Explore Collective Magazine Articles by Region
Browse our growing collection of articles from current and previous issues of both the CV Collective and Strathcona Collective magazines by region.
Memoir and musings from my 75-year road trip
Big deal to reveal
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Featured Artist: Ron Bridge
Cortes Island Academy Offers a Nature-Based High School Alternative
Take it outside
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Making Our Old House a Home
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YANA’s Comox Valley-powered fundraising helps local families with medical travel
Better together
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Featured Photographer: Emily Palmer
The How Wild Contest: Photography that prioritizes the wild
Keep your distance
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One hundred days of silence
On a three-month Buddhist retreat, Marie Maccagno travels beyond words and back again
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Photos by Arjan Van Asselt &
Remembering Billy Proctor
Living in the real world
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Comox District Mountaineering Club celebrates 100 years with its 2028 Hiking Challenge
It's the climb
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The Hornby Island Free Store
Sharing the wealth
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In Mat Collings’ work, film and fun go hand in hand
Videos that connect
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Mucker’s Farm: Where quality is a way of life
Off-grid and growing
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Building or renovating a waterfront property is a tricky business. But it can be done.
A complicated dream
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Mystery Mountain: A historic first ascent and its modern-day re-creation
The Undiscovered Mountain
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Photos by Greg Gransden &
Emily Thiessen blends beauty and resistance in her community-based art
The possibility of change
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From internal revelations to far-flung travels
An Introduction to Vol. 12
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A conversation with John Vaillant
From Fire Weather to a festival
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Healing through art
A story of loss and reclaiming beauty.
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The Cumberland Forest
The threshold between a village and the great beyond
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Ayla Roberts: Music that will make you stop and think
Music that will make you stop and think
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Moon Dance
High above the forest floor, small creatures find bliss
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Original music blooms within a cozy circle of songwriters
Wisdom sung from the heart
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Vintage cameras draw memories from the shadows
A return to film
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Freediving in Comox Lake
Beyond breathing
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One bean at a time
An Introduction to Vol. 43
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Q&A with Denise Mitchell
Denise Mitchell Interiors: Discussion with Campbell River designer
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A trip to Okinawa, the birthplace of karate-do
Members of a Courtenay dōjō experience the culture of their traditional martial art
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The watery history of Lewis Park
The struggle for a beloved gathering place
The Dirt on Biochar
Black Gold
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A single lady at Maple Lake ponders life and the one that got away
Lonely Sam
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Featured Poet: Naveena Gill
Mysterious orange sky: a poem about a sunset over Goose Spit
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Just keep moving
Meet me in the park. We’ve got some walking to do
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Featured Artist: Judit Szilvasi
Featured Photographer: Damian Chudzinski, Comox Valley Landscape Artist
NIC Student Housing, tul’al’txw: Alive with Indigenous Culture
A house—and home—of learning
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Draw Together Strangers
How a global art initiative creates human connection
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Sandy Island Marine Park (Tree Island BC): Remote—and Right Next Door
Trees and sand
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How Ramona Gregory’s Slip Cast Porcelain Lamps Combine Form and Function
CRAFTING LIGHT
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Gwyn Sproule: Guardian of the forest and Cumberland history
A very engaging life
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