Watch the sun set over the water as you sip and sample from the best local craft breweries, wineries, cideries and distilleries at Brewhalla Beer and Music Festival in North Vancouver. Enjoy the views from The Shipyards, the sounds of local musicians on two stages, and savour food truck offerings all night long.
Brewhalla Beer and Music Festival North Vancouver
When: Friday, October 7, 2022 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm
Where: The Shipyards (125 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver)
Performers include CHERSEA, Caleb Hart & Co, The Big Coast, Ryan McAllister Band, Olin Brix, DJ Flipout, Trilogy. And here’s the lineup of over 20 craft breweries and cideries including nine North Vancouver craft beer, wine, cider, and gin makers:
Beere Brewing
Callister Brewing
North Point Brewing
Brewhall Brewing
Windfall Cider
Strange Fellows Brewing
Wildeye Brewing
Backcountry Brewing
La Cerveceria Astilleros Brewing
Valley Commons Winery
Shaketown Brewing
Electric Bicycle Brewing
Bridge Brewing
Humblebee Meadery
Garden of Granite Winery
Five Roads Brewing
Copper Penny Distillery
Studio Brewing
Container Brewing
Northpaw Brewing
Trading Post Brewing
East Van Brewing
Callister Brewing
Dead Frog Brewing
The 2022 Brewhalla Beer & Music Festival in North Vancouver is presented by The Quay Market & Food Hall. The Quay is located right next to the festival site and is a destination for those seeking fresh, local and unique foods. Featuring fantastic vendors, artisans, entertainers and retailers, The Quay is a one-stop-shop and with endless options, there is something for everyone.
Brewhalla events in Langley and Port Moody have sold out, and for good reason! Here’s your chance to experience this incredibly well-run event — and if you can’t make it to North Van they have a Cloverdale event coming up October 29th as well. Follow Brewhalla on Facebook for details.
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The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada – West (“ICCC West”) will be celebrating its 30th anniversary with La Grande Festa on September 29th. This deluxe gala dinner is open to members, partners and the public, and partial proceeds will benefit Variety – The Children’s Charity of BC.
ICCC West Presents La Grande Festa
When: Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:00pm
Where: Coast Coal Harbour Hotel (1180 W Hastings, Vancouver)
Tickets: Available to purchase online or by phone (604) 682-1410.
La Grande Festa or ‘The Big Party’ will feature a culinary experience that includes an exclusive 5-course menu inspired by authentic Italian products from different regions of Italy. Guests will also enjoy premium Italian wines, guest gift bags with authentic Italian products, door prizes, a silent auction of Italian-made and designed items, as well as a top prize by ICCC West sponsor and Premium Member, Air Canada.
The gala dinner will open with a keynote speech from honorary guest Coach Vanni Sartini from the Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club.
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Since 1992, ICCC West has played a key role in connecting Italian brands and businesses with like-minded Canadian counterparts across Western Canada in order to facilitate trade between both countries. With a combined total of over 30,000 event attendees to date (and counting), ICCC West hopes to showcase the immense contributions that Italian and Canadian members have made in building Western Canada’s cultural mosaic and economy.
“We invite our dear members and the public to join us for a festive celebration showcasing an authentic taste of Italy. For three full decades, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada – West has been driving economic impact by giving Italian and Canadian businesses customized solutions and a platform to broaden their business horizons into the Canadian and Italian markets,” said Ilaria Baldan, Executive Director of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada – West. “Events comprise a vital part of our work, and we are looking forward to celebrating this milestone anniversary with friends and colleagues, new and old.”
They have some great online resources available as well, like the Italian Food Map featuring where to buy authentic Italian food and wines in Western Canada, and the Italian Design Map to search for made in Italy products near you.
City Opera Vancouver presents Chinatown, the company’s fifth commission in ten years, September 13-17, 2022 at the Vancouver Playhouse. This is a ground-breaking new work comes at a time of anti-Asian racism, a struggle to preserve Chinatown itself, and a need to tell the Canadian story it embodies.
Chinatown Opera graphic courtesy Estella Lum at City Opera
City Opera Vancouver Presents Chinatown
When: September 13 to 16, 2022 at 7:30pm; September 17 at 2:00pm
Where: The Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton St, Vancouver)
Tickets: Available online now for $20-$60 (plus taxes & fees)
Chinatown builds on the eloquence of one of Canada’s greatest writers, Madeleine Thien, the music of award-winning composer Alice Ping Yee Ho, and the subtle and brilliant translations of Paul Yee.
“Although a Western opera, it incorporates traditional Chinese themes, sounds and sensibilities,” says City Opera’s artistic director Charles Barber. “It is a story of racism and resistance, neighbourhood and family. And it is a love story. It will have wide appeal.”
The fusion orchestra plays both Chinese and Western instruments. English and Chinese supertitles will be provided throughout.
