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Happy Canada Day!
July 1st, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
It’s Canada’s Birthday! When the British North American Act came into being on July l, 1867 Canada was born.
We’re living in Vancouver, which is voted the 4th Best City In The World! We’re also living in British Columbia, which the BC Government tells us is the Best Place on Earth!
Here’s what’s happening in Vancouver over the next four days. Lots of fun outdoors.
Here’s Wiki’s version of our history.
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Share your Canada experience with us! I will be enjoying the rays on the Sunshine Coast. Have a wonderful weekend!
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Vancouver’s International Jazz Festival
June 27th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
This wonderful event is held June 20-29 at 40 venues around Vancouver. The TD Canada Trust Jazz Festival is an annual event.
Some music genres are everywhere you turn. Jazz isn’t one of them, so the organizers, TD Canada Trust, mad the decision to take this great music to the people, with pre festival conerts, special school events and free concerts. This is one of the greatest jazz fests, featuring 1,800 musicians in 400 concerts. Listen to the music whilst lazing in the David Lam Park in Yaletown.
Look for Herbie Hancock, along with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Pink Martini, Cowboy Junkies and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Whyton Marsalis.
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Vancouver Folk Music Festival
June 27th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
Vancouver’s Folk Music Festival is an annual event held July 18-20 at Jericho Park.
The event has 7 stages, great food, stunning views of Vancouver’s water and mountains. The festival’s “no star” policy means it rarely features famous folk singers but always has plenty of surprises and delights.
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Corteo by Cirque du Soleil
June 21st, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
Cirque du Soleil is in Vancouver from June 12 to July 20, 2008. It’s an annual event which performs under the blue and yellow tents at 50 Pacific Avenue.
This internationally aclaimed Act is presenting Corteo. Tickets run from $60-$220.
Corteo, which means “cortege” in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth.
The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels. Juxtaposing the large with the small, the ridiculous with the tragic and the magic of perfection with the charm of imperfection, the show highlights the strength and fragility of the clown, as well as his wisdom and kindness, to illustrate the portion of humanity that is within each of us. The music, by turns lyrical and playful, carries Corteo through a timeless celebration in which illusion teases reality.
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Festival d’ete
June 17th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
From June 14-24 are various locations around Vancouver, you must visit Festial d’ete, the Francophone Festival of Vanouver is an annual celebration of their culture and is organized by Le Centre Cultural Francophone de Vancouver.
The Vancouver festival features entertainment from more than 40 countries, with French as an official language. This year’s highlights include a children’s festial, the Quebecois musical trio Soir de Semaine, the musical duo Dobacaracol and solo folkie Plume Latraaverse.
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Vancouver International Song Festival
June 14th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
Vancouver’s International Song Festival runs from June 8-22
It’s held at UBC School of Music recital hall at 6361 Memorial Road and is a celebration of song. This festival includes 16 concerts, 6 in the evening and 10 during noon hour. As well there are public masterclasses and lectures.
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Vancouver Dragon Boat Festival
June 13th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
Vancouver holds an annual Dragon Boat Festival in False Creek June 21-22
The ancient Asian spectacle of dragon boat racing takes place in Vancouver’s False Creek.
It began at Expo 86. Vancouverites liked it and interest started to grow.
In 1989 former BC Lieutenant Governor Dr. David C. Lam and prominent businessman Milton K. Wong lead the creation of the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival.
The Festival was created to show off Vancouver’s growing cultural diversity and to promote racial harmony among Canadians - new and old. Vancouverites were invited to the festival to experience spectacular food, entertainment, arts and children’s programming reflecting Vancouver’s cultural diversity. At the same time, interest in paddling was taking off and more and more teams formed and registered each year. Read the rest of this entry »
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What to do on a Sunny Saturday in Vancouver?
May 31st, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
My favourite summer entertainment is Bard on the Beach, the colourful tent in Vancouver’s Vanier Park.
Bard on the Beach runs from May 29th-Sept 27th and is a Shakespeare Festival and has been indulging us with wonderful summer theatre for almot two decades. The main tent holds 520 people. Get there early for a good seat.
This season includes Twelfth Night, King Lear, The Tempest and Titus Andronicus.
Join a special event, such as Bard BBQ & Fireworks (during the Celebration of Light - another Vancouver summer delight) or Young Shakespeareans workshop.
Check out the schedule. Say hi if you see me there! I try to see them all.
What’s your favourite Bard? Do you attend the event and how many do you see? Have another favourite Vancouver event you’d like to share with us?
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EAT! Vancouver
May 19th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate
EAT! Vancouver runs from May 23-25 at BC Place Stadium.
Don”t miss this super food event featuring cooking demonstrations, chef cook-offs, the best of wines and beers and kitchen items on display. Best of all you get to taste glorious food and then to visit the Wellness Pavillion.
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George Lucas and the Digital Revolution
April 28th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events
Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour. April 16th 7.30 pm
Michael Rubin, author of Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution, and Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, former Director of Computer Graphics Research at Lucasfilm and co-founder of Pixar, present the inside story of George Lucas, his intensely private company, and their work to revolutionize film making.
In the process, they made computer graphics history. Discover the story of the birth of Pixar, digital video editing, video game avatars, THX sound, and a host of other icons of the media age. Lucas played a central role in the universe of entertainment technologies we see every day.
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