Christian Kluxen is recomposing Victoria Symphony's audience Christian Kluxen knows he can be intimidating. Now in his seventh season as Victoria Symphony’s Music Director and Principal Conductor, he often meets Victorians who, upon being introduced to an actual maestro, respond with a measure of discomfort: “When I say what it is I do, they’ll say,… Continue reading The Other Side of Silence
Month: March 2025
Almost Healthy: The Patient Ambition of Victoria Theatre
Examining the constitution of our dauntless stage companies The theatre arts are a tough sell to contemporary audiences. For Victoria’s long-serving stage companies, the past two years have jeopardized revenue from even their most loyal supporters. But live performances are finally back, as are audiences, both bare-faced and masked, and the industry returns its attention… Continue reading Almost Healthy: The Patient Ambition of Victoria Theatre
A City in Harmony
Communion at the Victoria Conservatory of Music The commanding stone structure on the southeast corner of Pandora and Quadra is not what it seems. At first it appears to be another member of Victoria’s congregation of grandiose heritage churches, each vying to outdo the others in scale and piety. The building itself appears heavy, both… Continue reading A City in Harmony
What’s Old is New Again
Revitalizing the pre-classical genre with the Early Music Society of the Islands The theorbo, at first sight, is an impossible instrument. It looks like a kind of otherworldly sitar—large-bodied with an extraordinarily long neck and 14 strings—playable only by a ten-foot space creature with tentacles for hands. Introduced in 1580 to be the “perfect accompaniment… Continue reading What’s Old is New Again
Where There’s Tea, There’s Hope
Daniela Cubelic of Silk Road Tea is weathering the storm in our teacups Victoria is an attractive city, in more ways than one: she’s a looker, of course. But on a deeper level, she entices people who value authenticity, creativity, and nature. Perhaps no local business better serves these appetites than Silk Road Tea.Its company… Continue reading Where There’s Tea, There’s Hope
We’re Going to Need a Bigger Canvas
BC property developer and Victoria’s visual arts spaces forge unlikely alliance Before his introduction to BC developer Reliance Properties, Logan Ford had no reason to trust landlords. He arrived in Victoria from Calgary in 2007 as an HVAC tradesman by vocation and an oil/acrylic painter by avocation, just in time for the 2008 recession to… Continue reading We’re Going to Need a Bigger Canvas
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