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On October 20th, join celebrity baker Buddy Valastro for an evening of cakes, stories, and fun. In this rare live, interactive event, TLC’s Cake Boss will share the stories behind his hit series and his colorful Italian family, answer audience questions, and give a live demonstration of the techniques that have made him one of the most successful and renowned cake artists in the nation. Buddy has a big personality, and an even bigger heart! Bring the whole family for a night with the Cake Boss. 

Visit the Royal & McPherson Theatres Society website for more info.

Jonathan’s Restaurant is offering a 3 Course Turkey Dinner for Thanksgiving on Sunday, October 7 & Monday, October 8, 2012. 

Please call 250-383-5103 to make reservations.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 from 5-9 pm

The theme of the summer’s final night market is the Autumn Moon Lantern Festival. Victoria’s Chinatown will be ablaze with lanterns hung for this enchanting festival. Visit our website to get details about entering our Lantern Making COntest of just come to the market and visit the lantern craft table to create a lantern to hang in the public lantern display area. Look for the ever popular Chinese Moon Cakes to be prominent at this festival.

Visit the website for more info.

The Pacific Northwest on both sides of the border is blessed with an enormous number of traditional boats of all descriptions. The wonderful craft – both yachts and workboats – are cared for by their owners and a supportive community of boatyards, trades people, and admirers. We are also fortunate to have some amazing maritime non-profit organizations throughout the region, including the Maritime Museum of BC, Port Townsend Wooden Boat Foundation, SALTS, Seattle Centre for Wooden Boats, Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre, Victoria Tall Ships Society, Silva Bay Shipyard School and the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding to name a few. These dedicated organizations provide opportunities for education, training, skills development and economic growth in our communities. The boat owners and those that support them are why we are still celebrating our maritime heritage after 35 years. Enjoy this year’s Victoria Classic Boat Festival from August 31 through September 2, 2012 in Victoria’s beautiful Inner Harbour.

Visit the website for more info.

From August 23 – September 2, you can experience 11 days of amazing live comedy, drama, dance, spoken word, musicals and physical theatre – over 370 performances in 9 venues. Fringe-going is easy, fun and slightly addictive. Once you start, you won’t want to stop! It’s really the best part of the summer.

What is the Victoria Fringe?

The Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival is one of the oldest Fringe Festivals in Canada! Intrepid Theatre hosts the festival, which features over 55 productions from all over the world in various venues in downtown Victoria. Tickets are cheep-cheep, and volunteering is a huge part of this fun, awesome community event.

Check out the website for more info.

This year, the Victoria Dragon Boat Festival is being held on August 17, 18 and 19th. It started in 1995 as a single day event with 20 paddling teams, held after the sport was introduced to the city during the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria. The event has since transformed into a wildly successful three day, two night festival, bringing together 90 teams, 2,400 paddlers, and 80,000 spectators, hosting one of the only dragon boat races courses in North America to take place in a working harbour.

2012 is also the year of the water dragon in the Chinese calendar, a rare event that only occurs every 60 years. Dragons symbolize power and growth and are a prominent theme of the festival.

Check out Dragon Boat Festival website for more information on this fun spectator event.

The annual Victoria Symphony Splash is a spectacular event that sees Victoria’s beautiful Inner Harbour transformed into an outdoor concert stage. 

Victoria Symphony Splash is the largest annual outdoor symphony event in Canada, attracting up to 40,000 Victoria residents and visitors. It includes musical entertainment, food, souvenirs and the evening’s highlight: a live performance by the Victoria Symphony.

The concert concludes with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, complete with bells, cannons, and fireworks.

Visit the website for more info.

From September 12-16, Victoria will be home to Canada’s largest International Chalk Art Festival, presenting an array of international and local chalk artists!

Over five days beginning Wednesday, September 12th, come and join in the building excitement downtown led by renowned international 3D chalk artist Tracy Lee Stum as she creates a 26ft 3D chalk art drawing at The Bay Centre’s lower level, centre court.  Then on Saturday and Sunday, September 15th & 16th, Tracy’s efforts will be complimented by a two day chalk art exposition where both international and local artists will present works on Government Street which will close to vehicle traffic.

Visit the website for more info.

Unlike any other Cirque du Soleil show, Quidam does not take spectators to an imaginary realm of fanciful, larger-than-life characters. Rather, it is an examination of our own world – inhabited by real people with real-life concerns.

Young Zoe is bored; her parents, distant and apathetic, ignore her. Her life has lost all meaning. Seeking to fill the void of her existence, she slides into an imaginary world – the world of Quidam – where she meets characters who encourage her to free her soul.

Quidam: a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past and swallowed by the crowd. It could be anyone, anybody. Someone coming or going at the heart of our anonymous society. A member of the crowd, one of the silent majority. The one who cries out, sings and dreams within us all. This is the “quidam” whom this show allows to speak. This is the place that beckons – a place for dreaming and genuine relations where all quidams, by proclaiming their individuality, can finally emerge from anonymity.

Click here for show times & ticket information.

400 performers. One stage. Three shows only. Victoria welcomes performers from around the world for the inaugural Pacific Tattoo, a musical extravaganza that provides exhilarating entertainment for the entire family. A tightly woven, full production spectacle of music and movement, The Pacific Tattoo features military bands, massed pipes and drums, dancers, and special skills demonstrations. Tickets available by phone at 250-478-8384 or in person at the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre Box Office, 1767 Island Highway, Victoria, or at the Tourism Victoria InfoCentre on the Inner Harbour.

Visit the website for more info.