Canstruction, a design/build competition now in its 13th year, returns to Downtown Vancouver as engineers and architects bring their interpretation of this year’s theme “Fact or Fiction” to life using canned goods.
Imagine an 8 foot tall Sasquatch, a giant optical illusion or huge talking watermelon built with thousands of cans of food! After the event, 100% of the food used will go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. Canstruction sculptures will be available for viewing (free) between Sunday, April 26, 2015 and Friday, May 8, 2015 at three venues:
Rotunda at Pacific Centre Mall, (5 sculptures) 701 W Georgia St at Howe St
Four Seasons Hotel, (2 sculptures) 791 W Georgia St at Howe St
Pendulum Gallery, (12 sculptures) 855 W Georgia St. at Howe St
Follow Canstruction on Twitter and Facebook for more information. Hours depend on the opening hours of the buildings in which the display will sit.
EAT Vancouver, the largest festival of its kind in Canada, returns to BC Place — and beyond — April 26th to May 3rd. This 13th annual gastronomic feast for the senses features an expanded eight-day program with more than 35 collaborative workshops, dinners and events taking place throughout Vancouver before culminating in a three-day show at BC Place Stadium May 1st to May 3rd.
EAT Vancouver Dinner Series
Happening around Vancouver from April 28th to May 3rd, tickets for the Dinner Series events are on sale now, with some already sold out:
Hidekazu Tojo of Tojo’s Restaurant welcomes Susur Lee, restaurateur/chef and former Iron Chef America competitor, Toronto, ON
Jackie Kai Ellis of Beaucoup Bakery & Café welcomes Toronto’s Anna Olson, host of Food Network Canada’s Bake With Anna Olson, at The Dirty Apron
Pino Posteraro of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill & Enoteca welcomes Mark McEwan restaurateur/chef and Food Network Canada notable, Toronto, ON
J-C Poirier of Ask for Luigi welcomes Jérémie Bastien of Restaurant Leméac, Montreal, QC
Wesley Young of Wildebeest welcomes Jesse Grasso of The Black Hoof, Toronto, ON
Joel Watanabe of Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie welcomes Michael Caballo and Tobey Nemeth of Edulis Restaurant, Toronto, ON
Andrea Carlson of Burdock & Co. welcomes Connie DeSousa and Jessica Pelland of CHARCUT Roast House, Calgary, AB
Trevor Bird of Fable Kitchen welcomes Carl Heinrich of Richmond Station, Toronto, ON
Lucais Syme of La Pentola welcomes Nick Nutting of Wolf in the Fog, Tofino, BC
Angus An of Maenam welcomes Nick Liu of DaiLo, Toronto, ON
Chris Whittaker of Forage welcomes Andrew Winfield of River Café, Calgary, AB
EAT Vancouver Workshops
Thirteen workshops take place in several venues across the city from April 26th to May 1st, giving behind-the-scenes access to some of the city’s hottest restaurants, markets and production facilities:
Baking at Home with Jackie Kai Ellis of Beaucoup Bakery & Café
Explore the World of Coffee with Grady Buhler of JJ Bean Coffee Roasters
Pizza Workshop and Gelatini Workshop with James Coleridge of Bella Gelateria
Fermentation Master Class with Jonathan Chovancek of Bittered Sling Extracts and Café Medina
Making Terrines at Home and For the Love of Bacon with John van der Lieck of Oyama Sausage Co.
Market Shop, Cooking and Lunch Experience with Pino Posteraro of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill & Enoteca
An Evening of Bourbon & BBQ with Darryl Lamb of Legacy Liquor Store and The Belmont Bar
Cheese and Wine Workshop with Allison Spurrell of Les Amis du Fromage
The Art of Butchery with Sebastian Cortez of Sebastian & Co. Fine Meats
Kickoff to BC Spot Prawn Season with Robert Clark and Mike McDermid of The Fish Counter and Steve Johansen of Organic Ocean
Outlandish Shellfish Kitchen Party with Ned Bell of Chefs for Oceans and YEW seafood + bar, and Tim Bedford of Vancouver Aquarium
All EAT Vancouver dinners and workshops, as well as the Canadian Flavours Gala and Hospitality Symposium, include a complimentary ticket to EAT Vancouver at BC Place.
