The “Speaker Series” will be held at School of Music in Madeira Park
Saturday 8th 11am Graeme Menzies
Trading Fate: How a Little-known Company Stopped British Columbia from Becoming an American State
Trading Fate provides a uniquely west coast perspective on the Canadian origin story, and reveals the details of a remarkable, true, yet little-known event that prevented British Columbia from becoming an American State. Graeme speaks about his latest award winning book and about this fascinating Canadian story.
Sunday 9th 11am Eden Murray
The restoration of China Cloud
Allen and Sharie Farrell were shipwrights, cruisers, artists and the kind folk that built and lived aboard China Cloud. Today, this boat is tended to by their great great grand niece Eden Murray. Although Eden never got to meet the Farrells, their stories coloured her own life on the water growing up. She is now an artist and facilitator living between Victoria and Quadra island where the boat perches on the beach of Heriot Bay. After 4 years of living aboard part time and finding inspiration, freedom, and home in the muse that is this wooden junk rig vessel, she is now embarking on the adventure of restorating the boat in community hands and hosting residencies and nature immersions aboard for young people (and young at hearts alike!). She will tell us the story of how China Cloud came into her hands, how these people lived on the water, and her hopes for the exciting project that is this heritage relic and its living legacy. Be prepared for gorgeous images of the vessel’s three red fans, local cruising episodes, and multiple forms of the question that keeps her up at night under the stars: How do we live with more wholeness, more healing, more connection on this planet that loves us so deeply? Follow up the conversation with Eden and her crew aboard at the boat show all weekend.