Community Groups

This page lists community groups in the Comox Valley working on everything from arts to social justice, environmental protection, democracy, and sustainability. In short it is the collective heart of the Comox Valley.

Most groups are registered non-profit organizations but society status is not required to be listed on TideChange. If your community group would like to be listed here email us at editor@tidechange.ca.

Comox Valley Community Groups image

Community Groups Alphabetical

Click on Group’s name to visit their website.

Arts & Entertainment Groups

Click on a Group’s name to visit their website.

Community Services Groups

Click on Group’s name to visit their website.

Clubs, Associations & Special Interests

Click on a Group’s name to visit their website.

Environmental Groups

Click on a Group’s name to visit their website.

Coal Watch
Comox Valley Land Trust
Comox Valley Nature (Comox Valley Naturalists Society)
Comox Valley Project Watershed Society
Comox Valley Water Watch Coalition
Cumberland Community Forest Society
Friends of Comox Lazo Forest Reserve
Friends of Strathcona Park
Georgia Strait Alliance
Macdonald Wood Park Society
Morrison Creek Streamkeepers
Strathcona Wilderness Institute
Tsolum River Restoration Society
Watershed Sentinel
World Community Education Development Society
Youth & Ecological Restoration

Food & Agriculture Groups

Click on a Group’s name to visit their website.

Citizens' Associations

Click on a Group’s name to visit their website.

Social Justice & Cultural Groups

Click on a Group’s name to visit their website.

Gold Sponsors

Community Calendar

“And Now for Something…” by Deborah Wachter

Aug 15 – Sep 2 all day

Campbell River artist Deborah Wachter’s work is more about the act of painting rather than the image. Her work is created by juxtaposition and using elements of composition and design to bring a piece to completion, sometimes using subtraction of elements to bring focus. Deborah earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Victoria with painting as her major area of study. After university Deborah sat as a board member of the Kelowna Art Centre Society assisting in the development of the Rotary Centre for The Arts in Kelowna BC. As part of the building committee she worked with city planners to establish a venue for artists to create and showcase their work.

Deborah took a hiatus from painting after university, instead using photography to focus her visual knowledge. She has now combined her love of painting, together with her enhanced vision to create a body of work which feels familiar, with a touch of surrealism and irony thrown in. Working in her home studio it often takes many months to complete a piece as they need to evolve through time. Her work is influenced by artists such as Rene Magritte, Alex Coleville, Edward Hopper and many others who have come before, as well as her own life experience.

Recently Deborah has had a piece selected as part of the juried show “Salt Spring National Art Prize 2017”. Her work was selected from 2160 entries from across Canada to be part of a group of 51 artists whose works will be displayed. The show runs from sept 22 to oct 22 at the Mahon Hall on Salt Spring Island.

Deborah’s current work will be on display at the Pearl Ellis Gallery in Comox, BC from August 15, 2017 to September 2, 2017. There will be a reception on Saturday August 19, 2017 at the gallery from 1-4 pm. Please come by to meet the artist and see her show titled “And Now for Something…”

Ashley MacIsaac LIVE! IN FILBERG PARK

Aug 24 @ 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Gate 6:30/Show 7:30

Tickets are currently available online via Filberg.com or our FaceBook page @LIVEinFilbergPark

Evergreen Club Friday Night Dance

Aug 25 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Evergreen Club is a 55+ active social hub! Grab your friends & neighbours and come on out for a night of fun dancing. Enjoy the live music in the lower Rotary Hall at Courtenay Recreation’s Filberg Centre! $7.00 members, $9.00 non-members at the door. Dancing is from 7:30pm to 10:30pm. With a break at 9pm. FMI call the Filberg Office at 250-338-1000.

AUGUST
4…. CROSSTOWN EXPRESS
11…. AMIGOS
18… DOUBLE PLAY
25… DAN HUGHES BAND

Innisfree Farm Hosts Vegan Dine Out

Aug 28 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

This coming Monday Aug. 28th at 6:00 pm Innisfree Farm and Botanical Garden at 3636 Trent Rd in Royston will host this month’s Earthsave vegan dine out. Hosts Thierry and Chanchal have put together a buffet menu featuring ingredients from their organic farm. The buffet will be served outdoors at the farm and guests are invited to tour the gardens before and after dinner.

The menu is: Gazpacho w’ garlic croutons. Mediterranean Timbale, sunflower seeds, nutritional yeast, spelt flour (can replace that with corn to make it GF) carrots, onions, garlic, lots of herbs, cashew cream with basil. Mixed Grain Pilaf. Mixed Salad. Fresh Raspberries w’ Chocolate Brownies and crystallized lavender. Selection of iced and hot herbal teas.

