BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gulf Islands Driftwood - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Gulf Islands Driftwood REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180407T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180407T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180317T012209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180317T012209Z UID:54667-1523113200-1523113200@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Literary Event With Lou McKee DESCRIPTION:Bellingham author presents Klee Wyck Journal at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 3 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/literary-event-with-lou-mckee/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180405T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180317T012009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180317T012009Z UID:54665-1522954800-1522954800@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Poetry Open Mic DESCRIPTION:With featured poet Lottie Devindisch at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 7 p.m. with sign-up at 6:45 p.m. One poem per reader. Featured poet reads at 7:30 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/poetry-open-mic/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180322T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180322T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180304T200316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180304T200316Z UID:54477-1521723600-1521730800@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Library Book Club DESCRIPTION:This month’s book is Folly by Laurie R. King. Salt Spring Public Library. 1 to 3 p.m. \nThe Salt Spring Island Public Library book club\, open to all and free of charge\, meets from 1 to 3 pm on the fourth Thursday of each month. Meet other book lovers and have fun discussing an interesting read. \n  URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/library-book-club-3/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180318T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180318T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180313T154447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180313T154447Z UID:54575-1521401400-1521401400@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Salt Spring Forum: Kate Harris\, Author of Lands of Lost Borders DESCRIPTION:Kate Harris\, the author of the new travel memoir Lands of Lost Borders\, joins the Salt Spring Forum for a wide-ranging conversation about writing\, travel\, and much more. ArtSpring gallery. 7:30 p.m.  \nCycling the Silk Road first in western China and then from Turkey to the Himalayas – and crossing all kinds of borders – Harris’ book weaves adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/salt-spring-forum-kate-harris-author-of-lands-of-lost-borders/ LOCATION:ArtSpring\, 100 Jackson Avenue\, Ganges\, Salt Spring Island\, British Columbia\, V8K 2V8 CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180201T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180123T175820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T175820Z UID:53542-1517511600-1517511600@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Open Poetry Mic with Christine Lowther DESCRIPTION:Salt Spring Public Library. Reader sign-up 6:45 p.m.\, open mic at 7 and reading by guest poet at 7:30. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/open-poetry-mic-with-christine-lowther/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180131T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180131T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180123T173231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T173231Z UID:53529-1517427000-1517432400@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:SS Film Fest: Shut Up and Say Something DESCRIPTION:Melanie Wood’s deep sea dive into the emotional pain and poetry of Shane Koyczan\, revealing new shades of his colourful personality. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/ss-film-fest-shut-up-and-say-something/ LOCATION:ArtSpring\, 100 Jackson Avenue\, Ganges\, Salt Spring Island\, British Columbia\, V8K 2V8 CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180131T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180106T001538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180106T001538Z UID:53302-1517425200-1517425200@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Precocious Twins - Crossing Literary Boundaries DESCRIPTION:Nowick Gray presents two new genre-busting novels — Red Rock Road\, Light Blue Sea\, and The Last Book  — at Salt Spring Public Library. 7:30 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/book-launch-precocious-twins-crossing-literary-boundaries/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180106T000430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180106T000430Z UID:53298-1516906800-1516906800@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Book Launch for Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma in the Third Generation by Claire Sicherman DESCRIPTION:Book launch of work by Salt Spring’s Claire Sicherman at the Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m.  \nWhen her son almost died at birth and her grandmother passed away\, something inside of Claire Sicherman snapped. Sicherman grew up reading Anne Frank and watching Schindler’s List with almost no knowledge of the Holocaust’s impact on her specific family. With astounding grace and strength\, Imprint is a testimony of the connections between mind and body\, the past and the present—a story of love and survival\, three generations later. \nClaire Sicherman is a graduate of the creative non-fiction program at The Humber School for Writers. Her work has appeared in the anthology Sustenance: Writers from B.C. and Beyond on the Subject of Food\, and on Zathom.com. She lives with her husband and son on Salt Spring Island. Books available for sale. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/book-launch-for-imprint-a-memoir-of-trauma-in-the-third-generation-by-claire-sicherman/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180119T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180119T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180105T003330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180105T003330Z UID:53292-1516374000-1516374000@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Book Launch for Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing by Jack Knox DESCRIPTION:Book launch at Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 3 p.m. \n In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada\, Jack Knox presents his best writing\, marking his twenty-year anniversary as a humour columnist at the Victoria Times Colonist. Revisiting his most—and least!—popular columns\, Knox weighs the potential benefits of a marijuana-like drug that reduces anxiety in rats; reports on the “Bush Boys\,” a pair of brothers who emerged from the forest near Vernon with a dubious story about being raised in the wilderness; and muses over fictional characters such as Barbie\, Ken\, Harry Potter\, and Archie growing up and facing the grim realities of life. He also includes a hilarious collection of “nastygrams” (a.k.a. hate mail) that he’s received over the past two decades. Opportunity Knox goes to show that humour comes when you least expect it. From politics to weather\, sports to entertainment\, Knox finds the bizarre in everyday life and the ordinary in what should by all accounts be bizarre. