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General News · 26th June 2024
Jennifer for Mansons Hall
FRIDAY, JUNE 28: Friday Market
Our summer weekly Friday Market takes place every Friday afternoon from 12 to 3 PM in the Main Hall, with plenty of more vendors outside on the deck and on the upper level by the radio station.
Indulge in a variety of goods at the market, including baked delights, gems, crystals, artisan soaps, fresh veggies, natural beauty products, sharpening services, delectable sushi, handmade crafts, imported hats and textiles, hand-carved sculptures, pottery, drums, sea lion rattles, knives from Finland, mammoth, jade and amber pendants, handmade cards, jewelry, and fresh pasta. Join us in supporting our local vendors at this beloved weekly event.
FRIDAY, JUNE 28: 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
TUESDAY, JULY 2: Sew Much More
Om studio 2-5 pm
bring a project to work on, get sewing coaching, sit and sew together.
TUESDAY, JULY 2: Concert: Sam Tudor/Robbie Bankes/Jemma
Come one come all for a cozy night of music at Mansons Hall featuring Cortes local Jemma & the Good Thing, the ever-wandering Robbie Bankes, and Canada's next big thing, Sam Tudor.
Doors open at 7, music at 7:30. Suggested $20 entrance or pay what you can. All are welcome, so please don't let money be a barrier. Kids come for free.
About the performers:
Sam Tudor is an individual person, but also a project involving a large group of friends across Canada. The underpinnings of the songs are genre-less; jazz players join forces with Eno inspired beats while acoustic guitars meet distorted synths. What unifies the project is Tudor’s distinct voice: a sandy, melancholic narrator, leaning in close with confessional and cathartic writing. The band’s live show is a communal affair, moving from hushed tones to bombastic walls of sound and back again. The Georgia Straight calls the band “a gem, with a penchant for everything left field” while VICE Magazine describes the project as “a darkened digital space… embellished with jazz, baroque, and electronic touches”.
https://www.samtudormusic.com
https://samtudor.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-minute
Jemma and the Good Thing
Known for her unique voice and heartfelt performances, Jemma Hicken (Jemma & the Good Thing) is a songwriter from Cortes Island, BC. With a pop song forever stuck in her head and a folk song forever stuck in her heart, Jemma crafts catchy and cathartic tunes that have charmed audiences on both sides of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Drawing on the humour and sentimentality of John Prine, the innocence of Paul Simon and Ingrid Michaelson, and the fire of Ani DiFranco, Jemma is a folk-pop force. Based in Edmonton for three prairie winters, Jemma was featured at the New Moon Folk Club, SkirtsAFire Festival, Kaleido Fest, and won the 2019 Bent River Songwriting Competition. The pandemic brought her back to her Gulf Island home, and in 2024 she can be found touring up and down Vancouver Island, most notably debuting at festivals such as Vancouver Island Music Fest, Filberg Fest, Love Fest, and Woodstove Festival. Jemma released her debut album, Get It Together, in July 2023. Jemma & the Good Thing is a project of many iterations; the Good Thing is often other musicians, or sometimes it’s just Jemma’s tenor guitar. The common denominator is always Jemma and her songs.
https://jemmaandthegoodthing.com/epk
https://jemmaandthegoodthing.bandcamp.com/album/get-it-together
Robbie Bankes
With his perpetual bedhead, trademark wool sweater and easy smile, Robbie’s observant and gentle nature draws his audience in like a warm fire. His music and live shows are a conversation; his words carry over landscapes of mountains, crunching snow, and starry skies. His songs of sadness and hope are modern and old all at once and deeply rooted to a geography of moment and place. Robbie has played in houses, streets, halls and bars across Canada and Europe and his music has been featured in film and radio across the globe. He has released the album “Foothills” (2017) and the EP’s “The Way My Feet Fall” (2020) and “Through February Snow” (2015). He has lived for most of the past 10 years in Norway where he studied traditional music, organic agriculture and worked on farms. These days he lives in the small town of Parson BC.
www.robbiebankes.com
https://robbiebankes.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-my-feet-fall
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3: 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
THURSDAY, JULY 4: Dance Temple
Dance Temple ecstatic dance now every other Thursday from 7:00-8:30 pm
DJ Spruce Lee returns to Cortes to weave his DJ wizardry and bring us into the summer season.
