Featured Events in Nanaimo A in May, 2025 (April Updated)

Whether you’re looking to spruce up your front door, showcase fantastic blooms and foliage on your patio or your porch, extending your garden has never been easier! Mixing beautiful blooms and trailing foliage, create a bespoke hanging basket for your home. You will be guided through the basics of hanging basket design and care, with help to choose your plants, plant placement and colour scheme. *Selection of plants and materials may vary based on availability, and may differ from the example in the photo. Information Source: GARDENWORKS Canada Nanaimo | eventbrite

Join us for **Solitare Witch 101**! Are you curious about the mystical world of witchcraft? Come and learn the basics at our **Witchcraft 101** event! Whether you're a beginner or just looking to expand your knowledge, this in-person workshop is perfect for you. Date: Sat May 03 2025 Time: 1:00 PM PDT Location: The Space @ Lobelia's Lair Facilitation by: Lavana Tanner Don't miss out on this opportunity to dive into the world of spells, potions, and more. See you there! This first session will cover PROTECTION, GROUNDING and MEDITATION. Lavana Tanner has spent seventy years carving her own path. Through the challenges and struggles of a solitary witch's often demanding life, she has compiled her insights into a book titled The Gift. Within its pages lies all the wisdom she wished she had access to as a young woman drawn to magick. She is now sharing this knowledge through a series of workshops. *Lavana’s Book will also be available for purchase during the session* Information Source: Lobelia's Lair | eventbrite

This engaging one-man show written and performed by John Gogo revisits the gritty mining and logging towns of Vancouver Island on Canada’s rugged western coast. Haunting folk tales told by four generations of a Nanaimo pioneer family offer a fascinating look beneath the surface of history unfolded from 1895 to 1995. Their songs explore the unique and layered lives of heroes and villains: the visionary Finns of Sointula, the notorious Dunsmuirs, labour martyr Ginger Goodwin, the ghost of Clarence Ballance and the infamous Brother XII of De Courcy Island. Information Source: John Gogo | eventbrite

Join us for this hands-on workshop and create a beautiful Hummingbird haven! Let our experts guide you and craft up the perfect patio or garden addition. Participants will fill a versatile Emma bowl with a vibrant mix of nectar-rich blooms that hummingbirds love! Our tiny pollinator friends will be unable to resist stopping by to enjoy this delightful planter of blooming pollinator plants. *Selection of plants and materials may vary based on availability, and may differ from the example in the photo. Information Source: GARDENWORKS Canada Nanaimo | eventbrite

Welcome to the Cedar 20th High School Reunion (Class of 2005)! 1pm Saturday May 24 - 4pm Sunday May 25 Camping Encouraged! Please reserve 1 ticket per each person. We're hosting a yard party! BBQ/Games/Fire/Music. Come join us for a day & night of reminiscing and catching up with old friends at Alix Stupich's home: 1551 Stupich Rd . It's time to celebrate all the memories we shared back in the day. Don't miss out on this special event to reconnect with classmates and relive the good times. We can't wait to see you there! We're REALLY excited to see everyone again!! Alix, Chantelle & Whitney. Information Source: Alix, Chantelle, Whitney | eventbrite

Join Heartwood Trio in Nanaimo for an afternoon community singing workshop, an evening storytelling musical, or BOTH! 3:00-5:00pm V ocal Workshop (in the Hall) 5:00-6:00 Potluck Supper 6:30-8:30 The Well Tree : an original storytelling musical (in the Sanctuary) Workshop $40 / The Well Tree $30 / Combo $55 (Youth under 18 : half price) *No one turned away for lack of funds * Heartwood is a trio of singers and instrumentalists (Sarina Partridge from Minnesota, Heidi Wilson from Vermont, and Willy Klemetson from Maine) creating new music born from time in wild places. With rich vocal harmonies and inviting lyrics, they create music in collaboration with the natural world and weave songs that invite people to join in the singing. Vocal Workshop Immerse yourself in an experience of embodied, joyful, and connected singing with the skilled songleaders and facilitators of Heartwood. Sarina, Willy and Heidi will bring original, harmony-rich, accessible songs, speaking to the wild without and within. All songs will be taught in the oral tradition, no need to read sheet music to participate. All voices are welcome and needed! The Well Tree Join Heartwood for an all-ages, immersive, participatory journey through song and story. The Well Tree is a three-person musical, accompanied by a ‘crankie’ - an illuminated, papercut, hand-cranked scroll. It is an original 'singing story' about wild journeying and remembering kinship -- the tale of a young woman moving beyond the fog of isolation to meet songbirds, snails and ancient trees as she travels through these unraveling times, finding her way home. The three members of Heartwood – Heidi Wilson, Willy Clemetson, and Sarina Partridge – are the actors, musicians and the crew that runs the crankie (created by papercut artist Jennifer Jones) – and the audience will be invited in to help sing pieces of the story. The afternoon workshop will be in the church hall (entrance on Wesley St.) The evening musical will be in the sanctuary, the prize venue of Nanaimo's singing culture, with its marvellous acoustics. Heartwood will also be in Comox on May 25, Duncan on May 29, and Victoria on May 31. Learn more at www.heartwoodtrio.com Option to pay by cash or e-transfer: please email sylvia@sylviahumble.ca Walk-ins welcome while capacity allows. No-one turned away for lack of funds. If cost is a barrier please email Sylvia Presented by Sylvia Humble, a community songleader and proud member of the Ubuntu Choirs Network , which believes that singing is a universal human birthright. She hosts community singing events, and weekly community song circles in Nanaimo and Parksville. Learn more at www.sylviahumble.ca/events Information Source: Sylvia Humble, Community Song Leader | eventbrite