Fabulous Festivities

The Hansel and Gretel Family: The Aggressive Stepmother, the Feckless Dad, Gretel, Hansel, and The Witch. Quilted dolls, of a sort, by Judy Ross.


Are we having enough fun yet? I speak somewhat mockingly about the number of festivals up here on the Sunshine Coast, largely derived from a need to get the tourists to come up and spend money. The problem, though, is real: the fish are, so to speak, drying up and the forests can’t be clear-cut with the abandon formerly displayed, so what to do? The tourists, for their part, long to be here in the warmest part of Canada, in the midst of all the trees that are left, and right next to the ocean that remains abundantly wet. The ‘warmest part,’ of course, has been more than a little too warm of recent days, but the tourists continue to pour off the ferry, as unable as anyone else to predict the weather. Today, the parking lot of the grocery store was packed firmly by noon, as everyone moved in quickly to buy a thousand pounds of groceries for their weekend/weeklong visit.

But, Point Roberts, much smaller, has its own excitements of a similar sort. This weekend, of course, is B.C. Day Weekend, even in Point Roberts which is not in B.C., and the Point Interface listserver has been sending us many announcements. Indeed, there are so many things happening that the listserver manager has started a second listserver just for the announcement of Point Roberts events. There is an opening of a photography exhibit at the Blue Heron tonight; a pancake breakfast tomorrow morning; songs and dances and reeling and writhing and fainting in coils at the Arts and Music Festival on Saturday and Sunday (which has a pre-start start tonight, and finishes up with a Mariachi Band imported from somewhere farther south); and the Art Walk on Monday.

On Tuesday, we’ll get back to business, but until then we are having fun in the sun, in the unrelenting sun.

The quilters will have a small quilt show as part of the Art Walk on Monday at the Community Center from 10-4, and will provide visitors with the opportunity to do a little art work of their own, as well. The quilts on exhibit will range from large traditional quilts to medium-sized art quilts, to tiny artists trading cards. We will make a quilt while you watch! We will explain how we do what we do if you care to find out. We will be entertaining, educational, and gracious, etcetera, etcetera, and we hope to see you there.

(The dolls in the photo will also be part of the exhibit.)