For 30 years, Chor Leoni’s Remembrance Day concerts have created important moments of community contemplation and reflection. This powerful collective experience is one of the choir’s most cherished traditions and has resonated with audiences across Canada. Join the ensemble as they begin their new season with We Sang Our Songs, on stage at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United November 10th and 11th.
Chor Leoni photo by David Cooper
Chor Leoni Remembrance Day Concerts
When: Nov 10, 2022 at 7:30pm & Nov 11, 2022 at 2:00pm & 5:00pm
Where: St. Andrew’s-Wesley United (1022 Nelson St, Vancouver)
We Sang Our Songs offers a moving program of music and readings featuring diverse perspectives on war and injustice. Highlights include works by Gustav Holst, Arvo Pärt, and William Grant Still. The 65 voices of Chor Leoni will also sing Mykola Lysenko’s “Molytva Za Ukrainu” (Prayer for Ukraine), and world premieres by composer Stacey Philipps and the choir’s Composer in Residence, Don Macdonald.
While a number of the pieces of the program will feature the choir’s acclaimed a cappella sound, audiences will also have the opportunity to hear the voices of Chor Leoni accompanied by St. Andrew’s-Wesley’s new Steinway Model D piano, as well as the newly restored Casavant organ, played by Tina Chang and Jane Kim, respectively. The choir will once again be joined by Katherine Evans on trumpet.
Win Tickets
I have a pair of tickets to give away to the concert on November 10th at 7:30pm. You can enter to win by leaving a comment below on this blog post. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, November 3, 2022. UPDATE: The winner is Laura.
Both haunting and healing, We Sang Our Songs offers the opportunity for audiences to gather as a community to contemplate, reflect, and dream of peace.
Day camps aren’t just for summer time! The Stanley Park Ecology Society (“SPES”) will host a winter eco-camp for kids in December, during the school break. Your children will be immersed in the delights of nature, with the opportunity to uncover the mysteries of the natural world, learn valuable outdoor skills, and have a blast with other kids right in Stanley Park!
Stanley Park Winter Day Camp for Kids
Winter Wonderland day camp runs December 19 to 23, 2022, from 9:00am to 4:00pm each day. The one week adventure day camp for campers aged 7 to 11 will explore the wetlands, beaches, and forests of Stanley Park.
Campers will learn about hibernation and the local creatures that live here. Look for birds, identify local plants, and make festive crafts! Rain or shine, we have an indoor classroom as well as the 1,000 acre outdoor classroom.
Register online here for $295 for non-members, $275 for Stanley Park Ecology Society members. Not yet a member? Family memberships are available upon registration for $50 and offer discounts on year-round programming.
The group meets at the SPES office (610 Pipeline Road at the Stanley Park Pavilion) and then campers accompany their camp leaders into the park to explore the forests, Beaver Lake, Lost Lagoon, the Seawall, and more. A detailed parent/guardian information package, along with camp policies and procedures, will be sent to you via email once you’ve secured a spot in camp and registered.
For more information about the camps, events and activities in the park, follow SPES on Facebook.
Miss604’s Rebecca Bollwitt is an Executive of SPES‘s Board of Directors.
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Explore ghostly mysteries along British Columbia’s historic Gold Rush Trail in a new two-part documentary Haunted Gold Rush, which premieres this weekend on T+E.
Told through the lens of a strong female force of paranormal investigators, Corine Carey, Leanne Sallenback and Kelly Ireland, the documentary unlocks compelling and unnerving stories of those who suffered an untimely demise on the winding trail, from Yale to Barkerville, during the 1800s.
Haunted Gold Rush on T+E Starts Halloween Weekend
Featuring never-before-seen photos and video evidence of suspected ghosts caught on camera, you can catch the documentary on Sunday, October 30th at 9:00pm ET/PT during T+E’s Halloweekend programming event, happening October 28-31, 2022.
British Columbia’s Cariboo Gold Rush trail was a bustling, wild and often violent place in the 1800s. Today, the 650 km stretch of land is considered a hotspot for paranormal activity and has hundreds of stories of hauntings from more than a dozen locations.
Ghost sightings along this trail are nothing new, but recently there have been numerous intense and dramatic reports. In the documentary, the BC-basedBeyond the Haunting Investigations team, which includes two sisters (Corine and Leanne), and their best friend Kelly, have been called in to take an unprecedented road-trip and retrace British Columbia’s historic Gold Rush Trail, solving mysteries and witness hauntings along the way.
