The much-anticipated CRAFT Beer Market is set to open November 7th in the old Salt Building in the heart of The Village on False Creek. This mega pub will have the most taps in Canada with 140 beers on tap — 50 of which are brewed right here in BC.
The 13,000-square-foot space has room for 400 seats, plus a 50-person patio. Inside, the architecture of the circa-1930 Salt Building, which was actually used for storing and packing salt back in the day, has been lovingly preserved. The feel is of an airy, vintage warehouse, with rough-hewn timbers criss-crossing overhead and light filtering in from massive windows. The open space is dominated by a large, oval-shaped bar, with a pair of mezzanine areas overhead. [Inside Vancouver]
Venue features include the original wood structure from the 1930s, high ceilings, and historic trusses. The kitchen has an open concept, there is a private room and mezzanine level for special events, it is Certified LEED Gold, and the largest LEAF Certified Restaurant in Canada. Over 250 kegs in house hold 5,000 gallons of beer (over 19,000 litres), and flow through over 3km of draft lines.
Of course you have to pair all of this beer goodness with great food so the focus will be on North American cuisine, drawing from local inspiration and ingredients. Gluten-free options, Sunday brunch, an extensive wine and cocktail menu will diversify CRAFT Beer Market’s offerings.
CRAFT Beer Market Opening Contest
If you would like to walk through the doors and check out CRAFT Beer Market before the general public on Thursday, November 7, 2013, I have the opportunity to give away 5 double passes to the sneak-peak preview event on Wednesday, November 6, 2013. At this preview event, which will run from 5:00pm until 8:00pm, guests will enjoy complimentary drinks and small bites as they check out the impressive space. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment naming your favourite Canadian beer (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw 5 winners (who will each get a double pass) at 12:00pm on Friday, November 1, 2013. Must be legal drinking age (19+) to enter, win, and attend. Please enjoy responsibly.
CRAFT Beer Market is located at 85 West 1st in the Salt Building and also has locations in Calgary and Edmonton. Follow on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
Update The winners are Peter A, Andy Lumb, Dave, Chantel, and @andreastwocents!
Canzine West is coming up on Saturday, November 2nd, featuring workshops and speaker sessions that will discuss independent publishing, storytelling, and more along with a Zine Fair with vendors, zines, comics, small press books, and over one hundred titles on display.
When Saturday, November 2, 2013 from 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Where Ukrainian Hall (805 E Pender St, Vancouver)
Tickets $5 admission at the door or $10 includes admission and a year’s subscription to Broken Pencil Magazine.
Canzine West Line-Up
2:00pm to 3:00pm the “1-2 Punch Book Pitch”
You get two minutes to pitch your book to our panel of judges. They get one minute each to tell you why you’ll never get published in a million, billion years, or why they want to see your manuscript in their inbox ASAP. The winner of the pitch gets bragging rights and a Broken Pencil prize pack worth $200. Judges include Brian Kaufman (founder of subTerrain), Kevin Chong (editor at Joyland).
3:00pm to 4:00pm the “Personal in the Panel: Autobiography in Comics”
The ongoing show Bio/Graphic: Autobiography in Comics at the Seymour Art Gallery presents the work of six diverse Vancouver artists who work in the autobiographical comic medium. Three artists from that exhibit — Miriam Libicki, Sarah Leavitt and Colin Upton — will discuss the challenges and craft of representing real life in graphic form at this panel moderated by show curator Luke Krienke. Presented in conjunction with the Seymour Art Gallery.
4:00pm to 6:00pm “Meaghen Buckley: Reading With Chair”
Reading with Chair is a commentary on the body’s role in the immersive experience of reading. The self (body and mind as one) is in dialogue with the text, but the body, locus of all sense experiences, is generally restricted to a few key interaction functions: supporting the book’s weight, turning pages. In reading, one enters into another world, leaving behind the whole body as gatekeeper – in some sense an out-of-body experience. As someone who still occasionally walks around while reading, in this performance Meaghen gives the body freer reign to satisfy itself, its motions and actions somehow not disrupting the intense connection between eyes and page.
4:00pm to 5:00pm “Four Eight-Minute Hyperspeed Talks”
From: Geoff Mann, Jordan Abel, Catherine Owen, Cathy Busby, Aimee Henry Brown.
5:00pm to 6:00pm “Vancouver Writers Series at Canzine West” with Jennica Harper
MFA Opening Readers include Taylor Basso, Matthew Walsh, Alessandra Naccarato.
Canzine West is presented by Broken Pencil, a print magazine published four times a year. It is one of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. Read Broken Pencil for reviews of the best zines, books, websites, videos and music from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press. Follow Canzine West on Facebook to learn more about the event.
Even after all of the free samples at the West Coast Women’s Show — everything from Turkish coffee and olive oil to hummus and fruitcake, I couldn’t resist crunching on some pumpkin, cranberry Monkey Toast when I got home along with a sweet spoonful of Campbell’s Gold Honey. The West Coast Women’s Show was absolutely hopping at TRADEX in Abbotsford during its first full day, here are just a few of the show’s highlights for me:
Gluten-Free, Grills, and Glamour
To start, TRADEX is a giant venue (twice as big as I thought when I first walked through the doors) and it was filled with women yesterday who were shopping, enjoying a martini and a fashion show, and getting their nails done. The biggest crowds at first glance were at the gluten free product stands, the grill appliance demos (that smelled amazing, cooking up zucchini, chicken, and sausages) and at glamour booths where attendees could get henna on their hands, glitter eye shadow, or gel nail polish.
