villagevibe News and views from the heart of Fernwood April 2013 The Fruit Hunters A film about fruit- inspired lust, obsession and adventure in this issue To get the Vibe digitally, sign up at fernwoodnrg.ca Buzz CaVa Bistro Moderne page 3 Feature e Bacon Life page 4 Mark Your Calendar Fernwood Pole Painting Project page 7 ›› Eye Steel Film Y ou can find them deep in the jungles of Borneo, in the hills of Umbria and perhaps even in your own backyard. ey are fruit hunters, the subjects of the new film from acclaimed Canadian director Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight). The Fruit Hunters travels across culture, history and geography to show how intertwined we are with the fruits we eat. Our guides are devoted fruit fanatics. Movie star Bill Pullman’s obsession leads him on a crusade to create a community orchard in the Hollywood Hills. Adventurers Noris Ledesma and Richard Campbell scour the jungle for rare mangos, hoping to intervene before the plants are steamrolled by industrialization. Pioneering scientist Juan Aguilar races to breed bananas resistant to a deadly fungus that threatens the worldwide crop. And fruit detectives including Isabella Dalla Ragione investigate Renaissance-era paintings for clues, hoping to rediscover lost fruits. And, of course, there are the fruits themselves, presented in all their mouthwatering glory: cherimoyas, ice cream beans, durians and more. A cinematic odyssey through nature and commerce, The Fruit Hunters will change not only the way we look at what we eat but how we view our relationship to the natural world. ›› Mila Czemerys F ernwood NRG is bringing the premiere screening of this film, The Fruit Hunters, to town. The screening will be in the Belfry eatre’s Studio A on April 11 th at 7:30pm. All proceeds from this screening will go towards the creation of Fernwood’s very own community orchard which will be located beside the Fernwood Community Centre. The orchard is part of a new City of Victoria urban food production pilot project. This orchard will demonstrate new ways of growing food in the City of Victoria in visible, public places. e orchard will include many varieties of plums, pears, apples and figs. There will be approximately 20 dwarf fruit trees in the orchard; each chosen for its uniqueness, suitability for our climate, disease resistance, harvest timing and—of course—deliciousness! All the fruit grown in the orchard will be free for anyone to pick and enjoy. Once the orchard is planted, Fernwood NRG will host annual pruning, grafting and processing workshops. Director Yung Chang and the team at Eye Steel Film shared, "...we're all so happy that our film can be inspiration for your community orchard!" Tickets for the screening are $10 and are available online at www.belfry.bc.ca/ tickets, at the box office or by phone at 250-385-6815. Special thanks to the Belfry eatre for providing space for this event. (Top) Director Yung Chang with a "proto-fruit" prop during one of the in-studio re-creation shoots. (Bottom) Actor Bill Pullman at his childhood orchard in upstate New York. Photos: Eye Steel Film We're all so happy that our film can be inspiration for your community orchard! - Director Yung Chang
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villagevibeNews and views from the heart of Fernwood
April 2013
The Fruit HuntersA fi lm about fruit-
inspired lust,
obsession and
adventure
in this issueTo get the Vibe digitally, sign up at fernwoodnrg.ca
Buzz
CaVa Bistro Moderne
page 3
Feature
Th e Bacon Life
page 4
Mark Your Calendar
Fernwood Pole Painting Project
page 7
›› Eye Steel Film
You can find them deep in the
jungles of Borneo, in the hills of
Umbria and perhaps even in your
own backyard. Th ey are fruit hunters, the
subjects of the new fi lm from acclaimed
Canadian director Yung Chang (Up the
Yangtze, China Heavyweight).
The Fruit Hunters travels across
culture, history and geography to
show how intertwined we are with the
fruits we eat. Our guides are devoted
fruit fanatics. Movie star Bill Pullman’s
obsession leads him on a crusade to create
a community orchard in the Hollywood
Hills. Adventurers Noris Ledesma and
Richard Campbell scour the jungle for rare
mangos, hoping to intervene before the
plants are steamrolled by industrialization.
