Connect with your community this summer and you could win a flight to an Asian paradise, direct from YVR! Find the YVR Community Festival Booth at an upcoming event, sport one of the contest t-shirts, share your photo, and you could win. YVR has strong linkages to Asia, with up to 134 direct flights per […]
Richmond is getting a full day festival of music, food, and culture and they’re kicking it off in style! This morning the official announcement was made that Matt & Kim, the dynamic indie dance duo from Brooklyn, will headline the Richmond World Festival, presented by Coast Capital Savings. Richmond World Festival Where Minoru Park, 7191 […]
Following the success of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and the continued — and amazing — fan support for Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Donnelly Group pubs are preparing for the launch of the Barclays Premier League season. Starting August 8th, soccer fans all over the Lower Mainland can wake up early and head to the pub […]
Canada’s best-known improvisor, Colin Mochrie, will team up with Vancouver TheatreSports League (“VTSL”) for three special shows this month at the Improv Centre on Granville Island. Colin is an alumnus of both VTSL and Toronto’s Second City comedy troupes and he was a regular on both the British and American versions of Whose Line Is […]
Vancouver was incorporated in April of 1886 and the months that followed were full of growth, development, and unfortunately a giant setback in the form of the Great Vancouver Fire. By the time August rolled around, the city was rebuilding and as Chuck Davis notes in his History of Metropolitan Vancouver, it was usually a […]