The Vancouver Canadians are hosting the inaugural Strike Out Heart Disease Celebrity Softball Game, presented by Blake, Cassels & Graydon and Deloitte, on Wednesday, June 12th out at Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium. This game, played by local media personalities (including yours truly), celebrities and dignitaries, is in partnership with St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation to raise funds and awareness of the risks of heart disease across the Lower Mainland.
What: Strike Out Heart Disease Celebrity Softball Game
When: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 with first pitch at 7:05pm
Where: Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium
Tickets: Admission is just $2 for this special celebrity/charity game with 100% of proceeds going to St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation. Tickets can be picked up at the Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium box office or by calling (604) 872-5232.
Strike Out Heart Disease
Strike Out Heart Disease began in 2012 in joint partnership with the Vancouver Canadians and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation. Corporations, individuals and fans make donations based on the number of strikeouts recorded by Vancouver Canadians pitchers over the course of the season. In 2012, the Canadians recorded 570 strikeouts which generated more than $14,000 towards the Strike Out Heart Disease initiative. This year, Canadians owner Jake Kerr has stepped to the forefront of this cause and stated that he will match all funds raised up to $25,000 to help St. Paul’s Hospital and its Foundation.
This will be a soft launch for the upcoming season of great baseball that will officially begin on June 17th at Nat Bailey when the reigning (two time) Northwest League Champion Vancouver Canadians take on Spokane.
I am proud to once again be the Social Media Sponsor of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards (the Jessies) and as such, I will be featuring a local theatre company every Thursday.
These profiles contain basic information about each company, as supplied by their team, and a list of their upcoming productions that you can check out in the coming season. Today’s feature company is: The Frank Theatre Company:
The Frank Theatre Company
Date Established: Incorporated in BC in 2002 as Screaming Weenie Productions
First Play Produced: The Well of Horniness
Total number of plays/events produced: 17 productions/readings since 2002
Founder: Ilena Lee Cramer
Artistic Producer: Chris Gatchalian
Mission Statement
Our mission is to explore the place of Queer (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered) individuals in society, and what it means to be Queer in a “post-gay” world, by developing, producing and presenting theatrical work that places Queer issues on a global canvas, work wherein issues of Queer marginalization intersect with other types of marginalization: i.e. economic, racial, gender, political.
Special Moment
“When our show Lounge, by Tanya Marquardt, provoked a huge debate among Jessie jury members about whether the show qualified as “theatre.” For that show, Tanya ended up winning the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright.”
Jessie Awards 2013
The Frank Theatre Company has two Jessie Award nominations this year:
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Small Theatre
Sean Harris Oliver in Unstuck
- Outstanding Original Script
Jan Derbyshire for Turkey in the Woods (with Cranberry Sauce Equity Coop)
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View all of my Theatre Thursday profiles by browsing the Jessies tag.
Be a tourist in your own city (or a neighbouring city) on Saturday, June 22, 2013 as Surrey hosts Doors Open. From 11:00am to 4:00pm various businesses and attractions will open their doors to the public so that you can explore culture, history, architecture, guided tours, and more all for free.
At each Doors Open site you can pick up a brochure to take around to others and collect stamps, like a passport. For every 5 stamps you collect, you will be entered into a prize draw, just drop off your completed brochure at your last stop.
All participating venues are listed online [Download the PDF] and they include everything from Holland Park, Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre, Newton Library, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, to the Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association, Royal Canadian Legion, Round Up Café, and the RCMP District Office.
Hop on a free hop-on/hop-off trolleys to get around to Surrey Doors Open sites as well. You can catch them regularly between 11:00am and 4:00pm from North Surrey Recreation Centre (10275 City Parkway); Bear Creek Park (access off of 88th ave east of King George Blvd), Newton Recreation Centre (13730 72nd street); and Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara (7050 120th street).
Sign up for the Surrey Doors Open e-Bulletin for more information leading up to the big event. Miss604 is a proud Media Partner of Surrey Doors Open 2013.
Commercial Drive will be even more alive with music, food, and art this Sunday for Italian Day, a free family festival for all. Food, dance, art, fashion, music, costumes, contests, and live performances will be abundant thanks to the Italian Day Festival Society who is bringing a touch of Venice to Vancouver with Carnevale di Venezia.
What: Italian Day on Commercial Drive
Where: Sunday, June 9, 2013 from 12:00pm to 8:00pm
When: Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Merchants will be participating by opening their doors and setting up booths to showcase their products and services. Main and Secondary Stage events include the opening ceremonies, a Jacqueline Conoir fashion show, entertainment from the Langley Ukelele Ensemble, a pasta eating contest, a pizza tossing contest, a watermelon eating contest, a grape stomping contest, the Vancouver Folk Chorus, and more.
New this year is the Cucina Italiana, which will host outdoor cooking demonstrations at Graveley Street with award-winning Chef/Instructor Romy Prasad and four other Vancouver chefs who will be cooking up Italian favourites.
June is also Italian Heritage Month which has been organized by Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre and their partner organizations. This will see more events for children, movie nights, lectures, and banquets throughout the month. Follow @ICC_Vancouver and @ItalianDay on Twitter for more event and activity information.
Last year there was a symposium at SFU about the cultural impact of Curt Lang’s work and his name is one I come across often when perusing the Vancouver Public Library and City of Vancouver Archives. Lang was much more than a photographer and the symposium focused on a book by Claudia Cornwall titled: At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver.
Curt was a beatnik poet, painter, photographer, beachcomber, boat builder, fisherman, and software entrepreneur. He was born in Vancouver in 1937 and died there in 1998. He and Freddy Douglas were known as the two hippest guys in Vancouver during the late fifties and sixties. This book is my portrayal of Curt and the wild and crazy scene that swirled around him. [Claudia Cornwall]
1972: Pedestrians and theatres along 900 block Granville at night in the rain. VPL# 85922H.
“In many ways he was very multi-sided in terms of his personality and his effect on people and also of course he was multi-sided in the many things that he did. He was a poet who published poetry when he was 15, 16 years old, he painted and exhibited his paintings in the Vancouver Art Gallery. He took many photographs of Vancouver and those are in the Vancouver library and he started a book store which is still going today.” [Claudia Cornwall for North Shore News]
Along with Fred Douglas, Curt Lang (1937-1998) established the Leonard Frank Memorial Society of Documentary Photographers (named after the early BC photographer). Lang took thousands of pictures of everyday Vancouver and in an interview with Aileen Campbell of The Province in 1972 he said, “When I shoot, I feel I’m shooting for an audience thirty-five years from now.”
Related Photographer Posts: Stanley Triggs, Daniel O’Neill, Croton Studio, Art Jones, Philip Timms, Leonard Frank, Walter Edwin Frost, Bailey Bros., Don Coltman, Fred Herzog.
