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Your guide to celebrating Pride in Victoria

If you don’t want Pride to end, here are some great events to keep celebrating the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Victoria with all summer long.

Victoria Chinatown Museum launches new exhibit ‘If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring Chinatown’s Stories (舊牆留聲)’

Information on Canada and B.C.’s history of anti-Chinese legislation and discrimination, like the Chinese Head Tax, helps situate the collection. “You can't really understand a lot of these personal stories…

Paw-some Fernwood Cat Walk returns on May 30

The whimsical event made its debut in 2025, attracting crowds of cat-lovers to meet friendly pets along an organized route.

FernFest returns for one day after last-minute funding from the City of Victoria

Following a grant from the City of Victoria, FernFest will make a last minute return for one day this June.

Offbeat: CFUV shares top April albums

Ora Cogan, Witch Prophet, Cat Clyde, Sunglaciers, and Angine de Poitrine counted among CFUV's top charting artists in April.

Six unique Little Free Libraries around Victoria

If you’re a fan of Doctor Who, this LFL by Cedar Hill Golf Course is the perfect way to travel through time and space this summer. The little blue telephone…

Victoria Academy of Ballet dancers will ‘take flight’ for their last performance of the season

While exams are over for UVic students, graduating VAB dancers Sydney Mix and Natalia Hidalgo face their final performance of the season, "Take Flight," in less than two weeks' time.

A glimpse inside ‘Say When,’ the 2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduating class exhibition

In preparation, the artists worked together to turn the Visual Arts Building into a gallery, temporarily moving the building's furniture and classroom fixtures out to prepare the space.

‘This city is full of poets’: Victoria celebrates National Poetry Month 2026

For National Poetry Month, celebrated every April in Canada, the Martlet spoke to Victoria’s Poet Laureate, Kyeren Regehr, to learn about some of the events featured at local bookstores and…

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