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Esquimalt residents will get an early-morning wake-up call on Saturday from the Buccaneer Days Wakey Wakey Wagon — a van full of firefighters calling out “Wakey, Wakey” through a loudspeaker at 7:30 a.m.

OPENING Jurassic World 3D (Cineplex Odeon Victoria, Cineplex Odeon Westshore, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity Imax, Star) Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur

The new Esquimalt Farmers Market joins a growing list of summer markets in the region catering to consumers hungry for locally grown produce, artisan wares and food vendors.

OPENING I’ll See You In My Dreams (Cineplex Odeon Victoria) A widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age. With Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott.

OPENING Aloha (Cineplex Odeon Victoria, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity) A military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumph and reconnects with an old flame while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Fo

Go fly a kite — or watch professional kite enthusiasts from Canada and the U.S. put on demonstrations at the Victoria International Kite Festival on Saturday and Sunday.

Almost 200 boats, crewed by up to 1,800 sailors, will gather Saturday off Clover Point on Dallas Road waiting for the starting gun to sound for the 72nd Swiftsure International Yacht Race.

OPENING San Andreas 3D (Thursday) (Cineplex Odeon Westshore, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity) In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue

OPENING Far From the Madding Crowd (Cineplex Odeon Victoria) In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless sergeant; and William Bold

A Canadian Armed Forces Sea King helicopter, part of the 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron, will be one of the more visible additions spectators at the Victoria Day Parade will see on Monday.