Community Articles
General News · 1st May 2024
Jennifer for Mansons Hall
MAY 3: Friday Market
Our weekly Friday Market takes place every Friday afternoon from 12 to 3 PM in the Main Hall.
The market features a wide variety of vendors with such rare goodies to offer such as baked goods, gems and crystals, artisan soaps, natural beauty products, knife-sharpening, jewelry and assorted handicrafts! Come on out and support your local vendors; this is one of the island's most-beloved weekly events.
MAY 3: Thrift Store
The SCCA Thrift Store is open during the Friday Market 12-3 pm with plenty of gently used clothing items for the entire family to choose from. You will find it down the hall to the Pioneer Room. All items are sold by a suggested donation to the SCCA.
MAY 4: Beltane Celebration with Dance Temple Cortes
Celebrate Beltane in motion and community, in our temple of dance in the temple of your body! All bodies, all ages, all abilities, all genders and all ways of dancing.
If rolling on the floor is your jam have at it! If hopping in circles is your delight then we're there for it. If hippycoptering (popular on Cortes) is your expression come spin your moves. If sitting in a chair and dancing your arms is your way to play then we got chairs!
Join Dance Temple Cortes for a celebration of Beltane the way it has always been celebrated, with dance! DJ MoonCat (Connie Q) weaving the wave again this month, from gentle lifting to a fast-paced celebration and returning back to grounding and stillness with a didgeridoo sound journey.
$15-$25 at the door,
Children (accompanied) welcome to attend for free
Sober
Consent-based
Conversation-free
Please avoid phones, scented products and outdoor shoes.
(Star Wars themed attire welcome! May the Fourth be with you!)
MAY 5: Yoga with Kelly
Sunday at 11:00 am in the Om Studio. For more info email kbrocks55yahoo.
MAY 6: Sole On & Soul Forth Dance
A weekly 90 minute Dance for your hungry feet every Monday evening at 7:00 at Mansons Hall. Admission $10.
The World needs more Joy, more Delight, more Love, more Community and dancing is such good medicine.
Dancing Wolf has produced over two hundred dances since 1994, mostly in Victoria, with his Upbeat Waves of World Fusion, World Beat, Folk Fusion, House, Hip Hop, Dub, Reggae, Electronica, Down Tempo etc.
MAY 7: Parents & Tots
All caregivers and little ones (ages 0 to 4+) are invited to drop in for playtime and community connection.
Every Tuesday from 10:30 to 12:30 at Manson’s Hall, Main Hall.
Hope to see you there!
Free, by donation. Location: Main Hall
MAY 7: Sew Much More
On Tuesdays from 2-5pm in the Om Studio, Marnie Andrews and Cora Moret run a practical sewing clinic, wherein participants will learn basic repair skills and sewing techniques! Youth welcome, and children under 10 with an adult. You are invited to bring in your sewing projects for help with either repairs or with creating something new.
MAY 8: T’ai Chi Ch’uan
T’ai Chi Ch’uan is a low-impact exercise that is ideal for seniors. These slow, gentle movements can improve balance, strength, flexibility, and range of motion and decrease the effects of common degenerative diseases and pains. It is a standing/moving exercise that can be done anywhere, anytime and doesn’t need special clothing or shoes.
Judyth Weaver received permission to teach TCC from the school of Grand Master Cheng Man-Ch’ing in 1971, and she has been teaching it regularly around the world since then.
The class will be offered on Wednesdays, from 11 am till noon in the Om Studio.
The classes are free. Donations to the CISS are welcome.
If you have any questions before class, please contact Judyth at 250-935-8500
MAY 8: Drumming with Pawl
Pawl Khan is back with his weekly all-levels drum class featuring African rhythms and techniques. You will improve your technique, have fun and experience the many health benefits of drumming in a circle. Pawl has decades of experience as a world-class drummer and instructor.
In the Om Studio, Wednesdays 5:00 - 6:45
$12 drop in
$40 for 4 classes
MAY 9: Restorative Yin Yoga
Please note, this a pre-registered offering!
Come chill with us at our free Yin Restorative Yoga Sessions!
Relax and recharge your body and mind with this weekly community offering. Thursdays at 5:30 in the Om Studio.
RSVP officemansonshall.org
MAY 9: Free Community Lunch
Come warm up with some social time and a free community meal.
Thursday, May 9th
Manson's Hall
Noon
Free for the whole community - everyone welcome - All ages.
Funded through the Better At Home Food Security initiative in Partnership with the Southern Cortes Community Association.