Pioneering scientist Juan Aguilar races to
breed bananas resistant to a deadly fungus
that threatens the worldwide crop. And
fruit detectives including Isabella Dalla
Ragione investigate Renaissance-era
paintings for clues, hoping to rediscover
lost fruits. And, of course, there are the
fruits themselves, presented in all their
mouthwatering glory: cherimoyas, ice
cream beans, durians and more.
A cinematic odyssey through nature
and commerce, The Fruit Hunters will
change not only the way we look at
what we eat but how we view our
relationship to the natural world.
›› Mila Czemerys
Fernwood NRG is bringing the
premiere screening of this film,
The Fruit Hunters, to town. The
screening will be in
the Belfry Th eatre’s
Studio A on April
11th at 7:30pm.
A l l p r o c e e d s
from this screening
wi l l go towards
the c rea t ion o f
Fernwood’s very
own community
o r c h a r d w h i c h
will be located beside the Fernwood
Community Centre.
The orchard is part of a new City of
Victoria urban food production pilot
project. This orchard will demonstrate
new ways of growing food in the City of
Victoria in visible, public places.
Th e orchard will include many varieties
of plums, pears, apples and figs. There
will be approximately 20 dwarf fruit
trees in the orchard; each chosen for its
uniqueness, suitability for our climate,
disease resistance, harvest timing and—of
course—deliciousness! All the fruit grown
in the orchard will be free for anyone to
pick and enjoy.
O n c e t h e
orchard is planted,
Fernwood NRG
will host annual
pruning, grafting
and process ing
workshops.
Director Yung
Chang and the
team at Eye Steel
Film shared, "...we're all so happy that our
fi lm can be inspiration for your community
orchard!"
Tickets for the screening are $10 and
are available online at www.belfry.bc.ca/
tickets, at the box office or by phone
at 250-385-6815. Special thanks to the
Belfry Th eatre for providing space for this
event.
(Top) Director Yung Chang with a "proto-fruit" prop during one of the in-studio re-creation shoots.
(Bottom) Actor Bill Pullman at his childhood orchard in upstate New York. Photos: Eye Steel Film
We're all so happy that our fi lm can be inspiration for your community orchard!
- Director Yung Chang
page 2 villagevibe April 2013 News and views from the heart of Fernwood
Dr. Robert Griffi n speaking at Fernwood University about the many small-scale local grocers who
used to line the streets of Victoria. Photo: Mila Czemerys
www.fernwoodnrg.ca April 2013 villagevibe page 3
Duck confi t and dark
chocolate souffl é grace
the menu of Fernwod’s
newest restaurant,
CaVa Bistro Moderne
›› Kelsey Singbeil
The French bistro is tempered with
an Australian influence, resulting in a
welcoming, laid back room and delicious
dishes.
Chef and owner, Fauna Martin, is a
longtime Fernwood local. She grew up
in a house just behind her new restaurant
and graduated from Vic High and the
University of Victoria. After returning to
Victoria from honing her chef skills in
Australia, Martin set her sights on opening
a restaurant in her former ‘hood.
Diners looking for a middle ground
between the casual Fernwood Inn and
fi ne dining at Stage will appreciate CaVa
in Fernwood Sqaure. Th e room, formerly
home to Kulu, is simple, but comfortable,
with hardwood fl oors and the menu lettered
on the chalkboard wall. The full plate
dishes feature local ingredients and with
Martin’s French training and Australian
experience feature a unique interpretation
of ‘westcoast style’.
In March, I ducked in with a friend to
try Fauna’s recommended dark chocolate
souffl é for a post-Belfry treat. CaVa was
the perfect spot to spend the rest of the
evening. Th eir brunch is now on my to-try
list and I’m curious to taste their creamy
goat cheese polenta or salmon crackling for
dinner sometime soon.
“I needed to challenge myself,” says
Martin about opening CaVa. “I needed to
be moving forward.”
Now, Martin is looking forward to
spring and summer – prime patio months
filled with fresh, local produce. CaVa
will be adding patio seating in Fernwood
Square, adding to the 32 seats inside the
restaurant. She’ll also be adding new dishes
to the menu featuring spring vegetables
and local halibut. Yum!