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/book-launch-for-opportunity-knox-twenty-years-of-award-losing-humour-writing-by-jack-knox/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180115T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180115T153000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180105T002923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180105T002923Z UID:53288-1516030200-1516030200@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Art Reception for How a Dream Became a Book\, “7 Billion Angels Whispering We Love You” DESCRIPTION:Event with Kim Tebbutt (author) & Sarah Penhale (illustrator) at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room at 3:30 p.m. \n Learn about the steps it took Kim and Sarah to imagine\, illustrate and self publish a children’s book. \nArt display runs Jan. 2 – Feb. 2 from 10 am-5 pm. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/art-reception-for-how-a-dream-became-a-book-7-billion-angels-whispering-we-love-you/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180113T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180113T153000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180105T002631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180105T002631Z UID:53286-1515857400-1515857400@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Book Launch for The Chocolate Pilgrim: A Journey to Self-Discovery & Transformation on the Camino de Santiago by Marie Maccagno DESCRIPTION:The author presents selected readings\, photos and a Q&A at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room at 3:30 p.m. \nIn the spring of 2009 Marie made a commitment to walk 800 kilometers through Spain in the hope that she could eat all the chocolate she could find. What she didn’t expect to find was herself.  URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/book-launch-for-the-chocolate-pilgrim-a-journey-to-self-discovery-transformation-on-the-camino-de-santiago-by-marie-maccagno/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180111T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180111T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20180105T002417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180105T002417Z UID:53284-1515697200-1515697200@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Book Launch for Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner DESCRIPTION:Launch event at the Salt Spring Library Program Room. 7 p.m. \nWe live in one of the most connected times on earth but never before have we been so lonely\, so alienated from each other\, from ourselves\, and from the natural world. Whether this manifests as having difficulty finding community\, feeling anxiety about your worthiness and place in the world\, or simply feeling disconnected\, the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times. In Belonging\, Toko-pa explores the origins of our estrangement\, how that alienation affects the choices we make as individuals\, and as a culture\, and what are those skills to which we can apprentice ourselves\, to restore a sense of belonging in our lives\, and in our world. Toko-pa is an author\, teacher and dreamworker. Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreamwork\, she founded the Dream School in 2001 from which hundreds of students have since graduated. Toko-pa has been interviewed by CNN News and BBC Radio and has a community of over 100\,000 online readers. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/book-launch-for-belonging-remembering-ourselves-home-by-toko-pa-turner/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171129T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171129T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20171121T004454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T004454Z UID:52594-1511985600-1511991000@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry and Prose DESCRIPTION:Book reading with Lisa Richter\, Jane Eaton Hamilton\, and Natalie Meisner. Hosted by Ayla Heeds. Q &A to follow. Salt Spring Public Library. 8 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/an-evening-of-poetry-and-prose/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171128T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171128T140000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20171121T183058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T183058Z UID:52601-1511874000-1511877600@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Amanda Spottiswoode Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Local author presents newest kids’ book Up in Arms. Salt Spring Public Library. 1 to 2 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/amanda-spottiswoode-book-launch/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,For Kids,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171118T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171118T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20171027T225811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171027T225811Z UID:52113-1511017200-1511017200@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts DESCRIPTION:Book Launch and Illustrated Talk by Kerry Mason for The Unheralded Artists of BC #10. Salt Spring Public Library. 3 p.m. \nArthur Pitts (1889-1972) born in London\, UK\, pursued a career of art and adventure\, first in South Africa with the Zulus\, then Canada. He travelled more than 4\,000 miles in British Columbia and Alaska\, and produced a large body of watercolours focusing on Coast Salish\, Nuu-Chah-Nulth\, Kwakwaka’wakw\, Tlingit\, Haida and Ktunaxa First Nations. He included the W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) Coast Salish cultural group\, as well as Tsartlip\, Tsawout\, Tseycum and Pauquachin Peoples and Reserves in his work. Pitts’ fascinating story also includes life as an artist in Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s\, where he attended the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Art. \nKerry Mason\, B.A. M.A. is an art historian\, author\, curator and art consultant who lectures at the University of Victoria\, University of Colorado\, the Victoria College of Art and Vancouver Island School of Art\, offering courses on Canada and British Columbia with an emphasis on Emily Carr and Indigenous Arts of the Northwest Coast. Her previous book is\, Sunlight in the Shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr. She has curated more than 50 exhibitions for the University of Victoria and institutions throughout North America. \nSponsored by Mother Tongue Publishing. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/book-launch-the-life-and-art-of-arthur-pitts/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171104T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20171104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T074351 CREATED:20171027T225218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171027T225218Z UID:52109-1509822000-1509822000@gulfislandsdriftwood.com SUMMARY:Susan Musgrave and the Tipi Ten Workshop Poets DESCRIPTION:Salt Spring Public Library & Theatre Alive present: An Evening of Poetry featuring Susan Musgrave and guest poets—The Tipi-Ten: Tina Biello\, Barbara Botham\, Charlotte Caron\, Marlene Dean\, Diana Hayes\, Libby King\, Janet Miller\, Mary Ann Moore\, Rena Patrick and Linda Thompson. Refreshments & rooks for Sale. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m. URL:https://gulfislandsdriftwood.com/event/susan-musgrave-and-the-tipi-ten-workshop-poets/ LOCATION:Salt Spring Public Library Community Program Room\, 129 McPhillips Ave\, Salt Spring Island\, Canada CATEGORIES:All Events,Literary END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR