PUSH – INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL – VANCOUVER 2012
PUSHING IT ON JANUARY 17TH TILL FEBRUARY 4TH
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. The PuSh Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with an alchemy that inspires audiences, rejuvenates artists, stimulates the industry and forges productive relationships around the globe. The Festival is a broker of international partnerships, a meeting place for creative minds, a showcase of Canada’s best and an incubator of brilliant new work as well as a not-for-profit charitable organization.
ROAD 13 VINEYARDS – BC WINERIES & VINEYARDS
THE MOTTO OF ROAD 13 “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DIRT”
ABOUT ROAD 13
The site was originally operated by a partnership between three field engineers who were kicked out of Russia by the communists after the revolution. After irrigation canal water became available inthe early 1920s, they planted tree fruits and ground crops.
The land was next sold to Tim Robin, one of the largest growers in the area, who continued to farm it as an apple and peach orchard.
The property was sold in a derelict state to Hungarian Arpad Pallay in 1961. Arpad (deceased in 2004) planted apples, cherries and ground crops. He was the first farmer in the lower valley to circumvent the growers’ co-op and took his fruit direct to Vancouver. As a juicy side, his daughter Kate married the son of the fruit inspector who has always trying to catch Arpad selling his fruit outside the co-op!
Peter and Helga Serwo purchased the winery site in 1985. Coming to the Okanagan Valley in the late 1960s from Germany, where they worked as building contractors and grape growers. They continued these callings in Canada and were responsible for a good chunk of the early Golden Mile plantings including the original Tinhorn Creek site. Pam and Mick Luckhurst purchased the land in 2003, when Peter and Helga wanted to slow down after 50 years of viticulture.
WALDORF HOTEL – THIEVERY CORPORATION DJ SET WITH ROB GARZA
DECEMBER 16TH THE WALDORF HOTEL PRESENTS A DJ SET BY THIEVERY CORPORATION’S ROB GARZA
On Friday Dec 16th, The Waldorf Hotel presents a DJ set by Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza as part of a massive multi-room weekend party. Rob Garza’s DJ style carries the energy of his early punk roots and blurs the boundaries of rock, breaks, future-bossa, dub and other mind-altering psychotropic sounds. Besides seven studio albums and hundreds of compilations, singles and mixes with Thievery Corporation; Rob Garza’s ESL Music label has produced albums for artists like Federico Aubele, Ancient Astronauts, Ursula 1000, Ocote Soul Sounds, Nicodemus and many others. Rob has also recorded and toured with figures like Paul Mccartney, Massive Attack, Perry Farrell, David Byrne and Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.
THIEVERY CORPORATION – VANCOUVER – 2011
THIEVERY CORPORATION AT MALKIN BOWL – STANLEY PARK
Tuesday, September 13th – 5:30pm at Malkin Bowl, Thievery Corporation will perform with guests Los Amigos Invisibles. Culture of Fear – a cinematic-sounding inquiry into space rock that straddles the sweet spot between funk and soul, with a bit of dub and reggae thrown in for good measure. The title track, featuring vocals/lyrics by rapper Mr. Lif, comments on the fact that, nearly 10 years after 9/11, “everyone is afraid of everything,” Hilton says. “People are living like wimps. The terror level is always at orange. Now we’ve got body scanners in airports. Somehow the whole country’s been spun into this pointless web of fear.” Adds Garza: “People have learned to be subservient to the system, automatically taking their shoes off at airports. Our message with this album is that there really is nothing to fear. The things we’re being told to fear aren’t what we should fear. The intrusion into your day-to-day rights and privacy are a whole lot scarier.”
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GO CANUCKS GO
VANCOUVER EUFORIA FOR THE INCREDIBLE WIN OF CANUCKS.
JUNE 4TH, 2011 IS A VICTORIOUS DAY FOR VANCOUVER AND THE WHOLE CANADA …………. GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!!!!!!
photo curtesy of Miquel Cabrera
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY – THE SURREALIST REVOLUTION IN ART
THE COLOUR OF MY DREAMS
The most comprehensive exhibition of Surrealist art ever to be shown in this country will open at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 28, 2011. The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art features 350 works by leading Surrealist artists, including André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Leonora Carrington, Brassaï, André Masson, Man Ray, Edith Rimmington, Wifredo Lam and many others.