CaVa is open for lunch and dinner Tues-
day through Saturday, and weekend brunch.
Th e restaurant is closed Mondays.
Here are some local Fernwood homes that will be listed and available for purchase with
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FRIDAYAutumn Glow Senior’s Lunch (DI) Ongoing 12:00pm - 2:30pmYouth Drop-in (9-13yrs) (DI) Ongoing 7:00pm - 9:00pmVictoria Meet-up Group (Closed) Every other week 7:00pm - 9:00pm
TUESDAYParent and Tot Play Group (DI) Ongoing 9:30am - 11:30am
Iyengar Yoga (DI/Reg) May 7 - Aug 27 5:30pm - 6:30pmDancing Lotus Hatha Yoga (DI/Reg) May 7 - Aug 27 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Kids Capoeira (Reg) May 7 - June 18 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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›› Louis Bockner
“Sorry man,” I say into my phone as I walk
towards Fernwood’s Cornerstone Cafe. “I
can’t go to the bar. I’m going to story time.”
Silence.
A year or two ago I would have thought
story time was for kids. I was concerned
with becoming an adult. But now this child-
ishness was exactly what appealed to me.
“Th ere’s an innocence involved... When
a group of adults essentially enters their
inner child together,” says Coco Kimmitt, a
Victoria based storyteller and sound healer.
Kimmitt, a.k.a. Kami Wing—as she is
known when performing her stories—
believes that with society’s technological
surge, enter ta inment has become
unnecessarily complicated.
“Storytelling is so authentically raw
and simple. What it brings to this day
and age is a remembering of the potency
of metaphorical self-reflection through
experiential listening. I relate it, in a way,
to how we interpret dreams.”
Although storytelling has been a part
of human evolution since the birth of
language, in the last century it has become
increasingly hard to fi nd. When asked if she
knew of any other practising storytellers,
Kimmitt was stumped.
“I don’t know of anyone doing it the way
I do where I create the original soundtrack
ahead of time and then tell the story live
to [the music], that’s a unique piece to
myself.”
Th is blend of story, instrumentation and
sound eff ects takes the closed-eyed listeners
on a gentle, sensory journey through their
own imaginations. The sound effects
are created by a unique collection of
instruments from across the globe that
Kimmitt has assembled over the last decade.
“I ended up with this continuously
growing, elaborate collection of sound tools
that are the most ecstatic little family of
sounds that I could imagine,” says Kimmitt.
By layering them upon each other through
the use of a loop pedal she can “create every
kind of atmosphere imaginable.”
Some of her favourites in the family
include the Jaw Harp, which has a
“ mischievous travelers energy” and the
Wind Ocarina, a traditional Mexican
instrument that effectively duplicates
diff erent types of wind. Th is sound often
facilitates or foreshadows a shift in the
story, bringing literal meaning to the phrase
“winds of change.”
Despite her place atop the non-exis-
tent storytelling totem, Kimmitt would
welcome community and competition and
hopes that in the future storytelling regains
it’s popularity of the past.
“I think that by doing it, it’s kind of like
being the change I want to see, because I’d
really love to see and feel and a hear more
stories being told.”
Although Kimmitt has no future
story times marked on the calendar her
first volume of stories can be heard at
sacredstorytelling.bandcamp.com.
She can also be found at facebook.com/
cocokami.wing. She hopes to have a
second volume out by the beginning of
summer.
artist aside:
Return to Innocence — Reawakening the art of storytelling
(Right) Coco Kimmitt performs 'The Cloak of Love' at the story time edition of Thursday Night Sound-
scapes. (Left) Owen Smith listens with closed eyes to the Moroccan fairytale. Photos: Louis Bockner
Registered Professional CounsellorCTA, MPCP
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1921 Fernwood Rd, Near the Cornerstone Cafe
250 889 5638
Tom Burton
Storytelling is so authentically raw and simple.
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mark your calendar:
Pole Painting Project
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.
- Mary Pickford
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garden gleanings:
Linda Gilkeson’s Gardening Tips
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