The evening is by reservation only and the cost is $25 for adults and $15 for kids to age 12 including taxes and tips. To reserve call Bob at Earthsave ph. 250-338-0751. For more on Innisfree Farm and their Green Dream Cafe visit innifreefarm.ca

Mens Singing Workshop

Aug 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Do you like to sing in the shower? You’re the tops at karaoke? Want to sing but not sure what to do? Sing now, but would like to figure out what this harmony singing is all about? Like a safe place to try out your voice?

Why not take in this free (yes, free) 1 ½ hour workshop and have a try at singing with a group of men? Starting at 7:00 p.m., running for 1 ½ hours, we’ll finish at 8:30 p.m. and can then return to our families or take a swift pint at a local pub!

We will learn some harmony songs that we can sing together. There will be no music to read, you do not have to have sung in a group before. The event is open to men of all ages, and prior choral singing experience is not required.

The session is sponsored by Celebration Singers and will be led by Jenn Forsland, well-known local performer and choir director in the Comox Valley. She will be aided and abetted by Sean Mooney, the go-to piano accompanist in the Valley. There are some basics to learn, if you haven’t done singing before, and we will start with those. Very quickly the group will be singing together in harmony.

Group singing is on the rise in the Comox Valley, with a wide variety of choirs to choose from. The Celebration Singers are sponsoring this workshop in the hopes that the experience will encourage some men to think about joining our male singers in the tenor and bass sections of the choir. But there is no obligation, this workshop is all about having fun, singing together and learning in this one-time workshop environment.

Project Watershed’s Second Annual Salmon BBQ

Sep 9 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Join Project Watershed Saturday, September 9th, 2017 at 40 KNOTS Vineyard & Estate Winery for the second annual salmon BBQ.

Starting at 4pm, this wonderful event features Cory Frank’s Catering of a salmon BBQ, a tasting from 40 Knots Winery and some sampling of locally brewed beers.

TICKET PRICES:
To August 15 – $55.00
After August 15 – $65.00

Contact Project Watrshed via email at info@projectwatershed.ca to reserve your tickets.

Strathcona Wilderness Institute Nature Camp @ Vancouver Island Mountain Sports Centre

Sep 12 – Sep 15 all day

Strathcona Wilderness Institute Nature Camp 2017

September 12th to 15th

SWI announces its annual fundraising “Nature Camp”, being held this year at Paradise Meadows/Vancouver Island Mountain Sports Centre from September 12th to 15th. This SWI retreat event features two full-day field trips (on the Wednesday and Thursday) and three evening presentations, plus the possibility of additional half day walks from the
Paradise Meadows Trailhead on the Tuesday and Thursday.

Full day Field trips will visit a) Croteau Lake and b) McKenzie Lakes & Meadows. Pace will be slow, stopping to observe plant and animal life en route. On the field trips there will be instruction in Basic Mushroom Identification. Evening Presentations include the History of the Park and SWI (Marlene and Steve Smith), First Nations Foodways (Sharon Niscak) Subalpine Ecology (Loys Maingon) and the Vancouver Island Marmot ( Adam Taylor/ Cheney Jackson).

The Strathcona Wilderness Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire awareness, appreciation and stewardship of the natural world through education and participation. The Institute works through a cooperative agreement with BC Parks at two locations in Strathcona Park – the Wilderness Centre at Paradise Meadows and the Buttle Lake Information Hut – offering a range of programmes and publications for visitors to the Park. All activities are conducted by volunteers, with some help from students employed through the Canada Summer Jobs for Students programme, so this Nature Camp is intended as a Fundraiser to support SWI’s programmes and the operation of the Strathcona Park Wilderness Centre.

The Registration form is downloadable from our Website: http://strathconapark.org/nature-camp-2017/

Please note that the Deadline for Registration is August 28th 2017.

For more information, contact Alison:
strathconawilderness@gmail.com or 250-331-0143.

August – September 2017 Aug – Sep 2017

Silver Sponsors

Recent Comments

Vaprox
on Landfill gas flare installed
nellyMair
on Black Creek-Oyster Bay toilet rebate ending
Mike Bell
on COMOX VALLEY CLIMATE CHANGE CHRONICLE (14): The Doughnut Economy
RobM
on COMOX VALLEY CLIMATE CHANGE CHRONICLE (14): The Doughnut Economy
Stephen Harvey
on Heroes of Mine

Subscribe To Our Weekly Newsletter

Join our mailing list to receive a weekly summary of the latest news and events from the Comox Valley.

You have Successfully Subscribed!