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 summer weekly Friday Market takes place every Friday afternoon from 12 to 3 PM in the Main Hall, with plenty of more vendors outside on the deck and on the upper level by the radio station.
Indulge in a variety of goods at the market, including baked delights, gems, crystals, artisan soaps, fresh veggies, natural beauty products, sharpening services, delectable sushi, handmade crafts, imported hats and textiles, hand-carved sculptures, pottery, drums, sea lion rattles, knives from Finland, mammoth, jade and amber pendants, handmade cards, jewelry, and fresh pasta. Join us in supporting our local vendors at this beloved weekly event.
FRIDAY, JUNE 28: 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
TUESDAY, JULY 2: Sew Much More
Om studio 2-5 pm
bring a project to work on, get sewing coaching, sit and sew together.
TUESDAY, JULY 2: Concert: Sam Tudor/Robbie Bankes/Jemma
Come one come all for a cozy night of music at Mansons Hall featuring Cortes local Jemma & the Good Thing, the ever-wandering Robbie Bankes, and Canada's next big thing, Sam Tudor.
Doors open at 7, music at 7:30. Suggested $20 entrance or pay what you can. All are welcome, so please don't let money be a barrier. Kids come for free.
About the performers:
Sam Tudor is an individual person, but also a project involving a large group of friends across Canada. The underpinnings of the songs are genre-less; jazz players join forces with Eno inspired beats while acoustic guitars meet distorted synths. What unifies the project is Tudor’s distinct voice: a sandy, melancholic narrator, leaning in close with confessional and cathartic writing. The band’s live show is a communal affair, moving from hushed tones to bombastic walls of sound and back again. The Georgia Straight calls the band “a gem, with a penchant for everything left field” while VICE Magazine describes the project as “a darkened digital space… embellished with jazz, baroque, and electronic touches”.
https://www.samtudormusic.com
https://samtudor.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-minute
Jemma and the Good Thing
Known for her unique voice and heartfelt performances, Jemma Hicken (Jemma & the Good Thing) is a songwriter from Cortes Island, BC. With a pop song forever stuck in her head and a folk song forever stuck in her heart, Jemma crafts catchy and cathartic tunes that have charmed audiences on both sides of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Drawing on the humour and sentimentality of John Prine, the innocence of Paul Simon and Ingrid Michaelson, and the fire of Ani DiFranco, Jemma is a folk-pop force. Based in Edmonton for three prairie winters, Jemma was featured at the New Moon Folk Club, SkirtsAFire Festival, Kaleido Fest, and won the 2019 Bent River Songwriting Competition. The pandemic brought her back to her Gulf Island home, and in 2024 she can be found touring up and down Vancouver Island, most notably debuting at festivals such as Vancouver Island Music Fest, Filberg Fest, Love Fest, and Woodstove Festival. Jemma released her debut album, Get It Together, in July 2023. Jemma & the Good Thing is a project of many iterations; the Good Thing is often other musicians, or sometimes it’s just Jemma’s tenor guitar. The common denominator is always Jemma and her songs.
https://jemmaandthegoodthing.com/epk
https://jemmaandthegoodthing.bandcamp.com/album/get-it-together
Robbie Bankes
With his perpetual bedhead, trademark wool sweater and easy smile, Robbie’s observant and gentle nature draws his audience in like a warm fire. His music and live shows are a conversation; his words carry over landscapes of mountains, crunching snow, and starry skies. His songs of sadness and hope are modern and old all at once and deeply rooted to a geography of moment and place. Robbie has played in houses, streets, halls and bars across Canada and Europe and his music has been featured in film and radio across the globe. He has released the album “Foothills” (2017) and the EP’s “The Way My Feet Fall” (2020) and “Through February Snow” (2015). He has lived for most of the past 10 years in Norway where he studied traditional music, organic agriculture and worked on farms. These days he lives in the small town of Parson BC.
www.robbiebankes.com
https://robbiebankes.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-my-feet-fall
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3: 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
THURSDAY, JULY 4: Dance Temple
Dance Temple ecstatic dance now every other Thursday from 7:00-8:30 pm
DJ Spruce Lee returns to Cortes to weave his DJ wizardry and bring us into the summer season.
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.