All Events

Fireworks presented by Salt Spring Island Fire Rescue. Ganges Harbour. 7:30 p.m. Followed by hot chocolate and hot dogs in the Ganges fire hall.

ASK Salt Spring, Neighbours Helping Neighbours Find Answers volunteers will be at Thrifty’s Florist Shop on Friday from 10 to 11 a.m. and MLA Adam Olsen will be there from 11-1 to answer your questions.

7th Annual Abattoir Birthday Bash at Fulford Hall. 5:30-9:30 p.m. Enjoy live music from Scout and Tom and a farm-to-table buffet prepared by the Sweetgrass Food Co. featuring pork from HogWild Farm, Windsor Farm turkey and a vegetarian option. Bid on tons of awesome donations in the silent auction and raise money for the abattoir […]

At Steffich Fine Art. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Special event for Salt Spring Literacy Society members that lets them peruse the books and jewellery for sale at the Nov. 15-17 Giant Book & Jewellery Sale, purchase their first two books and pieces of jewellery, and enjoy wine and appys. Memberships can be purchased for $10 at the door at the SS Farmers' Institute. […]

Public consultation session for renewal of the Area Farm Plan. GISS. 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. To register or for more information contact: plan2farm@gmail.com And check out www.plantofarm.org for further details The climate crisis, rules and regulations, lack of housing, a growing interest in locally grown: How does all this impact the future of agriculture and […]

Salt Spring Island's Restorative Justice group hosts talking circles on the proposed community safety tax. Salt Spring Public Library. 3 p.m.

Annual fundraiser for Salt Spring Literacy at the Farmers' Institute. The hall is FILLED with good-quality books laid out in 40 categories and jewellery for all tastes and ages in the Jewels for Literacy section. All at amazing prices! 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 17. (10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 15-16)

Join Vancouver photographer & adventurer William Jans for his 9th new multimedia show about absurd travels. The Fritz Cinema. 7 p.m. (Doors at 6:45) Including desert chaos, transit troubles, meeting the “rock man”, getting lost in the hardest city to navigate in the world, and what it’s like to be spied on for a month. The […]

Salt Spring Island's Restorative Justice group hosts talking circles on the proposed community safety tax. Salt Spring Public Library. 7 p.m.

A rally to press the Salt Spring Local Trust Committee to pursue solutions to the affordable-housing crisis on the island. Salt Spring Islands Trust office. 9 a.m.

At a Death Café people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. A Death Café is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather […]

Open every Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Flower Shop, upstairs at Thrifty Foods. Special guests are available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This week’s special guest is Gary Holman, CRD director.