria artists, brushing up on their skills along the street. This annual event, which celebrated 27 years in July, attracts thousands every year, highlighting artists working in any and all mediums.

Runners up: Victoria Chalk Art Festival; Integrate Arts Festival (formerly Off the Grid Art Crawl); Sooke Fine Arts; Art in the Garden (at Glendale Gardens); Sidney Fine Art Show; LOOK Show (Community Arts Council).

Top Art Gallery

The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Fifty Fifty is a non-profit artist-run centre that provides space for artists of all disciplines who have yet to be defined in the mainstream.

These supporters of the independent art scene regularly host events and shows throughout the year to highlight the best of Victoria’s artists.

Runners up: Winchester Galleries; Victoria Emerging Art Gallery; Madrona Gallery; West End Gallery LTD; Eclectic Gallery; Peninsula Gallery.

Top Art Show

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 (Royal BC Museum)

This visually striking exhibition from London’s Natural History Museum showcases more than 100 of the world’s best wildlife and nature images. Enjoy the wonders of nature through the lenses of prize-winning photographers, as each photo and accompanying caption tells the inspirational, astonishing and sometimes humorous stories of our fascinating natural world.

Runners up: First Nations and Metis art show (Community Arts Council of the Saanich Peninsula); The Limners: A Victoria Legacy (Winchester Galleries).

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Raven Brings the Light

By Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd

A story that’s been passed on from generation to generation for more than 3,000, Vickers’ colourful artwork bring this beautiful story to life. This version of the story – of a boy named Weget who is born destined to bring the light back to Earth – originates from one told to the author by Chester Bolton, Chief of the Ravens, from the village of Kitkatla around 1975.

Runners up: Cocktail Culture: Recipes & Techniques from Behind the Bar by Shawn Soole & Nate Caudle; Ted Grant: Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism

by Thelma Fayle; The Land of Heart’s Delight by Michael Layland; Blissful by Heather Cunliffe; Every Happy Family by Dede Crane.

Top Filmmaker Maureen Bradley

A media artist, curator and educator, Bradley has created more than 50 short films and videos, four film installations and two web art projects.

Her award-winning productions have screened at galleries and festivals around the world. Most recently Bradley wrote and directed the oddball romcom Two 4 One. Runners up: Andrew Naysmith; Denver Jackson; Jeremy Lutter; Connor Gaston; Martin de Valk.

Top Local Film Event Victoria Film Festival

Proud supporters of independent film-making, the Victoria Film Festival is this city’s premier opportunity to see some wonderful and unique storytelling on the big screen in February. The festival has grown to include more than just simple movie screenings. The Film Fest also hosts Art of the Cocktail, Foodie Film Fest and the Free-B Film Fest.

Runners up: Reel to Reel; Movie Monday; Antimatter [Media Art]; Open Cinema.

Top Spoken Word Event/Series The Victoria Spoken Word Festival

These artists all have a way with words, and this festival is truly a masterful showcase of the writers who thrive in this world. The annual multi-day event attracts poets from across North America who take part in shows and workshops that all aim to highlight the evolution of spoken word.

Runners up: Tongues of Fire; VicSlam; Victorious

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Top Spoken Word Performer Jeremy Loveday

Performance poet and active community builder Jeremy Loveday takes home his second consecutive M Award. This repeat member of the Victoria Poetry Slam team has represented Victoria on a national level. He’s also played an integral role in the City of Victoria’s Youth Poet Laureate program and Victorious Voices.

Runners up: shayne avec i grec; Aysia Law.

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Since then, its grown to attract more than 100 international artists every year and huge crowds who aren’t shy in picking this as the most anticipated music event of the year.

Runners up: Rock The Shores (rocktheshores.com); Victoria International JazzFest (jazzvictoria. ca/jazz-fest); Victoria Ska Festival (victoriaskafest.ca/); Vancouver Island Blues Bash (jazzvictoria.ca/blues-bash); Victoria Summer Music Festival (vsmf. org); Victoria Electronic Music Festival (vemf.org).

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Top Performing Arts Festival Fringe Festival (victoriafringe.com)

Top Foodie/Boozie Event

Great Canadian Beer Festival From its humble beginnings as a one-day indoor festival with 15 breweries and 1,500 people, the Great Canadian Beer Fest has grown into a world-class, two-day outdoor event that could attract as many as 85 breweries this year and 9,500 people.

