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UNTETHERED - Tammy Hudgeon *NEW* Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday June 9, 2023. 6-8pm.
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Join us for the latest incarnation of local Gabriolan creative force Tammy Hudgeon. Her new show UNTETHERED is opening Friday June.9 here at Free Spirit Gallery! Paintings & glass work! Over 40 works!
Discover Cheesemaking Intensive Class hosted by Make Cheese with Paula
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra in concert
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra (including some musicians from Gabriola Island) returns to the Gabriola Island Community Hall on Sunday, June 11 at 2:30 p.m.. This summer's offering by the NCO will include works by Dvorak, Holst and Mozart, and will ...
Open Mic and Gabriola Golf Course
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Great music, drinks and food! Come visit the clubhouse tonight and see what Open Mic Night is all about!
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Healing Power of Art - presented by Gabriola Arts Council
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
We are pleased to offer this popular program brought to you by the Gabriola Arts Council’s Healing Power of Art program. Are you looking for a way to ease anxiety and develop healthy new habits – while incorporating more art into your everyday? This ...
Coffee Hour and Soup Social hosted by PHC & Gabriola Community Church
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Pierre Schryer & Adam Dobres in Concert
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
INTIMATE CONCERT with Pierre Schryer (fiddle) & Adam Dobres (guitar), with special guest step dancer Danielle Enblom PHOENIX AUDITORIUM, at the Haven on Gabriola Island. Presented by Lynn Bowerman 🙂 for more info contact lynndahb@gmail.com Doors at ...
Ground Up Birthday Celebration
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
📣𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 1️⃣ ! And we're throwing a party! Come celebrate with us on Saturday, June 17th between 6pm-9:30pm at Ground Up Cafe. This is a family-friendly event with free entry, featuring: 🎸𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 from the Angela Hehr ...
The Infinite Atom
6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Our biggest show yet is coming up on June 17! Three bands including Mad for Joy + The Frolickers (from Victoria)+ The Infinite Atom in a mystical evening with light/projector art by Ferryman Productions / Iain Smith and a vast silent auction put ...
Jay Dearman Community 5KM run/walk
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A family orientated event to bring our community together to promote social and mental health support for children families and youth.
Open Mic and Gabriola Golf Course
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Great music, drinks and food! Come visit the clubhouse tonight and see what Open Mic Night is all about!
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Healing Power of Art - presented by Gabriola Arts Council
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
We are pleased to offer this popular program brought to you by the Gabriola Arts Council’s Healing Power of Art program. Are you looking for a way to ease anxiety and develop healthy new habits – while incorporating more art into your everyday? This ...
Coffee Hour and Soup Social hosted by PHC & Gabriola Community Church
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mozzarella, Burrata and Bocconcini hosted by Make Cheese with Paula
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Make your own mozzarella, burrata, and bocconcini in 30 minutes! hosted by Make Cheese with Paula
Open Mic and Gabriola Golf Course
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Great music, drinks and food! Come visit the clubhouse tonight and see what Open Mic Night is all about!
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Healing Power of Art - presented by Gabriola Arts Council
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
We are pleased to offer this popular program brought to you by the Gabriola Arts Council’s Healing Power of Art program. Are you looking for a way to ease anxiety and develop healthy new habits – while incorporating more art into your everyday? This ...
Cultivate - Rhythm in the Raw
Cultivate is looking for creatives to create temporary installations on the Arts Council property over the course of the nine day festival.
OUTLIERS- New work by Pam McCartney, Lindsay Stocking Godfrey, and Kate Wood
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Coffee Hour and Soup Social hosted by PHC & Gabriola Community Church
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
COFFEEHOUSE on GABRIOLA
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Open stage and concert featuring BEAUTIFUL LUCK, an Indie Folk duo from Victoria BC made up of Sue Black (vocal, guitar) and Carl Lefebvre (vocal, ukuleles).
Cultivate Festival 2023
CULTIVATE performing and arts festival - find your rhythm, presented by Gabriola Arts Council
The Gabriola Cruisers Club invites islanders to look for our Canada Day Parade around the island, starting at Twin beaches at 11am.
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
The Gabriola Cruisers Club invites islanders to look for our Canada Day Parade around the island, starting at Twin Beaches Mall
Opening Ceremonies - Footprints of the Wolf - Gabriola Drummers
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
We are Footprints of the Wolf family drum circle from Snuneymuxw.
Cultivate - Rhythm Art Show
We are hosting an art show where the inspiration is RHYTHM, however that strikes a chord, in whatever medium.
Cultivate - Baroque Fairytales
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Classic Baroque in an intimate trio setting (west coast and internationally acclaimed artists). Majka Demcak performs works from the Baroque and Classical eras with zest and an improvisational freedom.
Cultivate - Rumba Calzada
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Rumba Calzada has been a favourite with Vancouver’s Latin Jazz and Salsa enthusiasts for over 25 years.
