Calling all artists

Calling all artists

›› CarrolAnn Smedley The 2021 Fernwood Art Stroll will be held on June 12 & 13, 2021 in our Fernwood community. If you are interested in opening your yard, or studio for showing, or selling your work, or if you are a performance-based individual or group, we would...
New mural celebrates local ecology

New mural celebrates local ecology

›› Laura Benoit If you’ve strolled down Gladstone Avenue by Fernwood Road recently, you may have noticed something new sprawled across the brick wall next to ­Studio 1313. This mural from self-taught Victoria-based artist Collin Elder was ­completed at the end of...
Faces of Fernwood: Rik Leaf

Faces of Fernwood: Rik Leaf

›› Brett Gaylor Over the last 20 years, Rik Leaf has ­produced CDs, TV shows, short films, a travel series, podcasts & worked on ­productions for Metallica, Bryan Adams, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Whose Line is it Anyway?. He is the Creative Director for Tribe of...
A Fernwood Story

A Fernwood Story

›› Susan Sanford Blades My debut novel, Fake It So Real, was ­conceived around the same time I moved to Fernwood nine years ago and I think this is no coincidence. How could I not be inspired to create in this land of painted hydro poles; this place where a man is...

The COVID Experience

Change, transition, adaptation ›› Shonna Bell Creativity, responsiveness, compassion. It feels constant, exhausting and maybe sometimes invigorating. It feels humble, impossible to predict: make plans, adjust, make plans, adjust, settle in, adjust. Really, it’s...