Why is art important? What is in it that connects thoughts to inspiration and introspection? What is in Art that shares culture and reminds us of our humanity?
It takes a lot of work to be an artist It takes courage and rigor. Rigor that has to push through distractions, planned and unplanned.
The Here’s Bowen Arts Tour needs our community of all mediums; painters, sculptors, photographers, installation, interdisciplinary artists, fibre artists, jewelers, writers, musicians, dancers and puppeteers to register to create a balanced tour experience. Artist demos and performances are incorporated in the schedule of the tour guide.
Registration to join us on bowenartstour. com by Nov. 15 to help ensure the start of planning the route, and the solvency of the wonderful tour guide that has 5,000 copies go out to the Metro Vancouver area by Lodestar Media. The website is beautifully designed to be an online promotion of the artist and also for reference of the tour guide
Studio and Home Hubs grouping three to five artists are ideal but some artists choose to go solo in their studio Don’t have a
clear idea? The tour committee can help put together artist Hubs matching your company of makers for the two day tour
Some of our hubs are some of our wonderful restaurants: Tippy’s, Riley’s Cidery and Bowen Cider House. Or destinations like the Golf Course and Collins Hall. The more artists who register, planning can be done with strategic placement to have a good flow of the self-guided tour.
The tour team has work to do to support the infrastructure of the May 23 and 24 tour dates. Sponsorship needs to be procured to help with covering all the costs. This is why it is so important for early registration.
To all of you artists that have registered already, we thank you.
Andrew Plewes is an island painter who participated in the 2025 tour, and plans to return next year too.
If you’ve got a drawer of broken gadgets, a sweater with a hole, or a lamp that’s been flickering for years, don’t toss them out! The Fix-It Fair is back on Sunday, November 23 from 12 to 3 pm at the Bowen Island Legion, and our community of talented tinkerers, menders, and repair enthusiasts are ready to help bring your broken treasures back to life.
The Fix-It Fair is a simple idea: instead of tossing things in the trash or buying a replacement, you can get it fixed. The team of handy volunteers are fueled by the satisfaction of bringing new life to the variety of items brought in to get fixed, and are equipped to repair small appliances, electronics, toys, jewelry, clothing and more. They love a good challenge whether it’s sewing up a rip, tightening a hinge, rewiring a plug, or figuring out what’s gone wrong with that old appliance; if you can get it through the door we’ll take a look and do our best You don’t need to know anything about repairs to take part, just bring clean items – including no pet hair on clothing please – and your reusable mug for a free tea or coffee white you wait We’ll have snacks on hand too, and donations are welcome to help cover the venue rental and lunch for
the volunteer team.
The Fix-It Fair is hosted by Regenerative Bowen Island, a local non-profit working to build a more resilient, connected community. Repairing items has a big impact locally and globally that goes beyond keeping objects out of the landfill. Extending the life of household items reduces the harmful social and environmental impacts of consumer capitalism, including simply the cost to your wallet of buying something new.
And by keeping repair skills alive and connecting through acts of care for each other and the planet, we strengthen our community bonds It’s a great way to meet some of your handy neighbours and maybe pick up a few repair tricks yourself
If you’d like to lend a hand with fixing, mending, or helping out on the day, contact me, Paola Qualizza, at pqualizza@ gmail.com
Let’s repair, reuse, reconnect, and maybe even rejoice together. See you at the Legion on Sunday, November 23!
Thank youtoeveryone who organized and participated in this year’s Remembrance DayCeremony, once again it proved to be an incredibly specialday. Thecrowd wasestimated to be four digits strong whichwould be about1/4 of the island’s population -quitea remarkable achievement. Thereisnodoubt Bowen caresdeeplyabout all Veterans andthose who have been impacted by warboth abroad and at home.Itis very inspiring to seethe localscenes at theCenotaph each November 11 morning. Andthanks to BC Ferries toofor waitingtounloadthe QueenofCapilano until the ceremonywas completeand thestreets were clear.
-AlexKurial, Editor
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Letter: Listening to the Cougar
ANJA JANE Letter Writer
Icreated acougart-shirt froma wishtohelp protect the cougar andto explore the fear its presence stirred. Over time, Irealised the conversations it sparked revealed something deeper, how we project our unsettled anxiety and fear of death onto the world around us.
We can hold our unintegrated emotions withkindness, offering them our full presence, no matter how uncomfortable it feels. When Ibegan to witness this in my own practice, it blewmy mind, this is thetrue path to freedom Removing the cougar might make us feel safe, even though the odds of an attack are one in abillion. Butwhat aboutthe real risks we faceevery day, car accidents, fallingbranches, illness, or climate change?
