“COMMUNITY WEEKEND” – BC PLACE
TELL YOUR FRIENDS – BRING THE KIDS!
Free “Community Weekend” Event at BC Place. BC Place, BC Lions Football Club, Vancouver Whitecaps FC and the BC Sports Hall of Fame encourage everyone to ‘go behind the scenes’ and get to know our new stadium at this free event.
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY WEEKEND
• Kick a ball with the Whitecaps FC, and throw a pass with the BC Lions on their home turf
• Experience it from the players’ perspective! Stand under the new retractable roof, and the second largest centrehung video screens in North America
• Walk through the ’Caps and the BC Lions dressing rooms…and visit some of the new suites
• Half-price admission to the BC Sports Hall of Fame
• Enter to win two tickets to see Roger Waters’ “THE WALL” on May 26th – the first major concert at the new BC Place
PECHA KUCHA NIGHT – CAUSE+AFFECT – VOL 21 – VANCOUVER – 2012
SPECIAL EDITION: APRIL 26TH – VOGUE THEATRE – 918 GRANVILLE STREET
PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of conversation (“chit chat”), it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds.
It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.
A LAST RESORT – THE CULTCH THEATRE
PART OF RUMBLE’S 2012 TREMORS FESTIVAL – PRODUCED BY ROUGH HOUSE PRODUCTIONS AND PRESENDTED BY RUMBLE PRODUCTIONS – A LAST RESORT
In 2004, Candelario Andrade left his home in Mexico and set off in search of a new life. In 2000, Camille Gingras returned to Canada as a last resort. A multimedia performance in English and Spanish, “A Last Resort” intimately explores the lengths two people will go for that perfect life just beyond the horizon. A Last Resort is the newest work from the creators of the award-winning Tiny Apocalypse, which debuted at the 2008 TREMORS Festival.
VANCOUVER SUN RUN – SUNDAY APRIL 15TH, 2012 AT 9AM
HISTORY OF THE VANCOUVER SUN RUN
• The Vancouver Sun Run has been Canada’s largest 10K road race since its inception in 1985.
• Founded by former Canadian Olympians Dr. Doug and Diane Clement along with Dr. Jack Taunton, the run’s purpose was to promote the benefits of running to improve health and fitness as well as support elite amateur athletics.
• The first run attracted 3,200 participants.
• Through the years the run captured the imagination and hearts of individuals wanting to improve their health and wellbeing. The event morphed into the phenomenon it is today with thousands upon thousands descending upon the streets of Vancouver each year in celebration of Sun Run Sunday!
• The run is supported by its loyal host committee and an army of over 3,000 volunteers.
• The Vancouver Sun Run is still Canada’s largest 10K road race and is now the 2nd largest timed 10K in the world.
• An incredible 49,365 registrants signed up for the 2011 Vancouver Sun Run with participants taking in the beautiful Vancouver scenery under sunny skies.
• The Vancouver Sun Run has truly become one of Vancouver’s traditional rites of spring and is preparing for its 28th year running.
SCIENCE WORLDS TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE – LEGO® THE CASTLE ADVENTURE EXHIBITION
LEGO® CASTLE ADVENTURE JOUSTING ENDS MAY 21
Hear ye, hear ye! Come one, come all to Science World and experience LEGO® Castle Adventure, a hands-on exhibition that provides an extraordinary opportunity for kids (including big ones!) to discover the world of castle-building using one of the greatest building materials of all time: LEGO® bricks.
Explore the LEGO Kingdom’s royal castle, sit in their majesties’ LEGO thrones, and admire a LEGO suit of armour. After that, tour the castle grounds and learn about day-to-day castle life. You’ll be able to dress up as princes, princesses, knights or dragons; climb a lookout tower; and don suspender-style horses to “joust” with foam-rubber lances.
And that’s not all! You can even test the castle defences with ….. a catapult! That’s right. By using a computer simulation program and a model catapult, you’ll be able to virtually build and test castle walls and learn through trial and error the most durable ways to protect a fortress.
CATS THE MUSICAL – QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE – VANCOUVER
PURR ……. CATS AT QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE FROM APRIL 10TH TO APRIL 15TH
Since Cats first opened on the West End stage in 1981, it has become one of the world’s best known and best loved musicals. With a plot based on T.S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and award-winning music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Cats, originally directed by Trevor Nunn, has since been presented in over 20 countries and in about 250 cities, including such diverse destinations as Buenos Aires, Seoul, Helsinki and Singapore.
