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The Hornby Island Arts Council is receiving $250,000 for the construction of a new ‘Art Centre’ building.

What signs let you know that the holiday season has truly started?

Music is as central to the Christmas season as food, family and friends.

Art, coffee, creative gifts and warm welcomes are just a few of many highlights at the Tin Town Artists’ 12th annual Open House and Sale, Saturday, Dec. 14.

Gordon Hutchens received a Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art and Design

Familiar faces, and a talented line-up of central Island jazz musicians fill the Avalanche Bar (275 8th St., Courtenay) with great jazz at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, when Greg Bush returns with four favourite accompanists: Alicia Murray, drums; Dan Craven, tenor saxophone; Chad Geekie, drums, and Rob Uffen, bass.

Vancouver Island MusicFest has made its first announcement for the 2020 festival, and artistic director Doug Cox has gone ‘a little bit country’ for his first act.

RainShadow Theatre Collective will be holding auditions on Saturday, Dec. 14 for the spring production of Circle Mirror Transformation, which will be a fundraiser for Kus-kus-sum and Project Watershed.

You won’t want to miss My Heart Is over There! , a Second World War musical comedy featuring those great songs that lifted the nation’s spirit.

The days grow shorter and there’s a briskness outside; the magic of the season is in the air.