Busy weekend

This weekend was the Fairfield Artists Studio Tour and the Time Colonist Book Sale.

The weather was cloudy with partial rain. Which was not ideal for either event.

On Saturday, S. and I went to the Times Colonist Book Sale. This event is held every year where proceeds from the sale go toward literacy charities. S.’s spouse gave us a ride to, and, more importantly, from the book sale. (Thank you A.)

The book sale takes place inside the curling club, which was great considering the rain… but there was a wait outside the club. We were lucky in that we only had to wait 45 minutes and it was only cloudy.

I’m not sure how long we spent inside … so many books… not enough arm strength!

The volunteers also hand out reusable shopping bags and replenished the stock of books on the table.

One of the volunteers told me that they were worried because they didn’t have as many people donating books this year, and they thought not as many people would show up this year. But they need not have worried.

Times Colonist Book Sale https://www.timescolonist.com/book-drive/times-colonist-book-drive-and-book-sale-6877883

The other event that happened this weekend was the Fairfield Artists Studio Tour.

This annual event has artists opening their studio for people to see their work. This year, I know one of the artists and so I went to see his work.

Miles Lowry and his partner David are the artist in residence at Dance Victoria and I met them on a number of occasions in the lobby of the theatre before the show. They are both very talented.

Here is a link to Miles’ work:

https://www.loveandliberty.ca/

The Fairfield Artists Studio Tour had 30 artists opening their studio to the public every year. On a nice day (which today was not) it is great to walk to the different studios.

https://www.fairfieldartistsstudiotour.com/

Hope you had a good weekend.