Death is inevitable. Canwechoose toliveeach moment with grace? Can wetend to our unhealed trauma and live in love and freedom, instead of fear and control? Idon’t write this from a place of having it all figuredout, Iam
onthe path, Istill feel triggered, Isometimesholdrage, anger and grief in my body so Isit eachday in practice. When Iwrap my littleson in my arms, my heart aches for this world, andwhatwehave donefor our future generations. The instinct to protect himrunsdeep. Yeteven in that tenderness, Isee howinevery moment Ineed to take action and softenmyheart, leading withlove.
This is acalltoprotect and cherish whatremains, our precious biodiversityand wehavetodothat in ourown backyards. Every time aspecies goes extinctitblowsaholeinthe sophisticatedintelligentnet ofwhat holdsus.
I’m writing this while reading The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall (you can borrow it from theLibrary), reminded that even thesmallest actions matter Nature is not something wecontrol,extractand remove for our needs.
Aslong as we believe we stand at the top of thepyramid,thateverything exists for ourbenefit,wemove closer to ourown destruction. True harmony comeswhen we remember that we arenot separate from nature,but part of it.Thereisa way of living rooted in reciprocity, where every being is seen as equal and essential, balance can be restored.
By understanding our true placein theweb oflife, we can choose coexistence with everything. When wolves were reintroduced toYellowstone National Park,everything began to change. The wolves kept elk fromover-
Letter: Cougar relocationoutlook
ISABEL OTTER
Letter Writer
In arecent Undercurrent articleour CAO was quoted as claiming that relocations of cougars are extremely rare because 99.8% of them lead to their death.Since then therehas been no public clarification –orcorrection- of thisastonishing statistic.
To be legitimate this 99.8% would have to come from adata set of at least 1,000cougar relocations,but on B.C. Conservation’s website Icouldfind no empirical support forour CAO’s claim. Thewebsite notedthat in thepast 15 years the conservationservicehas “translocated” only 19 cougars.
In contrast,their websitealso revealed –for the same 15 years –that theirofficers have shot and killed 1,039 cougars “in response to human-wildlife conflict incidents”.
Other jurisdictions have published more information about relocations. A 2019 cougar study in the Santa Monica
grazingthe riverbanks, allowingtrees andplants to return.Asthe vegetation revived, rivers healed, fish returned. With thereturningvegetation,beavers build their dams, ecosystem engineers creating habitatsthat nurturelife and increase biodiversity. With fewer elk, flowersflourished and with them,bees. Bears thrived with more berries, andthe balance rippled: mice and rabbits returned,followedbyeagles and coyotes. The elk stabilized and becamehealthier and no longerstarvingtodeath in the winter.Cougars are vital to the healthofour ecosystems. Iamsogratefulthat they have graced our island,scattering nutrients, keeping deer populations healthy, protecting plants, andinturn, helping forests, rivers, birds, soils, andour community thrive
Ialmostendedthe t-shirt with Save theEarth, butit’suswho needsaving. The Earth will endure.Ancient Wollemi pineswerefound in adeep canyon in Australia, oncethought extinct, and survived 200 million yearsand 17 ice ages, quietlygettingonwith it.
When hope is lost or you are feeling eco-anxiety, turn offthe news which is projectingthe deep shadow and pain of oursociety.Insteadread aboutrewilding projects, especiallyin Europe, where I’mfrom, witnessing how life reboundsinmind blowing ways when we give it space.
Nature alwaysknows theway back to balance andinsmall orbig ways we can help her.
Derek Michael Stuart
1944 – 2025
DerekMichael Stuart passedawayatLions Gate Hospital in NorthVancouver on September30, 2025
Aphysicist,award-winning inventor,and sculptor in bronze andglass,Derek devotedhis life to exploringthe space wherescience andart meet.For more than thirty years, he livedand worked abovehis studio on BowenIsland, shapingbeauty from metal, light, andimagination
He will be remembered forhis brilliance, curiosity, andthe quietintegrity that infusedbothhis life andhis art.
Mountainsrefers to tranquillization & relocationasone of their strategies used for “aversive conditioning of cougars”, andadvises that when consideringaversive conditioning “itisimportantto understandthat thereisno onesize-fits-allsolution [sothe] protocols should bedeveloped withspecific regard to context, individual history, andsituationalcircumstances”.
The study also distinguishes between safety requirements needed for people living “near” cougar habitat and those living “in” cougar habitat. The safety requirementsfor thelatter (which wouldapplytoBowen Islanders as thecougarislivingamong us)include thefollowing warning: “Even at home, whenlivingincougar habitat, children should be supervised at all times and keptwithinarm’s reach.”