EAT Vancouver at BC Place
The weeklong festival culminates with the biggest celebration at BC Place from Friday, May 1st until Sunday, May 3rd. Tickets are available now (or at the door) for under $20 and children 12 and under are free. This event features more than 250 exhibitors celebrating food, drink and cooking.
All-new programming takes centre stage, including: VIP Experiences; the “Talk & Taste” Stage; the Canadian Food Artisan Pavilion, sponsored by Edible Canada; the Craft Beer Alley, sponsored by the BC Craft Brewers Guild; an On-site Legacy Liquor Store; as well as appearances by luminary chefs such as Rob Feenie, Vikram Vij, Ned Bell, Anna Olson, Susur Lee and Mark McEwan.
I have an awesome EAT Vancouver and Cactus Club Cafe prize pack available for one lucky reader (and guest) that includes: 2 tickets to EAT Vancouver, VIP seating to see Rob Feenie (Canada’s first Iron Chef America Champion) on the Celebrity Stage at EAT Vancouver, and a $100 gift card for Cactus Club Cafe. Here’s how you can enter to win:
Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
RT to enter to win a @EAT_Vancouver prize pack w/$100 for @CactusClubCafe from @Miss604 #EatBuzz http://ow.ly/LIG0q
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, April 23, 2015. Must be 19+. Please enjoy responsibly.
The Wild About Vancouver Outdoor Education Festival kicks off a week of free, public events today that offer practical ways to get children (and adults) outdoors more regularly. Running from April 16th to April 22nd, events include beach walks, workshops, gardening sessions, kite flying, farm tours and more.
Wild About Vancouver aims to unite and create long-term sustainable Outdoor and Experiential Learning (“OEL”) networks for organizations, schools, youth programs, and the broader citizenry, including youth and First Nations, of Vancouver. It is organized by a collective of volunteers passionate about improving children’s lives and building supportive communities through OEL. Follow Wild About Vancouver on Facebook and Twitter for more information.
Record Store Day is a unique celebration of independent businesses that reaches every single continent (except Antarctica) bringing together nearly 1,400 record stores around the world with the people who love them. On Saturday, April 18, 2015, many Vancouver area record stores will participate in this global event.
This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
While there’s only one Record Store Day a year, the organization works throughout the year to create contests, special releases and promotions in order to spotlight these special stores on the other 364 days of the year. These include the Adapter Prize—which honors releases chosen as “The Best” by store staff and customers and Back To Black Friday which gives record stores exclusive releases as part of the attempt to redirect the focus of the biggest shopping day of the year to the desirable, special things to be found at local stores.
Record Store Day 2015 in Vancouver
On Record Store Day all vinyl lovers can enjoy special releases, sales, in-store events and performances, and record shopping until you drop. Participating record stores in Vancouver:
Gateway Theatre presents Out of a Dream, a new revue with songs from all 11 Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals including The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The King and I, Carousel, South Pacific and Cinderella from April 9th to April 25th.
Eva Tavares, Peter Jorgensen, Katie Murphy, Jenny Anderson. Photo credit Emily Cooper.
In association with Patrick Street Productions, these fresh faces and refreshing arrangements are tickling audiences with their exciting perspective on the Rodgers and Hammerstein hits we all know and love.
The cast includes Jennifer Andersen, Peter Jorgensen, Katie Murphy, Sayer Roberts, and Eva Tavares. The creative team is Peter Jorgensen, Director & Choreographer; Nico Rhodes, Musical Director & Orchestrations; Chris Allan, Assistant Director; Kayla Dunbar, Assistant Choreographer; Amir Ofek, Set Designer; Jessica Bayntun, Costume Designer; Jeff Harrison, Lighting Designer; Andrew Pye, Assistant Lighting Designer; Brad Danyluk, Sound Designer; Anne Taylor, Stage Manager.
Win Tickets to Rodgers and Hammerstein Out of a Dream
Out of a Dream opened on April 9th and I have a pair of tickets to give away to any remaining performance next week (except closing night, April 25th). Here’s how you can enter to win:
Leave a comment naming a Rodgers and Hammerstein song or work, from film, TV, or theatre (1 entry)
Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
RT to enter to win tickets to #RHOutOfADream at @Gateway_Theatre from @Miss604 http://ow.ly/LExf1
Gateway Theatre is located at 6500 Gilbert Road, Richmond BC. Follow the company on Facebook and Twitter for more information. I will draw one winner at random at 12:00pm on Saturday, April 18, 2015.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
