Author: Babs Perowne

You are invited to hear a behind the scenes approach to the upcoming programs and how the VSO reaches new audiences.

Jamshed Colah is the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and VSO School of Music’s new Senior Director of Major Gifts.

April 19, 2022 – Women with Wings – Ruth Payne, former Ferry Building gallery director.

We hope you’ll come and join our Zoom presentation by Ruth Payne.will introduce us to the Women With Wings travel program, emphasizing Bali, Santa Fe, and Mexico.

To register for the Zoom meeting email [email protected].

An intrepid world traveler, Ruth likes nothing better than introducing people to the art, culture, cuisine, and history of her favorite destinations. Since driving a ’64 Saab from Amsterdam to Kathmandu in 1971, Ruth’s passion for unique cultural discoveries has taken her to Bhutan, Tibet, Afghanistan, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Morocco, Mexico, Cuba,  and South America. Ruth has led art and architecture tours to Italy, Bali, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Mexico, and Santa Fe. With a wealth of knowledge from a 37 year career in the visual arts, and her engaging, caring, and organized manner Ruth ensures her tour participants a unique, enriching, and exceptional travel experience. Ruth leads tours through Women With Wings Travel.

Join our Zoom presentation of Julie Goettsch’s visits to the “Octopus’s Garden in Hawaii”!

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Julie lives on the Big Island of Hawaii. Growing up near the ocean, in Orange County, California, the first island she fell in love with was Catalina, where at the age of six, she learned to snorkel off her dad’s boat. She cannot remember a time when she could not swim, and has never known any fear of the ocean. After 25 years working in the public schools, Julie Goettsch fell into a second career in management at IBM Global Services in Boulder, Colorado. For the next 15 years, she continued exploring the world, discovering more tropical islands in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Indian Ocean. One day, while diving in Tahiti, she and her fellow divers were visited by a Humpback Whale and her calf. She has had a camera in her hand ever since during most of her 3,000 dives!

To register for the Zoom meeting email [email protected].