“In two acts and two hours it examines six characters, two families, and a chorus of ghosts, from the building of the CPR through to our own times,” adds Barber. “It deals with violence and despair, the Head Tax, the Exclusion Act, paper sons, and paper promises. This opera is a story of family and neighbourhood, racism and resistance, history and tomorrow.”
Chinatown is the first opera written about any Chinatown in Canada and is believed to be the first opera written in English, Cantonese, and Hoisan combined. This will be City Opera’s first presentation at the Playhouse Theatre, chosen partly because of its proximity to Chinatown.
Staged Concert Format
Originally conceived as a full-scale production and delayed one year by COVID, City Opera recently announced that due to casting and production issues, Chinatown will now give a complete presentation of the opera, but in a staged concert format.
The company was unable to acquire the services of the additional cast members needed and to resolve related production issues. Running out of time to offer the version originally intended, this revised format is the best-possible solution available in this complicated environment. The only alternative would have been to postpone it another year.
All the elements of this meaningful and timely opera are intact, and stage director Desdemona Chiang will bring an active energy and imagination to the production.
Current ticket-holders who would prefer not to see this revised presentation are invited to contact 1-888-961-6111 ext. 101 to arrange their choice of a full refund, or a voucher of identical value for a future production.
There will also be a free event, Finding Chinatown, on opening day September 13th at the CNL Auditorium (537 Main St, Vancouver).
YWCA Metro Vancouver will host Reimagining Our Cities on September 22nd at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. This free event invites the public to listen to lively discussions featuring keynote speaker Maria Vassilakou, Former Deputy Mayor of Vienna, Austria, and a panel discussion that brings together diverse, multi-sectoral community leaders to boldly and creatively reimagine what our cities could be.
Imagine what our cities could be if equity, inclusion and justice were at the heart of decision-making.
YWCA Metro Vancouver Reimagining Our Cities
When: Thursday, September 22, 2022 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema and World Art Centre (149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver)
Maria Vassilakou, Vienna’s former Deputy Mayor from 2010-2019, responsible for Urban Planning, Traffic & Transport, Climate Protection, Energy and Public Participation will be the keynote speaker. Vienna continually ranks as one of the top most livable cities in the world. Vassilakou will share how her administration achieved this through unique practices in urban planning that ensured all genders were equally accounted for in policy, legislation and resource allocation. From public transportation and social housing to walkable streets, Vienna is a city that considers all citizen’s needs.
Andrea Reimer, Founder and Principal of Tawâw Strategies, former three-term Vancouver Councillor, Metro Vancouver Director and one-time school trustee, will host the evening’s discussions. An instructor at both UBC and SFU on how power works in practice, Andrea makes for an experienced facilitator for discussions surrounding what could be possible for Metro Vancouver cities through more balanced decision-making for all gender identities.
Following Maria’s Keynote, Reimer will host a panel discussion featuring local community leaders with diverse lived and professional experience, including:
Ginger Gosnell Myers, Fellow focused on Decolonization and Urban Indigenous Planning, SFU Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Kevin Huang, Executive Director, Hua Foundation
Nic Wayara, Founder, Hook or Crook Consulting
Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, Expert in urban and feminist geography, Senior Lecturer, SFU
The event will conclude with a reading by Elliott Slinn, Poet Laureate, City of New Westminster, who will create an original piece based on the evening’s discussions.
For those not able to attend in person, discussions are available by livestream.
About YWCA City Shift
YWCA City Shift aims to make our region more equitable, prosperous, and just by supporting Metro Vancouver cities to challenge assumptions, incorporate diverse perspectives, and support actions that serve the entire community. YWCA City Shift is funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada.
Culture Days, a national celebration of arts and culture, are back September 23 to October 16, 2022 and in the City of Surrey they are offering a lineup of free programs designed to connect people with arts and heritage.
Culture Days programs invite the public to get hands-on and behind-the-scenes to highlight the importance of arts and culture in our communities. The City of Surrey, in collaboration with Surrey’s diverse cultural organizations and artists has a variety of arts and culture activities as part of this national celebration of the arts. Programming includes a range of free activities and events organized by Community Arts, Surrey Civic Theatres, Surrey Art Gallery, Historic Stewart Farm, Museum of Surrey, and Surrey Archives.
Surrey Celebrates Culture Days
Surrey’s Culture Days events include interactive, online, and digital presentations and activities, as well as in-person experiences at several City arts and heritage facilities. You can view a full schedule of events around the city online here.
Surrey Art Gallery
Sketch in the Gallery September 23 to October 16, 2022
Ancestral Echoes: In Conversation with Atheana Picha Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Thursday Artist Talk: Gloria Jue-Youn Han, “Making Pots for Good Ancestors” Thursday, October 6, 2022 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Film Screening and Art Performance with the Black Arts Centre Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
