Join us for the LOCAL FOLK FAIR Summer Market Series, featuring 20+ hand-picked local food + drink + farm + artisan vendors, spread out through the beautiful orchard and forest setting at SEA CIDER.

PLUS Live Music, a Creative Play Station, EIR Mobile Acupuncture + a FREE Workshop at every Market!

FOOD TRUCKS: Indecent Risotto / Kattia's Kitchen
ICE CREAM: 49 Below
TEA + COFFEE: Bru Bike Espresso Bar

And of course, Sea Cider will be open for tastings + market-goers will be offered 20% off cider purchases!

VENDORS INCLUDE:
Forest Etiquette, Jars of Wax, Miller + Co Pottery/Wood/Flowers, Neighbourly, Vagabond Pies, Working Culture Bread, 49 Below Ice Cream, HAUS Sausage, Jollity Farm, Longview Farms, Sea Forest, Homebound Tarot, Poppet Creative, Fringe Aprons, ASH Refillery + Co., VI Picnic Co and more TBA

Every Friday thru to Mid-September 2021

Join us for Foodie Fridays at Sea Cider this Spring and Summer! We are excited to launch Foodie Fridays this year and look forward to welcoming back Indecent Risotto, DeadBeetz and Toque Catering! Come grab some delicious eats, enjoy some cider and take in the view of the sea!

Reservations are strongly recommended if you intend to enjoy your food in our licensed tasting area. You are welcome to enjoy your food anywhere on site or take it to go as well! Please note that open alcohol is prohibited in unlicensed areas on our property such as in the orchard.

See Facebook Page for Food Truck Schedule!

DATES: May 18, 2021 - May 24, 2021

• CREATED: Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

• DURATION: 23 minutes

• GENRE: Movement, Site specific

• COUNTRY: Victoria/Lekwungen

This performance will be available to watch on demand anytime between noon on Tuesday Mat 18 and midnight on Sunday May 24. The video will be posted on this page during those dates. 

Gemini was originally created for UNO Fest Online in 2020. Focusing on solo work in development, this 5 part series was then deconstructed for The Bush Gallery’s online exhibition #contigenciesofcare curated by Tania Willard and Toby Lawrence. Both iterations of Gemini were filmed in the artist’s backyard.

From Lindsay: Gemini is a performance that expresses archetypal aspects of human personality, bringing subconscious material into fruition through performative gestures and actions. Interacting with land, environment and indigenous expressions of culture, I utilize performance art, spoken word and Indigenous dance. The audio used for this piece was John Trudell’s spoken word and Alanis Obomsawin’s Theo pt.1.This piece came forward after a windstorm had knocked down a tree in my backyard. I started to use the wood to help inform the actions (chopping wood, stacking wood). I began interpreting this experience as an offering and thinking about the gratitude we must not forget for Mother nature.

My purpose in creating Gemini is to reconstruct knowledge of self while transmuting cathartic gestures and raising awareness. To know one’s self deeper; self awareness of my strengths and weaknesses, becoming humble and praying for insight. Gemini urges one to look deeper into their origin story, birthplace and relationship to cosmology.

Creating this self-reflective piece has expanded my appreciation and gifts I have for myself, others and the land.

Accessibility: The video is closed captioned

About the artist
My name is Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, I am a Kanienke’haka woman from Kahnawake. For the past 13 years I have been a grateful, active and contributing guest on Lekwungen territory, Victoria, BC. I hold a Masters degree in Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in the Indigenous Communities Counseling Psychology Program from the University of Victoria. I held the position as the first Indigenous artist in Residence from 2017-2019 and currently the Indigenous Resurgence Coordinator for the Fine Arts Department at UVIC.

My artistic practice focuses on Indigenous theatre, land-based/site-specific performance art, collaborative practice, cultural resurgence and social/political activism through the arts. My artistic media include photography, performance/theatre, movement/dance and visual studio arts.

My journey as an artist over the past two years has focused on collaborative practice and collaborative performances that reflect on reconciliation as a participatory action that involves bearing Witness and observation that puts discussions of perspectives and values into action. I have sought to take a critical stand regarding how art contributes to reconciliation. I have explored reconciliation through working with non- Indigenous and Indigenous groups of people to co-create artworks that symbolized unity, integration and respect. During my Indigenous artist in residence for the city of Victoria, I created 18 diverse collaborative projects and have contributed to the larger discourse regarding decolonization in the arts, reconciliation and Indigenous art practice and protocols.

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Learn how to grow medicinal herbs so you have access to healing year round.

About this event

Come learn how to grow medicinal plants in your garden so that you have access to healing at home all year round. You will learn about the life cycle of plants, starting seedlings, seed saving and how to create the optimal conditions for medicinals including soil, sunlight exposure, nutrients and watering. This workshop will include an introduction to a collection of medicinal plants that can be used to ease stomach upset, calm unsettled nerves, encourage sleep, support the immune system for viral infections and more. How to tend your garden, harvest, dry and process the medicinals to stock a small home apothecary and a new approach to home health care. Rebecca will have medicinal plant seed for sale if you are interested.

