Tickets for Lovefest 2022 go on sale this week. Rex Weyler is distributing them to stores throughout Cortes Island and will be selling tickets at Mansons Friday Market.
“The whole purpose of Lovefest, right from the beginning, is just a fun community day of people being together. Great music and giving a venue for the artists to sell their wares and have a good day in the sun,” he said.
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In last month’s special edition we heard from local emerging artists Jemma Hicken and Josie Simpson. Today we’re going to be speaking with, and hearing some music and stories by local music fixtures Bruce Hipkin and Rick Bockner.
Continue reading Rick Bockner & Bruce Hipkin on Folk U Radio‘Climate Crisis: The Cascade Effect’ opens at Wild Cortes, in the Linnaea Education Centre, 1 PM on Sunday May 29, 2022.
Co-curator Donna Collins explained that this exhibit illustrates what the climate crisis is doing to our natural habitat, especially species like deer, owls and the island’s apex predators.
Continue reading At Wild Cortes: ‘Climate Crisis – the Cascade effect’By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
A series is featuring the south coast of BC’s sustainable seafood industry.
The series is called Your Nation’s Table and launches Nov. 14 on JoyTV, a division of Zoomer Media. Program host Carmen Ruiz y Laza is based in Vancouver. She was inspired to do a TV series on sustainable seafood after reading novels by Cortes Island part-time resident Ruth Ozeki.
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Believe in the power of stories to bring community together? So do we!
How would you like to have thousands of books for free at your fingertips? Come together to choose and discuss books? Folk U & Cortes Literacy has partnered with Kobo Rakuten to bring up to 20 loanable e-readers to Cortes Island.
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