BC Ferries announces sailing cancellations for Saturday, November 7th on the Gabriola ferry route. On their website, BC Ferries says it’s because the crew of the MV Bowen Queen will be conducting extensive safety drills, including the deployment of the vessel’s evacuation system. These sailings are cancelled: 1:20 sailing from Gabriola to Nanaimo on November [...]
The Gabriola Women’s Institute invites you to their Christmas Tea and Craft Sale. It’ll be at the Gabriola Community Hall on Saturday, November 7th from 2pm to 4pm. You’ll find hand-knitted items, books, crafts, and plants. You’ll also be able to buy tickets for the handmade heirloom quilt – the draw for that will be [...]
Welcome to the 6th Annual Poetry Gabriola Festival, a wild, West Coast celebration of literary performance. For four days (Thursday, November 12th through Sunday, November 15th) the Surf Lodge will be filled to the rafters with poets, musicians, storytellers, sound artists, and other special guests including an etiquette specialist and a whirling dervish! Enjoy an [...]
The Silva Bay Shipyard School is offering an introduction to woodworking workshop for women. The workshop will take place on Saturday Nov 21st and Sunday Nov 22nd, 2009 from 9am to 4pm. The instructor is local woodworker Jan Sabine. This two-day course will teach participants shop safety, use of basic woodworking tools and an introduction [...]
Lama Tenzin Tsundu is constructing a mandala (sand painting) at the Jeremy Maude Gallery in Folklife Village. Lama Tsundu is a Tibetan monk. He will work 10 hours a day for until October 25th, creating the mandala out of coloured sands. You’re invited to drop by to watch the mandala take shape. The mandala will [...]
Camp Cooks will play at Rasberry’s on Sunday, October 18th from 2 to 4pm. Musicians: Dale Graham, Vocals; Tim Kelly, Saxaphone; Ken Capon, Bass; Jerry Silver, Guitar.
Gabriola’s walk-in flu shot clinics for seniors over 65 will be on: Thursday October 15th from 5pm to 7 pm. Saturday October 17th from 1pm to 3pm. Thursday October 22nd from 1pm to 3pm. at the Gabriola Medical Clinic at Twin Beaches Mall. As recommended by the Chief Medical Health Officer of the Vancouver Island [...]
Join Lulu on Thursday, October 22nd from 6 to 8 pm at the Surf Lodge. Get a burger and Lulu for only $10.00! Lulu says Join us as we celebrate a new season, and the launch of a new brew! (Lulu is proud to work with the Longwood Brewpub in Nanaimo to bring you what [...]
Garnet Rogers will play at The Roxy on Tuesday, October 13th at 7:30 pm. Barely out of high school, Garnet Rogers was on the road as a full- time working musician with his older brother Stan. Together they formed what has come to be accepted as one of the most influential acts in North American [...]
The Gabriola Rod, Gun, & Conservation Club will be conducting a 1 day Sporting Clay shooting competition on Saturday, 31 October from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Tait Road ranges.
Interested in West African drumming and dancing? This is for you. On Thursday, October 29th Thursday, October 22nd, Kocassale Dioubate (Griot, master drummer, and dancer from Guinea) will be on Gabriola for these workshops: