{"id":55279,"date":"2021-08-04T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=55279"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:47:56","slug":"public-events-on-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/public-events-on-the-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer public events on the agenda for Cortes Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A month into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/covid-19\/info\/restart\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BC\u2019s Phase 3 of re-opening<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, locals and visitors to Cortes Island are able to enjoy well-loved perennials and have brand new opportunities to gather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">British Columbia officially lifted its mask mandate on July 1, opened up to Canadians for recreational travel and now allows for gatherings of 50 people indoors and 5,000 outside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While still scaled down compared to pre-pandemic times, Cortes Island is not only seeing an influx of vacationers, but also regular events. Here is a selection:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Gorge Harbour Marina Resort is delivering <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/gorgeharbour.com\/google-calendar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">live music<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> five nights a week for the rest of the summer. The impromptu stage on the Fireside Patio hosts musical acts \u2014 some local and some from further afield \u2014 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oldschoolhouseartgallerycortes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is in the midst of their first show of the season, running for two more weekends. Thursday through Sunday from 2-6 p.m., the gallery is open for viewing of the pieces by 24 member artists in a wide variety of media.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Squirrel Cove resident, Reid Wescott, and a few friends set up a volleyball court near the General Store, and weekly games just switched from Wednesday to Thursday evenings. Come from 5 p.m. onwards to play and swim. Wescott says, \u201cit is a great location, and we are hoping for more sand. We always need more players!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the south end of the island, Cortes Men\u2019s Circle is having another open night on Wednesday Aug. 11 from 7-9 p.m., thanks to a community microgrant. Host <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inlightenedbody\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tommaso Biasiolo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> started the bi-weekly event several years ago on Quadra after being inspired by an online men\u2019s circle. He also saw the opportunity to address the underlying issues he felt led to societal dysfunction such as became exposed by the Me Too movement. The circle meets at the Sanctuary on the Hollyhock campus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hollyhock.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollyhock Leadership Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has presenter evenings, which are free or by donation events open to the whole community. All proceeds go toward the Island Scholarship fund, which enables reduced program tuition for Cortes residents. The next one is Saturday Aug. 7. It is entitled \u201cYoga as Intuitive Movement\u201d with teacher Robin Stamm, and runs 8-9:30 p.m.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month into BC\u2019s Phase 3 of re-opening, locals and visitors to Cortes Island are able to enjoy well-loved perennials and have brand new opportunities to gather. British Columbia officially lifted its mask mandate on July 1, opened up to Canadians for recreational travel and now allows for gatherings of 50 people indoors and 5,000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":55282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,204],"tags":[2774,8555,741,8556],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55279"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=55279"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=55279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}