On Friday, February 21, 18 Probus members went for a night out at the Bailey Theatre on Rosstown Road in Nanaimo. The production was “Lend Me a Tenor”, a comedy farce. What a pleasant show with a belly of laughs. How they do a show with only one set and non-stop slapstick I do not…
Twenty of our PROBUS members spent a delightful Sunday in Qualicum Beach, enjoying brunch at the C View Restaurant followed by a hilarious presentation of The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever at the Village Theatre. In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman…
Chamber Music in the Lobby, with the charismatic BERGMANN DUO and featured guests.Wintersong: From Franz Schubert to Randy Newman, Benjamin Butterfield, tenor.Warm up to winter with songs from Schubert’s seminal song cycle Winter Journey, to some British and American songs by Charles Ives and Arnold Bax. To round out this programme, Mr. Butterfield will present…
This classic comedy develops as a group of friends assemble for a weekly poker game in the apartment of divorced, Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder his wife left him. Last to arrive is Felix Unger, who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious and depressed, the neurotic…
Pacific Biological Station Tours – still in demand! Following the popular November 7 tour of the Pacific Biological Station, we still aim to have another tour or two in the new year or spring to try and accommodate everyone. Stay tuned for more information in the new year. The facility can only take 12 people…
Would you like to safely meet birds with sharp pointy beaks and talons up close and personal, feel the wind shear as they buzz overhead, gawk at storks and cuckoo birds? If so, you are in luck. We plan to venture south to Duncan on Saturday, November 9th to visit the Pacific Northwest Raptors Centre,…