JANUARY 18, 2012
EVENTS / ANNOUNCEMENTS BRIAN BRETT, award-winning author and poet kicks off Getting Fresh: Films on Food on Friday, January 20. Brian will speak about local food and the progress traps that have endangered our diet and environment; the slow food movement; and the 100-mile diet phenomenon. He’ll touch on the lost traditions of growing healthy produce and livestock – and enjoying it. Doors open at 7 pm – presentation at 7:30 pm. Refreshments available. By donation at QICC.
“AFTER THE RAIN” Photo by Gavin Mills
THIS SATURDAY, January 21 at Evangeline’s Island Treasures – learn basic carpet hooking from noon to 3 pm. $15 drop-in fee. Crafts with kids Fridays from 2:30 – 3:30 pm by donation. Local gifts and more. Winter hours Tuesday to Saturday from 11 to 5 pm. Consignment welcome – 285-3117.
GETTING FRESH: Films on Food. Five films on the subject of food, and the challenges and successes of producing a local healthy alternative to corporate agriculture. Saturday, January 21 from THIS FRIDAY! Tequila Mockingbird 10 am to 5:30 pm at QICC. Schedule Orchestra $10 … January 27th Sweet at www.thegumboot.ca Lowdown … February 3rd Blue Katz … February 10th Cortez Islands Mixed THIS SATURDAY! Fireside Lounge Greens. Every Saturday night; open readings and poetry with Harold mic with Mo. Put some light and laughs Rhenisch includes appies $15 … into those dark January nights. HBI January 27th, music and comedy with Pub. Your extended living room! Todd Butler dinner show in Herons $40. Reservations highly recommended THIS WEEKEND AT Q.C.C. (Jan 20285-3322. More January events to 22) FRIDAY Sierra Quadra presents enjoy at the Heriot Bay Inn. Getting Fresh: Films on Food 7:30 p.m.; SATURDAY Sierra Quadra presents AUDITIONS FOR “Little Shop of Getting Fresh: Films on Food 10:00 Horrors” will take place on Sunday, a.m.; SUNDAY Active Sundays kids January 22 at 1 pm at QCC and program 10:00 a.m. Monday, January 23 at 7 pm at the Bayview Room, HBI. For information MISPLACED YOUR FLYER? Tru Value call Director Candace Holmes at 285specials – for both the Heriot Bay and 3818. All welcome! Q-Cove stores – can be viewed online every week at www.thehungryeye.ca CASTLE PRINTING printed this issue of the Hungry Eye
NEXT WEEK AT Q.C.C. (Jan 23-27) MONDAY 8:30 Low Impact Fitness; 9:30 Parent & Tots; 10:00 Yoga with Josephine; 3:00 Sing for Pure Joy; 4:00 Chess; 4:30 Karate; 5:30 Boot Camp; 6:00 Weight Watchers; 7:00 p.m Social Media Workshop; TUESDAY 9:30 Qi Gong; 10:00 Spinners; 3:00 Children’s Song Circle; 5:15 Yoga with Megan Foss; 7:30 Folk Dancing; 6:30 Belly Dancing WEDNESDAY 9:00 Physiotherapy Clinic; 9:30 Yoga with Carol Foort; Noon Community Kitchen lunch; 4:00 Cooking Class; THURSDAY 9:30 Parent and Tots; 9:00 Yoga with Marnie Chonka; 12:30 Family Literacy Day; 4:30 Karate; 5:00 Yoga with Megan Foss; 6:45 Quadra Singers; FRIDAY 8:30 Low Impact Fitness; 9:00 Yoga with Bridget Walshe; 7:45 Friday Flicks presents: In a Better World CANADIAN FOLK-GRASS BAND the Pesky Alders! Live at Café Aroma on Saturday, January 28. This 5 piece band consists of banjo, fiddle, guitar, cello and washboard. Sure to be a good ol’ time for all ages! Doors at 7 pm. GOODBYE BOB CAMERON BRUNCH. Calling all Bob fans; let’s give him an awesome Island farewell as we send him off to his new Victorian life. Herons, Sunday, January 29, 10 am to 2 pm. Reservations highly recommended. 285-3322. THE EYE’S “Island People & Places” isn’t just for kids. Use it for special birthdays, anniversaries, births, marriages, new business start-ups, etc. No charge. Please send your submission ideas to islandpeople@thehungryeye. ca Requirements include: a high resolution digital photo plus a very brief blurb when appropriate (60 word max.) Please do not submit advertisements for businesses to “Island People & Places.”
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