It’s one of the city’s hottest summer events, in the coolest location! Vancouver Salsa Cruises are back again this summer aboard the gorgeous MV Britannia, offering three levels of music and dancing with the best local DJs.
Aboard a Vancouver Salsa Cruise they offer a beginner salsa lesson and play a mix of all types of Latin music on the lower level and main level while the upper deck is a mix of Latin, Top 40 and club hits. There’s also Mexican food options courtesy of Las Autenticas. Whether you want to partake in a night of lessons and dancing or just sit back and watch the city’s stunning scenery both on and off the boat, it will be a night to remember!
The BC Lions are back in action, the incredible 5X Fest is back, Pride events have started, there are concerts, theatre, and more all heating up (even if the weather isn’t). Find all of these events and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend June 10-12, 2022
Chef Dan Hayes, aka The London Chef, has launched a first of its kind online Cooking School that invites students to grab a glass of wine, bring their questions, and cook a recipe together six times each month. You can also subscribe to the Cooking School library and get access to over a hundred recipe videos online.
Cooking School with the London Chef
With his background in high-end and Michelin-star European restaurants, Chef Dan Hayes is a classically-trained chef, world-class educator, and co-host of the beloved series Moosemeat & Marmalade, which airs in three languages around the world.
A 2021 Deloitte Food Consumer Survey found that up to 72 per cent of Canadian consumers were cooking more at home than during the previous year, and a total of 63 per cent were cooking from scratch four to six times per week.
Studies also show that cooking fatigue is a real thing. As a culture, many of us have given up on cooking as an art form, seeing it more like a to-do list/chore. Chef Dan is on a mission to change that! The Cooking School offers a wide range of classes and special events to suit varied tastes, interests, ages, and skill levels.
Join as many classes as you like. Whether it’s a date night, family night, a break from the routine, or you’re looking for a chance to learn something new, The London Chef has a class for you. You’ll follow along and cook with Chef Dan from the comfort of your own home.
Giveaway
I have a full year Cooking School enrolment to give away that includes six cooking classes a month (value $199)!
They’ll supply a list of equipment and ingredients for your class so you can collect everything you need. All ingredients will be easily accessible from major grocery stores, and you will be able to work with the cooking tools your home kitchen is already stocked with.
If you’re a Victoria, BC resident and don’t want to fuss about shopping, select the option during checkout and they’ll deliver the ingredients straight to your door!
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment, a major exhibition gathering more than 200 works of art by a generation of extraordinary painters, photographers, weavers, bead workers and sculptors.
Focusing on the 1920s, 30s and 40s, Uninvited foregrounds the production of women artists from across the country, providing a broad and diverse account of female creativity in Canada during this pivotal modern moment a century ago.
In this monumental exhibition, organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, audiences will see the work of women from all parts of our nation as they respond to a period of dramatic, and sometimes traumatic, change. Rather than pursuing the calling of landscape painting prevalent among their male peers, settler women artists in this period are notable for tackling such themes as portraiture and human psychology, urbanization, industrialized resource extraction, Indigenous culture and displacement, environment desecration and the immigrant experience.
“The women artists in this period were basically looking at everything that their male colleagues were not,” says McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy. “The settler women artists saw a nation in flux and went out of their way to respond to those changes. As well, they came to their art careers not through commercial illustration but through education in many of the leading art schools in North America and Europe. The work they made really shows that sophistication and sensitivity to traditions in Western art — if only to defy them.”
The exhibition includes artwork by members of the Beaver Hall Group of painters of Montréal, Québec (among them Anne Savage and Lilias Torrance Newton), shown alongside the paintings of artist Emily Carr, from Victoria, British Columbia, and sculptures by Toronto-based artists Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle.
Uninvited importantly features work by a number of Indigenous women from this period as well, including Attatsiaq of Arviat, Nunavut; Sewinchelwet (Sophie Frank) of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation); Mi’kmaq quill box maker Bridget Ann Sack of Shubenacadie, NS; and Rose Runner of the Tsuut’ina First Nation, near Calgary, Alberta.
Attatsiaq, Tuilik (woman’s parka) panel, 1926–37,
Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Collection of Winifred
Petchey Marsh and Bishop Donald Marsh, Photo:
Craig Boyko
The contributions of women from immigrant communities are also highlighted, including the work of painters Regina Seiden Goldberg and Paraskeva Clark, as well as that of Canadian expatriates such as avant-garde photographer Margaret Watkins, who left her home in Hamilton, Ontario, for the United States and Scotland.
The title of the exhibition—Uninvited—primarily refers to the all-male membership of the Group of Seven (no women artists were invited to join the group), as well as the masculinist mythology surrounding the Group of Seven and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the history of modernist art in Canada.
“Uninvited is a monumental exhibition. The sheer breadth of work by artists from all parts of Canada is unforgettable, and the themes explored are central to questioning what the dominant narrative of Canadian art is and where it comes from,” said Anthony Kiendl, CEO and Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. “This remarkable exhibition truly demonstrates the talent of women artists across Canada.”
Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment is organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection with the exceptional support of the National Gallery of Canada and is curated by Sarah Milroy.
The exhibition was originally conceived to coincide with, and comment on, the centenary of founding of the all-male Group of Seven. The concept for the exhibition grew out of the recognition of a gap in many museums collecting practices, which predominantly feature work by male artists from the first half of the twentieth century.
Downtown New West is bringing people back together with the return of their legendary free block party series, Fridays on Front, starting July 8, 2022.
They’ll be fully licensed in partnership with Steel & Oak and Pacific Breeze Winery, and Family Place will be offering a variety of fun free kids activities. Artisan vendors from New West Craft will rotate week to week, as well as local musicians curated by Bully’s Studios and U.C.A.S.S., Front Street businesses and food trucks.
Beer and wine will be available between 5:00pm and 8:30pm only, bar token sales end at 8:20pm sharp. Purchase your bar tokens first then head to one of two bars to redeem them (credit card preferred, cash accepted). You must be 19+ and provide 2 pieces of valid ID upon request to purchase bar tokens. No outside alcoholic beverages permitted. Intoxicated persons may not enter/will be removed from the event area . Beer and wine tokens are NON REFUNDABLE but valid for all 6 event dates
Food vendors will include Downtown delights like Donuteria and Gastronomia, and flavours from Fiji, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, and more. Grab a bite, browse through the beautiful goodies from vendors and enjoy live music as you walk amidst the refreshing riverfront breeze and scenic views.
Admission is completely FREE and it all takes place just a quick 5-minute walk from both Columbia Station and New West Station. Follow Downtown New West on Facebook for the latest news and updates.
