Hello, Dolly! at the Massey Theatre

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Hello, Dolly! is taking to the stage at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster next month with a full orchestra, brilliant costumes, and fabulous music.

Hello Dolly at the Massey
Photo credit: David Cooper Photography for Royal City Musical Theatre

Hello, Dolly! is the story of a turn-of-the-century widowed matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, who after cunningly negotiating marriages for others through a series comic and romantic entanglements, ultimately finds her own match. Adapted from Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, Hello, Dolly! was a hit with musical score by Jerry Herman and book by Michael Stewart. The show has many memorable musical numbers including Put on Your Sunday Clothes, Elegance, Hello, Dolly! and The Waiters Gallop.

Presented by the Royal City Musical Theatre (now in its 24th season), the 10-time Tony Award winning Hello, Dolly! will be at Massey from April 12th to April 28, 2012. Tickets are available online and start at just $20 for students and children, or $29, $39, $43 for adults.

Massey Theatre is at 735 Eighth Avenue in New Westminster. Performances are at 8:00pm Wednesday through Sunday with matinee performances Saturday and Sunday 2:00pm.

I have a pair of tickets for opening night on April 12th, here’s how you can enter to win:

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I will draw one winner at random from all entries on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 12:00pm. Follow Royal City Musical Theatre on Twitter and Facebook for information on upcoming shows.

Update The winner is Debbie!

Canstruction Vancouver 2012

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Canstruction returns Monday, March 26th as teams create imaginative sculptures using nothing but canned goods. This event will be open to the public with the price of admission simply being a donation to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.

Canstruction - Egyptian
Photo credit: The Vancouver Guy on Flickr – Submitted to the Miss604 Flickr Pool.

Canstruction has moved this year and will now be in 4 locations on Georgia Street: Four Seasons Hotel at Howe, HSBC Pendulum Gallery at Hornby, FortisBC Building at 1075 West Georgia, and the Flour Building at 1111 West Georgia.

The can-made structures will be on display daily from 9:30am to 5:00pm until April 4, 2012. When it’s all done, all of the food used to create the Canstruction sculptures will also be donated. Since 2002, Canstruction Vancouver has raised 1,056,043 cans of food for our local community.

Canstruction - Dragon Canstruction - Stanley Cup Canucks

Canstruction - Sponge Bob Minions
Photo credit: The Vancouver Guy on Flickr – Submitted to the Miss604 Flickr Pool.

Stop by as of Monday to see the creations from each of the 20 teams and contribute to the Food Bank, a local causes that needs year-round support. Follow the event on Twitter and Facebook for more information.

Lampadario by Braden Hammond at the Four Seasons

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Braden Hammond is the newest Artist in Residence at Vancouver’s Four Seasons Hotel. This local artist has been creating glass lighting concepts for years and will be showcasing his latest installation of flame-worked glass lights tomorrow night at the hotel. The piece, titled Lampadario, consists of hundreds of hand-blown crystal glass pieces inspired by traditional Italian blown glass forms.

The process and use of hundreds of glass points embody the Italian tradition of glass, hence the name Lampadario, meaning “chandelier” in Italian. When looking at the light, each point of glass jets out towards the viewer from every angle to produce a very three dimensional effect. A sensation further enhanced when the illuminated with LED lights. This series is by far one of Hammond’s most modern designs.

Lamparadio will be installed Saturday, March 24, 2012 with a public reception from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. It will then be on display at the Four Seasons until Friday, March 30, 2012, when it will also become available for purchase.

Braden Hammond has generously offered up a very unique prize for a Miss604.com reader and a guest to help promote Lampadario. He’s offering up a two-hour “Intro to Boro Beads Class” for two people, valued at $270. You can try your hand at manipulating borosilicate glass in flame and creating various styles of beads. Here’s how you can enter to win:

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I will draw one winner at random from all entries on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 12:00pm. Aside from lighting, Braden Hammond also creates jewellery, and leads various glass-works classes.

Update The winner is Melanie!

Blue Heron Colony in Stanley Park

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One of the things I love about Stanley Park is that it’s a natural oasis on the tip of a bustling metropolitan area. Taking a few steps under the canopy of evergreens, city sounds fade while the tune of rushing creek water amplifies. Raccoons prowl by the lagoon, bushy-tailed squirrels greet visitors, and harbour seals poke their heads up along the Sea Wall. Then there’s the blue heron.

Skimming
Photo credit: TylerIngram on Flickr

It’s a staple of any Stanley Park or Sea Wall trek, and often spotted at water’s edge. Earlier this month a colony of pacific blue herons returned to their Stanley Park nesting site for the 12th year in a row.

The Park Board has setup a fence around the colony to protect the birds and to also protect the public from any falling debris. Last season the bird occupied 110 nests and produced more than 100 fledglings. That number was down from previous years but it’s great to see them back.

Nesting Herons
Photo credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr

The Pacific great blue heron is considered a blue-listed species-at-risk in British Columbia. An average bird stands about one metre tall, has a wing span of 180 cm and can live as long as 17 years. Reports of herons nesting in Stanley Park were first documented in the mid-1920s and although the herons have been regular inhabitants of the park, they have tended to migrate from one area of the park to another over the years. Predators include bald eagles, raccoons and owls. [Park Board]

Herons // click image to enlarge
Photo credit: CogitoErgoShoot on Flickr

The blue heron colony is located in the trees across from the Park Board’s offices and the tennis courts in Stanley Park, toward the English Bay side.

The Stanley Park Ecology Society has more information available online as well as an Adopt-A-Nest program to help protect the colony.

Terminal City Rollergirls Season Opener

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Roller derby leagues and teams always have the coolest names but no other rolls off the tongue like the Terminal City Rollergirls (“TCRG”). The host Vancouver’s derby scene since 2006, TCRG will be opening its 6th season on Friday, April 6, 2012.

Terminal City Rollergirls
Photo credit: jubilo-haku on Flickr

With over 60 members and 4 teams, Terminal City Rollergirls is a member of North America’s Women’s Flat Track Derby Association. Their season will run from April through to September.

TCRG is a 100% player-owned and operated league. This means each and every TCRG event has been conceived, orchestrated, and run exclusively by our members. The league is made up of a diverse group of women including everything from nurses to construction workers, graphic designers, television producers, teachers, stay-at-home moms, Downtown Eastside outreach workers, dental assistants, PhD students and aspiring rock stars. Dipping into this talent pool allows TCRG to operate as a successful and dynamic organization.


Last season’s final

Opening day on April 6th will see a doubleheader at Kerrisdale Arena (starting at 5:00pm) with The Riot Girls vs The Bad Reputations followed by The Faster Pussycats vs Public Frenemy.

Tickets are available in advance online for $15 and $20 at the door. Children are $10, those 5 years old and younger get in free.

Follow @TCRG on Twitter or Facebook for more information about upcoming bouts.