
The Cortes Island Museum is offering a full slate of special events this month
They start at 1 PM this Saturday, Aug 5, with Jewellery Identification. People are being invited to bring their own pieces.
“I’ve got a small collection and I’m going to at least bring some things that I have that I think are interesting. We can go over the different types of materials, a little bit of the process of manufacturing and also go over the gems that are commonly found within pieces. We even talk about the time periods that the pieces have come from, as their stylistic choices in manufacturing basically,” explained Events Coordinator, Alex Woywitka.


At 5:00 PM on Thursday August 10. Kim Marks will be holding a Tattoo Art Show in the Museum Heritage Garden.
AW: “Kim Marks is the premier tattoo artist on Cortes. She really does amazing work and is a really great drawer. A lot of my friends have really gotten a lot of work done from her. Sun Rob is going to play some music for us and Kim is also going to have a table of pottery and other art that she’s made.”
Lovefest returns to Cortes Island on August 12, and the Museum is hosting its own special event from 1 to 4 PM.
AW: “If you’re at Lovefest, stop in at Wild Cortes and take a look at Trivia Jenga. It’s a nice space that they have there, and cool because it’s in the basement of the Learning Centre there at Linnea.”

Photo by Mikołaj on Unsplash
There will be a Literary Reading Evening at the Museum on Thursday Aug 17th.
AW: “We are inviting authors. I’ve got a list so far of five authors from Cortes who are going to come and read from their books. It’s something that we do at the Museum, maybe once a year.”
CC: Can you release the names of the authors you’ve already signed up?
AW: “I’d rather not at this point. We don’t have the poster made up quite yet for that one, but we’ve got some good people showing up.”
The History of Modern Toys comes to the Museum on Saturday Aug 19th, 1-4 PM.
AW: “The vintage toy show is going to be something that I do personally. I’ve been buying and selling on the internet with that type of stuff since 2010. So I’ve really got quite a nice collection that is pretty unheard of and a lot of people on the island probably have never seen a lot of this stuff before.”
“I’m going to bring in a lot of old stuff, maybe as late as the sixties and maybe as new as the nineties, but most of it is going to be from the seventies and then from the early eighties as well.”



“I’m going to bring in my 1966 Godzilla. It’s not an original, but it’s a replica of the one that they had used from the 1966 movie when they made it, versus Ebirah, which was another Godzilla monster. I’m going to bring in some of my 1970s Shogun Warrior Robots: Great Mazinger and Raiden, for example.”
“I will bring in my Diaclone Great Robot Base and Fortress X Robots, which are probably two of the most amazing elite engineered toys that have ever come out. Some of these things that I am bringing are worth several thousand dollars each.”
There will be a Wetlands Conservation Presentation in the Cortes Island Library, at Linnaea, from 6-7 PM on August 23
AW: “Later on in August and then in early September, we’re going to be doing a few more music events.” Sachika will be coming to the Heritage Garden at 7:30 on August 24.
Stephen Antle and his band will bring their own brand of Hawaiian music to the garden at 7:30 on Aug 31.

AW: “After that, we’re maybe going to bring Michael Keith back again for another show as well.”
Top image credit: Looking forward to the show – Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash
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