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Royal City Musical Theatre Presents: Oklahoma!

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Royal City Musical Theatre presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!. Celebrate the 70th anniversary of this show, hailed as the musical of musicals and filled with familiar tunes, until April 27th at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster. Over 44 cast members make up this large-scale production with Direction and Choreography by Valerie Easton, and Musical […]

Ceroc Around the Clock: Kitsilano Showboat Fundraiser

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Join Ceroc Vancouver on Saturday, April 27, 2013 for a 12-hour dance-a-thon fundraiser for the Kitsilano Showboat amphitheatre called Ceroc Around the Clock: Participants can enjoy different dance lessons every hour from 12:00pm to 7:00pm, and a dance party with performances from 8:00pm to 12:00am. COBS Bread will be sponsoring and providing free sustenance. Where […]

Archives Photos of the Day: Under Construction

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Everyone loves a good set of “Before and After” photos, even back in the 1910’s and 1920’s when buildings were forming the first downtown Vancouver skyline. This week I’ve picked through the Vancouver Public Library archives to put together a collection of photos of some of the city’s more well-known heritage towers and landmarks when […]

2013 Top 10 Endangered Sites Tour with Heritage Vancouver

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Since 2001, Heritage Vancouver has published a Top Ten Endangered Sites list bringing attention and awareness to buildings and landmarks around the city that may be threatened. 1923 – St Paul’s Hospital on Burrard. Archives item# Bu N251. From the first list in 2001: “Because of demolition, redevelopment, or neglect threatens so much of our […]

Vancouver Icons: Echoes

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Another Vancouver Biennale art project has been donated to the City of Vancouver, this time it’s Echoes by Montreal artist Michel Goulet. Echoes is a set of stainless steel chairs that were originally in the sand at Sunset Beach in 2005 and were moved to Kits Beach for Biennale in 2009. From far away it […]