It started last spring on Salt Spring Island, BC, and traveled to Zimbabwe. Soon children from Canada, Africa, Mexico, and Europe were pouring their hearts into singing and playing One World, One Heart Beating, a global anthem for peace.
CBC is promoting the song to stations across the country, and schools across the globe are screening the video (created [...]

Salt Spring Grandmothers to Grandmothers sponsor the FOURTH ANNUAL SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT at the Salt Spring Golf Course and the Salt Spring Inn March 6, 7, 8, 10 Start Times: Mar.6 & 8- 2pm, SS Inn; Mar. 7 & 10 – 6pm, SS Golf Course

A year after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, One Thousand Cranes, a beautifully crafted show from Tokyo puts a human face to nuclear fallout. A young Japanese girl is diagnosed with leukemia nine years after Hiroshima. Determined to live, she folds origami cranes, which are a symbol of hope. Across the Pacific in Canada, a [...]

Hip-Hop/Cardio/Stretch: Tuesdays 5:15-6:30pm at the Arts Academy (320 Upper Ganges Rd. above Home Design Center) everyone welcome!
Ballet for all ages Wednesdays 6-7:30pm at the Arts Academy
Dance/Stretch/Breath, 5 week session: Jan.19-Feb 16
Thursdays 9:30-10:45am at the Gatehouse (190 Reynold Rd)
everyone welcome!
Hip-Hop for KIds
Wednesdays 3:45-4:45pm
at the Arts Academy
Call Naomi for more info – 653-9498 – or check the [...]

nurturing, empowering and educating families for over 30 years! (amma = grandmother in Icelandic) the singing amma is a fledgling company created by Lisa Sigurgeirson Maxx, ECE, with the intent of offering ideas and tips, support and education, and family-nurturing products to parents and grandparents and the children in their lives.
Lisa can be reached at [...]

The Gulf Islands Secondary School Junior Boys Basketball Team is set to host the first, what we hope to be annual, Gulf Islands Hoops Classic on February 3rd and 4th, 2012.
The tournament will bring Grade 9 and 10 players from around Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland to our own Gulf Islands [...]