Summer begins! Somehow it feels like we lost a whole season but we are slowing emerging from our Covid-19 spring to kick off the season with Father’s Day weekend and much more entertainment in these picks Solstice: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Celebrates the Solstice with renowned indigenous storytellers Dallas Yellowfly and Alysha Collie presenting “How the…
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Get a Taste of the PNE : Car-B-Q Edition – Held Over!
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…
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…
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…
Nominate Someone For 2020 Giving Heart Awards
Do you know a business or someone going above and beyond to give back to their community? Consider nominating them for the The Association of Fundraising Professionals Vancouver Chapter 2020 Giving Heart Awards at afpvancouver.org. The 14th annual Giving Hearts Awards honour outstanding individuals, volunteers, leaders, fundraisers, philanthropists and youth of Greater Vancouver’s non-profit and…
Tourism Week 2020 Shows #BCTourismMatters As BC Reopens.
Tourism Week, May 24 – 30, 2020, is normally a celebration of tourism and a way for the $20+ billion BC industry to kick off the upcoming season whilst showing that #BCTourismMatters, but Tourism Week in the Covid-19 era is anything but normal. With local and international travel restrictions to be upon us for the…
6 Local Charities Team-up for ‘Fighting Covid Together’ Auction
As a result of the COVID-19 era restrictions, non-profits are in for a very tough year of fundraising. As most events and galas are cancelled for the season the organizations are being force to come up with creative and innovated ways to raise funds to continue their good works. Six of British Columbia’s most well-respected…