Now in its sixth year, The Crisp is a Southern Gulf Islands Community Resource Centre initiative. It is a festival with enjoyable happenings aimed at fostering community well-being through music, poetry, and transformational storytelling, sharing panels, community dance supplementing scheduled art activities, apple-related activities, and instructional workshops to complement the SGICRC’s mandate of food and farming security and promotion of environmental sustainability and community well-being.

What a heartfelt weekend this year was! So many memorable moments, deep conversations, lots of laughter, a ton of great music and art, it takes a community!

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to all the many people who helped make this weekend happen! To the volunteers, artists, presenters, billeters and those particular individuals who were key to this festival taking place. To the long-time islanders who recommended various people, to newcomers for your willingness to contribute to our community, to vendors, non-profits for taking part, to our families, and to all of you as attendees… we are grateful for the support!

To our government sponsors and loyal, local sponsors, we are so thankful! Special thanks to Melody Pender and the SGICRC Board for approving this project for a 6th year! Thank you again, Andrea Mills, for making it as simple as possible to hold this year’s Crisp at the Community Hall.

Jo Beattie

Volunteers: Jo, Greg, Jojo, Beni, Thais Beattie, Rose Da Silva, Stephanie McCarthy, Margaret Alpen, Deanna Evertt, David Leadbeater, Melody Pender, Roz Kempe, Maryanne Pare, Treasa and Paul Martin, Jenn Kaila, Kerri, Connie and Ken Sears, Janet Fletcher, Art Vanvliet, Nancy and Art Curtis, Donncha and Marie O’Callaghan, Susan Burwash, Will and LeeAndra Miller, David Ramos, Nicholas Croft and Sophie, Sarah Rae,  Ian Pirie, Wendy Gardner, Simon and Liz Margetts, Gary Goodman and Friends, Jaime MacLean, Barb Scanlan, Kate Wattie, Sonia Berry, Kate Braid, Dave and Darleen Harrison, Audrey Stibbe, Cheyenne Stensgaard, Ben McConchie, Nicole Coenen, Bettyanne Neufeld, Laurie and Ed Ankenman, Rose Vlaar, Laurel MacKay, Leslie McBain, Violant Burges

To all the Ptarmigan Sunday volunteers, in particular, Heather Read, Lisa Fleming, Kate Biddell

To any volunteers who stepped up at the last minute, thank you!

Sincere apologies also for accidental omissions!

Accommodation Hosts:

Treasa and Paul, George, Lizzie and Simon, David and Dan, Nancy and Art, Julia and Gregory, Michelle and Rob, Peter and Lisa, Karen, Patricia and also Stephen from Nosey Point!!

Thank you to Colin Hamilton and Owen Goertz for stellar sound production

Thanks to Pender Radio for all their help, in particular Matt, Jamie and Marc

Thank you to Julie Fowler of the BC Festival Music Collective and Liam Prost from Break Out West for their support to the Sunday gathering!

Thank you to Nancy and Art Curtis for their generous donation during the Crisp weekend! Such donations make all the difference!