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[gumgum]

I'm out of town. Otherwise, I'd take pics. It's a great atmosphere.
Anyone planning on going with a camera?

Here's a related letter in the TC today:

Regulations too tight for small business
Times Colonist
Published: Friday, July 20, 2007

My wife and I recently opened a small ice-cream business at Mayfair Mall. We are very new to this sort of thing and were naive enough to think that we could be involved in the Moss Street Paint-In.

We have now been told by public health officials that we have to have things in place that no sensible person could anticipate. Although we have seen many ice-cream vendors in the harbour area serving ice cream without hand-wash stations and running water, we have been told that for this one-day event we must have these things.

Our ice cream would be perfectly fine for the day packed in coolers with dry ice, but apparently this is not good enough. We must have freezers and generators.

For a city that dumps all of its waste in the ocean, I find it particularly annoying that they have said we cannot have running water on our scoops unless it flows to an acceptable drainage system.

This is simply one example of a person who has too much power and wields it at will.

Ivan McDonald,

Victoria.


© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007

[Ms. B. Havin]

Too bad the weather forecast predicts rain... The Art Gallery will have a display of the Crystalview expansion proposal, one hopes under canopy...

And Luminara starts in the evening -- paper lanterns in the rain? Not so good -- hope it stays dry!

Re. that letter: I think our municipalities have a ways to go toward streamlining rules. Right now it's still very make-it-up-as-you-go, which isn't good for business.

[Rob Randall]

I will be there--I hope you all come visit me in the rain. I will be on the east side of Moss street across from the art gallery. No giant tent for me, just look for the sad little card table.

[G-Man]

I thought luminary was tomorrow night. Tonight eh? Just might go down.

[Victoria Watcher]

Pending approvals, Noble said the gallery will initially hire an architect to design the new building while raising funds through donors, grants and provincial funding. It will also likely use the proceeds of the sale of its Moss Street buildings and property.

 

She said it will be about two years, maybe more, before a shovel hits the ground.

 

Eventually, everything will shift downtown, including the famous Moss Street Paint-in held every July. The streets around the new proposed gallery will be designed to close for the gallery’s special events, said Stovell.

 

 

https://www.timescol...gallery-8561942

[Mike K.]

I guess they’ve given up on Moss Street. It was a 20 year fight, to keep the gallery there.

Why not sell the Moss Street land to fund the new gallery?

[Nparker]

The Moss Street site, while pleasant, has never made much sense as a location in terms of attracting visitors.

[Victoria Watcher]

And indeed it attracts few visitors. It’s a shame.

[Nparker]

It really is a shame, because the AGGV has some wonderful collections, most of which are rarely seen.

[Victoria Watcher]

23,000 visitors in the fiscal year ending March 2023.

63 people per day.

Craigdarroch Castle gets over 400 per day.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 April 2024 - 08:44 AM.

[dasmo]

Should move to the museum site. That place is useless now.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) expects to turn the summer into a vibrant canvas landscape by hosting the TD Art Gallery Paint-In on Saturday (July 20).

The city’s largest open-air art festival showcases the boundless creativity of Vancouver and Gulf Islands artists to local attendees along Victoria’s Moss Street, from Fort Street to Clover Avenue, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

The AGGV at 1040 Moss St. will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with admission by donation.

[Sparky]

^ I think I heard that they are expecting 40,000 people to attend this. Can that be right?

[Victoria Watcher]

I think that sounds right.

[Sparky]

Wow!

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

I don’t know why we don’t do a similar event along the harbour and David Foster path.

We have a pretty harbour but nothing much happens along it.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 July 2024 - 05:17 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Art Gallery Paint-In set records for volunteers and participating artists last year, and is on pace to match those numbers again this year. What is liable to change Saturday is the number of people who attend the hugely popular event, now in its 35th year.

 

The free art stroll, produced by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and presented by TD Bank Group, is still growing in this regard, having expanded from approximately 30,000 to a record 40,000 attendees in 2023. And the tally for the upcoming edition — weather permitting — may very well exceed that, based on the year the art gallery has been having.

 

“We have been incredibly busy,” said Nancy Noble, director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. “Some days I can’t even get my car in the parking lot.”

 

The event now known as The Art Gallery Paint-In (which longtime supporters refer to as the Moss Street Paint-In) still feels new to Noble, who came to the gallery in 2022 from the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, where she had been CEO since 2016. The Saskatchewan-born executive arrived just five weeks before the massive outdoor event and was shocked at the impact the showcase for local artists and artisans has on Greater Victoria. It remains one of the largest art festivals of its kind in Canada.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...ent-yet-9235432

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 July 2024 - 04:03 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

After more than 30 years of the event, Moss Street residents have come to expect the Paint-In, with some setting up misting stations, lemonade stands as well as their own unofficial art booths.

 

“There’s a few parties up and down the street,” Noble said with a laugh.

 

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has been debating relocating to a downtown Victoria location in recent years and the Paint-In would likely be relocated to be near the new location if that happens, though any potential move of the gallery would be years away, Noble said.

 

“It’s our event. So it will follow … but we’ll have to see. We have a lot of planning to do.”

 

McNeil, who has been an on-and-off exhibitor at the event since 2010, was among the few artists working on a piece of art during the Paint-In.

 

“Before, the Paint-In was all about you painting. It was almost a mandatory thing that artists be painting or demonstrating a skill,” he said of previous Paint-Ins.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...artists-9247875

[mbjj]

I always used to wander to the paint-in for the garage sales. Hardly any this year so a disappointment, lol.