Events help us build community.
VG4A Seasonal Auction
On December 1, VG4A's first online Seasonal Auction will go live! You can check out almost 80 items in multiple categories now at this link and decide what you want to bid on. The auction will be live for only 8 days, from December 1-8. It's the perfect time to bag that last-minute seasonal gift. We'd more than love you to share the link to the auction with friends and family who might like to bid on some of the unique items on offer, but please don't post the link online. Give some serious consideration to whom you might like to send the link. It's not like asking for a donation because they are getting something great (and possibly at a deal) for their money.
To get ready for bidding, go to this link, click on BIDDER LOG IN to create an account. Enter your email and create a password. You will be asked to verify that you are real by replying to the email they send you. You won't be identified by your name, but by the number they assign you. Then you're ready! Bid on any item, receive notifications of a higher bid, and raise your bid. Keep checking back -- there might be items still at their low starting price waiting to be snapped up.
WInning bidders can pay by credit card, PayPal, e-transfer or other method.
Newcombe Singers
December 13 & 14
Join Mary Lou Hess and Patricia Hofstrand on December 13th or 14th (or both!) with their choir, the Newcombe Singers, and the Newcombe Chamber Orchestra for a musical tour of the night sky on the longest night of the year and the powerful sunrise that follows.
A concert filled with dreams, wondering, inspiration, and renewal, our concert sings you through the dreamscape of the darkest night, after which we rise, emerging into the light, with the most important sunrise of the year.
To enhance our musical experience, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada will have TELESCOPES on site at intermission so audience members can view the night sky!
Music includes: Goodnight Moon by Eric Whitacre, Anang! (A Star) by Andrew Balfour, Stars by Erik Esenvalds, and Measure Me Sky by Elaine Hagenberg.
We finish the concert with a full performance of Ola Gjeilo’s hugely uplifting SUNRISE MASS, performed with string orchestra led by Simon MacDonald.
December 13 & 14, 2025 – 3.30pm (note new start time!)
St Mary the Virgin Church, 1701 Elgin Road, Victoria. $30 general admission, $20 students. Children under 12 free. Buy tickets HERE. Register to receive a reminder the day before.
Aetheling
A concert by Ensemble Laude
A concert of richly woven medieval-inspired works on the theme of children, including the fantastic piece A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten, with Keri Lynn Zwicker, harp
Join VG4A members Suzanne and Tory as their choir offers a special winter concert celebrating the noble princes and princesses from Europe, Africa, and Asia who come in darkness and lift us up into the light. Concert features a rare appearance on Vancouver Island of superb Edmonton-based harpist, Keri Lynn Zwicker, who has performed with all of Canada’s major orchestras
Tickets available here
Suzanne Moreau invites you to join her at Pacific Opera's Zombie Blizzard -- Margaret Atwood poetry set to jazz music by Aaron Davis, and sung by opera star, Measha Brueggergosman-Lee. The performance is on January 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the MacPherson Theatre. You can hear a sample here:
https://pacificopera.ca/event/zombie-blizzard/
We are sending the invitation early to ensure we get seats; please reply by November 15. Available tickets are $35, $65, or $99. Suzanne has reserved a row of $35 seats; to join her there, call Pacific Opera at 250 385 0222 tell them you are with Victoria Grandmothers for Africa, and pay for your ticket. If you want better seats, you can order them wherever you like and look out for other VG4A members there.
Please register for the event (and buy your ticket) by November 15 so that Suzanne knows you are joining her.
