Events

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.

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.

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.

‘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…

Victoria staple FernFest cancelled for 2026

“Over time FernFest has grown into a very large and very expensive undertaking,” the statement reads. “Even for a dedicated organization like ours, we simply can’t do everything.”

Gender Empowerment Centre to host second annual FEM-EXPO from March 9–13 

“The existence of GEM is to be a strong, intersectional feminist voice on campus … our four core values are intersectional feminism, bodily autonomy, sex positivity, and collective liberation. And…

Six fantastic ‘sex and gender’ themed films from this year’s Victoria Film Festival

Of the many excellent films showcased at the Victoria Film Festival this year, these six stood out to our staff!

Drag in Victoria is more than a show

The realization, that drag did not have to reinforce the binary, opened a door. Within months, Simmons was experimenting with the art form.