The festival, now in its 22nd year, has attracted 10 new BC breweries for the Sept. 5-6 event.

Runners up: Brewery and the Beast; Fernwood Bites; Feast of Fields; Victoria Whiskey Festival; TASTE; Art of the Cocktail; Culinaire; Uncork Your Palate (fundraiser for the Victoria Conservatory of Music).

Top Music Festival

Rifflandia (rifflandia.com)

Multiple stages, multiple venues and a hell of a lot of great music is why Monday readers chose Rifflandia as the Top Music Festival for another year. It started with a 10x10 tent and a handful of colourful pins in 2008.

Over the last 28 years, the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival has grown to become Vancouver Island’s biggest theatre event. This month, Fringe boasts more than 300 performances of 50 shows spread over 11 venues.

Productions come from around the world, bringing 11 days of comedy, drama, dance, spoken word, physical theatre and a ton of fun to Victoria.

Runners up: Victoria Buskers Festival (victoriabuskers.com); Bike Ride (Theatre SKAM) (skam.ca); Uno Festival (intrepidtheatre.com/festivals/ unofest); Spark Festival (belfry.bc.ca); Family Theatre Festival (Kaleidoscope Theatre) (kaleidoscope.bc.ca/season/ ftf/); Bounce; Heritage Arts Festival.

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at the mic At 9 a.m. I boarded a plane in Victoria, and four airports later (including one unexpected cancellation and a reroute) I find myself in a van headed from Regina to Swift Current at dusk for a small-town arts festival. I remember, as I have driven these Saskatchewan roads before, that driving through the Prairies is like every scene from The Flintstones. Just passing the same house, boulder and tree over and over again.

With the stress of the day weighing on my eyes, I hear a light rain start to hit the van.

The constant tapping of water against the glass lulls me to sleep and I close my eyes. I open them moments later with the realization that there are no clouds in the sky, so how could there be rain? The kid driving hits the windshield wipers and I have a front-row seat to the carnage of thousands of bugs being scraped

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Once we reached Swift Current I was dropped off at the house where I was being billeted. Normally I stay in hotels, but this being a small town, I figured a house might be better than the Motel 6. Since one of my flights was cancelled, I ended up arriving later than planned. When I arrived, the light was on outside but it seemed like my hosts were asleep due to the late hour. I was told I was staying in the basement, so I quietly opened the door to the house, put my bag in the empty bedroom and got in the shower. It was only once I was standing naked in the shower in a house I had never been to, owned by a couple I had yet to meet, that I thought to myself: ‘What if I’m in the wrong house?’

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I have never been to this part of the country in the summer before, and while I felt badly for the blanket of insects that speckled the hood of our vehicle like a Jackson Pollock painting, these feelings soon faded as I was introduced to the largest mosquitoes I have ever seen. I think perhaps ‘small horse’ may be more fitting than ‘large mosquitoes.’

They take so much blood its like an involuntary donor clinic. It’s one of the rare times I am happy to be so large. If they ever bit somebody smaller – that person would die.

Temperatures are in the 30s, the humidity is in the 90s, the bugs are the size of cars.

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I was enjoying a hamburger and fries, minding my business, but the hamburger was quite filling, so I decided to just eat the burger and leave the bun.

As I was finishing my food I heard a plopping splashing sound coming from nearby; I was too busy looking at my laptop to notice what it was.

A few seconds later the guy in the pool came up from underwater and threw something onto the pool deck beside me. It was a hamburger patty.

He just stared at me and then swam back to his wife.

This whole thing seemed strange, but then a horrifying thought came to mind: he thinks I threw my hamburger patty into the pool!

All the evidence pointed to me. There, on my plate, was an uneaten hamburger bun, and there, on the pool deck, was a wet hamburger patty.

The restaurant waitress immediately came by. She looked at the hamburger patty on the ground, then at the bun on the plate, then at me.

She picked up the wet patty and went back inside.

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what people think? But do I want them thinking I threw a hamburger into a hotel pool?

I soon realized that the hamburger actually fell from the sky. It was dropped by a crow that was raiding the dumpster next door.

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Meatloaf belts out his epic sing-along ballad Paradise by the Dashboard Light, while Peter Fonda tools by in a classic motorcycle movie projected on the wall across from the booth where Cosmo Meens waits.

