Daniel Lapp’s west coast kitchen party
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oin BC’s highly renowned fiddler and folk artist Daniel Lapp for a nationwide Thanksgiving celebration of Canadian folk music. Occurring now more than 20 years, Lapp’s Joy of Life event, presented this year online by the Victoria Conservatory of Music (VCM), combines the Joy of Song and the Joy of Fiddle into one spectacular show. The event will premiere on the VCM’s YouTube Channel and VCM Facebook on Sunday, October 11 at 4 pm. In lieu of tickets, a donation to the Victoria Conservatory of Music is requested. The VCM is a registered Canadian charity and one of Canada’s largest and most diverse community music schools; donations help keep music education as affordable and accessible as possible to all. Lapp’s special guests, Shari Ulrich (BC), Lennie Gallant (PEI) and Tania Elizabeth (BC/ Nashville TN) join close to 150 of Lapp’s students from the BC Fiddle Orchestra, Folkestra!, and Joy of Life Choir, performing Lapp’s unique arrangements of songs— such as Snowbird and the Log Drivers Waltz—guaranteed to have viewers dancing and singing along from home. During COVID-19, Lapp and his VCM students have continued online learning, exploring Canadian songs and BC fiddle tunes. The songs they’re set to perform are iconic Canadiana and include toe-tapping polkas and jigs from Lapp’s 100-year recorded history of BC’s indigenous fiddle tunes, written in celebration of iconic BC landmarks, such as the Barkerville Connection or the Tabor Mountain Hornpipe.
DANIEL LAPP & SONYA LEGGE. PHOTO BY MARK NICHOL.
The Joy of Life event brings families together from coast to coast to sing and play along from home “west-coastkitchen party style.” It includes tips on how to create an amazing Thanksgiving dinner as Lapp visits with renowned BC chef Peter Zambri, co-owner of Victoria’s famous
Zambri’s restaurant, listed in the BC’s Restaurant Hall of Fame. To make a donation or for more information visit: vcm.bc.ca/event/joy-of-life/
The Victoria Arts Council presents an exhibition of concrete poetry featuring:
study ART at home Vancouver Island School of Art Learn art in the comfort and safety of your own home. Be free of worries such as travel, parking or transporting art supplies. You will become part of a dynamic art community by enrolling in a course or workshop at VISA. Choose from drawing, painting, collage, photography, printmaking or fibre arts. Beginners welcome. We make online learning fun and easy so give it a try! See website for more details
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4 September – 24 October Victoria Arts Council 1800 Store St. Tues-Sat 12-5pm concrete is porous is the anchor exhibit to the city-wide STANZAS project. STANZAS is organized by the Victoria Arts Council and hosted by arc•hive, errantArtSpace, Empty Gallery, and The Ministry of Casual Living, exploring the overlap of literary and visual arts. For schedule of related events, please visit https://www.vicartscouncil.ca/ www.vicartscouncil.ca
jordan abel michael morris aram saroyan christine walde bpNichol sacha archer carlyle baker gary barwin bill bissett daniel f bradley hart broudy judith copithorne jw curry michael dean brian dedora paul dutton helen hajnoczky sonia greckol donna fierle denis hunkler karl jirgens adeena karasick peggy lefler steve mccaffery gustave morin katie o’brien michèle provost resiqra revulva eric schmaltz kate siklosi dani spinosa w/ mark sutherland david tinmouth grant wilkins
mondaymag.com MONDAY MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020
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