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Velvet Inferno by Pandora's Box Cabaret
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Drop-in Activity
Herald Street Brewing
Free Event
Velvet Inferno: Get ready for a Cabaret of your wettest dreams. Step into the Velvet Inferno, for night of dance, pole, and rock n roll.
No reservations, first come, first served.
Dazzle by Pandora's Box Cabaret is a high-energy, immersive series inspired by the glitz and glamour of cabaret. Dancers and drag artists light up the stage in inclusive nightlife showcases that celebrate diverse talent. Presented with local bars, restaurants and venues to bring sparkle to the dark months and add some dazzle to your evenings.
No reservations, first come, first served.
Dazzle by Pandora's Box Cabaret is a high-energy, immersive series inspired by the glitz and glamour of cabaret. Dancers and drag artists light up the stage in inclusive nightlife showcases that celebrate diverse talent. Presented with local bars, restaurants and venues to bring sparkle to the dark months and add some dazzle to your evenings.
This event has ended.
The Soft Storm: Downtown Residents Association
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Drop-in Activity
Kirk Hall (680 Courtney St.)
Ticketed Event
A live multimedia performance by former City of Victoria Poet Laureate Marie Metaphor with musician Gabrielle Odowichuk and light artist Sarah Thiessen. This immersive poetry, vocals, sound and light art premiered at Otherworld in June 2025. Featuring performances by Shauntelle Dick Charleson and The Soft Storm collective, centring Indigenous voices and creating space for connection during the darker months.
Registration is required (free).
Registration is required (free).
This event has ended.
Haus of Owl’s Projector Club
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Drop-in Activity
780 Blanshard
Free Event
Water Connects is a multi-sensory installation by Projector Club, part of the CTRL+ART+DREAM series. Though many collaborators are involved, it remains a Projector Club-led initiative. The experience blends poetry, projection, and water to explore the metaphor of water’s memory—carrying stories, loss, and renewal.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
This event has ended.
Haus of Owl’s Projector Club
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Drop-in Activity
780 Blanshard
Free Event
Water Connects is a multi-sensory installation by Projector Club, part of the CTRL+ART+DREAM series. Though many collaborators are involved, it remains a Projector Club-led initiative. The experience blends poetry, projection, and water to explore the metaphor of water’s memory—carrying stories, loss, and renewal.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
This event has ended.
Haus of Owl’s Projector Club
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Drop-in Activity
780 Blanshard
Free Event
Water Connects is a multi-sensory installation by Projector Club, part of the CTRL+ART+DREAM series. Though many collaborators are involved, it remains a Projector Club-led initiative. The experience blends poetry, projection, and water to explore the metaphor of water’s memory—carrying stories, loss, and renewal.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
This event has ended.
Haus of Owl’s Projector Club
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Drop-in Activity
780 Blanshard
Free Event
Water Connects is a multi-sensory installation by Projector Club, part of the CTRL+ART+DREAM series. Though many collaborators are involved, it remains a Projector Club-led initiative. The experience blends poetry, projection, and water to explore the metaphor of water’s memory—carrying stories, loss, and renewal.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
This event has ended.
Haus of Owl’s Projector Club
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Drop-in Activity
780 Blanshard
Free Event
Water Connects is a multi-sensory installation by Projector Club, part of the CTRL+ART+DREAM series. Though many collaborators are involved, it remains a Projector Club-led initiative. The experience blends poetry, projection, and water to explore the metaphor of water’s memory—carrying stories, loss, and renewal.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
Visitors enter a shifting waterscape where Joanna Streetly’s recorded poems and scrying sessions with Tofino water animate the studio walls. The result is an immersive environment that feels like a canoe of sound and light, inviting collective reflection and connection.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Christmas Village
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Step into the magic of Bastion Square this holiday season for our first annual Christmas Village ~ a festive weekend filled with twinkling lights, local vendors, music, and delicious treats in one of Victoria’s most iconic historic settings.
🛍️ Shop & Celebrate
Discover handmade gifts, artisan goods and festive food in the heart of downtown. The ceremonial Bastion Square arch at View & Government Streets welcomes you to the original site of old Fort Victoria ~ now transformed into a sparkling winter wonderland!
Make it a Full Day of Festivities!
Start your day at the Bastion Square Christmas Village – shop local, enjoy live entertainment, and sip hot cocoa and then grab your perfect viewing spot for the 43rd Annual Peninsula Co-op Santa Claus Parade presented by CHEK Media, now following a new route along Wharf Street, right outside Bastion Square!
