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SUMMARY:1st Annual Downtown Nanaimo Harvest Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Maffeo Sutton Park on Saturday\, October 10\, from 2:00-6:00 PM for a free afternoon of fall activities\, creativity and community connection. \nEnjoy complimentary hot chocolate\, a Community Gratitude Wall\, hands-on arts and activities\, the Harvest Photo Experience\, Harvest Trivia\, a community Scarecrow Patch and Scarecrow Contest\, local organizations and vendors\, and more. \nVisitors are also invited to bring gently used coats and blankets or new socks for our Community Warmth Drive supporting the Salvation Army Nanaimo Centre of Hope. \n📍 Maffeo Sutton Park \n📅 Saturday\, October 10\, 2026 \n🕑 2:00-6:00 PM \nThank you again for being part of our first annual Harvest Festival. If you have any questions\, please email Amanda at spiritofnanaimo@gmail.com.
URL:https://nanaimoartscouncil.ca/event/1st-annual-downtown-nanaimo-harvest-festival/
LOCATION:Maffeo Sutton Park\, 100 Comox Rd\, Nanaimo\, British Columbia\, V9R 3H7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Small Craft Warning
DESCRIPTION:Nanaimo\, BC: Renowned poet Stephen Collis is Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet for 2026/27. \nCollis’s lecture is October 22nd from 7 to 8:30 pm on the Nanaimo campus in Building 355\, Room 203. It is free to attend and will be followed by a catered reception\, cash bar\, and book signing in Room 211. \nCollis will also perform two poetry readings. First\, there will be a reading and Q&A for students on October 21st from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm in Building 310\, The Malaspina Theatre lobby. Second\, there will be a community reading that night (October 21st) at Windowseat Books (321 Wesley St) from 7-8 pm; student poet Lee Groen will open for Collis\, and there will be music. \nFor more information\, please email Dr. Neil Surkan\, Chair of the Gustafson Committee (Joy Gugeler\, Mike Roberson\, Sonnet L’Abbé) at Neil.Surkan@viu.ca.
URL:https://nanaimoartscouncil.ca/event/small-craft-warning/
LOCATION:Vancouver Island University\, 900 Fifth St\, Nanaimo\, British Columbia\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:2026 Craft Fair - Art/Crafts/Bake Sale
DESCRIPTION:This October\, come to the Banquet Hall at the Nanaimo Golf Course for a free-admission Annual Craft Fair! Visit 30 tables of a variety of local crafts and enjoy amazing baked goods! Proceeds from the bake sale support the Salvation Army.
URL:https://nanaimoartscouncil.ca/event/2026-craft-fair-art-crafts-bake-sale/
LOCATION:Nanaimo Golf Club\, 2800 Highland Blvd\, Nanaimo\, British Columbia\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:The Fire In Our Hearts
DESCRIPTION:When wildfire closes in on the remote Southside of northern British Columbia\, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and local residents face an impossible choice: evacuate\, or stay and defend the land that defines them. With distance\, limited access\, and delayed outside response\, the community is forced to rely on itself—drawing on Indigenous leadership\, cooperation\, and generations of lived knowledge to meet the fire in near isolation. But the flames expose more than devastation. In the aftermath\, the burn reveals the long-erased site of a Cheslatta village\, resurfacing a suppressed chapter of history and reframing what is truly at stake. The Fire In Our Hearts is an intimate\, cinematic portrait of resilience and sovereignty—showing how community-led action\, responsibility\, and memory shape survival in a world increasingly defined by fire.
URL:https://nanaimoartscouncil.ca/event/the-fire-in-our-hearts/
LOCATION:Landmark Cinemas Nanaimo\, 6631 N Island Hwy\, Nanaimo\, British Columbia\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Fire In Our Hearts
DESCRIPTION:When wildfire closes in on the remote Southside of northern British Columbia\, the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and local residents face an impossible choice: evacuate\, or stay and defend the land that defines them. With distance\, limited access\, and delayed outside response\, the community is forced to rely on itself—drawing on Indigenous leadership\, cooperation\, and generations of lived knowledge to meet the fire in near isolation. But the flames expose more than devastation. In the aftermath\, the burn reveals the long-erased site of a Cheslatta village\, resurfacing a suppressed chapter of history and reframing what is truly at stake. The Fire In Our Hearts is an intimate\, cinematic portrait of resilience and sovereignty—showing how community-led action\, responsibility\, and memory shape survival in a world increasingly defined by fire.
URL:https://nanaimoartscouncil.ca/event/the-fire-in-our-hearts-2/
LOCATION:Landmark Cinemas Nanaimo\, 6631 N Island Hwy\, Nanaimo\, British Columbia\, Canada
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