A1989 -1993 New Mexico study evaluated translocation “as amanagement tool to reestablish populations, relievethe problem of inbreedingin isolated populations,and manage problem individuals”. The researchers,
whomonitored13translocatedcougars for four years,foundtwo “produced offspring” and ninedied. (As cougarlife expectancy is abouteight years,a fouryear fatalityrateof69% is not particularlysurprising, butmore important, it is nowhere near99.8%.)
The researchers later described translocation as “mostsuccessful with cougars 12 –27months old”. Andmuch like theSanta Monica researchers they also mused that “meetingthe diversity of public desires for cougarswithin a given area is achallenging task [that will] only be successful by attempting to provide for different needs and different locations.”
In the interests of transparency,if thereare studies and data whichjustify this 99.8% claim please sharethem and help us understand why B.C. cougars cannot survive relocation whilethose in New Mexico andCaliforniacan.In the absence ofsuchdata, and using the 15 yearsofdata on B.C. Conservation’s websiteinstead, it seemsthat relocation wouldbesafer for cougarsthan the B.C. officers’ current policy ofwaiting for them to attack ahuman before they shoot and kill them.
Geologic time meets human technology in moody, immersive Texada
LOIS BELLUK
The Hearth Gallery
Virtual reality (VR) is common in the gaming and flight simulation worlds, and also in medical training. Simply strap on a headset and venture into a world of imagination, education and immersive experiences that can even help manage pain and ease symptoms of PTSD.
But documentary filmmaker Josephine Anderson and Claire Sanford wanted to take VR technology in a different direction. They envisioned combining a reality focusing on one Gulf Island, where the prime economic driver is limestone quarries, while acknowledging the critical role limestone plays in our daily lives, from concrete to toothpaste.
Enter Texada, showing Nov.19 to 30 at Bowen’s Hearth Gallery. The film explores the contrast of human time versus geological time, telling stories of people who live and work on Texada through the limestone which is mined there.
VR can be stilted or flat think of cartoons that are largely line drawings filled in with a single colour but Anderson/ Sanford’s vision was something more artistic and three-dimensional.
“I wanted it to have a very layered, detailed look, very painterly I wanted the animation to always be moving,” says Anderson, a
Bowen resident who co-produced the film with Claire Sanford.
On the gallery walls, the blues and purples of landscapes and sky vistas will be projected, but viewers can also wear a VR headset that will plunge them into a moving, undulating terrain real and imaginary that effectively becomes a tribute to the history and evolution of the calcified rocky outcroppings of Texada Island.
For Anderson, the project evolved out of curiosity for what VR might bring to her filmmaking The immersive effect of VR can be physically destabilizing for the viewer, and full-on animation demands a lot of data new concepts for the filmmaker
“Every step of the way was cool and challenging, like learning a new language, or having your first kid,” she says, with threemonth-old son Adler on her hip
“Taking a movie and making it 3D, testing the limits of our physiology so that we don’t feel nauseous, testing the limits of the VR and how much [digital] data could we process at any given time,” these were all on the learning curve for Anderson.
Come meet Josephine Anderson and Claire Sanford to experience the immersive experience of Texada, Saturday, Nov 22 from 6 to 8 pm at the Hearth Gallery, 430 Bowen Island Trunk Road.
For more about the artist, visit josephineanderson.ca
BowenIslandHeritagePreservationAssociation
Nature Club hosting AGM
BOWEN NATURE CLUB
Please join us at Bowen Nature Club’s Annual General Meeting at 2 pm on Sunday, November 22, 2025 at Collins Hall. All are welcome
Founded over 30 years ago, the Bowen Nature Club is dedicated to learning, discovery and enjoyment of the island’s natural history and biodiversity.
At this year’s AGM, one of our newest board members, Charlotte Gruneau, will be doing a special presentation speaking about her work studying and tracking the elusive Northern Saw-whet Owl here on the island. Charlotte is an artist, wildlife photographer,
writer and naturalist residing on Bowen Island.
Heavily influenced by her time growing up on the coast, Charlotte’s work is inspired by and showcases many of the incredible species native to British Columbia. Recently she has focussed her efforts onto the tiny enigmatic owl known as the Northern Sawwhet Owl. As a highly nocturnal, migratory species of owl that grow no bigger than a robin - these birds are incredibly difficult to study.
Charlotte has dedicated hundreds of hours tracking and monitoring the owls on Bowen and hopes to ultimately write a book chronicling her journey. Charlotte will be sharing a look into her research, along with photos and ideas about how to help this ecologically valuable and fascinating bird continue to coexist and thrive.
