Archive for July, 2011

Harmony Arts Festival 2011

Comments 84 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Harmony Arts Festival is West Vancouver’s annual 10-day summer celebration of all things food, performing arts, and visual arts happening July 29th to August 7th, 2011. Concerts Jeremy Fisher, The Dustin Bentall Outfit, Jim Byrnes, and more will have late evening performances on the Garden Stage at dusk (8:45 pm). We Are the City, […]

Vancouver Pride Week Festival & Parade 2011

Comments 4 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Vancouver Pride Week kicks off Saturday July 23 and will finish off with the Pride Parade (one of North America’s largest). Drawing over half a million people to events, festivities, and the parade downtown each year, it’s one of the region’s most-anticipated celebrations. Vancouver Pride Week There’s much more to Pride Week than the Pride […]

Tori Amos in Vancouver 2011

Comments 93 by Rebecca Bollwitt

Tori Amos is returning to Vancouver to play the Orpheum on December 13th. Performing most of her life and touring relentlessly since 1991, Rolling Stone has voted her one of the best live performers of all time. Tori Amos’s latest release and debut on Deutsche Grammophon Night of Hunters is a 21st century song-cycle, inspired […]

Langley Circle Farm Tour: Wineries

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

I recently visited several Circle Farm Tour stops with Tourism Langley that covered everything from turkeys to blueberry doughnuts. Three additional stops on this free, self-guided tour in Langley include the wineries. While most think of the Okanagan as BC’s wine country, these have been around for the better part of the last decade. Some […]

Surrey Fusion Festival 2011: It’s On

Comments 2 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The skies broke open and showered the Lower Mainland with rain this morning and while that stopped the Whitecaps from playing their game at Empire Field, out in Surrey the Fusion Festival was a go. Each year dozens of pavilions line Holland Park and the tents – filled with cultural displays, merchandise, music, and food […]