Moss Street Paint-In

July 21, 2024 saucee19Leave a comment

Every year the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) hosts the Moss Street Paint-In. The whole of Moss Street (from Dallas Road to Fort Street) is closed off to traffic and local artists set up stalls to sell their art. People who live on or just off of Moss St also use this day to have garage sales.

This year, there weren’t as many stalls up as there usually are, but there were a lot of people who showed up.

Moss Street from Dallas Rd looking North

It was a beautiful day for the event and I’m glad I wore a hat and brought my water bottle.

The event usually takes place on a Saturday which also corresponds with the Saturday Fairfield Market. There were the usual food vendors at this event and this year the drinks tent and stage area was on the street instead of the parking lot of the AGGV.

Admission to the art gallery was also free, but it was crowded so I opted not to visit this time.

Dragon-kun came with me, but he felt shy because there were so many people. He stayed in my purse and peeked out at them.

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Busy weekend

May 5, 2024 saucee191 Comment

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.

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Day 28

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 saucee192 Comments

Weather: Sunny in the morning with a yellow haze of sand from China, afternoon cloudy, evening rain.

This morning I got on a high speed ferry (30 minutes) to Naoshima. An “art” island. There are many open air art pieces on this island (most notably pumpkins by Yayoi Kusama) and there are also a number of galleries.

When I got to the island I rented an electric bicycle. Wow, can that thing go! I should have done the pilgrimage by electric bike. It flies up hills!

I didn’t go to every gallery because by 2:30pm I was overwhelmed by all the art and by all the foreigners (mostly French, but I did go round a few of the galleries with a couple from Finland). As well I was going over my budget. Most galleries charge admission (¥520 – ¥2,100). The Chichu Art Museum was the most expensive and they wouldn’t let you take ANY photos (not even of the building). Note: if you do go to Chichu or Hitoshi Sugimoto Gallery you need to make a reservation. You can do it on the day, but you might have to wait a couple of hours for your allotted time.