For more information about our programs contact officemansonshall.org or call (250) 935-0015
Mansons Hall Office Hours:
Monday 9-5 (by appointment)
Thursday 11-3
Friday 11-3
Our weekly Friday Market takes place every Friday afternoon from 12 to 3 PM in the Main Hall.
The market features a wide variety of vendors with such rare goodies to offer such as baked goods, gems and crystals, artisan soaps, natural beauty products, knife-sharpening, jewelry and assorted handicrafts! Come on out and support your local vendors; this is one of the island's most-beloved weekly events.
MAY 3: Thrift Store
The SCCA Thrift Store is open during the Friday Market 12-3 pm with plenty of gently used clothing items for the entire family to choose from. You will find it down the hall to the Pioneer Room. All items are sold by a suggested donation to the SCCA.
MAY 4: Beltane Celebration with Dance Temple Cortes
Celebrate Beltane in motion and community, in our temple of dance in the temple of your body! All bodies, all ages, all abilities, all genders and all ways of dancing.
If rolling on the floor is your jam have at it! If hopping in circles is your delight then we're there for it. If hippycoptering (popular on Cortes) is your expression come spin your moves. If sitting in a chair and dancing your arms is your way to play then we got chairs!
Join Dance Temple Cortes for a celebration of Beltane the way it has always been celebrated, with dance! DJ MoonCat (Connie Q) weaving the wave again this month, from gentle lifting to a fast-paced celebration and returning back to grounding and stillness with a didgeridoo sound journey.
$15-$25 at the door,
Children (accompanied) welcome to attend for free
Sober
Consent-based
Conversation-free
Please avoid phones, scented products and outdoor shoes.
(Star Wars themed attire welcome! May the Fourth be with you!)
MAY 5: Yoga with Kelly
Sunday at 11:00 am in the Om Studio. For more info email kbrocks55yahoo.
MAY 6: Sole On & Soul Forth Dance
A weekly 90 minute Dance for your hungry feet every Monday evening at 7:00 at Mansons Hall. Admission $10.
The World needs more Joy, more Delight, more Love, more Community and dancing is such good medicine.
Dancing Wolf has produced over two hundred dances since 1994, mostly in Victoria, with his Upbeat Waves of World Fusion, World Beat, Folk Fusion, House, Hip Hop, Dub, Reggae, Electronica, Down Tempo etc.
MAY 7: Parents & Tots
All caregivers and little ones (ages 0 to 4+) are invited to drop in for playtime and community connection.
Every Tuesday from 10:30 to 12:30 at Manson’s Hall, Main Hall.
Hope to see you there!
Free, by donation. Location: Main Hall
MAY 7: Sew Much More
On Tuesdays from 2-5pm in the Om Studio, Marnie Andrews and Cora Moret run a practical sewing clinic, wherein participants will learn basic repair skills and sewing techniques! Youth welcome, and children under 10 with an adult. You are invited to bring in your sewing projects for help with either repairs or with creating something new.
MAY 8: T’ai Chi Ch’uan
T’ai Chi Ch’uan is a low-impact exercise that is ideal for seniors. These slow, gentle movements can improve balance, strength, flexibility, and range of motion and decrease the effects of common degenerative diseases and pains. It is a standing/moving exercise that can be done anywhere, anytime and doesn’t need special clothing or shoes.
Judyth Weaver received permission to teach TCC from the school of Grand Master Cheng Man-Ch’ing in 1971, and she has been teaching it regularly around the world since then.
The class will be offered on Wednesdays, from 11 am till noon in the Om Studio.
The classes are free. Donations to the CISS are welcome.
If you have any questions before class, please contact Judyth at 250-935-8500
MAY 8: Drumming with Pawl
Pawl Khan is back with his weekly all-levels drum class featuring African rhythms and techniques. You will improve your technique, have fun and experience the many health benefits of drumming in a circle. Pawl has decades of experience as a world-class drummer and instructor.
In the Om Studio, Wednesdays 5:00 - 6:45
$12 drop in
$40 for 4 classes
MAY 9: Restorative Yin Yoga
Please note, this a pre-registered offering!
Come chill with us at our free Yin Restorative Yoga Sessions!
Relax and recharge your body and mind with this weekly community offering. Thursdays at 5:30 in the Om Studio.
RSVP officemansonshall.org
MAY 9: Free Community Lunch
Come warm up with some social time and a free community meal.
Thursday, May 9th
Manson's Hall
Noon
Free for the whole community - everyone welcome - All ages.
Funded through the Better At Home Food Security initiative in Partnership with the Southern Cortes Community Association.
For more information about our programs contact officemansonshall.org or call (250) 935-0015
Mansons Hall Office Hours:
Monday 9-5 (by appointment)
Thursday 11-3
Friday 11-3