We hope you can join us! For further information contact bowennatureclub@ gmail.com
Co-producer Josephine Anderson (with three-month-old son Adler) sharing her experience with the production of Texada - showing at the Hearth Gallery from November 19 to 30. / Submitted photo
Northern Saw-whet Owl. / Charlotte Gruneau photo
Bowen Island Farmers Market Wrap Up
DAVID & JENNI GRIFFITHS
Contributors
The summer is over, the fall has definitely arrived. This has given us time and space for reflection of the market season.
We would like to thank the community for the support that the Bowen Island Farmers Market has received this year. This includes all of the people that frequented the market, and the vendors who worked hard growing, crafting, baking and music making.
The Farmers Market received support from several individuals and groups, and we’d like to thank them here.
First Credit Union provided a Community Impact Grant - this allowed us to purchase signs for the market entrance, a permanent banner at the market site, market posters for around the island, and canvas totes with the market’s new logo
Regenerative Bowen Island provided a grant to help fund the management of the farmers market
The market was this year’s recipient of Mary Lynn
Machado’s annual donation on behalf of her Buy On Bowen personal real estate corporation.
And a big thank you Erin Sinclair (Seabird in Artisan Square) who crafted a new logo and graphics for banners, posters, signs and bags
With the support of those listed above, we had a very busy and vibrant farmers market, including a final market in October at Bowen Applefest in Davies Orchard.
We’d also like to mention some of the big changes within the farmers market. The market was taken over by the Bowen Island Food Resilience Society (more hands make for lighter work), and Jenni and I handed the market manager position over to Ellie and Sophie Walters, who took over in a seamless transition to complete the market year
The Bowen Island Farmers Market is always seeking local growers to participate in the market You can share a table with someone, have your own, come regularly or drop in Food for thought while you are planning for the growing season! Hope you will join us!
We look forward to continuing next year, improving on what the market has to offer the community. We hope you’ll come along for the ride!
The Bowen Island Farmers Market had a successful five-month run this year. / Submitted photo
Mad Mabel returns this Christmas
compassion, creativity and what it is that really matters in the end.
Kingbaby Theatre proudly presents its original holiday theatre classic, Mad Mabel’s Christmas.
For those who have lived here for a while I do not have to explain Mad Mabel’s Christmas to you See you at the show!
For all those new bloods to Bowen (and welcome to you!) Mad Mabel’s Christmas is an original holiday play that has been produced on Bowen seven times in the last 30 years and has toured the Mainland. All those old-timers I mentioned above have come back every time for the laughter and the tears of this heartfelt story.
Mabel is a play for the whole family, let’s say five to infinity, that incorporates song, story and a junkyard cat with messages of
Written and performed by the partners who brought you The View, David Cameron and Jackie Minns, the play also stars Annie Arbuckle, Kat Stephens and Andrew Cameron, who also is the director alongside Jenny Freeman, our brilliant production designer
With Mad Mabel’s limited run, get your tickets fast and bring the whole family to a show that will fill your heart and bring on the magic of the holiday.
Kingbaby Offers its ‘Pay What You Can’ Opening Performance (pay as much or as little) on Thursday, December 18 only!
Shows take place Friday, Dec. 19 at 7 pm, Saturday, Dec. 20 at 2 and 7 pm, and Sunday, Dec. 21 at 2 and 7 pm The show takes place at the Bowen Theatre, with all tickets available on the Eventbrite website.
Kat Stephens, who appropriately plays Raphaella the Cat. / Submitted photo
DAVID CAMERON
Kingbaby Theatre
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Meet Scooter,our sassylittleterrier who struttedintothe clinic this week fortheir vaccines! With that confidentbeard andthose sunbathing skills,Scooter knowshow to make an entrance —and an impression. This week it wasScooter’s turn forvaccines, andasone of ourbeloved staffdogs, he showedeveryonehow it’s done!Scootertook it allinstride(with just atouch of attitude,of course), soakingup extra attentionand treats from theteam. Afterward, he wasright back tohis favorite activity —lounginginthe sunshine likethe clinic’s very ownking.
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Scenes from Bowen Island’s Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Snug Cove Cenotaph on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. / Alex Kurial photos
Construction Progress at Woodfibre LNG
The WoodfibreLNG siteistaking shape.Onland,crews are progressing on foundations afterplacing the pipe rack modules.Offshore, piling hasbegun forthe first permanent supports forthe floating storage tank —amajor step in marine construction.
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Friday, November 14
Stories-on-the-Go at Baby Connections
Library staff are guest speakers at Baby Connections! Drop in to Bowen Island Family Place for a short baby storytime and Q&A during Baby Connections. Chat with a librarian and learn some fun stories & songs with us! 11 am to Noon. For expecting & new parents and their babies 0-12 months.