VANCOUVER MARITIME MUSEUM
A MAGICAL PLACE THAT INSPIRES ALL AGES, LANDLUBBERS AND OLD SALTS ALIKE
The Maritime Museum is where the young and young at heart thrill to their many exhibits and the adventures within their galleries. They inspire all to be life-long learners and everyone who enters their world gains a deeper understanding of how people respond to and interact with the sea.
Every day the Vancouver Maritime Museum charts a different course of adventure for all. Discover the rich maritime history and traditions of the Pacific Coast. Step back in time to 1944 on board Canada’s famous RCMP St Roch and explore the many permanent and changing exhibits, Children’s Maritime Discovery Centre, family activities, and the boats in Heritage Harbour.
VANCOUVER CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL – 2012
TOUCHING SPIRITS WITH THE FRAGILE BEAUTY OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOM
As the quintessential symbol of spring, the universal theme of the cherry tree inspires new poetry, art, music, film, design, crafts, photography, and cuisine while inspiring the artist in us all. Through a wide array of diverse programs from Cherry Jam Downtown, Haiku Invitational, Bike the Blossoms, Japan Fair, BC Blossom Watch Photo Contest, Cherry Scouts Program, Tree Talks and Walks and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Map the festival captures the exuberance of the blossoming with cultural programming for the whole community to enjoy. Inspired by the age old Sakura festivals of Japan, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival uplifts spirits in the city, while the ephemeral nature of the blossoms remind us all to take time now to celebrate life.
PLAYDOME – BC PLACE
CANADA’S LARGEST INDOOR CARNIVAL WITH OVER 45 RIDES AND ATTRACTIONS
Today we were invited to the BC Place for an exclusive preview of the PlayDome before it opens to the public. We had a great pleasure of meeting both Bob Hauser, an owner/operator of the West Coast Amusements Ltd. and Adam Stowe, the Communications Coordinator for Pace Group who showed us around the PlayDome.
PlayDome is Canada’s largest indoor carnival with over 45 rides and attractions and it is back to BC Place! Feel like your floating in air with the Zero Gravity ride, be spun around on the new open air cars of the Ring of Fire and be flung into oblivion on the Super Shot. Popular favorites such as 1001 nights, The Ferris Wheel and the Zipper are all back to be enjoyed. Make sure to bring all your family to this wonderful, fun and exciting event!
CELTICFEST – VANCOUVER 2012
CELTIC ROOTS ROCK!
The 8th Annual CelticFest Vancouver, March 10th to 18th delivers its best celebration of Celtic music, dance and culture to date, with a jam-packed schedule of nearly 70 free and ticketed concerts and events over six days. The festival is thrilled to again call the downtown Vancouver Entertainment District home, but is excited to be branching out this year with a special pre-festival sneak peek free event on March 10th at The Village on False Creek called Celts on the Creek. For lovers of all things Celtic (and who is not), CelticFest 2012 is already looking to be one of the most amazing festivals yet.
LUNARFEST 2012 – OUR PHOTOS
LUNARFEST IS WISHING YOU A PROSPEROUS, HEALTHY AND HAPPY YEAR OF THE DRAGON!
Started in 2009 and built to be a Vancouver Winter Olympics Legacy event, LunarFest is Canada’s premier presenter of contemporary expression in Asian arts and culture. It endeavours to reach new Canadians and those who have been here for many generations to share in the diversity of Canada. It also encourages and fosters the collaboration of Canadian and International cultural presenters to create new forms of artistic expressions. LunarFest is a festival that brings together Soul, Art and Life on one stage.
BC HOME & GARDEN SHOW – BC PLACE STADIUM
IT’S TIME TO RESTORE, RENEW AND REFRESH!
Located at the newly renovated BC Place Stadium for five short days, you will find the latest in innovative products and outdoor living idea from over 425 retailers. Talk with top industry experts. Don’t miss the top gardening experts in The Vancouver Sun Gardeners School and the city’s hottest BBQ gurus on The Outdoor Entertaining Stage.
