OCTOBER 14th to 20th
Monday, October 14th
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
- The New Orford String Quartet will be kicking of the Quadra Cultural Committee’s 2013/14 concert series at the Quadra Community Centre this Thanksgiving. Throw your turkey in the oven, grab your coats, and head over for what promises to be an extraordinary delight! Tickets are available at the Music Plant in CR and on Quadra at Hummingbird Office and Art Supply (Q Cove) and Works of H’Art in Heriot Bay. Advance tickets are $17 ($20 at the door). Students 16 and under will be admitted free with an adult. Call 250-285-2580 for more info, or visit www.neworford.com
Tuesday, October 15th
- ‘Open Studio’ at the Art Gallery features live model figure drawing. Every Tuesday from 6:30pm to 9pm between October 8th and November 12th. The drop-in fee to participate is $12.50, artists can pre-register for all six sessions for only $55! Call 250-287-2261 for more info.
- “Our Journey: Expressions Through Art” is a very unique and exciting collection of children’s art created by local children and youth who have worked with Counselors at CR Family Services Society; open for public viewing at the Tidemark Theatre between October 15th and 19th
- Journalist Katherine Palmer Gordon will give a reading of her book We are Born with the Songs Inside Us: Lives and Stories of First Nations People in British Columbia, at Coho Books (1074 Shoppers Row), 5:30pm. This is a free event.
Wednesday, October 16th
- Celebrate Spinning and Weaving Week at Sybil Andrews Cottage (2131 S. Island Hwy), 1PM-4PM. Join weavers, spinners, dyers and basket-makers around the world in celebration of our common heritage! Felting, carding, and fibre-fun, too!
- Sing for Fun is a weekly event (Friday or Wednesday) from 10am-11am in the Community Centre Lounge. $2 drop-in for all ages, stages, and abilities this program is originally designed as music therapy. Call 250-286-1161 or email judy.ridgeway@campbellriver.ca with any questions.
- Join registered acupuncturist and herbalist Janette Cormier to learn how to prepare local herbal-infused honey medicines. This workshop will take place at North Island College from 6-8:30pm and is open to children, too; for more info or to register visit www.nic.bc.ca/continuingeducation/ (and search GENI 7935).
Thursday, October 17th
- Tidemark Lounge presents Brodie Dawson and Cat & the B-sides! 7pm, $10 at the door.
- Rivercity Players present: “Sin, Sex and the CIA” by Michael Parker. 7:30pm running the 17th – 19th (but Friday & Saturday Sold out!) at 1080 Hemlock Street, the newly improved Rivercity Stage; tickets are $15 and can be purchased from Impressions Custom Framing, Comfort Zone Foods, and the CR Laundromat. (Also running 23rd – 26th, Friday & Saturday Sold out!)
- Join Paula Wild at the Campbell River Library for a slideshow presentation and talk about her new book, “The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous”, and our evolving relationship with cougars; 6:30pm, to be followed by a book signing.
- October 17th has officially been proclaimed “ShakeOut BC Day” and you are invited to join thousands of British Columbians as they “drop, cover and hold on” for the 2013 Great British Columbia ShakeOut – Canada’s largest earthquake drill! You can register at www.shakeoutbc.ca and find out more about how to update your emergency plans and supplies.
Friday, October 18th
- Footloose Friday at the Tidemark. Support Rick Yurkewich in raising funds for New Dawn House in Campbell River & the Tidemark 25 Capital Campaign. How? Come watch the original 1984 Film starring Kevin Bacon on the Big Screen! $10 for a ticket! Call 287-PINK to learn more.
- Dinner Theatre for Kids is back! In addition to food and a beverage, the audience will get the opportunity to be on stage doing improve – children must be accompanied by an adult. When the meal is finished the show will begin and following the performance is ice-cream, improve and fun (a great opportunity for children to try their hand at being on stage). Wonderful family entertainment and a place where memories are made, e-mail youngda@shaw.ca to inquire about getting your tickets and reserving a spot.
- 12th Annual Charity Chum Derby at Brown’s Bay Resort! Friday night registration and live entertainment. We are extremely proud to have raised over $50,000 at this event to benefit the Greenways Land Trust. Book early because they always sell out!
