Islander

A Lego model of a large particle accelerator is just one Ideafest contribution from the University of Victoria’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.

While encountering children’s artwork from a Port Alberni residential school, University of Victoria anthropologist Andrea Walsh met one truth she couldn’t reconcile.

Ideafest is now well-established as an annual event at the University of Victoria, one that comes along as surely as exams and spring break.

A family-owned development company with a corporate ethos to reinvest in communities where it builds has set aside $1,000 from each residential sale of a local project toward programs in the community.

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria looks at collecting policies there from 1951 to 1981.

This column first appeared in the Victoria Daily Times on March 8, 1941. Hunger is a human experience common to all.

JORDAN RIVER — From the front yard of his Jordan River bungalow, Hugh Pite watches a surfer ride the crest of a wave and reminisces about his 30-year love affair with the sport.

There were robots and rockets and a talking glove, oh my! It wasn’t just super-cool technological crowd-pleasers like these that made Discover Tectoria, the high-tech showcase that packed them into Crystal Garden on Friday, such a blast.

The Saanich Peninsula club of the Canadian Federation of University Women has decided to forgo its annual book sale in favour of a speaker series entitled Totally Inspiring Careers Talks, set to begin April 6 at Oak Bay High School.

Kristy Brugman brings creativity to the elders of our community, and creates bridges between seniors and young people. She is working on the Remembering Our Canada project, part of organizer Trudy Pauluth-Penner’s Embracing Aging Arts Festival.