Take a sneak peek at renovations: A Well-Planned Home Renovation by Karl Lohnes
Pre-thinking your renovation and answering a few questions before the sledgehammer arrives will help save time, money and most of all headaches. Here’s just a few of my pointers to help you if you are about to take on a renovation in your space.
KITCHEN
Questions to ask yourself:
• Is the current layout working well?
• Is there anything missing from the current kitchen that you want (like a wall oven, built-in dishwasher or an island)?
• Are there any considerations to renovating like a busy family life, condo board restrictions or structural concerns?
• What is the best budget and timeframe for you?
LUNARFEST 2012 – VANCOUVER
LUNARFEST IS WISHING YOU A PROSPEROUS, HEALTHY AND HAPPY YEAR OF THE DRAGON!
Started in 2009 and built to be a Vancouver Winter Olympics Legacy event, LunarFest is Canada’s premier presenter of contemporary expression in Asian arts and culture. It endeavours to reach new Canadians and those who have been here for many generations to share in the diversity of Canada. It also encourages and fosters the collaboration of Canadian and International cultural presenters to create new forms of artistic expressions. LunarFest is a festival that brings together Soul, Art and Life on one stage.
Built as a festival that celebrates one of the oldest traditions for many Asian cultures – Lunar New Year, LunarFest aims to collaborate with many Asian communities and outreaches to other Canadians. Since the inception, LunarFest is also built on an important artistic element for many cultures – the lanterns. Through collaborations with professional artists and school children in Canada and around the world, LunarFest has already presented Lantern Forest for 2009-2010 and Lantern Aquarium for 2011-2012.
ILLUMINATE YALETOWN – VANCOUVER 2012
PARTY AT ILLUMINATE YALETOWN – IN THE HEART OF YALETOWN!
Illuminate Yaletown returns February 10th and 11th, 2012 as a part of the City & Slope Festival! City and Slope is a four day festival held in downtown Vancouver and its world-class mountains, Grouse, Cypress and Seymour. 2012 will be the third annual Illuminate Yaletown event held in the heart of Yaletown for City and Slope. This is a free, multi-night, entertainment-filled street party that features remarkable light installations from local artists.
Illuminate Yaletown utilizes advanced video and lighting technology that is both cutting edge and power smart. Showcasing the latest technological and environmental advancements in the lighting and power generation, this light show has the ability to awe the audience with its brilliance. Illuminate Yaletown is an event that can speak to the use of renewable power sources, cleaner generation technologies as well as more efficient light technologies.
This event starts as soon as the sun sets, once dark, artists will light up their exhibits! Come enjoy beautiful lights used in innovative ways, interact with exhibits, and capture Illuminations in photos.
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SCIENCE WORLD AT TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE – REGENERATION AND RENEWAL OF VANCOUVER’S SCIENCE WORLD
ALL GALLERIES ARE NOW OPEN
Big changes are taking place at Science World. The building was covered in scaffolding and the science centre is undergoing a $35 million renewal – the biggest in Science World’s history!
• Expanding the exhibition and education space - So that we can be even more inspired in an additional 14,000 sq ft of gallery space, including views of False Creek. School groups will also benefit from new labs and programming space!
• Expanding the lobby - For our added comfort when entering the building.
• Developing a covered outdoor lunch area - So we can eat outside in the shade and even on drizzly days.
• Making the building more environmentally sustainable - Because they care about the preservation of this historic icon and the environment.
Because of aging infrastructure and changing needs since it was designed for Expo in 1986, Science World required significant upgrades in order to survive for the next several decades. A building audit was carried out in 2004 which clearly identified that extensive improvements are needed. However, prior to significant upgrading of building systems and the envelope, it was important to consider the current and future needs of the organization and to plan the location of additions and deletions to the building program areas.
NOTTURNO PANINOTECA – GASTOWN – VANCOUVER
NOTTURNO – A MODERN ITALIAN PANINOTECA
Vancouver welcomes Notturno Paninoteca which makes a wonderful addition to GasTown’s Restaurants/Lunch Spots. You may all have heard of Panini but you have not truly experienced a Panino until you had one at Notturno Paninoteca. Each so tasty Panino, hand made, comes with a simple yet very refreshing Insalata which make a perfect combination.