🛍️ Shop & Celebrate
Discover handmade gifts, artisan goods and festive food in the heart of downtown. The ceremonial Bastion Square arch at View & Government Streets welcomes you to the original site of old Fort Victoria ~ now transformed into a sparkling winter wonderland!
Make it a Full Day of Festivities!
Start your day at the Bastion Square Christmas Village – shop local, enjoy live entertainment, and sip hot cocoa and then grab your perfect viewing spot for the 43rd Annual Peninsula Co-op Santa Claus Parade presented by CHEK Media, now following a new route along Wharf Street, right outside Bastion Square!
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Santa Claus Parade
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Drop-in Activity
Free Event
Grab your spot along the parade route for the Peninsula Co-op Santa Claus Parade presented by CHEK Media at 5:30 p.m., as dazzling floats, marching bands and holiday cheer light up the streets!
And the magic doesn’t end there, after the parade, head over to Centennial Square for the spectacular Lights of Wonder opening night, where thousands of twinkling lights bring the heart of the city to life.
Parade Start: Belleville & Government Street @ 5:30 p.m.
And the magic doesn’t end there, after the parade, head over to Centennial Square for the spectacular Lights of Wonder opening night, where thousands of twinkling lights bring the heart of the city to life.
Parade Start: Belleville & Government Street @ 5:30 p.m.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Christmas Village
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Step into the magic of Bastion Square this holiday season for our first annual Christmas Village ~ a festive weekend filled with twinkling lights, local vendors, music, and delicious treats in one of Victoria’s most iconic historic settings.
🛍️ Shop & Celebrate
Discover handmade gifts, artisan goods, and festive food in the heart of downtown. The ceremonial Bastion Square arch at View & Government Streets welcomes you to the original site of old Fort Victoria ~ now transformed into a sparkling winter wonderland!
🛍️ Shop & Celebrate
Discover handmade gifts, artisan goods, and festive food in the heart of downtown. The ceremonial Bastion Square arch at View & Government Streets welcomes you to the original site of old Fort Victoria ~ now transformed into a sparkling winter wonderland!
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.
IEOA Truck Light Parade
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Drop-in Activity
Free Event
This much-loved annual event that has 80 hardworking commercial trucks cleaned and polished and adorned with decorations and festive lights that will slowly roll along a 35km route through five municipalities in Greater Victoria. Dump trucks, equipment trailers, crane trucks, pump trucks, fire trucks, coast guard vessels, mixer trucks, military, transit, and more will weave through the streets and spread holiday cheer to encourage spectators to contribute to local food banks and brighten the holidays for those in need. Route maps, GPS, Food Bank links, and more details are available at IEOA.ca.
Start Time: Leave Ogden Point at 5pm
Finish Time: Arrive at Royal Bay for approx. 8pm
Start Time: Leave Ogden Point at 5pm
Finish Time: Arrive at Royal Bay for approx. 8pm
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Beehive Christmas Fibre Fair
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Drop-in Activity
1205 Blanshard St, Victoria, BC
Free Event
A festive celebration of creativity, community, and craftsmanship.
This year’s fair also marks the grand public opening of the Beehive Fibre Arts Centre, our new home for learning, inspiration, and connection in the heart of Victoria. Come explore a beautifully curated selection of local makers offering hand-dyed yarns, fibre, tools, notions, and handcrafted goods.
This year’s fair also marks the grand public opening of the Beehive Fibre Arts Centre, our new home for learning, inspiration, and connection in the heart of Victoria. Come explore a beautifully curated selection of local makers offering hand-dyed yarns, fibre, tools, notions, and handcrafted goods.
This event has ended.
Dazzle by Pandora's Box Cabaret
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Drop-in Activity
Intrepid Theatre
Free Event
Dazzle by Pandora's Box Cabaret is a high-energy, immersive series inspired by the glitz and glamour of cabaret. Dancers and drag artists light up the stage in inclusive nightlife showcases that celebrate diverse talent. Presented with local bars, restaurants and venues to bring sparkle to the dark months and add some dazzle to your evenings.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.
Bastion Square Holiday Market
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Markets
Bastion Square
Free Event
Shop local at the Bastion Square Holiday Market!
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
Bastion Square transforms into a festive outdoor market every Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 15-Dec. 21, noon-5 p.m., weather permitting.
Discover handcrafted goods from local artisans, enjoy live music and find unique treasures for everyone on your list.
This event has ended.