Leaves disappear from branches, lapels sport poppies, and we cruise into the holiday season with returning festivals and craft markets around the region. This November I invite readers to join me in celebrating 10 years of Miss604 at my anniversary party on November 13th. Two days later, I encourage everyone to vote on Election Day in Vancouver. The full event list for the month is below and if you have anything to add, send details my way at any time as the list is updated every day.
November 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.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Parade of Lost Souls, East Vancouver
Dia de Muertos at La Mezcaleria with DJ Lejos
Museum of Anthropology Film Screening: Raza
15th Annual Rockin’ for Research Gala
Halloween Hangover Show with Elizabeth, Electric Oak, Altona at The Biltmore Cabaret
65 Roses Gala for Cystic Fibrosis Vancouver
Gunilla Klingberg at the Contemporary Art Gallery
Vancouver Opera: Stickboy
Vancouver Winter Farmers Market at Nat Bailey Stadium
Saturday Book Club at Vancouver Public Libraries
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Time Change! Turn Your Clocks Back 1 Hour
GDay for Girls
Creme de la Creme Wedding Show
Marketing for Hippies 101 Workshop
Vancouver Public Space Network: Last Candidate Standing
Quatuor Mosaïques in Recital
North Vancouver Arts Council Workshop: DIY Masquerade
All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver
Vancouver Archives Film Screenings
WW1: Vancouver’s WW1 Commemorative Places Bus Tour
Koerner Quartet: Nothing But The Classics
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I began assembling this collection of photos from the City of Vancouver Archives on Labour Day, hence the theme, and while it didn’t get published then, I still love these “on the job” photos of Vancouver workers throughout the years:
1887: C.P.R. crossing under construction on Cordova between Seymour and Granville Streets. Archives# Can P25.
1944: Workers cleaning the exterior of the Dominion Bank Building. Archives# CVA 1184-225.
1941: Workers processing salmon. Archives# CVA 586-700.
1910: Interior of Vancouver Map and Blueprint Company Limited at 441 Seymour Street. Archives# Misc P3.
1940s: Woman using the pneumatic tube delivery system at the offices of Kelly Douglas Ltd. & B.C. Telephone employee using a large adding machine. Archives# CVA 1184-2097 & CVA 1184-2882.
1914: Workers with sections of the facade of the Credit Foncier Building at 850 West Hastings which is under construction. Archives# M-14-93.
1947: B.C. Telephone workers at Robson Street. Archives# CVA 1184-2894.
1942: Workers assembling airplane parts at the Boeing plant on Sea Island. Archives# CVA 1184-1143.
1912: Interior of the real estate office of Lawson and Shepherd. Archives# Bu P681.
1947: United Airlines reservation staff at work. Archives# CVA 1184-2919. Photo by Jack Lindsay.
1946: Parsons, Brown [Limited office at 535 Homer Street. Archives# CVA 586-4166 & CVA 586-4170.
1909: Bridge workers on the second Granville Bridge during construction. Archives# CVA 1376-451. Bullen Photo Co.
1900: Letter carriers and inside workers in the post office at Pender Street and Granville Street. Archives# Port P957.
1930s: Railroad workers and B.C.E.R. engine number 981. Archives# CVA 677-384.
1900s: Interior of an unidentified office. Archives# CVA 371-146.
1943: Woman washing CPR car. Archives# CVA 586-1157.
104 years ago a philanthropic institution in Vancouver offered daycare for the children of working mothers for 10 cents a day. The Creche, first located at 752 Thurlow Street downtown, received children of women who have to go out to work “when their mothers are unable to give them personal care,”1 and it was Canada’s first such public institution.
1916: Children and supervisors at The Creche at Pender and Cambie. Archives# Bu P48.
The Vancouver City Creche was established in 1910 by the Associated Charities to provide a daycare centre for the children of working women. In 1912 the Creche became a public institution under the Health Department and new quarters were provided.2
The crèche began as the private undertaking of women from Vancouver’s small but influential network of suffragists and social reform activists. Its “founding mothers” included Helen Gregory MacGill, Mary Ellen Smith, Mrs. T.E. Aikins, and Mrs J.O. Perry. MacGill, a member of the University Women’s Club, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (wctu), and the Local Council of Women, was an outspoken advocate for women and children’s legal rights and the province’s first female juvenile court judge.3
According to The Progress Club, not only did The Creche care for children of working mothers, but it also had an employment bureau to find work for women.4 Eight months after it opened, 123 children from 95 families attended The Creche and 2,000 working positions were filled through the mediums of this bureau.
