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Arts writer Mike Devlin picks his favourite upcoming events, including Jon and Roy’s Holiday Special on Friday.

This year’s concert schedule features Marion Newman, the Emily Carr String Quartet, Kimberley-Ann Bartczak, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko and more

Victoria residents, young and old, are celebrating Earth Day by creating a biodegradable blessing bundle, making a Bee Bomb, cleaning the neighbourhood or listening to a concert to explore our relationship with the natural world, today and Friday.

A Victoria cathedral and professional string quartered are teaming up for a two part, six-concert series to benefit the earth’s climate and draw attention to the need for personal action to reverse the climate crisis.

Lapp, artistic director of Victoria’s Chwyl Family School of Contemporary Music, says he hopes the concert provides a much-needed sense of connection, perhaps triggering memories of “those times when we could be together.” “It’s a way of carrying us through this particular season, which is going to be a tough one.” Lapp has pre-taped performances by nearly 150 students and alumni in his many student ensembles for the Victoria Conservatory of Music event, which will be packaged together for Home For Christmas’s two-hour broadcast on YouTube at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Many of the pr...