In the Community

Share your passions and your skills! The Bowen Centre for the Arts (operated by the Bowen Island Arts Council) is seeking workshop ideas and presenters in all arts-related areas.

The Coastal Animal Welfare Education Society is fundraising again so it can continue its efforts to create harmony between pets, wildlife, and people on Bowen Island. There are three great prizes to be won this year.

As the children and youth searched for the lettered stamps and triple checked their spelling, their involvement in the growth of the Knick Knack Nook continued.

Bowen is a crazy place these days. The island appears to be psychically split right down the middle between old and new, green and blue and me and you. The discord needs to be healed and Kingbaby Theatre thinks they have the cure.

To publish or not to publish? That is the question. And sooner or later, all writers ask it.

Coming soon is the event that book lovers have been waiting for: the annual BookFest in its new site in the spacious BICS gym. The sale opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 28 and closes at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 29. Mysteries and thrillers . . .

The month of April was a very busy period for members of the Memorial Garden Society. Volunteers helped to clear away fallen debris accumulated during the winter months, removing the moss creeping over the edges of the pathways.

Bowen Island's Tuesday Art Workshop members are excited to once again present "The Courage to Create" at Bowen Court in May.

"In waves of fiction and non-fiction, the school library sea ebbs, pulses, crashes, erodes; it deposits and builds, creating and recreating each school's cultural and educational heritage, the broadest and best of 'old' and 'new.

In 2010, the Bowen Island Chamber of Commerce accomplished a great deal while facing some challenges.