TEDxVancouver, an independently organized TED-style event, returns this year to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with a diverse lineup of local speakers on October 18th. The theme for this year’s event is TILT: “TILT is about exploring and conquering these illusions in order to unleash potential. Attendees can expect an inspiring, thought-provoking program designed to awaken curiosity and shift perspectives.”
What TEDxVancouver
When Saturday, October 18, 2014
Where Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
Tickets Available online now for $116.39 (including taxes and fees, and lunch)
TEDxVancouver Speakers
Confirmed speakers so far include:
Jeff Mudgett, author of Bloodstains; Dr. Terry Pearson, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at UBC; Coleen Christie, CTV News anchor; Chip Wilson, founder and former chairman of Lululemon; Peter Gregson, award winning cellist; Dr. Jennifer Gardy, Senior Scientist and Nature of Things guest host; Jessica O’Reilly Sexologist, author, TV host; Jay DeMerit retired Whitecaps FC captain, entrepreneur; Treana Peake, designer and founder of Obakki; Victor Chan, writer and co-founder of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education; Charles Montgomery, author and urban experimentalist.
Win Tickets to TEDxVancouver
If you would like to attend this inspirational day of stories, networking, and experiences I have a pair of tickets to give away courtesy of TEDxVancouver. Here’s how you can enter to win your way in:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 7, 2014. View previous TEDxVancouver videos online and follow along on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
Update The winner is Jennifer Breakspear!
Music Heals, the charitable foundation formed to fundraise for music therapy and related services across Canada, is hosting a special gala evening of memorable entertainment, food, drinks, dancing, and of course music on October 23rd. Strike A Chord: A Benefit For Music Heals will directly benefit music therapy programs in our community.
What: Strike A Chord: A Benefit For Music Heals
When: Thursday, October 23, 2014 from 7:00pm to 2:00am
Where: The Imperial, 319 Main Street
Tickets: Available online for $150 (+ fee)
Featuring: The Matinee, Kutapira, Chin Injeti, Omar Khan, The Boom Booms, DJ’s Sincerely Hana and Rico Uno, and a special guest appearance by Serena Ryder.
Music Heals’ mission is to support a wide range of music therapy services to communities across Canada by providing ongoing funding for those agencies that develop and use music therapy.
Music therapy is the skillful use of music and musical elements by an accredited music therapist to promote, maintain, and restore mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Music has nonverbal, creative, structural, and emotional qualities. These are used in the therapeutic relationship to facilitate contact, interaction, self-awareness, learning, self-expression, communication, and personal development. — Canadian Association for Music Therapy.
Current Music Heals programs include: The “Bandwagon” which is the world’s first mobile recording studio, designed specifically to assist Music Therapists working with patients at their bedside; and the iPod Pharmacy. Follow Music Heals on Twitter and Facebook for more information and get your ticket today for Strike a Chord.
The highly-anticipated Fort Langley Cranberry Festival is coming up on Saturday, October 11, 2014 from 10:00am to 4:00pm in the heart of the Village of Fort Langley.
Presented by the Fort Langley BIA, this free festival will have a pancake breakfast, food trucks, entertainment, kids’ play areas, unique vendors, participation from local shops and studios, nearly 100 vendors, and of course the freshest of cranberries.
The Fort itself will also have 50% off admission (Saturday only) with cranberry-themed programming all the way through Sunday and Monday that long weekend.
Discover the history of cranberry use by First Nations people in British Columbia, and how the Hudson’s Bay Company exported these treasured fruits in the 1850s. A cranberry treasure hunt will take place throughout the weekend, you can watch a barrel-making demonstration, make cranberry bannock at 11:00am, 2:00pm and 4:00pm, play cranberry-related games and more.
There will also be participation from
The Fort Wine Co. who was generous enough to let Marc Smith and I stroll through their flooded cranberry bogs last year. It was definitely a Vancouverite’s “bucket list” experience!
About BC Cranberries
I researched cranberries around the region for a piece I wrote for Tourism Vancouver last year and found all kinds of interesting facts:
- The cranberry is one of only three commercially-grown fruits that are native to North America.
- Traditionally, cranberries were hot trading commodities at Fort Langley (aka the Birthplace of BC) as local First Nations used them for food, dyes, and medicine. They would trade cranberries for HBC blankets, beads, and other items. In fact in 1858, cranberries were actually worth more than salmon.
- Of all the cranberries harvested in Canada every year, about 60% are grown for Massachusetts-based Ocean Spray, to which most BC cranberry growers belong as a cooperative — as a result 90% of BC cranberries are shipped to the USA.
- Approximately 50% of BC’s crop is used to make sweetened dried cranberries, 40% is made into juice, 9% is sold whole frozen and 1% is sold fresh, according to the Government of BC.
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October is one of the busiest months in Vancouver thanks to fundraising galas, Halloween, haunted tours, and cultural festivals.
A few long-running events this month include: Diwali Fest, the Zombie Syndrome, the Lost Souls of Gastown Tour, the Chinatown Haunted House, Stanley Park Ecology Society’s Creatures of the Night, and the Bear Creek Park Train will have the Pumpkin Express earlier in the day followed by the Haunted Forest Scream Train in the evenings.
As always, should you have an event you would like to include on the event list, please feel free to send details my way.
October Events in Metro Vancouver
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Multi-Day Events
Events that run for longer than three days in a row are highlighted in green below.
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SPUD, your local online grocery and organic produce delivery service, is expanding delivery options for its customers in Vancouver, offering a new Express service.
New SPUD Express service means Metro Vancouver shoppers can choose their own delivery day, increasing options for those seeking a convenient way to have local, certified organic and natural grocery products delivered right to their door.
Choose fresh produce, dairy, bakery, meat and seafood, deli, beverages, ready to eat snacks, health and beauty, and home products line cleaning materials. SPUD orders are fully customizable based on your individual needs.
There are no contracts, and no minimum order size. You are free to order however much you want, as often you like. You can create a standing order and receive weekly or bi-weekly deliveries of your staple grocery items, save your lists online containing grocery items you’ve ordered before, or sign up for Fresh Harvest Boxes to get fresh in-season fruits and vegetables weekly or bi-weekly.
SPUD delivers to your house, apartment, or office between 9:00am and 9:00pm each day. You don’t have to be home to receive your bin, and you can make changes to your order up until 3:00pm on the day before your delivery day.
SPUD Express joins SPUD’s Free Weekly Delivery option, rolled out mid-September, giving shoppers the option to choose their own delivery day and get as many orders as they like for a small fee. Whatever service customers choose, SPUD continues to offer the lowest minimum order in the city.
To take advantage of the flexibility of SPUD Express, shoppers simply click the button to ‘Change Delivery Date’ at the online Checkout and choose the day they would like their ordered delivered. SPUD Express is currently available for shoppers in most of the Metro Vancouver region, as well as in Calgary.
Special Offer
If you would like to give SPUD a try, I have a promo code that you can use to receive $30 off your first order of $60 or more. Simply enter code MISS604 at checkout to take advantage of this offer. Follow SPUD on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube to learn more.