Guest curated by Dawn Ades, internationally renowned expert on Surrealist art, The Colour of My Dreams will be shown exclusively at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Ades has selected works of art that underscore the Surrealists’ radical sense of experimentation and the expansive range of mediums in which they worked, including painting, sculpture, collage, photography and film. The exhibition provides a stunning overview of one of most important movements of the 20th century and features a number of signature works by more than 80 artists including Dali’s Lobster Telephone, Ernst’s The Forest, Miró’s Photo: This is the Colour of My Dreams, Giacometti’s Spoon Woman, Carrington’s The House Opposite and Man Ray’s Emak-Bakia, among many others. It will also reveal, for the first time, the Surrealists’ passionate interest in indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest and the little-known influence of early Hollywood cinema on the development of Surrealist film.
VANCOUVER AQUARIUM
Some Facts
• The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre is a self-supporting, non-profit association dedicated to effecting the conservation of aquatic life through display and interpretation, education, research and direct action.
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REMODELISTA APP FOR iPAD AND iPHONE
CREATING DECOR WITH THE TOUCH OF AN APP
Do you look forward to seeing the cover of your favourite home and décor magazine every month? Do you drool over design and stand in awe of architecture? Is your small talk about big ideas for your house?
If you answered yes to any of the above, and you have just as much affection for your iPad or iPhone, you have the chance to combine the two passions. So wrestle your kids away from that Angry Birds app and download some décor apps just for you. To name just five you won’t soon be able to live without: Remodelista, Houzz, Mark on Call, Benjamin Moore Colour Capture and Decomash.
VANCOUVER’S MOUNTAIN VIEWS AND EXTREME TALL BUILDINGS
PUBLIC FORUM JAN 11th AT VPL: THREATS TO VANCOUVER FROM EXTREME TALL BUILDING POLICIES IN DOWNTOWN, WEST END, CHINATOWN, DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE
City council is on the verge of making what may be among Vancouver’s most important decisions in a generation on January 20th. On that day, Council is prepared to adopt two key policies to eliminate protected views and permit extreme building heights of 80 storey or taller on the downtown peninsula, and significantly higher buildings in Chinatown and the Downtown East Side.
CityHallWatch plans a public forum on January 11th to help citizens identify and articulate key concerns that staff and Council appear to have missed and should address before any vote on the policies. Issues that have not yet been adequately addressed include not only lost or eroded views, significant view changes from many locations in the City, and major changes to the skyline, but also implications for Vancouver’s livability, sustainability, affordability and gentrification, ecological footprints (buildings and the city), global warming, city infrastructure, traffic and transportation, city finances and taxes, schools, public amenities, seismic safety, fire safety, disaster response, and the very character of Vancouver. Expert presentations, Q&A and small group discussions on (1) risks to Vancouver’s mountain views from extremely tall building policies set for City Council approval on January 20, and (2) critical impacts on livability, solar access, environment, sustainability, city finances, city infrastructure and more. This is a public forum with expert input. Media are welcome.
BOCCI DESIGN ANNOUNCEMENT
BOCCI, one of our favorite contemporary designers and manufacturing company that is based in Vancovuer, BC is looking for a young, brilliant videographer to prepare two 3-4 minute long videos about the “making of ” two of their pieces – Check announcement below.
Nuestra compania favorita de fabricacion de diseno contemporaneo con base en Vancouver ,BC esta en busca de un brillante joven videografo para preparar dos videos de 3-4 minutos de duracion para ”hacer de” dos de sus piezas – cheka la convocatoria abajo.
2008 HARBOUR HOUSE BY BLUE SKY ARCHITECTURE
ECO WEST COAST – MODERN VANCOUVER ARCHITECTURE
The inspirational Vancouver living reflects this carefully designed west coast modern architecture enriched in ecological consciousness. The 2008 Harbour House by Blue Sky Architecture is a breath of a beautiful eco modern architecture in a rugged coastal setting.
Taste of Yaletown – Vancouver
The Yaletown BIA has launched a new program to make the Taste of Yaletown even tastier! All participating Taste of Yaletown restaurants will receive taxi vouchers from the Yaletown BIA that they can hand out to their guests who have enjoyed some wine or cocktails along with their meals.
The 2010 Taste of Yaletown menus are nowavailable and the restaurants will begin taking reservations on September 30th. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to sample some of Yaletown’s best restaurants and enjoy three-course menus for $25, $35 or $45. A portion of the proceeds raised will be donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
via Yaletowninfo
