Oriane Lee Johnston described her book launch in the Cortes Museum’s Heritage Garden as ‘a perfect fulfillment.’
“There we are in the Heritage Garden of Cortes Museum and Archives. I counted afterwards probably more than 65 people and I’m standing looking out at my friends and neighbours who are happily attentive and all smiling. It felt wonderful,” she said.
Continue reading From Cortes to Zimbabwe: A Love StoryAn exquisite scene hangs outside the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery for the 2022 Annual member’s Show. A hummingbird is depicted flying upward to sample the nectar from a cluster of flowers. Izabelle Perry’s piece is actually a gateway, which some members hope will become a permanent exhibit. The price is $2,500,
Kristen Schofield Sweet agreed the gate is remarkable, but the membership would have to agree for the gallery to make an investment like that.
Continue reading Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery: The 2022 Members Show
By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
First time author Oriane Lee Johnston published The Geography of Belonging, A Love Story through Cortes Island’s independent Salmonberry Arts and Publishing in late July.
Continue reading Local self publishes first book ‘The Geography of Belonging, A Love Story’CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Cortes Island residents will have an opportunity next week to spend a day learning how to be with horses in what White Horse Sanctuary calls “a meditation in nature.”
Continue reading One-day ‘horse medicine’ workshops aim to soothe and empower participantsThe Fairy Creek blockade is far from over and there is still a number of people from the Discovery Islands among the thousands going there.
Continue reading Fairy Creek Blockade is far from over
