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What Everyone Should Know About AI; Understanding the impact, good and bad, of this new technology on our lives

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Please join us for our March General Meeting – 31 March 2026
 
What Everyone Should Know About AI: Understanding the impact, good and bad, of this new technology on our lives
 
Our speaker is Andrew Gardner – an AI chatbot engineer, working from his home in Quadra Cedar Hill. Across his 15-year career, he has worked with web, automation, and AI technologies. He believes the role of automation in our lives is to offload the monotonous and laborious tasks, freeing up our time for creation and community.
 
Please join us to hear about what’s going on in the neighbourhood.
 
There will be time to mingle with others during the break – there will be tasty snacks.
 
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: Cedar Hill Rec Centre (3220 Cedar Hill Rd) – Activity Room
 

A stone poem for Rutledge Park

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    There are many hidden gems to be discovered in our area and Tina Familo’s “Stone Poem for Rutledge” is one of them.  Family, an interdisciplinary artist who loves storytelling of every kind, is “an artist, writer, educator and community animateur”.

Reacting to a call for submissions for public art that reflected ‘Sense of our Place’ when Rutledge Park was being redeveloped in 2004, she says she began by collecting stories, memories and neighbourhood history as well as undertaking formal research and created poetry to reflect the history of the neighbourhood. The poems were then carved onto eight granite stones from a local quarry which were then placed throughout the park to subtly enrich the beauty and meaning of this place.

Carey Newman’s Earth Drums “create music of and for the earth”

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A new permanent public artwork, commissioned by Saanich to commemorate Canada’s 150th anniversary, was unveiled this past September at Cedar Hill Park.

Named ‘Earth Drums’, the work is by local artist Carey Newman (Hayalthkin’geme), who designed the artwork to engage people in reconciliation by asking them to change their relationship with the land. Three large “box drums”, intended to be played by hand, allow participants to interact with the artwork, creating music of and for the earth.

Newman is also the artist behind several other major artworks including the 12-metre-long Witness Blanket  which has become a national monument. Starting in 2012 he visited residential schools, churches, government buildings and cultural structures in 77 communities across Canada to collect 887 fragments of the residential-school era.  Talented in many media including wood, stone, gold/silver, gems, glass and painting, he is also a musician who studied piano at UVic and voice at the Victoria Conservatory of Music.

Carey was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 2017.  The following year, he was named to the Order of British Columbia and, more recently, was appointed the 6th Audain Professor of Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Victoria, a three-year position.

Arts and culture

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If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to visit the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill Arts & Rec Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Road.  The two gallery spaces (main and cafe) have regularly changing exhibitions of artists’ work in varied media including sculpture, woodworking, textiles and the visual arts.  The Centre also offers programs for all ages and levels in visual arts, pottery, dance and performing arts.  In addition, spacious studios for ceramics, dance and visual arts are available.

 

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