The chef-owner of Hot and Cold Café on Cook Street says he rolled in ahead of me, on his 1978 Honda, at 11 a.m. just in time for the sign to flip to ‘open’ at Wheelies (2620 Rock Bay Ave.).

The vibe at Wheelies is a throwback through decades of motorcycle culture, cruising the ‘60s through ‘80s. Meens was dying to try the motorcycle café with attached bike shop – or vice versa.

A concise menu hearkens to the simplicity of old-school bike culture. Chef Kai Musseau boasts a locally sourced menu that is constantly changing to offer a fresh take on classics.

“The bigger the menu, the more room for error in it. I started with a really small menu,” Meens says of his own experience.

We order The Pork and The Chicken, vowing to reserve belly

room for the rising-star ice cream sandMeens says, because it’s not just a breast. wich for dessert.

For me, the pickled carrot pulls The It doesn’t take long for the wooden Pork ahead of The Chicken. Meens slabs to arrive with our sandwiches. agrees, and apparently so do the regulars The crispy crust of the ciabatta bun at the fairly new café, as staffers say the crunches as Meens splits pig-based sandwich remains the The root beer- top seller.

The Pork in two. He immediately recognizes it as After a trip to the parking lot braised pork a roll from Fol Epi in Vic to peruse the bikes, we’ve crewith pickled West. “Those are absoluteated just enough wiggle room carrot and ly fresh.” to split a dessert sandwich – Inside it’s filled with root daikon is killer. decadent brownie rounds filled beer-braised Island pork with vanilla fudge ice cream, with pickled carrot and daikon topped rounded in sweetly roasted nuts. with arugula and chimichurri aioli.

We opt to leave the spoons on the “The pork is killer,” Meens says, mowplates and treat it as the classic finger ing down for second bite. “Nice deep, food that it is. delicious braised pork with super bright “Ice cream sandwich is a solid item pickle on there.” to have on the menu in summertime,” A pair of cabbage fans, we delve into Meens says with a grin.

The Chicken: pulled sesame chicken, peaOur hands washed of sugary sweet nut lime slaw and Sriracha aioli. after, I leave him with his ‘78 Honda to “Totally different flavours. I like the chat with the mechanics about getting slaw on there; I’m a big cabbage fan,” some electrical work done.

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Who wants to be stuck in a dark, windowless space at this time of year? So leaving the cocktail bar behind this season, it’s on to making our own libations for the summer and finding the best online resources to help you whip up a winner.

Diffordsguide.com is full of articles on bars (check out the Artesian in London), summer cocktail recipes, and a section where you input the liquid ingredients you have and the style of drink you want, and the site will suggest a recipe. It’s similar to the Spin the Wheel idea that hot spot Veneto offers.

This reminds me of the terrific Mixilator - Random Cocktail Generator website (cocktaildb. com/mixilator). Ted Haigh, better known as Dr. Cocktail, created a selector based not on a specific ingredient, but rather the style of drink, time of day that you are drinking and cocktail strength. Haigh’s suggestions are based on intensive research (I’d love to have been around for that) into the theories of mid-century modern bartender David Embury.

My final go-to site is the New York Times (nytimes.com) because it has lots of great articles on cocktails, including one from 2013 on Summer Drinks.

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It may be hot out, but the folks at Silk Road Tea know how to make iced teas, lemonades, Popsicles and more, with weekly workshops through the end of summer.

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If you can’t bear to make your own cocktail then check out these great patios: The Snug at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel; Ten Acres; and Brentwood Bay Lodge.

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It seems that slow-paced lifestyle that entices so many people to move to Victoria is also an appeal for tourists – at least according to the city’s slowest tour guide operator.

Andrew Capeau, owner of Victoria Pedicab Company, says taking in the sights and sounds of Victoria on a private pedal-powered rickshaw is an incomparable experience.

“We think 30 miles an hour is too fast to take it in. Five miles an hour is just the right speed,” he says. “This city has so much charm, there’s so much beauty when you get off the beaten path. We’re the only tour vehicles that are permitted on quiet city streets, through the bike paths in Beacon Hill Park, and when people experience that, that’s where they really fall in love with Victoria.”

Victoria Pedicab Company employs 30 pedicab operators during the busy season – May through September – who tour locals and visitors (mostly cruise ship passengers) around on an open-air guided tour.