Friday, November 14
Youth All Access with Bowen Rec
Grade 7 to 12 kids are invited to the Community Centre for a night of games, food, movies and fun! From 6 to 9 pm Full details and registration on Bowen Rec website.
Saturday, November 15
French Connections at the Library
Drop in and join us to practice your conversational French, and get to know other French language learners on Bowen Island! From 10:30 to 11:30 am bipl.ca/French
Saturday, November 15
Monsoon Madness Mudder at IPS
Come support community and local students at the muddy Island Pacific School Race. Starts 10 am IPS, find full details and register at the school website.
Saturday, November 15
Garden Club Speaker Series
Carla Skuce, BIM’s Manager of Environment & Park Planning. Carla will be speaking on controlling invasive plants. From 1 to 2:30 pm at Collins Hall, doors open at 12:30. Free for members, $5 for non-members
Saturday, November 15
2000s Throwback Dance Party at the Legion
A Fundraiser for the Bowen All Wheels Society with DJ Big Rube Legion members and guests welcome! From 8 pm to Midnight, tickets $20 available at the Legion or Tell Your Friends. 19+ event. Throwback to the nostalgic sounds of Amy Winehouse, Justin Timberlake, Outkast, Missy Elliott, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk and more!
Sunday, November 16
Book Donation Mornings at the Library
From 10 am until volunteers’ bins are full (no later than Noon). A volunteer will pre-screen your donations with you there, and will accept those that meet donation guidelines See the guidelines at bipl.ca/donatebooks
Sunday, November 16
Heritage Preservation Association AGM
Please join us to celebrate the reopening of the Cottages and Applefest, and to discuss plans for the future. Bowen Island Heritage Preservation Association (BIHPA) meets at Davies Orchard Cottage #20 at Noon. Please call Helen with any questions at 778-245-9951.
Sunday, November 16
Bowen Island Yacht Club AGM
Come learn about our exciting year building a community of sailors. Learn2Sail, S/V Brigadier, Round Bowen Race, and more! Social/Food at 1 pm with meeting start at 1:30. Doc Morgan’s Downstairs. RSVP to membershipbiyc@ gmail.com to attend in person or for Zoom link.
Wednesday, November 19 & Friday, November 21
SKY Walks
Seniors Keeping Young meets at Grafton Lake on Nov. 19 & Catholic Church (Miller Road) on Nov. 21. Both 10:30 am.
Thursday, November 20
Writers Feedback Group at the Library
Whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting out, all ages and types of writer are welcome to share and give constructive feedback on each other’s writing in this pos-
Pleasejoinusfor a CELEBRATION OF LIFE in loving memory of HEDDADUNTZ (July 14, 1947–September 23, 2025)
Saturday,November22, 2025
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm DocMorgan’sLower Floor
Help Hedda’s familycreatea book of shared storiesand memories either by writing your story inthe memory book whichwill be at theCelebration of Life,orbyemailingitto scarlettduntz@yahoo.com.
In lieuofflowers, Hedda suggesteddonations to the Knick KnackNook.A donation boxwillbeatthe Celebration ofLife as well as at theKnick KnackNook.
itive and supportive environment. From 5 to 6:30 pm. Registration required – please register at bipl.ca/write
Friday, November 21
Tween Night with Bowen Rec
Kick off the season by making your own holiday ornaments and then cozy up to watch the comedy classic Elf in the Bowen Theatre. Hot chocolate and cookies served! Ages 10-13 from 6:30 to 9 pm Register on Bowen Rec website.
Saturday, November 22
Snug Cove House AGM
A community within a community. Come see what’s happening with the new Seniors Home at 10:30 am at Collins Hall. Refreshments will be provided.
Saturday, November 22
Bowen Nature Club AGM
Nature Club Annual General Meeting with a talk by Charlotte Gruneau on her work following elusive Northern Saw-whet Owls on Bowen. Everyone welcome; come find out about the Bowen Nature Club and how to join. Starts 2 pm at Collins Hall, more info on Page 6.
WEDNESDAYS
Family Storytime at the Library
A free 30-minute drop-in program of stories, rhymes and songs for children age 0-6 and their caregivers! Starts 10:30 am in the Library Annex Families are welcome to stay in the Annex until 11:30 am to socialize, read books and hang out!
THURSDAYS
TAG Gatherings
Thursday Art Group is at Collins Hall from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. We’re a self-directed group of artists working in different mediums at different levels, so come join us. Membership is $30 per month, or $10 drop-in, newcomers first drop-in free. More info at shannonondeau@shaw.ca
