What a fantastic September 22/23 weekend on Pender Island for The 2023 Crisp!
To all of the people who helped make this weekend happen!
To Melody Pender, her staff, the SGICRC Board who okayed this project going ahead for a 3rd year! Thank you Andrea Mills for making it as simple as possible to hold this year’s Crisp at the Community Hall. to those particular individuals who were a key to this happening taking place, to those volunteers who stepped up to bigger roles, to those long time islanders who recommended various people, to newcomers for your willingness to contribute your new [our] community, to market vendors, non-profits for taking part, to Doug Mutch and crew for the upstairs beer garden [all profits going to the Community Hall], to our families, to all of you as attendees… THANK YOU!
Jo Beattie and Ilse Phillips
THANK YOU TO OUR VOLUNTEERS
ROSE DA SILVA, DEANNA EVERTT, BEN LITZKE, SUSAN BURWASH, DIANE LOCKHART, WENDY GARDNER, MAT & SHERRY DES ROCHES, JANET & ART VANVILIET, TREASA & PAUL MARTIN, JENN KAILA AND CREW, JOJO BEATTIE, WILL PHILLIPS, GREG BEATTIE, RANDY LOCKHART, SARAH RAE AND VICTORIA, SANDRA JOHNSON, JOYCE NUNES, LESLEY FIELD, LIZ MARGETTS, ELENA SINGLEHURST, GILLIAN TURNER, DOUG MUTCH AND CREW, CONNIE AND KEN SEARS, ANNIE SMITH, DAVID LEADBEATER
THANK YOU TO OUR MUSICIANS, PRESENTERS, ARTISTS, SPONSORS AND CURATED VENDORS!
THANK YOU TO COLIN HAMILTON SOUND!
THANKS TO MAT DESROCHES AS STAGE PRODUCER / MCEE
THANK YOU TO OUR ACCOMMODATION HOSTS
JULIA AND GREGORY NICHOLLS, WENDY GARDNER AND IAN PIRIE, ROBERT WILMAN, COLIN AND WENDI HAMILTON, WILL PHILLIPS, GEORGE FOWLIE, DAVID RAMOS & DAN
To any volunteers who stepped up at the last minute, thank you!
We are sorry to have missed your name due to going to press beforehand!
For More Information Visit The Crisp Website www.thecrisp.ca
The Crisp Festival September 22nd and 23rd 2023
@ Pender Community Hall, Pender Island/S,DÁYES
We are very excited to announce Pender Island/S,DÁYES second festival, The Crisp! Mark your calendars for Sept 22-23!
The Crisp is a two day festival inspired by the SGI Community Resource Centre Society’s 2020 apple event “Let No Apple Be Wasted.”
Check out our 2023 Playlist on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fWCyJjqlbtefjTRimRB2N?si=GIPzGvW7Rv2k4wXHICrYpQ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crispfestival/
Instagram: @the_crispfestival
- Join us for fun, enjoyable happenings aimed at fostering community well-being through music, poetry, transformational storytelling circles through themed panel discussions. Scheduled art activities, apple related activities and instructional workshops help compliment the SGICRC’s mandate on farming sustainability and the promotion of environmental projects.
- We encourage all from the Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island and the Mainland to join us!
- This year we have ticketed evening concerts to help us with costs. Tickets on sale now at Talisman Books p. 250 629 6944 or online at EventBrite:
FRIDAY TICKETS CLICK HERE:
The Crisp Friday September 22nd Evening Concert Tickets, Fri, 22 Sep 2023 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
SATURDAY TICKETS CLICK HERE:
The Crisp Saturday September 23 Evening Concert Tickets, Sat, 23 Sep 2023 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
- All donations will go towards paying contributors and production. This is a community driven festival organised by volunteers under the umbrella of the SGICRC.
- We are now actively recruiting volunteers in particular for set-up, take down, security [ take heart, it will hopefully not be needed! ], monitoring various activities. Contact Ilse iphillips@outlook.com
- Current Covid-19 protocols will be in place and respectful distancing encouraged. Thank you for your consideration of others!
- The Crisp will likely be held indoors there will be a Beer Garden available Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. The Market will run 9:30-1:00pm on Saturday with lots of food and snack options.
- Hand sanitizer will be available around the Festival site and soap/water is available at the Hall washrooms.
- Parking is available at the Hall but car pooling, biking encouraged.
- All dogs brought into the Crisp Festival grounds must remain leashed.
We hope everyone has a fabulous weekend celebrating community wellbeing and all things apple related!
Artists, Poets, Storytellers
ALL BIOS ARE TAKEN FROM ARTIST WEBSITES or SUBMITTED BY THE ARTIST
and/or adapted by Jo Beattie
TURNING THE TIDE
CHORUS
We’re turning the tide, coming together, sticking through all the stormy weather
The plan is in motion, we move like the ocean, let the waves take us somewhere better
Cause’ I’m done running, I’m done hiding, I’m here with something to say
We’re turning the tide to a new day
So grab us a kayak, paddle around, from the north down to Puget Sound
With the wind as our sail, we’ll dance with the whales,
until we’re Pender Island bound
Then here comes the singer, singing his song, till’ the whole coast is singing along
Like turning a tide
CHORUS
I’m in love with the islands, in love with the shores,
I don’t think I could love em’ anymore
In love with the people, in love the towns, in love with the sights, I’m in love with the sounds
In love with the feeling, the feeling I get, it’s a feeling I could never forget
Like turning a tide
CHORUS
It’s gonna get higher
BY LUKE WALLACE