“They don’t expect us to be these informative, knowledgeable guides that we are,’” Capeau says.

The biggest challenge for pedicabs in Victoria is convincing visitors not to automatically associate a city tour with sitting on a bus.

“What I want people to think is when you come to Victoria, you take a pedicab. It’s like when you go to Venice, you get on a gondola,” he says. “You want to do something that’s going to wow you, that’s going to give you that experience that you want to go away with, where you just didn’t expect it, you were charmed out of your socks by the city, and it was a hell of a lot of fun.”

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KYLE SLAVIN editor@mondaymag.com Doris Gregory spent only a few months in Victoria – and that was some 70 years ago – but it was the first stop in a short, but memorable career in the armed forces during the 1940s.

Gregory’s newly released memoir, How I Won the War for the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier’s Story, is both a fun and fascinating story of her life during the Second World War. “Nobody’s ever done this, written about the fun times during their life in the Canadian Women’s Service,” said Gregory, now 93, who was trained in typing and shorthand at Work Point in 1942.

“It was very exciting for me. It was a nice way of getting away from home without offending anybody,” she said. “Victoria was the start of a wonderful, exciting adventure.”

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Vivid, quirky, pulsingly kinetic and a matchless euphoriant, it was widely

Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne in 1984’s Stop Making Sense.

hailed as the best concert film ever. (Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described it as “close to perfection.”) In honour of its 30th anniversary Sense is getting a re-release in a new digital format, complete with a limited theatrical run. It plays Victoria on July 30-31 up at UVic’s Cinecenta and represents mustsee viewing for all music fans (or, really, anyone with a pulse).

I still have intense memories of seeing Sense when it first came out, and a recent rewatch confirmed that the film has aged remarkably well.

Right from the opening shot as we watch David Byrne walk out onstage to perform a solo acoustic version of “Psycho Killer” and on through successive songs as the rest of the band gradually joins him, fol-

lowed by several notable funk musicians and vocalists, the standard viewer response is to twitch continuously in abject submission to the beat. By the time a full stage of musicians rips through a killer version of “Burning Down The House,” it’s impossible not to envy the Los Angeles audience that got to be part of such a magical experience.

The taut, beautifully performed music – the 18 songs include “Slippery People,” “Once In a Lifetime,” and an incantatory “Take Me to the River” – comes alive onstage, thanks to an imaginative and often playful stage show that incorporates startling choreography, Expressionist lighting and silhouettes, dramatic use of colour, and a trio of gigan-

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Started as a silly And dominating it all is the Marvel Comics line in majestically weird persona of 1969, this futuristic lead singer David Byrne, who sci-fi romp features the transformed highly intellectulikes of Zoe Saldana alized art-school nerdiness into and Chris Pratt as part a compelling musical aesthetic. of a motley crew of From his anguished vocals and mutants out to save deliberately jerky white-boy the universe. dance moves to a startling latein-show costume change when BOYHOOD he sports his absurdest “big Probably the most suit,” Byrne is a great frontman. Ellar Coltrane stars in Boyhood, which was filmed intriguing film of the over a 12-year period.

(The only time the show loses a summer, this unique bit of focus is when he absents offering from Richard himself to allow fellow bandmates Tina Weymouth Linklater (Slackers, Before Sunrise) is a look at a and Chris Frantz to perform one song as their offboyhood life that literally unfolds before the camshoot band, Tom Tom Club.) era – for more than a decade the same actors got Filmed over three nights at the Pantages Theatre together every year for a few weeks of filming.

– thus allowing Demme to get all the different Supposedly, this is fiction with a high degree of types of shots he needed without excessively embedded truth. intruding into the performance space, Sense is an understated masterpiece of filmmaking. With comTHE TRIP TO ITALY plementary editing rhythms, exciting close-ups, and Steve Coogan (Philomena) had a quirky art-house a great sympathy with what Talking Heads was cre- hit in 2010 with The Trip, wherein he and Rob ating, Demme and his crew captured a superb band Brydon toured the north of England as a gloomy at the height of its powers. food writer and his annoying friend. The daft duo reunites for a sure-to-be memorable trip around STOP MAKING SENSE ★★★★ Italy.

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Do you remember the drive-in?

Or does the concept of sitting under the stars to watch a movie on the big screen just puzzle you? Only three drive-in theatres remain in all of B.C., and the last one in Victoria closed in 1979, so generations of filmgoers have missed out on this fun concept.

