In the Community

Eclectic Elements is the new exhibit at the Gallery at Artisan Square. The show, which runs until August 7, focuses on the theme of diversity in form and function.

Get your tails a-waggin! It's time to nominate your best friend for Dog of the Year. The 19th annual Dog Days of Summer is Sunday, August 7 on the Union Steamship Marina lawn.

When Said the Whale's Ben Worcester introduced the song "BC Orienteering" on Bowen, he joked that he had created the song about the island.

The B.I. Arts Council will mount a unique exhibition at the gallery this September.

Write on Bowen 2011 was a great success! On opening night, locals and festival-goers from the mainland enjoyed two compelling readings from Giller prize-nominated authors Timothy Taylor and Annabel Lyon.

I feel more like a prince in protective arrest Than a foreign insurger after a bloody protest Each day I am pampered with care and good food! And all that is done to me makes me feel good At night I am tucked down under pre-heated cover When dirty an

Sunday evening I took in Strange Snow, by Stephen Metcalfe, the third of the four plays that make up the Into The West Theatre Fest produced by Straydog Theatre Company of New York. Wow.

Bowen Island is in for another musical treat on Saturday, July 16, when the Rakish Angles perform a house concert at the home of Susan Munro and Bob Doucet, 1223 Miller Road.

For this year's Bowfest, there is much planned for both the Waterfront Stage and the Harvest Stage.

The registration deadline for The Poetry of Province travel seminar is approaching. Join Bowen Island poet, Heather Haley and anthropologist, chef and Chevalier de Vin Mark Haskell in France from September 22 to 28 at the height of the wine harvest.