Theme is A Message of Love. Salt Spring Seniors Centre. 10:30 a.m. Victoria musician Jill Cooper and Amanda will play the most iconic and stirring songs associated with Pride and the history of the LGBTQ+ movement. “The Music of Pride!” promises to deliver sing-a-longs to these anthems while hearing about how the songs became important to […]

Live music at Salt Spring Vineyards. 2 to 4 p.m.

A drop in for parents and babies with weekly speakers. Family Place. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Special screening of Romantic Road, a film about adventurers Rupert and Jan Grey, with Rupert Grey in attendance. At the Fritz. A fundraiser for Lady Minto Hospital Foundation, with advance tickets only reserved through Diana.Hayes@viha.ca or 250-538-4845.

Salt Spring Scottish Country Dancers invite people to come out and try Scottish dancing. All Saints By-the-Sea. 6 to 8 p.m. No experience necessary.

Every Monday at Moby's Pub. 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Silent focused writing in 25 minute intervals, with 5 minute breaks, at the SS Library in Room 106 every Tuesday until Dec. 18. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

Parents, caregivers and children 0-6 yrs welcome. Family Place. 12 to 3 p.m.

Food-only market that specializes in authentic, local, fresh and seasonal products. Runs every Tuesday June through October at Centennial Park from 2 to 6 p.m.

Island Women Against Violence fundraising dinner at Stowel Lake Farm with catering by Haidee Hart. 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Presentation by Kevin Taft, former Alberta Liberal Party leader, who has written Oil's Deep State. Meaden Hall. 7 p.m.

Every Tuesday at Moby's Pub. 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Tree House Cafe. 7 to 10 p.m.

Special meeting of the fire board to give first reading to the Fire Protection Taxation Bylaw 2019. Ganges fire hall training room. 5:30 p.m.

Hal Wake, former Artistic Director of the Vancouver Writers Festival, leads Jan Redford, End of the Rope, and Angie Abdou, Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom, in a candid conversation about marriage, motherhood, and memoir. Salt Spring Public Library. 7:30 p.m.

Taking new and old membership ($25) for the Salt Spring Island Painters Guild, which means every Wednesday morning at ArtSpring from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Info: 250 537 9225 – ssipg@gmail.com

Museum open at the Farmers' Institute. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Every Wednesday through Friday until Oct. 31.

First board meeting of the school year takes place at the school board portable. Public portion starts at 1 p.m.

Chris Arnett of UBC Anthropology presents Hwtse’lumun "Place of the fir poles”: Overland Indigenous Canoe Travel on Salt Spring Island at the SS Historical Society meeting at Central Hall. 2 p.m. 

Kathy Page reads from her new novel Dear Evelyn. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m.

Museum is open at the Farmers' Institute Wednesdays through Fridays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Oct. 31.

Parents, caregivers and children 0-6 yrs. welcome. Family Place. 12 to 3 p.m.

Annual general meeting at the Meadowbrook main lounge. 3 p.m.

Public welcome to attend commission meeting. Portlock Portable. 5 p.m.

MP Elizabeth May gives report to constituents and answers questions at fall town hall session at GISS multipurpose room. 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Five-class course led by Heather Martin begins today at Star of the Sea Centre for Spiritual Living and Practice at St. Mary's church in Fulford. Four Thursday evening sessions from 7 to 9 p.m., and a fifth class on Sunday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Register/info: staroftheseassi@gmail.com For information re upcoming events, check […]

Thursdays at the Legion Lounge. 7 to 9 p.m.

Open Mic Night every Thursday at Moby's Pub. 8:30 to 11:45 p.m.

Museum is open Wednesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Oct. 31.

Opening reception for show featuring Lisa Lipsett & Ruby Egger-Lipsett with Kuno Egger. Salt Spring Gallery. 5 to 7 p.m. Show continues to Oct. 3.

Weekly drop-in games night is a great chance to meet up with friends over a board game. Salt Spring Public Library. 6:30 p.m. until late every Friday (except holidays).

Live at the Tree House Cafe. 7 p.m.

Live at Moby's Pub. 9 p.m.

Famous market of locally made, grown and baked goods runs every Saturday in Centennial Park through the last week of October. 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Opening reception for The importance of small things: Krystina Jervis. Fault Line Projects. 5 to 7 p.m.

Live at the Tree House Cafe, 7 to 10 p.m.

Live at the Legion. 7:30 p.m.

Live at Moby's Pub. 9 p.m.