But the outdoor movie experience is not entirely lost in our city, just downsized – though the Free B Film Festival draws as many as 2,000 people on a balmy night. And this year might top that, as the opening film – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure – will be

shown on a large inflatable screen on the Legislature lawn on Aug. 1. The Free B then moves to its usual location, Cameron Bandshell in Beacon Hill Park, for its lineup on Fridays and Saturdays through August. The last Free B event of the month moves out to Broadmead Village (Aug. 23) for a screening of the 1939, made-in-Victoria film Death Goes North.

Esquimalt has also recently taken it outside, and hosts its own Outdoor Movie Series every other Friday, showing contemporary films like Gravity and Brave.

small SCREEN KYLE WELLS @CineFileBlog These are the lean days of television, my faithful readers. Hopefully, like a squirrel getting ready for the worst of winter, you have packed away some nourishment on your PVR and Netflix list, because it could be a long one.

Of course fall is harvest time, when all the new shows that have been growing for months are ready for consumption. But between now and then, we’re left mostly with preserves. I’ll stop with the food puns now.

At least this gives me a chance to reflect on just how good Orange is the New Black is. I know the second season has been out for nearly two months now, but I haven’t really had a chance to go on about it.

I realize I champion Netflix a lot, but it’s because I genuinely think its doing great things for TV (other than claiming shows as “original” when they’re really just taken from other channels. See From Dusk Till Dawn or Rectify).

But Netflix has done nothing better than to put so much trust and confidence in the creation of this truly groundbreaking show. Can you imagine any traditional network producing a show with a cast that is 90 per cent women, features characters of all ethnic backgrounds and sexualities, and treats all of them with such humanity, all in a show as compelling and edgy as anything on HBO? I know a lot of men who watch Orange is the New Black and don’t hesitate to praise it. Not that the show needs a male audience to succeed, but it proves if you can write compelling, human, well-rounded female characters who aren’t just there to look good or support a male lead, you will attract viewers of all sorts and who will relate to those characters on that level.

I was already a big fan of Jenji Kohan from Weeds, a show I loved till the end, but with this show she is doing something truly special, something important.

Speaking of female leads, the only show I have any interest in that is premiering soon is The Honourable Woman, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, who I think is just fantastic. This eight-episode miniseries, a political thriller surrounding arms dealing and Israel, is a BBC production, but it’s going to air here on CBC, and it looks rather complex and fattening.

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Our kids’ friends are getting married, as are our nieces and nephews.

Suddenly, I find myself being asked, “What’s your advice for a successful marriage?” My instant reaction is “Why are you asking me? I still wake up every morning and after 33 years of being married to the same guy, ask myself the same question.”

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and I’d forgive him.” Now that was good advice, and I follow it often, but I have 10 things on my list that doesn’t exist.

You also need to take time for your relationship. This is harder to do than it sounds because it means taking time away from life’s distractions: kids, friends and extended family. All of these are important to support a relationship and often provide role models, but when it comes right down to it, if things aren’t working for the two of you, you will grow apart, not together.

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“Show me the money!” Moneybags While it’s true that everyone Georgia Nicols Jupiter now enters your House of Money will have a shift of good fortune and Earnings, to stay for a year. (This will happen because Jupiter has changed signs, some will later for those of you born late in your sign, but be luckier than others. And you are one of them! regardless of when it happens, you will get a For the next year, expect a boost with love year’s run of this happy influence.) This means affairs, romance, vacations, fun, pleasure, the you will boost your earnings! You will gain wealth arts, children, the entertainment world and the by buying possessions or receiving them as gifts. hospitality industry. (Wow!) Your relationship Basically, whatever you most value will manifest with kids will improve. Your creative potential in your world. This is the key. Not everyone hopes will vibrate. New romance might blossom. Start for money. planning that vacation!