Shopping
There was really so much to see and do that I went through twice, once along and once with a friend, and I still don’t think I got to everything after 2 hours. We did a quick stop at the fashion show and sipped some Skinny Grape wine samples as Hall of Flame calendar firefighters signed autographs, we heard all of the pitches from the stone cookware booth and Norwex cloth ladies, and made some great purchases. I bought the aforementioned Monkey Toast, made by a local couple in Horseshoe Bay, some Campbell’s Gold Honey that I visited on a Circle Farm Tour this summer, and I was almost sold on some hot packs, a purse with designs by Corrine Hunt, and some loose-leaf teas.
Saturday and Sunday
There are still two full days of the West Coast Women’s Show packed with kitchen demos, health and wellness, samples, shopping, and much more. The show will run Saturday, October 26, 2013 from 10:00am to 9:00pm; Sunday, October 27, 2013 from 11:00am to 5:30pm at TRADEX in Abbotsford. Admission is $12 for adults, $9 for seniors ($7 on Friday from 1:00pm to 4:00pm), $9 for youth (13-17), $4 for children (6-12), and children 5 and under are free. Ticket prices include GST. Ticket sales are cash only at the gate at TRADEX.
Follow the West Coast Women’s Show on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
Walking tours are a fantastic way for visitors to learn about our city and for locals, they help us understand more about our own backyard — while often being highly entertaining. Tour Guys, Vancouver’s largest walking tour company, has re-launched their overwhelmingly popular “Murders, Mystery and Mayhem” tour for a third straight year.
“Murders, Mysteries and Mayhem” is the brainchild of two East Van natives, Jessica O’Neill and Alasdair Butcher, passionate local historians who grew up on Commercial Drive and in Strathcona. Jessica explains how the tour came about. “I’d been guiding with Tour Guys for 2 years, and when (owner) Steve Woodall asked me to write a Halloween tour, I was excited. But that quickly turned to disappointment when I realized how flimsy and fake most of Vancouver’s ghost stories are!” The solution? A tour comprised of the really scary stuff – the true stories of crime, killings and terror.
This tour explores a Vancouver “that is more than natural beauty, tall glass towers and high property values — a Vancouver that has changed less than you’d think since its days as a rough and dirty mill town in the 1860s.” Departing from the Vancouver Art Gallery, guests make their way to Gastown, taking an unexpected route that includes going down dark alleys, through eerily lit squares and even indoors to see a larger than life riot.
“Murders, Mysteries and Mayhem” runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 6:00pm and 8:00pm (more dates/times added as needed) until the first weekend of November. It is recommended for those over the age of 12.
50% Promo Code & Contest
The Tour Guys have graciously setup a promo code of “MISS604” for my readers to receive 50% off their ticket purchase for tours this week and next. Use this link to receive the discount when booking.
I also have a pair of tickets to give away for one of next week’s walking tours. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment here naming a creepy/scary place in Vancouver (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Sunday, October 27, 2013. The winner will be able to attend the tour on either October 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st or November 1st (their choice). Follow Tour Guys (Vancouver and Toronto) on Facebook for more information about their seasonal and year-round tours.
Update The winner is Shirley!
The Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival (“VISAFF”) opens this weekend with a red carpet gala event on Friday followed by two days of film screenings at SFU Woodwards.
Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival
Opening Gala Reception
The opening red carpet gala on Friday, October 25, 2013 will take place at the Goldcorp Centre for Performing Arts at SFU Woodwards; promising an evoking atmosphere and an unforgettable evening of red carpet glamour, live performances, key note speakers and official trailers of all the films selected for VISAFF 2013. The reception is scheduled from 7:00pm until 12:00am and tickets are available for purchase online for $25.
The evening will include Vancouver comedian, Hollywood Harv, film trailers for the weekend’s screenings, and an introduction of the VISAFF founders. Priyatharshini Raja & Arash Kakpour will perform a contemporary dance piece and former Miss Universe contestant, Shalini Kumar will sing live. Director Tandy Tatter will introduce his film The Ink Doc while Amandeep Singh “Inkquisite” will be having a mini art exhibition in the outside lobby area, giving guests the option to silent bid on some of his beautiful pieces of work.
Saturday and Sunday Screenings
Saturday, October 26, 2013 is the first official day of the VISAFF and screenings will run from 12:00pm until 7:30pm at the Goldcorp Centre for Performing Arts at SFU Woodwards. The schedule begins with student films, followed by numerous short film titles emphasizing a strong female focus, a feature documentary and the ending the day off with a feature horror film. All the screenings will be divided into blocks and tickets can be purchased for these groupings or for the full day.
Sunday, October 27, 2013 is the second and final day of the film festival at the Goldcorp Centre for Performing Arts at SFU Woodwards with screenings from 3:00pm until 6:30pm. This day will feature numerous short film titles emphasizing a modern man focus and ending with a feature film . All the screenings will be divided into blocks and tickets can be purchased for these groupings or for the full day.
VISAFF’s purpose and vision is to “bridge the gap” between South Asian films and mainstream audiences. VISAFF is instrumental in breaking the South Asian stereotype, and expanding North American views on the artists within the culture beyond Bollywood. The festival is committed to serving as a launch pad for integration through celebration and education. Follow the festival this week on Twitter and Facebook for more information.