Saturday, October 19th
- Coastal Black’s Pumpkin Fest is on, Saturdays & Sundays until October 27th (Including Thanksgiving Monday!); FREE admission: pumpkin ring toss, pumpkin bowling, pumpkin photo booth and a hay bale maze! 10am to 4pm – come pick your pumpkin! 2186 Endall Road, Black Creek. cbpumpkinfest@gmail.com
- Super Saturday: Changing Leaves – celebrate the changing leaves of Fall by creating a colourful tree of your own. Using dye and watercolour paper, create beautiful foliage and cut out leaf shapes – attach them to our tree, falling in mid-air, or all around on the ground! 1-3pm at the Art Gallery. www.crartgallery.ca
- Friends of Music Present May Ling Kwok, pianist, performing works by Hadyn, Liszt, Brahms and Liadov. 7:30pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church. Tickets are available from Marj Rood (250-923-6268) or the Visitor Centre (cash only) – Adults are $20, Students are $15.
- The Path Less Travelled: adventure, competition and stories from the world of free diving – a fundraising dinner at Heriot Bay Inn with Kirk & Mandy-Rae Krack of Performance Freediving International. Help a high school student set sail; support Carihi’s new Nautical Sciences Program: $49 includes a two-course dinner, a riveting talk, and a chance to bid at silent auction. Seating at 6pm, call 250-285-3322 to book your seat! (the evening will finish with time to catch the ferry back to Campbell River)
- Presenting some of the best in Southern Gospel Music, “Sweet Presence” will be performing at the Discovery Community Church (250 - 10th Ave) at 7pm; admission is free, a ‘love offering’ will be taken; call 250-287-8786 for more info.
- Charity Chum Derby continues Saturday with a full day of fishing and a second night of live entertainment!
- Seafood Feast at Dolphins Resort, doors at 6pm and dinner at 7pm. Tickets are $75 per person and all proceeds go to supporting Daybreak Rotary Club’s International Projects. Call 250-287-9783(or 3066) for more information.
- Quadra Island Winter Market & Bazaar (every 1st & 3rd Saturday) from 10am-2pm at the Quadra Island Community Centre. Arts, crafts, gardening, baked goods, candles & more – this is an indoor market, rain or shine! 250-285-3184
- Campbell River’s Dancing with the Stars is back at the Eagle’s Hall! Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online, along with your votes! Each vote is $5 and you can name your favorite as many times as you like! All proceeds are going towards our Perinatal Society’s New Dawn House. www.newdawnhouse.org
- Strathcona Gardens has total, wet, family fun planned from 12:30-2pm. Crazy relays, face-painting, tattoos, Sea-Doo’s, boogie boards, belly flop competitions & more! Plus educational activities, drowning prevention, PFD/lifejacket awareness and basic water safety activities - $2! In the evening ages 12-15 can sign up for overnight fun! Late night swimming, lazer tag, funky crafts, face-painting & games. Wind down with a movie and popcorn before sleep then wake up to a light breaky ($35); call 250-287-9234
Sunday, October 20th
- 24th Annual Miracle Beach 10km and 5km Run/Walk is billed as the “friendliest little road race on the island”. The event features a flat, scenic course on country roads in Miracle Beach plus post-race soup, cookies, draw prizes and awards for the participants. The race begins at 10am (9:30am for walkers); register online at www.raceonline.ca or on the day between 8:30 and 9:45 at the Miracle Beach Nature house. Early entry fees are $20 ($10 for 19 & under) or $45 for a family of four (in a household). Fee will go up on October 19th. For more info contact crriverrunners@gmail.com
- Charity Chum Derby concludes with a half-day of fishing, followed by the awards ceremony: cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd largest fish, largest first and second day aggregate, and many more donated door prizes!
UPCOMING
October 22th – North
Island Hospitals Project info session at Thunderbird Hall
October 22th – Beginner
Watercolour with Caren Heine at the Art Gallery
October 25th – 24th
Street Wailers at the Tidemark Theatre
October 25th – Grandmothers
to Grandmothers Present: “From Under the Bushy Trees”, A Film. A Fundraiser. A
Turning of the Tide. By Donation.
October 25th – YPCR’s
Second Annual Gala at the Maritime Heritage Centre
October 25th-27th – Fall
Home Expo at the Sportsplex. Free!
October 26th – Sweet
Tease Burlesque’s Halloween Bash with special guests ‘Trouble Galore’; Ages
19+, $20 at the door.
October 26th – Art
of the Paddle auction at Maritime Heritage Centre
October 26th – Fall
Lecture Series begins with Joan Harper, ‘He Moved a Mountain: The Life of Frank
Calder and The Nisga’s Land Claims Accord’.
October 27th – Zombie
Escape 5k at Willow Point Park. Register at the Sportsplex or Community Centre
(zombieescape5k.wordpress.com)
October 27th – ‘Click
and Treat’ mini photo-shoots
Please contact our office if you have an event you would like
added to this publication.
Campbell River
Visitor Centre
1235 Shoppers
Row in the Tyee Plaza
250-286-6901
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