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

In the year ahead, you will have greater inner peace and security at home, in your personal life and with your family. This will be the perfect time to purchase real estate or invest in your home by redecorating or renovating. Family relationships will be warmer, richer and happier. People will be more generous to each other. You will enjoy making your home and family more secure because now is the time to put down roots. This will please you because these are all things you truly value.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

For the first time since 2002-2003, Jupiter will travel through the part of your chart that is your “home.” This will make you optimistic and happy in the coming year because your daily life will expand with possibilities of joy and fun! Relations with siblings, neighbours and relatives will

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

For the first time since 2003, lucky Jupiter is back in your sign to stay for a year. This means people and favourable resources will be drawn to you like magic. Your luck and good fortune will improve. Relationships with others will open up new avenues. Even the spiritual dimension of your life will deepen. Meanwhile, this signifies the beginning of a major 12-year cycle of growth. This is your chance to get to know what you can do!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In the next year, Jupiter will travel through your 12th house, which is “hidden.” This means your benefits will be subtle. Your spirituality and awareness will expand and deepen. You will look more compassionately at the world around you and feel greater empathy for those who suffer.

You might encounter a powerful teacher or perhaps, you will play this role for someone else.

Metaphysics and the occult will appeal, possibly even involvement in the church. You will feel more content.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

You will love your year ahead because your popularity gets a big boost! Expect increased opportunities to enjoy friends and activities in clubs and professional associations. Your interaction with others will benefit you. Friends will be supportive and will give you help, advice and good ideas. Just remember that whatever you put out will come back to you even more so.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Life is looking up for Scorpios because in the year ahead you will have opportunities to boost your profession and career. This will be a time of “getting ahead.” Some will put your name up in lights. Many will get a promotion at work or increased public recognition. Expect to be successful at what you do. Some will change their line of work to medicine, healing, the law, higher education and travel. (If this is the case, they will not necessarily get a promotion.)

Gentlemen, start your engines!

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Expect opportunities for extensive travel and chances to learn and teach. Philosophy and metaphysics will appeal. Some will be involved in human potential movements and consciousnessraising groups. Writers will be glad to know it’s a great time for publishing and working in the media. Interaction with foreign countries will increase, perhaps romantically. This means you will be out there doing your thing!

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

In the coming year, you will benefit from the wealth and resources of others. You might get an inheritance, money from the government or wealth through others. The coming year is a great time to get a loan or mortgage. You might have the use of things that others own. And this can be a time of deep healing. Whatever sweeping changes occur in your life will be for the best. Some will seek out religious and spiritual regeneration.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

For the first time since 2002-03, lucky Jupiter will be opposite your sign, which means all your one-to-one encounters and close partnerships will improve. Marriage, committed partnerships and professional partnerships will benefit you and enhance your life in many ways. Expect to be more involved with people from foreign countries and other cultures. If you marry your partner in the next year, this person will be older, richer and worldlier. (For some, marriage is not a word, it’s a sentence.)

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

Your health and work will improve in the coming year. If you don’t like your job, you can get a different and better job. If you like your job but you have a terrible boss, somehow this boss will disappear or be transferred. Poof! You can get better duties or better working conditions and surroundings. The next year is the time to go after what you want in terms of a job because Jupiter will help you find something fulfilling and enjoyable, the kind of work that gives you a sense of purpose and structure in your life. Your health will improve with increased physical strength and vitality.

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On behalf of the Board On behalf of the City of of Directors of the Victoria Victoria, it is my great pleasure International Buskers Festival to welcome you to the fourth Society, it is with great joy that I annual Victoria International welcome you to what is now one Buskers Festival. of Victoria’s most well known and Victoria’s Buskers Festival is well loved events. the largest street performer THE CITY OF VICTORIA FFICE OF THE MAYOR The city of Victoria hasOalways festival in British Columbia, had a creative and spirited reflecting the talent, creativity nature and a strong tradition of and joy of life that characterizes Mayor, Dean Fortin Chair, David Rand street performers; a mix of talented our city. You will be captivated individuals who liven the streets by touching the and amazed as the performances hearts of many with their captivating performances. move you from laughter to surprise and awe.

With this in mind, all of us on the Board made it our Once again, the festival features local Victoria goal to bring great performers from around the world favourites and an amazing array of talent from to join with our local talent to provide a free to attend, around the world. Victoria’s streets will come alive eventFortin to our vibrant downtown. with music, magic, physical feats and wonder. Greetings family-orientated from Mayor Dean It is estimated that in 2013, the festival had an The festival also showcases the history of our impact excess of $5to million to Victoria’s On behalf of frame Victoria City Council, Ieconomic wish to take thisinopportunity welcome the city. Our beautiful heritage buildings economy, we expect great results forVictoria this year performers, to ourand beautiful downtown for the modern festival stages and provide avisitors, unique and residents alike as well.

