Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is one of the major events for Asian families as millions make visits to their home countries, towns and family, to celebrate the Year of the Pig, New Year celebrations and traditions. With Vancouver and Richmond’s large Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and other Asian communities, the cities are…
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Vancouver Art Gallery makes major announcements
This week, the Vancouver Art Gallery celebrated a major step forward to the development of a new home for the Gallery. The announcement of a $40 million lead gift from the Chan Family, brings the Gallery’s capital campaign to $85 million in private sector funding toward the new purpose-built facility. In recognition of this extraordinary…
Warm up to Hot Chocolate Festival 2019
Winter and Hot Chocolate are perfect match so what could be better than a whole winter month of Hot Chocolate! Presented by Cityfood Magazine, the 9th Annual Hot Chocolate Festival is now on until February 14th, 2019. The Festival finds 29 participants around the city creating an offering of 70+ varieties of chocolate drinks. The Hot Chocolate…
JFL NorthWest Promises Vancouver Laughs
Vancouver Just for Laughs Festival, JFL NorthWest brings 10 days of international comedy to Vancouver, February 14 – 23, 2019. For the fourth year, JFL NorthWest fills the city with the best, boldest and most outrageous stars of stand-up, improv, podcasts, and sketch comedy. The Best of the West draws attention to up-and-coming breakout comedy…
Vancouver Foodster launches 1st Vancouver Soup Festival
In the midst of winter, when nothing comforts like a bowl of soup, Vancouver Foodster has introduced the 1st Vancouver Soup Festival. From January 10 to 31, 2019, a different selection of soups will be featured weekly by each of the participating restaurants. Over the three weeks, the public is invited to visit and try…
Make a Dash for Dine Out 2019 Tickets
Since 2002 Vancouverites have been filling their winters and bellies with Dine Out Vancouver Festival’s prix fixe menu deals. What started with just 57 restaurants has grown to become Canada’s largest food and drink festival, with 300+ restaurants, breweries, wineries, events and more to indulge. From January 18 to February 3, 2019 restaurants from South…
5 Places To Plunge Into 2019
New Year’s Day brings many traditions, resolutions, new taxes and for many a Polar Bear swim or Penguin Plunge into frigid waters to kick the New Year into motion. Whether you take the plunge on your own or at an organized event, enjoy the start of your 2019. Here’s a few of the local Polar…