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Join world-renowned Victoria-based jazz singer Joe Coughlin and the Vancouver Island All-Star Band as they celebrate another jazz singer’s birthday: that is, the late, great Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. Sinatra’s music will be brought back to life Saturday December 12th at the Oak Bay High School Community Theatre (2121 Cadboro Bay Rd.). A versatile veteran of […]
One Wave Festival Rising Tides: Our Lands, Our Waters, Our Peoples The Pacific Peoples’ Partnership is proud to present the 8th annual of One Wave Festival. One Wave is a Pacific Arts and Culture festival taking place September 22nd – 26th throughout the T’Souke, Tsartlip, and Songhees communities, as well as The University of Victoria and Centennial Square. […]
Sid the Handsome Bum is a sensitive, thoughtful portrayal of a variety of personalities who inhabit the DTES, all rolled into one.  It’s written by Ira Cooper who mentioned, while promoting the show in another Fringe lineup, that he invested considerable time in the DTES talking to some of the characters there.  He said he listened carefully and […]
This year, the Victoria Film Festival introduced its first-ever Indigenous Program to feature work created by Indigenous filmmakers. Michelle Latimer — filmmaker, actor, and curator of the festival’s Indigenous Program — sat down with CFUV’s Linda Sjostrom on February 5. In this interview, hear Latimer discuss the films being presented, the ways in which Indigenous film […]
 CFUV is sending two of our stellar programmers (Linda of Garden City Jukebox & Troy of The Action Index) to cover this year’s Victoria Film Festival. The film fest runs from February 6th – 15th and the full schedule and ticket information can be found online. CFUV is presenting two films that our listeners […]