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La Société francophone de Victoria was founded in 1941 - our 75th anniversary is coming up! Victoria has a vibrant, diverse and dynamic French community. We offer services in French and promote French language and Francophone cultures from around the world. We are also very happy to find French performances available throughout major Anglophone events.

We are proud to support this event and look forward to see fabulous, magical and unique performances that will put smiles on the faces and joy in the hearts of kids of all ages!

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Local Francophone History They built Victoria.

Ok, not all by themselves, but they were a big part of the work.

Martin Norman Joseph Allard, Antoine Gagnon and a dozen other francophone contemporaries were here in 1843 and their strength and resolve raised the walls of Fort Victoria - the foothold of our great city.

And francophone culture continues to influence the community today.

That may come as a bit of a surprise, as we’re inundated with descriptions of Victoria as being “more British than Britain”, but the truth is that our original population was largely French. Fur traders for the Hudson Bay Company joined with FrenchCanadian employees of the company to drive the economic engine of the colony.

There was even a French newspaper back then.

Le Courrier de la Nouvelle Caledonie, hit Victoria’s streets in September of 1858, published by Paul de Garro. But the publication was short lived as the unimaginable was about to happen.

Overnight, the face of Victoria changed as gold fever hit the city. Miners and adventurers from California to Australia arrived in droves and the quiet community of 450 souls suddenly found 20,000 mostly English speaking newcomers on their doorstep.

But, although hugely outnumbered, Victoria’s francophone culture did not disappear - far from it.

There are still some 7,000 “franco-columbien” families in Greater Victoria, supported by a myriad of organizations such as the École Victor Brodeur, Alliance Française, and the Société Francophone de Victoria.

Yes, the culture is alive and well, contributing artists, actors, authors and entertainers to the creative tapestry of Victoria.

That’s why the Victoria International Buskers Festival is again proud to highlight francophone culture as part of its lineup. So come on out, bring the family and prepare to have fun.

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Victor is one of the world’s top jugglers! He was our People’s Choice Award winner in 2011 and 2012 and is a four time Guinness World Record holder. He specializes on juggling with soccer balls, acrobatics and comedy!

Funny Bones is a busking duo all the way from Tokyo, Japan who feature rock ‘n’ roll lions, hat juggling, voice percussion, comedy mime, magic and hilarious giant puppets. They’re a wonderful and hilarious duo!

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This former Victorian is TALLULAH, a versatile comic performer who pushes the boundaries of social interaction and comic possibility! This quintessential Canadian is friendly, polite, patriotic and slightly repressed.

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SATURDAY, JULY 19

SUNDAY, JULY 20

MONDAY JULY 21

TUESDAY JULY 22

1 2 PM Quatuor Stomp 1 PM Sharon Mahoney 2 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 3 PM Victor Rubilar 4 PM Checker Board Guy 5 PM Bendy Em 6 PM USA Breakdancers 7 PM Flame Oz 8 PM Funny Bones 9 PM Flame Oz

1 2 PM Strong Lady 1 PM Street Circus 2 PM Quatuor Stomp 3 PM Duo Hoops 4 PM Sharon Mahoney 5 PM Quatuor Stomp 6 PM Victor Rubilar 7 PM Checker Board Guy 8 PM Bendy Em 9 PM USA Breakdancers

1 2 PM Bendy Em 1 PM Funny Bones 2 PM Victor Rubilar 3 PM Checker Board Guy 4 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 5 PM Sharon Mahoney 6 PM Victor Rubilar 7 PM Street Circus 8 PM Strong Lady 9 PM Funny Bones

1 2 PM USA Breakdancers 1 PM Funny Bones 2 PM Strong Lady 3 PM Street Circus 4 PM Quatuor Stomp 5 PM Duo Hoops 6 PM Sharon Mahoney 7 PM Quatuor Stomp 8 PM USA Breakdancers 9 PM Quatuor Stomp

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

THURSDAY, JULY 24

FRIDAY, JULY 25

SATURDAY, JULY 26

12 PM Bendy Em 1 PM Checker Board Guy 2 PM Victor Rubilar 3 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 4 PM Sharon Mahoney 5 PM USA Breakdancers 6 PM Bendy Em 7 PM Flame Oz 8 PM USA Breakdancers 9 PM Flame Oz

