Victoria Tea Fest rises from the dead to bring tea to townThe Victoria Tea Festival ran for several successful years before it ended in 2013. But local tea lovers have cause to rejoice: The International Tea Appreciation Society has decided to put on the Victoria Tea Festival Revival to continue the legacy of the previous festival. “This year we’re doing a tea market and symposium at […] Continue Reading |
New Victoria Beer festival adds cheer to winter seasonAh yes, beer: a beverage often enjoyed outside in the summer months after a long day of work. But what about winter? What do people do then? Well, they stay inside or go to bars and pubs. But soon Victoria will offer something new to beer enthusiasts: the Christmas Craft Beer Show. The main focus […] Continue Reading |
Victoria’s Horror Escape offers frightful challenges for the seasonAs we enter the Saunders family home, we’re told that their daughter, Elsa, had recently been showing signs of demonic possession. My partner Harris and I are informed that we are being sent in to investigate the strange events that have taken place and that we are the last hope that the family has. The […] Continue Reading |
Local escape room thoughtful funEscape rooms—sometimes known as prison rooms—are a relatively new form of entertainment, having risen to popularity in the last decade. The goal is exactly as the name implies: to get out of the room that you find yourself stuck in. A vast majority of escape rooms centre on solving puzzles and using logic to ultimately […] Continue Reading |
Great Canadian Beer Festival fantastic thanks to beer, beer, and more beerAs a 19-year-old student, the prospect of being able to attend a festival focused around beer was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. I had never been to a festival of any kind until now; the Great Canadian Beer Festival could not have been a better entrance into this world. After I arrived, I fumbled […] Continue Reading |
Social Media Camp teaches more than marketingAttention marketing, communication, and social-media fans: Social Media Camp is coming soon. Co-Producer Paul Holmes started doing events based around website software WordPress in 2008, and things have been going strong since. “We ended up running those for five years,” he says. “People were very interested in what was happening with WordPress.” The strong interest […] Continue Reading |
Newcomer LANtasy fills gap in Victoria’s convention sceneThe past 12 months have been tough for the Victoria convention scene. GottaCon announced in July that their most recent convention would be their last; in October, IFCon was cancelled abruptly only days before it was to happen. But a new event has sprung up to fill in some of the gaps left behind by […] Continue Reading |
Ice Bears and Islands presentation inspiresThe presentation Ice Bears and Islands took place at the Roxy Theatre on Friday night; the night described what started as a dream of adventure guide Jamie Sharp. The journey discussed was born in the summer of 2009 when he took a job as a kayak guide in Norway. He heard about an archipelago made up of four […] Continue Reading |
Local author examines The Butchart Gardens’ hidden historyResidents of Victoria are all too familiar with The Butchart Gardens. It’s one of our more well-known claims to fame; it’s also widely known that beneath the beautiful and blossoming landscape lies a historic tale, although the details of the tale are unknown to many. This uncertainty is precisely what prompted University of Victoria professor […] Continue Reading |
Bungy Jump for a Cause strips stigma, clothes for charity“I’m terrified and nervous and excited all at the same time,” says Emma De Vynck, who is doing her University of Victoria Social Work practicum through the British Columbia Schizophrenic Society (BCSS). De Vynck will be one of 160 people jumping naked in the 10th annual Bungy Jump for a Cause fundraising event, which is […] Continue Reading |
