Vancouver’s first outdoor street dance festival launches this weekend with live performances and all the popping and locking you can handle.
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“We’re trying to create an all-ages, all people party atmosphere on a Saturday afternoon in Vancouver.”
This hip hop and breakdancing event takes place at Robson Square from 2:00pm until 7:00pm on Saturday, August 4th. Catch a dance battle, watch performers, listen to live music (from Omar Khan and The Star Captains), and participate in a dance class.
Follow the Vancouver Street Dance Festival on Twitter and Facebook for more information about this free, public event.
Close off the streets to traffic in Vancouver and people will dance. They’ll do swing, salsa, ballroom, and anything that makes their body move. Here are more FREE dance events in Vancouver this summer: Dance at Dusk in Stanley Park, Ballroom Dancing at Robson Square, and Swing Dancing on Granville.
Video Games Live, the world’s largest and most successful video game concert, is returning to Vancouver this fall. It’s a symphonic orchestral experience, mixing music from some of the greatest video games of all time.
Creator and producer Tommy Tallarico (world-famous video game composer) has put together segments that range from Final Fantasy and Zelda to Pokemon and Warcraft. His music evokes memories from first Nintendo box to tickling your ears with today’s modern sounds — from Earthworm Jim to Mass Effect.
This all-ages show has been described as: “All of the power and emotion of a symphony orchestra, combined the energy and excitement of a rock concert, mixed together with all of the cutting edge visuals, technology and fun that video games provide.”
The Video Games Live tour will start off in Toronto on October 25th and makes its way across the country, stopping at the Orpheum in Vancouver for one night only on November 6, 2012. Tickets are currently on sale starting at about $40.
I have a pair of tickets to give away as well, here’s how you can enter to win your way into this unique experience:
- Leave a comment naming your favourite video game of all time (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
Follow Video Games live on Twitter for more information. I will draw one winner at random from all entries next Friday, August 10, 2012 at 10:00am. Update The winner is Sean Hagen!
Blueberries are now in season and you can head out to local growers to pick up baskets full of these plump, sweet, juicy, and healthy morsels grown right in BC. This Saturday, Surrey’s Cloverdale community will be hosting their 9th annual Blueberry Festival in celebration of this boisterous berry that can be paired with salads and ice cream or devoured by the handful on their own.
Photo credit:
amerzzw on Flickr – Submitted to the Miss604 Flickr Pool.
On Saturday, August 4, 2012 from 9:00am to 5:00pm there will be a variety of events in downtown Cloverdale, at Clover Village Square, the Surrey Museum Plaza, and more. Festivities will take place between 176th and 180th Streets, and 60th Ave and Highway 10 and a free shuttle bus will run from venue to venue.
Events include the Surrey Show and Shine, a blueberry pie eating contest, BMX demos, pancake breakfasts and BBQs, an art festival at the museum’s plaza, an antique tractor pull and more. The Cloverdale Blueberry Festival is absolutely free to attend but you’ll want to bring your wallet so that you can get your fill of sweet summer bites.
Canada Place is introducing CanadaFest on their promenade this Saturday, August 4th. The goal of this new, free, family-friendly festival is to celebrate all things Canadian along with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. While Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II cannot be in attendance at CanadaFest, those who stop by the festivities can enter to win a prize fit for a royal.
Locate the Queen-A-Gram photo-booth at CanadaFest and snap a photo of yourself with a life-size cutout of the Queen. Post it to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or all three and mention @CanadaPlace & #QueenAGram in your post. You’ll automatically be entered in a draw to win an amazing trip for two to Victoria valued at over $1,700.
For those who cannot make it to Canada Place for CanadaFest on Saturday, post a photo of yourself doing your best regal wave with the caption: “Hi to everyone attending CanadaFest at @CanadaPlace on August 4th. #queenagram”. You will receive a bonus entry into the Victoria getaway contest. All Canadians (at age of majority in their province) are eligible.
The fabulous grand prize (compliments of Tourism Victoria) includes a two-night stay at the Fairmont Empress, transportation to and from Victoria with Pacific Coach, whale watching with Eagle Wing Tours, tickets to the Victoria Symphony, passes to the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre, buffet breakfast at the Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour, sight seeing tour with Big Bus, passes to Adrena LINE Zipline Adventures.
CanadaFest will take place from 11:00am to 7:00pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012 in and around Canada Place in downtown Vancouver.
Miss604.com is a proud media partner of CanadaFest at Canada Place.
The Vancouver Park Board launched a park-finding app for iPhone earlier this year. This free application allows you to locate a park on a map and click to see its amenities and facilities.
One feature I would love to see is a search by amenity. For example you could click on an icon and see all off-leash parks. Another would be integration with Google Maps so that you can get directions to a park.
A few weeks ago I asked Jason Watson, Communications Coordinator for the Park Board, about possible updates. He said that since the app launched in January they have had hundreds of downloads each month however, they are unsure if they’ll move ahead with a 2.0 version.
In the meantime, it’s a decent tool for quick park information (if there is a park near you, if it has a pool, etc.) You can also download the free Metro Vancouver iParks Explorer App for park listings and information around the entire region.