1 2 PM Street Circus 1 PM Quatuor Stomp 2 PM Duo Hoops 3 PM Sharon Mahoney 4 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 5 PM Victor Rubilar 6 PM Checker Board Guy 7 PM USA Breakdancers 8 PM Funny Bones 9 PM Strong Lady

1 2 PM Funny Bones 1 PM Strong Lady 2 PM Street Circus 3 PM Quatuor Stomp 4 PM Duo Hoops 5 PM Sharon Mahoney 6 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 7 PM Victor Rubilar 8 PM Checker Board Guy 9 PM Bendy Em

1 2 PM Bendy Em 1 PM Checker Board Guy 2 PM Victor Rubilar 3 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 4 PM Sharon Mahoney 5 PM Duo Hoops 6 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 7 PM Flame Oz 8 PM Street Circus 9 PM Flame Oz

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PRINCE OF WHALES STAGE Along the Victoria Inner Harbour FRIDAY, JULY 18

SATURDAY, JULY 19

SUNDAY, JULY 20

5:40 PM 6:40 PM 7:40 PM 8:40 PM

3:40 PM 4:40 PM 5:40 PM 6:40 PM 7:40 PM 8:40 PM

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MONDAY JULY 21

TUESDAY JULY 22

4:40 PM 5:40 PM 6:40 PM 7:40 PM 8:40 PM

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

THURSDAY, JULY 24

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SATURDAY, JULY 19

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SUNDAY, JULY 20

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1 2 PM Duo Hoops 1 PM Flame Oz 2 PM Checker Board Guy 3 PM Bendy Em 4 PM Strong Lady 5 PM Street Circus 6 PM Duo Hoops 7 PM Flame Oz 8 PM Victor Rubilar 9 PM Flame Oz

1 2 PM Sharon Mahoney 1 PM Quatuor Stomp 2 PM Duo Hoops 3 PM Street Circus 4 PM Strong Lady 5 PM USA Breakdancers 6 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 7 PM Sharon Mahoney 8 PM Bendy Em 9 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot

1 2 PM Checker Board Guy 1 PM Bendy Em 2 PM Funny Bones 3 PM Sharon Mahoney 4 PM Duo Hoops 5 PM Funny Bones 6 PM Victor Rubilar 7 PM Sharon Mahoney 8 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 9 PM USA Breakdancers

THURSDAY, JULY 24

FRIDAY, JULY 25

1 2 PM Duo Hoops 1 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 2 PM Street Circus 3 PM Flame Oz 4 PM USA Breakdancers 5 PM Funny Bones 6 PM Duo Hoops 7 PM Sharon Mahoney 8 PM Victor Rubilar 9 PM Bendy Em

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

1 2 PM Duo Hoops 1 PM Sharon Mahoney 2 PM Victor Rubilar 3 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 4 PM Funny Bones 5 PM USA Breakdancers 6 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot 7 PM Bendy Em 8 PM Strong Lady 9 PM Checker Board Guy

1 2 PM Street Circus 1 PM USA Breakdancers 2 PM Funny Bones 3 PM Strong Lady 4 PM Checker Board Guy 5 PM Strong Lady 6 PM Duo Hoops 7 PM Checker Board Guy 8 PM Strong Lady 9 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot

SATURDAY, JULY 26

SUNDAY, JULY 27

1 2 PM Funny Bones 1 PM The Francophone Show 2 PM Street Circus 3 PM Duo Hoops 4 PM Victor Rubilar 5 PM Checker Board Guy 6 PM Sharon Mahoney 7 PM Duo Hoops 8 PM Victor Rubilar 9 PM Checker Board Guy

1 2 PM Bendy Em 1 PM Sharon Mahoney 2 PM Victor Rubilar 3 PM Street Circus 4 PM Reuben Dot Dot Dot

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THANKS FOR THE TIP!

A reminder that both our local and visiting festival performers earn their living from your tips! As a result, deciding how much to tip a busker will be a frequent consideration for many festival goers.The general rule is simply to give what you can afford. The beautiful part about busking is that it is available to everyone, regardless of economic background. If you take in a stage performance, you could tip anywhere from loose change to $20 and up depending on how much you enjoyed the show and what you feel is affordable for you.Our festival is an international celebration of the art of busking and street theatre and your support of the artists is what helps make the festival a success!

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