Springtime is here and so are all the blossoms! The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off this weekend with self-guided tours, community gatherings and more. There’s a great theatre lineup this month as well, along with outdoor activities and art exhibitions. Find all of these and more events in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
SPUD.ca and Vancouver Coastal Health‘s Healthiest Babies Possible are fundraising for vulnerable mothers and their infants in Vancouver and Richmond. On spud.ca, locals can toward donate diapers, food, wipes and other necessities these local moms and their babies need to get the very best start to their new life together.
Healthiest Babies Possible Fundraiser
Coming together with vendors such as Caboo who are donating baby wipes (and matching customer donations up to $500), SPUD has also connected Healthiest Babies Possible with bigger names such as Jennifer Garner’s, Once Upon a Farm and Kristin Bell & Dax Shepard’s Hello Bello, with each brand giving 250 products each to the fundraiser.
“At Once Upon a Farm, we believe that when kids have access to nutritious food they’re better prepared for a lifetime of health and happiness. We support the Healthiest Babies Project with our product donation – and believe in their efforts in helping vulnerable moms and babies in BC.”
– Once Upon a Farm
Healthiest Babies Possible (“HBP”) provides nutrition counselling, health education, food access and social support to pregnant women facing challenging life circumstances in Vancouver and Richmond. The HBP staff includes dietitians, public health nurses and support workers fluent in a variety of different languages.
To date, the fundraiser has raised over $3,500 with just one day left! Customers can simply add items to their SPUD cart to contribute to the cause.
Springtime is here and so are the blossoms! Our lovely city is turning pink and green with all the lovely colours of the season and the event list is growing by the day. When it comes to April events in Metro Vancouver, there’s of course the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, Easter festivities, and a giant lineup of sporting events, theatre, music, dance, opera, and outdoor fun.
SUM gallery and the Flavourcel Animation Collective invite you to crawl down into the dark depths of the Sun Wah Centre basement for Centipede: a three-day pop-up exhibition of queerly macabre experimental animation.
SUM gallery and Flavourcel Present Centipede in Chinatown
When: Thursday, April 7 to Saturday, 9, 2022 from 12:00pm to 6:00pm daily
Where: Sun Wah Centre (268 Keefer St, Vancouver)
Admission: Drop-in. Advanced registration only required for closing reception, Saturday, April 9 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Flavourcel’s Centipede exhibition will enchant and spook audiences as it blends multimedia installation, 3D projection and sound experimentation to present a sensory crawl through a haunting landscape of ghouls, guts, creepies and crawlies.
This exhibit is curated by Queer Arts Festival’s Assistant Curator Benjamin Siegl.
About the exhibition: Animation as an industry is not without its binaries: join the prosperous but strenuous industry grind, or resign yourself to outsider status making animations “alone in your basement.” The Flavourcel Collective subverts this binary by choosing the latter, with one significant exception—they’re not alone in the basement. Combining the talents of 10 artists, Flavourcel embraces an alternative approach to animation through collectivist collaboration and resource sharing.
In Centipede, movement is recognized as a principal component of fear. From the sudden movement of jump scares in thrillers and haunted houses inspiring our fight-or-flight instincts, to the agonizing dread of movement’s absence all together. The Centipede, a multi-sectioned organism, moves in unison towards an undiscovered future, encapsulating both the animated image and the bold, collective journey Queer folks undertake when creating space in this world—foot over foot, frame by frame.
For decades, queer movement was restricted to the darkness—in the corners of dark bars and margins of our minds. As queerness moves further and further into the light, there is a ripple both backwards and forwards; towards the future, but not without the intrinsic hauntings of all that’s been shouldered.
Planted Expo Vancouver, Canada’s largest plant-based expo, returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre June 4-5, 2022 with over 200 plant-based companies and speakers for a weekend of inspiration, education, and innovation.
Planted Life – Planted Expo (2021)
Planted Expo Vancouver 2022
When: Saturday, June 4 & Sunday, June 5 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Where: Vancouver Convention Centre West (1055 Canada Place)
“Public awareness continues to grow as to how plant-based choices can positively impact lives,” says Stevan Mirkovich, PlantedLlife.com Co-Owner and Chief Relational Officer. “A plant-based lifestyle is more than just what you eat, it’s about lifestyle choices too. At Planted Expo, attendees can hear from speakers about ways to enhance their own lives and learn how these lifestyle changes can affect the world around them.”
Planted Expo has gathered leading voices in the culinary, scientific and fitness world to speak on the importance of plant-based choices. These insightful, informative, and inspirational speakers will be at Planted Expo alongside 200 plant-based edible and lifestyle businesses.
Planted Expo Vancouver attendees will have an opportunity to discover the many ways they are able to incorporate plant-based choices into their daily lives. Two speakers of note coming to Vancouver in June are Filmmaker/Director Ali Tabrizi and Vegan Women Summit Founder Jennifer Stojkovic.
Ali Tabrizi is a Filmmaker and Director best known for his Netflix Original documentary Seaspiracy. Growing up on the Southeast coast of England, he spent much of his early childhood exploring the world with his camera, daydreaming about the ocean and the hidden world beneath the waves. His teen years were spent learning about global issues and studying Art & Design and Arts History at Canterbury College followed by his own interest in teaching himself filmmaking. That interest, combined with his desire to expose the truth about environmental issues led him to create the Netflix Original documentary, Seaspiracy. He continues to share these truths through speaking engagements.
Planted Life – Planted Expo (2021)
Jennifer Stojkovic has built her career as an internationally-recognized community relations leader for the world’s largest tech companies in the capital of innovation, San Francisco. During her career in tech, Jennifer became increasingly interested in blending her passion for change in the food system with her experience and network in Silicon Valley. In early 2018, Jennifer launched a “Future of Food” series of partnerships bringing together CEOs and founders from leading tech brands, including WeWork and Airbnb, with emerging CEOs from the burgeoning food tech industry to establish food as the “Tech 2.0”. In early 2020, she launched the Vegan Women Summit, the world’s first events and media organization dedicated to empowering, educating, and inspiring women to bring compassion to their careers.
Other speakers and featured guests include Carleigh Bodrug, Scott Jurek, Nimai Delgado, Nicholas Carter, Vesanto Melina, Chanthy Yen, Joel Haywood, Pamela Fergusson, and Laura Simonson. View the lineup of speakers, vendors, workshops and more online and follow Planted Life on Facebook for the latest information.
