Explore The Comox Valley Collective Magazines
The Comox Valley Collective is our inaugural magazine and is created and published by ROAM Media Inc. Launched in the winter of 2014, it is a quarterly publication focused on the Comox Valley region that releases on every solstice and equinox (mid March, June, September, and December).
THE MUSICAL JOURNEY OF HELENA JUNG
From Korea to Comox
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HACK YOUR BRAIN
How finding flow makes you better at life
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A LIFELONG JOURNEY INTO GRAPHIC NOVELS
Creative imagination, fantastical worlds
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AN EMERGING COMOX VALLEY PHOTOGRAPHER
A young photographer shares some of his favourite work so far
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TIDINGS FROM PORT AUGUSTA
How two ships reshaped the Land of Plenty
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MORNING SONG
We are ravens. Our nests have been here since the beginning of the world.
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LOOKING AT LICHENS
This amazing life form is a portal into interspecies collaboration
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FALL RISE: THE COMOX VALLEY’S HIDDEN WHITEWATER
Cold November rains unveil epic whitewater adventures in the Valley
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POETSKIS
Inspiring human connection, one ski turn at a time
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A CONSIGNMENT STORE ADVENTURE
Swimming in potential
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CELEBRATING HORNBY ISLAND’S ANNUAL HERRINGFEST
The CHI of land and sea
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INVISIBLE STRINGS
An introduction to Vol. 40
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BOHEMIAN/BAVARIAN RHAPSODY
Their instruments got lost. They still had fun.
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AN UPDATE ON STORIES FROM VOLUME 4
Ten years later
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FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: KATIE PHILLIPS
FEATURED ARTIST: NICOLA NORTH
SEASONAL GOODS: FALL
WINTER RESOLVE
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ELDER VALLEY: NATURAL EXPLORATION
Reflections from an older Comox Valley resident
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LITTLE VALLEY: A SURVIVAL TRIP STORY
Our young Comox Valley residents reflect on the home they're growing up in
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THE WORLD IS YOUR EGGPLANT
Don’t be a hater. Boldly go forth and try it.
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CLIMATE HOPE
We have the power to make change. Hope helps us act.
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FROM PLASTIC IN THE SEA TO ART INGENUITY
Lost buoys
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TALES FROM WITHIN AN OLD SAUNA’S WALLS
Hot in here
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Hornby Island fossils
One man’s decades-long hunt
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CRAFTING A ONE-NIGHT DINING EXPERIENCE
The pressures—and pleasures
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PEER OUTREACH WORKERS
Part of a family bound by shared experience, suffering, and heartache
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FUNKANOMETRY’S JACKSUN FRYER
Popping and locking happiness
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CUMBERLAND’S WOODSTOVE FESTIVAL
Fall in love, I dare you…
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CUMBERLAND’S REVAMPED JUMP PARK
The merchants of dirt
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THE SANDWICK CAIRN
Comox Valley remembers
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GROWING APPLES AND MAKING CIDER
A 120-year old tradition
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A LOVE LETTER TO THE VALLEY
An introduction to Vol. 39
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Featured Artist: Bryn Ball
A creative journey in France
Une grande aventure
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The Ocean Waves Square Dance Club celebrates 70 years
Get on the floor!
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A 160-KM SOLO SUP ADVENTURE
Exploring Vancouver Island’s rugged northwestern coast
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ART AS AN INCUBATOR FOR RESILIENCE, EMPATHY, AND COMMUNITY
Why do we love pencils?
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THIRTY YEARS OF TIN TOWN
The Comox Valley’s distinctive live/work enclave is also a tightly bonded community
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THE VIETNAM WAR
War resisters: Stories of courage and compassion
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