TALK of the TOWN ! » On Sunday, Aug. 11
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from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Bowker Creek Park will blossom with art in the annual Bowker Creek Brush Up Art Show and Sale. Some 50 artists will be practicing their craft al fresco, as well as interacting with the several thousand visitors who stroll by admiring their works. This year, visitors can enjoy 40 Oak Bay artists, plus four guest artists, including internationally renowned Pat Martin Bates, Robert Amos, Marion Evamy and Marty Machacek, with his crooked architectural creations. Featured each year are youth artists from the community, many of whom go on to become emerging artists with promising careers. Organized by the Oak Bay Community Artists’ Society, it takes place at Bowker Creek Park on Hampshire Road between Oak Bay Avenue and Cranmore Street.
» A reading of a new book with Oak Bay connec-
tions takes place June 27 at Eclectic Gallery. The reading of Hometown: Out and About in Victoria’s Neighbourhoods runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at 2170 Oak Bay Avenue. Written by Anny Scoones, the book is illustrated with 120 original watercolours by acclaimed Oak Bay artist Robert Amos. It also features unique poems by Victoria’s poet laureate, Janet Rogers. The book sets out to discover the quaint and quirky charms of Victoria neighbourhoods.
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Amos has painted thousands of pictures of the urban landscape and specializes in commissioned paintings of homes and gardens. He is the author (and illustrator) of seven books about Victoria, was recently the artist in residence at the Fairmont Empress Hotel and is an Honorary Citizen of Victoria. His website is at robertamos. com.
» Oak Bay author Frank
Wilson will be reading and presenting from a new collection of poetry called Chasing Crows in various locations this summer. The book has been produced to support the Victoria Chasing chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. It follows on the heels of an earlier collection of poems by Frank Wilson called Blackberries, which raised $5,000 for the MS Society in the UK. Wilson says: “After coming here I approached the MS Society in Victoria and we developed the idea for a collection of poems illustrated by paintings from members of the MS Art Therapy group. In the end we have a collection of 43 poems and 17 paintings, beautifully created into a 60-page book. All proceeds go to the MS Society, but it’s also a valuable positive signal of what those with MS can achieve.” This has been a busy year for Wilson as his book of short stories Nowt to do with me was published in the UK in January. He has two book contracts on the go and has almost completed a follow-up collection of stories entitled Don’t Tell the Wife!
Crows Frank Wilson
With illustration by members of the
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Art Group Victoria
Thank you for your generous donation to the MS Society.