Instructor Bio: Rebecca Singer, RHT, is a registered Medical Herbalist, combining modern scientific understanding of herbs and health with the traditional knowledge of healing. Rebecca has been working with plants as an avid gardener, artist, and educator for the past fifteen years. She is especially interested in the co-evolutionary relationship we have with plants, sustainable practices, and the places that art and healing intersect. Having recently moved from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast she has been enjoying exploring this lush new landscape of medicinal plants. twigstonemedicine.com

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This workshop will be hosted in person only. COVID protocols will be emailed to you 24 hours in advance.

NOTE: Due to the ever changing nature of the Pandemic and Public Health Orders, there is a chance this workshop might be cancelled or rescheduled to a time when we can offer it in person. Refunds are only available within 30 days of purchase.

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Only current members in good standing are eligible to use the free ticket option as a part of their member benefits package.

There are a limited amount of Pay-What-You-Can tickets available for folks who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC). The Compost Education Centre is in the process of examining the ways in which our program accessibility can be improved for all members of our community. This ticket gesture is by no means a fulsome examination of the systems of oppression that exist for people inside and outside of our community. We welcome your ideas and feedback.

Please pre-register for this event.

Customers can request a refund within 30 days of ticket purchase. After 30 days refunds and workshop exchanges are not permitted due to administrative staffing capacity.

You can also register for the event by calling our office at 250 386 9676 or via email by contacting office@compost.bc.ca

More details/register here.

Show Run: May 11-16 2021

Show Info

Due to COVID-19 and ongoing provincial and national health orders, we have moved to filmed productions for the Spring 2021 Season. We will be broadcasting The (Post) Mistress from May 11 – 16, 2021 through the Belfry ticket site, https://tickets.belfry.bc.ca. 

“The (Post) Mistress is about love, love letters and love of life.” – Tomson Highway

Back when life was simple – if life was ever simple – people wrote letters. In the small town of Lovely, Ontario, every letter passes through the hands of postmistress Marie-Louise Painchaud.

Cheeky and cheerful, Marie-Louise delights in living vicariously through the stories shared in letters mailed from all over the world. 

Featuring piano and saxophone, the musical stylings evoke these faraway places – samba, bossa nova, tango, Dixieland and Berlin Cabaret rap. 

Uplifting, funny and poignant, this one-woman musical by Tomson Highway reminds us that in life, you should never mail it in.

Tomson Highway is a Cree writer and pianist/songwriter from Northern Manitoba. Among many others, his best-known works are the plays The Rez Sisters (Belfry 2014), and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and the best-selling novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. 

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3 Steps to Selling Your Art

A free online workshop for early career artists, with Renée Leighann.

Gain the tools and knowledge to sell your art with the free workshop!

Three options to attend:
May 6th 7pm
May 8th 2pm
May 11th 2pm

For more details or to enrol.

3 Steps to Selling Your Art

A free online workshop for early career artists, with Renée Leighann.

Gain the tools and knowledge to sell your art with the free workshop!

Three options to attend:
May 6th 7pm
May 8th 2pm
May 11th 2pm

For more details or to enrol.

3 Steps to Selling Your Art

A free online workshop for early career artists, with Renée Leighann.

Gain the tools and knowledge to sell your art with the free workshop!

Three options to attend:
May 6th 7pm
May 8th 2pm
May 11th 2pm

For more details or to enrol.

A Live + Interactive Game Show!

Join us every Wednesday night at 7:30pm PST for a thrilling and unique interactive game show experience hosted by Benji Duke and Kim Persley. Team up with up to 6 friends and play together, wherever you are!

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This 4 week course is for sewists who want to explore garment construction through pant making. You choose the pants pattern and Tanya King will help you fit and sew! 

In this workshop you will learn:

• How to measure yourself for pants

• How to understand and fit pants patterns

• Marking, sewing darts, pleats and gathers

• Different types of waistbands and facings

• Zipper installation (regular or invisible)

• Hemming and finishing techniques

FOR MORE INFO!

Esquimalt Farmers Market's 7th Season runs on Thursdays from April 1- September 16 from 4:30 p.m. - 730 p.m. in The Township of Esquimalt's Bullen Field at 527 Fraser Street.
Join us in celebrating small business and supporting local food!

As we navigate through the COVID 19 Pandemic, understand that changes will likely happen often and abruptly. For this reason, it is best if you refer to our website regularly for updated information including times and locations.As always, EFM is a pet-free Market. Thank you for understanding. As an essential food service, EFM is operating with the regularly updated guidelines as required by the PHO. Please shop as a single person from your household whenever possible..

Visit our website for more info!

The Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra is a Klezmer Supergroup of some of Victoria’s best musicians. We have been playing Jewish Party music at PAGLIACCI’S for more than 17 years.

Price: Free ·

Duration: 2 hr

Live music at Pagliacci's