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On the calendar: week of October 2

Here are some of the goings on on Bowen Island this week

Have a birthday coming up? Email Catherine Bayly at [email protected].

 

Caring Circle is organizing another 6-week education session focusing on anxiety and depression starting in October. Please call Caring Circle at 947-9100 to express your interest in registering for this group. 

 

Out of the Attic

to Oct. 12

Gallery @ Artisan Square

Long-forgotten attic masterpieces by various artists uncovered.

 

Rotary Club

October 1

Collins Hall, 7:30pm

No charge, all are welcome

 

Legion Dinner

October 2

6:30pm (doors open at 5)

BI Legion

Yvonne McSkimming is preparing fresh green salad, butter chicken, Aloi goobi, sauteed spinach and cheese, jasmine rice and for dessert, homemade carrot cake and ice cream

 

Farmers Market

October 3

10am to noon

BICS undercover area

Tables, kids activities and buskers

 

Bowen Island Writer’s Group

October 3

Noon - 2 pm 

Collins Hall, 

Open writer’s forum, all levels, all writing projects welcome. 

Enquiries to: [email protected]

 

Bingo Meat Draw

October 3

BI Legion

Doors open at 1:30 and the first game will start between 2 and 2:15pm. 

 

Carli Travers

October 4

10:30 am at the Little Red Church

2 to 4pm at Tunstall Bay club house

The founder of Abetavu community for orphaned and vulnerable children in Uganda will talk about her new book And Then She Was Free

 

SKY: Seniors Keeping Young

October 5

Bowen Court

9am Exercises with Ali Hartwick

10am Speaker 

11am Yoga with Diana Kaile

 

Rotary Club

October 8

Collins Hall, 7:30pm

Guest speaker: Gino Rutigliano on the art of wine making

No charge, all are welcome

 

Jake’s Gift

October 8

7:30pm (doors open 6:30)

BI Legion

Julia MacKey returns in this one-person play about a Canadian veteran’s reluctant return to Juno Beach for the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or cash only at the Pharmacy.

 

Book launch

When The Colours Run

By Lisa Shatzky

October 10

Doors open at 7pm; event begins 7:30

Gallery @ Artisan Square

 

Girl Rising

October 10

7pm

Bowen Island Yoga Studio

Screening of the film written by girls in Sierra Leone, Haiti, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Peru, Egypt, Nepal, India and Cambodia

 

Applefest, (and mini Farmers’ Market) 

October 11

10am to 2pm

Davies Orchard 

Details at BowenHeritage.org