With stylish and modern interior, Notturno Paninoteca is elegant and carries a comfortable atmosphere. The Restaurant presents a menu created by the famous centipede arm tattoo Chef – Adrian M. who brings us this modern Italian style spot as a delicious and an addictively tasty journey in town.
Notturno Paninoteca, so far only open for lunch is about to launch a full menu and extended hours so if you are looking for a gorgeous intimate space for a private party or an event, Notturno Paninoteca might be just the perfect fit.
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.
SCIENCE WORLD AT TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE – EXTREME DINOSAURS EXHIBITION – OUR PHOTOS
DISCOVER THE EXTREME!
These unusual beasts aren’t your parents’ dinosaurs – with ferocious feathers and handsome horns, some of these dinosaurs are unlike any you’ve seen before. We’d go as far as to say they’re extreme! Extreme Dinosaurs gathers some of the world’s strangest dinosaurs and gives you the inside scoop on their unique looks and how some may have been related to birds instead of reptiles. These life-sized animatronic creatures come to life and let you experience first-hand what it would have been like to share our world with these wacky reptiles. Learn how their extreme features were adaptations which helped to keep them warm, find food, make babies, and stay safe.
VANCOUVER’S 18TH ANNUAL WINTER SOLSTICE LANTERN FESTIVAL – OUR PHOTOS FROM DR. SUN YAT SEN CHINESE GARDEN – 2011
ONE FESTIVAL, FIVE NEIGHBOURHOODS
This year Vancouverites celebrated the longest night of the year, which was December 21, 2011 at the 18th Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival. Families, friends and neighbours lit their lanterns for the annual lantern procession through five of Vancouver’s unique neighbourhoods: East-Side, Yaletown, Granville Island, South-East False Creek and Chinatown and enjoyed performances, storytelling and the Labyrinth of Light in various locales. It was a great night.
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM VANCOUVER4LIFE
WE WISH EVERYONE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A FANTASTIC NEW YEAR!!!
18TH ANNUAL WINTER SOLSTICE LANTERN FESTIVAL – VANCOUVER – 2011
ONE FESTIVAL, FIVE NEIGHBOURHOODS – WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21, 2011
Celebrate the longest night of the year on December 21, 2011 across Vancouver at the 18th Annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival! Join family, friends and neighbours as they light their lanterns for the annual lantern procession through five of Vancouver’s unique neighbourhoods: East-Side, Yaletown, Granville Island, South-East False Creek and Chinatown – and enjoy performances, storytelling and the Labyrinth of Light in various locales.
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.
MOUNT SEYMOUR PROVINCIAL PARK – VANCOUVER
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN MAGNIFICENT SNOW CAPPED MOUNTAINS AND BREATHTAKING VIEWS OF VANCOUVER, THE ISLANDS AND THE VALLEY.
ABOUT MT. SEYMOUR
Located just 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver, Mount Seymour Provincial Park has been enjoyed by generations of Lower Mainland residents. The park offers viewpoints overlooking the city of Vancouver and east over Indian Arm Provincial Park. There are opportunities for bird and wildlife viewing and four areas for day-use picnicking are available. There are several lakes in the park with Elsay Lake being the largest. Its waters and those of De Pencier, Gopher and Goldie drain eastward to Indian Arm. Some of the smaller lakes and ponds feed their waters west to the Seymour River. Mount Seymour rises to to a summit of 1,449 m (4,754 ft) and the park size is 3508 hectares.
Visitors will find many trails of various lengths and difficulty. Lower mountain trails are used extensively by mountain bikers and hikers, while upper mountain trails are restricted to hiking. Winter trails are put in place Mid-December thru March 31 each year. Winter snowshoe trails and ski trails marked by BC Parks do not require a permit or pass. The park also offers extensive winter recreation facilities including skiing, snowshoeing and a supervised snow play area operated by Mount Seymour Resorts. Mount Seymour also offers a multitude of activities for summer recreationalists, include, hiking, picnicking, wildlife viewing, and mountain biking. (more…)
VANDUSEN BOTANICAL GARDEN – FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS – OUR PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING NIGHT
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS 2011 – THE OPENING NIGHT WAS A HIT!!!
The Festival of Lights at the VanDusen Garden this year was as magical as always. The turnout was great and the garden filled with both adults and children who were mystified by this truly wonderful yearly event.