In 1917 the Creche building was transferred to the Infant’s Hospital and Creche was moved into the former Old Peoples’ Home on Cambie Street. In 1919, it stopped providing employment placement services and became solely a child care institution. And, throughout the 1920s, the public focus of the crèche was on the interests of neglected children. 5
The average daily attendance in January 1929 was 47 children per day. In 1932 the Creche was closed and the activities taken over by the foster home plan of the Vancouver Day Nursery Association which provided home-based child care for the city’s working mothers.
Sources:
1, 4: The Progress Club
2, 5: City of Vancouver Archives
3: “A Proper Independent Spirit”: Working Mothers and the Vancouver City Crèche, 1909-20 by Lisa Pasolli
We are so fortunate to live in a city with such an appreciation for the arts and I am thrilled to once again introduce Ballet BC‘s program for the season and to offer up a contest for my readers.
Photo by Michael Slobodian courtesy of Ballet BC
Ballet BC’s 2014-2015 Season
Ballet BC begins its 2014–15 season with No. 29 – a program marking the company’s 29th season and 29th new creation under the artistic leadership of Emily Molnar.
No. 29 features the World Premiere of White Act by Spanish-born choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan, the Ballet BC premiere of An Instant by Vancouver-born choreographer Lesley Telford and the reprisal of the explosive audience favourite A.U.R.A. by Italy’s Jacopo Godani.
A.U.R.A.(Anarchist Unit Related to Art)
Ballet BC Premiere: November 2012
Choreography: Jacopo Godani
Music: 48nord
Set to a dynamic electronic acoustic score by German duo 48nord, A.U.R.A. is sleek and startling in its relentless intensity, showcasing Jacopo Godani’s explosive and kinetic style. The provocative nature of A.U.R.A. combined with its virtuosic physicality proved highly successful with audiences and critics in Vancouver and abroad.
White Act
World Premiere
Choreography: Fernando Hernando Magadan
Spanish-born choreographer Fernando Magadan, a new voice in contemporary dance, reveres beauty, passion and nature, as well as the supernatural, and explores “…our constant attraction to everything that confronts and challenges the laws of physics against our mortal nature.” In this new work, he uses his clear artistic voice to create a complex, emotionally abundant world.
An Instant
Ballet BC Premiere
Choreography: Lesley Telford
Music: Michael Gordon, Weather
Inspired by Wislawa Szymborska’s poem Could Have, Vancouver-born choreographer and dancer Lesley Telford investigates “…the moment you wake up when chance, circumstance and unpredictability interrupt our planned lives. A critical moment may shift our direction in a split second.” Set to Weather by Michael Gordon, Telford’s work is beautifully poignant in its exploration of the fragile balance and illusion of life’s stability.
No. 29 plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre at 8:00pm November 6th to November 8th, 2014. Tickets range from $30.00 to $80.00 (including service charges) and can be purchased through Ticketmaster at 1-855-985-2787 (855-985-ARTS) or online via Ticketmaster.
Win Tickets to Ballet BC’s Season Opener
If you would like to attend No. 29, I have a pair of tickets to give away. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Monday, November 3, 2014. Follow Ballet BC on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information.
Update: The winner is @SpazzyLesbian on Twitter!
Back in 2008 I liveblogged the Interesting Vancouver event at the Vancouver Rowing Club. Founder Brett Macfarlane brought together over a dozen informative, creative, inspirational and thought-provoking speakers that night and the event has continued every year since. On Friday, November 7th, the 7th annual Interesting Vancouver will take place at the SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
Interesting Vancouver
Running from 6:00pm until 11:00pm, this fascinating gathering of the curious and unexpected will showcase the region’s most interesting people and the way they express their creativity through their hobbies, passions and obsessions.
Speakers
- Joan-E: a seven foot tall drag queen obsessed with bingo
- Jamie D. Grant: a paramedic/magician/artist who will change your life before you leave the room
- Kristin Lehman: popular film and TV actress who credits Vipassana meditation for saving her life
- Bev Davies: a legendary punk rock photographer from Vancouver’s thriving early music scene
- Craig Addy: a composer who heals people through improvised music as they lay under his piano
- Harrison Lee: 14-year-old national champion YoYo-er, and several more interesting people
- Lt. Col. Harjit Sajjan: Canada’s first Sikh commanding officer who passionately believes in the ripple effect
- Khelsilem Rivers: Indigenous multidisciplinary artist working to reverse the decline of Squamish language speakers
Tickets are available now for $25. Follow Interesting Vancouver on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