Cultivate - Move! Groove! Play
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Deejay TMG and Isltrax from the Gabriola Sundaze crew bring their signature laid-back grooves for another afternoon chill-out, daytime get-down at the Commons.
Cultivate - Space Disco Band
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dominic Le, Soma Love, Cooper Hills and Gabriola’s very own Aidan Olmsted, with some recent editions including Mary Allen and Sonam Maki, a collective that is a driving force in the youth sector of Nanaimo’s eclectic local music scene.
Cultivate - Snuneymuxw Stories - The Rhythm of Words
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Snuneymuxw Stories - the rhythm of words
Cultivate - Tina Jones Quintet
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Tina Jones Quintet features Chad Geekie- piano and Fender Rhodes, Ken Lister- acoustic bass, Duncan Symonds- guitar and pedal steel and Hans Verhoeven- drums and percussion. To add to the unusual instrumentation, Tina plays banjo, trumpet and flugelhor
Cultivate - 52 Stories
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
52 Stories, a brand new show, is a storytelling show that takes place inside the memory palace of improviser David Morris.
Cultivate - Tap Artistry
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tap Artistry is an ensemble created by passionate tap dancers who collectively create, explore, and build community through tap dance.
InFrinGinG Dance Festival
12:00 AM
Crimson Coast Dance hosts the 25th Annual InFrinGinG Dance Festival at various venues around Nanaimo from Wednesday, July 5th to Sunday July 9th. Scheduled to coincide with the Dragon Boat Festival, InFrinGinG Dance Festival invites audiences to “dance in
Cultivate - The Flame
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
For 15 years, Deb has been a personal storytelling teacher, coach, facilitator and consultant, supporting nearly 1000 tellers of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultural identities, and mental and physical abilities as they find their voice and sha
Cultivate - Old Dog, New Tricks
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Does creativity have an expiry date? Sheila Norgate, self-taught 73-year-old artist, writer, and feminist comic (not as oxymoronic as you’d think), lays bare her creative practice as it meanders from paint to memoir to performance to videography and back a
Cultivate - Rhythm of the Night Market w/ Agi Co-op
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
So much fun to join forces with the Agricultural Co-op to present a Wednesday Night Market at the Gabriola Commons on North Road. Agricultural and artisan vendors gather to sell their wares, while music fills the airwaves and the feeling of celebration is
Brickyard Beach Concerts
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Cultivate - Duncan Symonds, The Big Bounce New Orleans Quartet
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
One half of Toronto’s roots-rock darlings The Actual Goners, award winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Duncan Symonds fronts a stellar group of musicians playing music inspired by Dr. John, The Meters, Neville Bros and other staples of the
Cultivate - Gabriola Players, A Scene Three Ways
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
One scene played by different actors in three different ways. Who are these people? What’s their back story? Answering these questions will first be the challenge for the director and actors.
Cultivate - Paul Gellman Band
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Paul is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, violin), with three albums of original music, the latest being Globalize, released in June, 2020
Cultivate - Twilight Radio Theatre
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Step back in time, to the golden age of radio with Twilight Radio Theatre! Imagine you are in a sound studio in the ’40’s, attending a live broadcast of a classic radio show.
Cultivate - Twilight Radio Theatre
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Step back in time, to the golden age of radio with Twilight Radio Theatre! Imagine you are in a sound studio in the ’40’s, attending a live broadcast of a classic radio show.
Cultivate - Royal Cajun Band
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Cajun music is music to dance to, music that makes you feel good, a music that makes you want to let go and have yourself a time. Not dancing is not an option!
Cultivate - Graham Villette, Organized Crime
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Graham Villette is Nanaimo based jazz musician and has been playing music professionally for over a decade.
Cultivate - Summer Camp Stories, Rika Ruebsaat
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Rika Ruebsaat’s My Paddle’s Keen and Bright, a collection of stories containing campers’ lived experiences.
Cultivate - Bob Wyche Memorial Chanty Sing
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bob Wyche (1947-2022) was born in Nottingham and came to Gabriola in 1986. He was a boat-builder, sailor, teacher, photographer, wood- and metal-worker who could make or repair just about anything. Bob was a life-long folkie and loved sea chanteys.
Cultivate - Frazey Ford
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
On her third album U kin B the Sun, Vancouver-based singer/songwriter Frazey Ford inhabits an entire world of shapeshifting rhythm, elevating every beat and groove with the subtle magnetism of her mesmerizing voice.
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Painting for the Faint of Heart with Melinda Wilde
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Watercolour Painting for the faint of heart
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Metal Sculpture Show- New Work by Katie Ford(Ferrous Fox) @ NOVA Gallery
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Concert on the Green hosted by Gabriola Lions Club
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
23rd Annual Concert on the Green, hosted by the Gabriola Lions Club
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long
Brickyard Beach Concerts
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Arts and Musical Celebrations, Every Wednesday Evening, all summer long