Haunted Gold Rush is produced by Small Army Entertainment. Sean De Vries (The Bachelor Canada) serves as an Executive Producer, Director and Writer. Stephen Sawchuk is an Executive Producer and Line Producer. Sheona McDonald is a Director and Writer. Overseen by Sam Linton, VP, Production and Development, Global Media, who serves as Executive Producer on behalf of Blue Ant Media. Blue Ant International oversees global distribution.
Haunted Gold Rush features never-before-seen photos and video evidence of the suspected ghosts who haunt the historic towns within the trail. Don’t miss it! Tune in Sunday, October 30th at 9:00pm (find your local T+E channel number using this guide).
The BC Achievement Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2022 Indigenous Business Award (“IBA”), as well as the Fulmer Award in First Nations Art and the Carter Wosk Applied Art + Design Award.
Presented annually, the IBA recognizes the contributions of extraordinary Indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs across BC, while helping to elevate connections between the province’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous economies. By recognizing outstanding people and businesses, the IBA gives voice to Indigenous entrepreneurship while modelling success for others to follow. Now in its 14th year, the program counts over 210 remarkable businesses among its alumni.
2022 IBA recipients
This year’s award theme is “Thuyshaynum: preparing the path, directing the feet,” which addresses the tireless work being done to correct perceptions of Indigenous history and build respectful, meaningful relationships. A total of eight Indigenous businesses, entrepreneurs, partnership entities and community-owned enterprises have been selected by a jury panel.
Indigenous Business Award Recipients
Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Dustin & Ashley Kucher – Dark Arc Welding Inc., Dawson Creek
Business of the Year – one-to-two person enterprise:
dk Architecture, North Vancouver
Business of the Year – three-to-ten person enterprise:
Culture Shock Interactive Gallery, Alert Bay
Business of the Year – 11+ person enterprise:
Warrior Plumbing, North Vancouver
Community-owned Business of the Year – one entity:
M’i nuw’ilum Marina Inc., Sooke
Community-owned Business of the Year – two or more entities:
Sasuchan Development Corporation, Takla Lake
Business Partnership of the Year:
Central Chilcotin Rehabilitation Ltd., Williams Lake
Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement:
Chief David Jimmie, Chilliwack
Fulmer Award in First Nations Art
Fulmer Award in First Nations Art
The Fulmer Award honours First Nations artists in BC who have demonstrated a commitment to their practice, accumulated a body of work, and are recognized in their communities for their craft. The award is presented by BC Achievement, an independent foundation that honours excellence and inspires achievement throughout the province.
Recipients:
Jamie Gentry – Kwakwaka’wakw, Sooke – Crabtree McLennan Emerging Artist
Latham Mack – Nuxalk, Kamloops
Qwul’thilum Dylan Thomas – Lyackson First Nation, Victoria
Reg Davidson – Haida, Masset – Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement
Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design
Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design
Artists and designers honoured by the Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design produce work that has a practical or functional application, such as furniture, textiles, jewellery, ceramics, weaving, glass, fashion, and industrial design. Nominated artists have an opportunity to share their work to a wider audience while inviting critical reflection and feedback.
Recipients:
Caine Heintzman – Vancouver – Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist
Louise Perrone – Vancouver
Cathy Terepocki – Chilliwack
Robert Anderson – Victoria – Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement
Free Showcase at the Roundhouse
BC Achievement presents a combined exhibition which is free and open to the public showcasing the 2022 award recipients for both the Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design and Fulmer Award in First Nations Art, at The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre in Vancouver from Monday, November 14 to Friday, November 18, 2022.
Attend the Awards Gala
The 2022 IBA recipients will be recognized in a formal gala ceremony – open to the public – held on November 29 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Tickets are $200 per person and can be purchased online here. Each awardee will receive a certificate and medallion designed by First Nations Artist, Robert Davidson. They will also be celebrated through an online campaign #shinethelightbc to commemorate their excellence and inspirational achievements positively impacting British Columbians.
BC Achievement is an independent foundation established in 2003 that celebrates the spirit of excellence in our province and serves to honour the best of British Columbia. By recognizing the accomplishments of our province’s entrepreneurs, artists, community leaders, youth and volunteers, BC Achievement’s award programs pay tribute to exceptional people, doing exceptional work, while carving a path forward for others to follow.
