The summertime watershed tours now have a winter counterpart, which involves snowshoeing, education about our local environment, and a cup of hot chocolate.
Winter Watershed Snowshoe Tours
Enjoy a moderately strenuous snowshoe tour as you learn about the important role our snowcapped mountains play in the collection and storage of your drinking water. Learn about adaptations of the local plants and animals that call the Seymour Watershed home.
There is currently a waitlist for the January 25th and February 15th tours but February 19th, February 22nd, March 8th, March 12th, March 15th, and March 22nd are available to book today. The times are 9:30am to 1:00pm or 6:00pm to 9:30pm.
Find available dates and register online (click Available for Registration, then click Adult/Youth) or call 604-432-6359 to book. The fee is $18 per person, must be 18+ to participate.
Following through on your New Year’s resolutions has never been easier now that there is technology to help track, measure, boost, and even entertain while working out. Best Buy’s fitness solutions, both online and in-store, cover everything from wearable technology, health monitors, and training equipment to sports nutrition, vitamins and supplements, juicers and blenders.
Best Buy Fitness Giveaway
To motivate you to finish that lap of the Seawall or do that extra sweat-soaked set in the gym, I have a prize pack valued at $450 to help one Miss604 reader stay on top of their game:
Kaizen Naturals Whey Isolate, Kaizen Naturals Vegan Protein Powder, Monster Adidas in-ear isolating Headphones, Misfit Shine Activity Tracker, and a Breville Juicer! Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment naming your favourite way to stay in/get in shape (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Follow Best Buy Canada on Facebook and Twitter for more product information.
Update The winner is Christopher @teesang!
A few events occurred that have made False Creek a hot spot for nighttime photography in recent years. First, Science World updated its geodisic dome with LED lighting. Then we began populating the Olympic Village and South East False Creek developments. Finally, BC Place got a new roof with its Northern Lights display that can be customized to light up as a Union Jack, a poppy, or a bright rainbow for pride.
The combination of water, mountain views, sunsets, and dazzling light displays with the city in the background lead to some spectacular nighttime photography. Here are just a few of my favourite photos of BC Place at night that have been shared with the Miss604 Flickr Pool:
Stunning Photos of BC Place at Night
Related: Public Tours of BC Place, Archive Photos of BC Place.
The 2015 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival runs January 20th to February 8th, presenting groundbreaking work in the live performing arts. Last year, the festival had over 150 performances and events in 15 performance venues over 20 days. Attendance was almost 24,000 with 37 sellouts! PuSH has become a signature Vancouver event since it began in 2003, showcasing adventurous contemporary works in a spirit of innovation and dialogue.
Win Tickets to PuSh Festival Shows
I have tickets to give away to two PuSh Festival shows:
So Blue
So Blue by Louise Lecavalier (Canada). Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, DanceHouse & 149 Arts Society. Running January 20th and January 21st at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
Louise Lecavalier is a force to be reckoned with. She pushes against the limits of human movement. With the daring of an acrobat, the discipline of an ascetic and the ferocity of a wild animal, she gives a performance that explodes in energy. Along with partner Frédéric Tavernini, she leaps, spins and shakes onstage; as time goes on you may find yourself wondering how much further she can go. It’s a liberated expression of the body, and with her shape-shifting, androgynous stage persona she comes close to representing a wholeness that our gendered world divides. So Blue has a certain strangeness to it, like that of a ritual with its own secret rules, but Lecavalier never loses rapport with the audience. She’s an athlete, an artist and a spectacular entertainer, and her work is a triumph.
Enter to win a pair of tickets to the 8:00pm performance of So Blue on January 20, 2015.
- Leave a comment on this post with the name of this show (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Sunday, January 18, 2015.
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik by Tim Watts (Australia). Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival & Vancouver International Children’s Festival. Running January 21st to January 24th at The Waterfront Theatre
The oceans have risen, the land has been swamped, and the survivors look down at the water from the tops of skyscrapers and mountains. In this dazzling multimedia show, we follow the adventures of a man who braves the oceans. As human life lies on the brink of extinction, Alvin Sputnik will embark on a mission into the deep, to save the world and find the soul of his dead wife. Tim Watts is a puppeteer and animator at the top of his powers. Through this work, as performed by St John Cowcher, Watts evokes the enchantment of childhood wonder and the power of age-old storytelling, creating a world of beauty and wonder. Children and adults alike will be transfixed; this is an award-winning work of art that crosses boundaries of age. It’s a revelation, and a delight.
Enter to win a pair of tickets to the 8:00pm performance of The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik on January 23, 2015.
- Leave a comment on this post with the name of this show (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, January 20, 2015.
Purchase PuSh Passes and PuSh Tickets to attend the 2015 PuSh Festival. View the full lineup online and follow along on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
Update The winner is Annie!
