While this year’s Pacific National Exhibition is cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions, it doesn’t mean we can’t get a taste of the PNE. Fair Food is one of the biggest draws to visitors to The Fair, alongside the Playland rides, nightly concerts, pig races and Super Dogs. A Taste of the PNE is an initiative…
Author: Jay Minter
DOXA Online Film Festival 2020 Line-Up, Ready To Stream
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, is returning screens, very near you, next week June 18 to June 26, 2020. Originally scheduled to hit theatres May 7-17, DOXA, like many cultural events of the COVID-19 era, the festival has been relaunched as an online edition. The online DOXA festival will feature over…
Fore! Tee-Off as Golf Courses Reopen
As summer approaches and Covid-19 restrictions are cautiously easing, Golf is one of the activities that has returned and welcoming guests to enjoy the outdoors. Like all activities in the Covid-19 era, reopening includes new healthy and cleaning protocols and physical distancing. Most courses have removed touch points from across the course like benches, shoe…
Picks of the Week – June 10, 2020
Another week into BC’s reopening as we find more of a mix of virtual and real world entertainment and activities in these picks of the week. Choir: Chor Leoni Inside, continues tonight at 7pm, with the choir’s livestream featuring new and previously unreleased videos from Chor Leoni’s past concerts and tours, with live commentary from Artistic…
Vancouver’s Museums & Galleries Are Making A Comeback From Covid-19 Closures.
Since March the city has been devoid of it’s arts and culture institutions. Closed for three months, number of the city’s museums and galleries are preparing to reopen their galleries and restart activities to coincide with Phase 3 of BC’s Restart. As with all business reopenings, there will of course be new health and safety…
BC Spot Prawn Season Brings The Delicacy From The Wharf, To Your Kitchen & Fave Restaurant.
BC Spot Prawn season is underway, with line-ups of customers at docks waiting for the fresh caught delicacy, and chefs adding them to restaurants menus or sharing recipes. Wild BC Spot Prawns are the largest shrimp species caught off the West Coast of Canada, and are known around the world for their sweet, delicate flavour…
Recommended Reading on Racism & Diversity from Russell Books
The recent deaths of George Floyd and others, at the hands of police, have spurred on protests, marches and riots across the globe. The protests and support for the Black Lives Matter movement has moved many people to seek to learn more about racism, diversity and black history. With the rising interest on these subjects,…