August 28, 2009
MINIATURE WORLD
Located in Victoria's prime hotel, the Empress(built by some more of those RR magnates) is a museum of dioramas depicting varied things. As you enter, there is a dark hallway that displays in virtual fashion futuristic time travel. Then you proceed down a series of hallways that have the dioramas inside glass covering along both sides of the hallways. The exhibits begin with detailed depictions of past battles which include battlefields and razed civilian buildings. Battles were from WWII, WWI, Civil War of U.S., Revolutionary War of U.S., Napoleonic Wars and replications of pioneer days includeing Indians stampeding buffalo in order to use there meat and hides.; and a working sawmill with everything cut in one inch to one foot scale with machines perfectly cutting , turnikng, and stacking wood. One finally reaches the hallways of fantasy. There is a fine diarama of Snow White and her 7 Dwarves, Jack and the Beanstalk and the Old Woman who lived in the shoe. After that a large sections depicting some Dickens. There is a window for Oliver Ywist, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickelby, etc. Then there are several large and detailed Victorian Dollhouses. The final museum section is called the Circus and show big top areas, carnival rides(moving and lit), unsrupulous gamers and Wild West Shows.
FRINGE FESTIVAL
Big in Victoria this week is the arrival of the Fringe Festival. This, which we had never heard of is a collection offbeat theater and dance performances. This festival travels around all through Canada, and we were surprised to learn goes even to San Francisco. Many are one man plays. In this festival the performers get all the money from the ticket sales and the whole festival is run on a shoestring budget mainly coming from the $5 every one is supposed to pay to belong to the festival and buy tickets. The show that we saw was called STRAIGHT and was an excellent presentation by a talented young woman. It is about her life, her mother's death, and her repeating her mother's life.
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