Coast Mental Health Foundation (“CMHF”) is hosting its second annual 50/50, on now until Friday, May 27, 2022. The estimated jackpot, split between the winner and the organization, is $240,000!
Order your tickets online today Single Ticket for $10; 3-Ticket Pack for $25; 10-Ticket Pack for $50; 25-Ticket Pack for $100
With your purchase, you will help fund urgently needed support for people living with mental illness right here in BC, including affordable meals, peer support, Cognitive Remediation, art therapy, outreach, employment opportunities and much more.
As a non-profit organization, Coast Mental Health is BC’s largest provider of community-based services for people living with mental illness. They provide the critical link between hospital services and our communities. Each year, they provide essential services to nearly 6,000 people living with mental illness so they can find their meaningful place in our communities – a place to live, a place to connect, and a place to work.
Cities and organizations all across the province are busy planning for BC Youth Week with free events organized by youth, for youth. Select a region below to view over a hundred events happening May 1-7, 2022.
Since its inception in 1995, BC Youth Week has grown to include over 30 municipalities and non-profit organizations across the province. Check out what’s happening in your community here and follow BC Youth Week on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram with the tag #AreYouReady.
Science World and BC Hydro have announced a free day will be hosted this Saturday, April 23, 2022.
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Free Day at Science World 2022
When: 10:00am to 5:00pm on Saturday, April 23, 2022
Where: Science World (1455 Quebec St, Vancouver)
Tickets: Available online starting at 12:00pm today (April 19) and pre-booking is encouraged as it is expected to fill up.
Visitors will delight in the current feature exhibition, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator presented by RBC and White Spot Restaurants and other exhibition favourites throughout the globally adored dome.
“We have a rewarding, longstanding partnership with BC Hydro and we’re thrilled that they chose to support this day so that all are able to attend,” said Tracy Redies, President & CEO of Science World. “Their team understands and embraces the importance of barrier-free accessibility to STEAM learning. We look forward to welcoming past and new guests.”
On now at Science World: Encounter the prehistoric wonders of the late Cretaceous Period and come face-to-face with a 66-million-year-old marvel. In T. rex: The Ultimate Predator you can walk through the world millions of years ago where this gigantic creature roamed the earth with a hunter’s keen senses. Explore Birdly Virtual Reality, the BodyWorks Gallery, puzzles and illusions, the Tinkering Space, the Living Lab, and much more.
Current art exhibitions include: 30 Days of Ramadan, and Inside CERN which is part of Innovation Fest, on display in the Atrium from April 21–July 24.
Science World is a BC-based charitable organization that engages the people of British Columbia in STEAM literacy. Their mission is to ignite wonder and empower dreams through science and nature. Their vision is that within a generation, Canada will be a country of thriving, sustainable communities rooted in science, innovation and a deep connection to nature.
Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (“VAHMS”) has released the program for the 26th annual explorASIAN Festival, featuring free and ticketed events taking place throughout the month of May and beyond. The festival celebrates the start of Asian Heritage Month with over sixty in-person and virtual events and exhibitions presented by various community partners.
explorASIAN Festival 2022 VAHMS Events
Opening Ceremony April 30, 2022 at SFU Harbour Centre, RSVP for free This free ceremony will include a catered reception, speeches by esteemed guests, and performances to showcase the growing communities of Pan-Asian heritage and their rich, vibrant history in Canada.
Community Awards Celebration Saturday, May 21, 2022 at the PAL Studio Theatre, get tickets Recognizing and celebrating the arts and cultural diversity that Pan-Asian Canadian communities bring to Canadian society. During the event, VAHMS will be honouring individuals and organizations that have made a difference in these Pan-Asian Canadian communities. Featuring Co.ERASGA‘s Passages of Rhythms.
Filipino Fridays Music Lounge Series Mondays in May, virtual, free and ticketed In partnership with Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society, explorASIAN Festival and CiTR101.9FM, every week in May, Filipino Fridays Podcast will feature emerging Filipino artists to perform live music sessions at the CiTR lounge. To close Asian Heritage Month, artists from the series will play at a grand finale show. Discover over a dozen emerging Filipino/a/x artists across multiple genres. Featuring DACEY, Francis Arevalo, Reign Cruz and more. Tune in to CiTR 101.9 on Mondays from 11:00am to 1:00pm and follow Filipino Fridays Podcast on all podcast streaming platforms.
Virtual Chinatown Walkabout May 11, 2022, virtual, by donation The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC hosts a virtual Chinatown Walkabout for this year’s explorASIAN Festival. This Zoom tour will be led by John Atkin, Bob Sung and Hayne Wai. John is a civic historian and heritage consultant; Bob hosts cultural and culinary tours of Chinatown; and, Hayne is a longtime Chinatown researcher and advocate. The event will be framed on the Vancouver Heritage Foundation Chinatown Guide.
Stronger Together: Exploring the U.S. and Canada’s Shared AsianHeritage May 13, 2022, virtual, free In celebration of May’s Asian Canadian and Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, explorASIAN and the U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver are proud to bring together trailblazing Asian Americans and Asian Canadians to discuss their journeys in the fields of space, diplomacy and acting.
… and many, many more events!
View the full program online for all of the events taking place throughout the month of May, as well as the Japan Summer Market Festival June 11-12, 2022 at šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énḵ Square (formerly Vancouver Art Gallery north plaza). Follow explorASIAN on Facebook for the latest news.
Upintheair Theatre presents the rEvolver Festival, continuing their ten-year evolution of staging innovative and contemporary new works by emerging and mid-career artists from across Canada. The festival will have nine live productions and two digital presentations as well as special events.
Passes: Touring show $40; three show $51; six show flex $96; all access $120
Programmed by co-artistic producers Daniel Martin and David Mott and Resident Curators Kayleigh Sandomirsky and Lili Robinson, the festival is a return to live performances after a two-year hiatus.
rEvolver Festival will feature productions with a focus on interdependence as a pivot theme. The shows express a collective need for community and a feeling of togetherness — to reconnect and share stories again. Productions include a queer non-binary sketch comedy, a love concert, an at-home friendship ritual, a theatrical-jazzercise session, an audience-dictated choose-your-own-adventure experience, and an ancestrally-rooted cooking show.
Touring Shows:
Built Different, Couch Dwellers Productions, Nanaimo
Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Tiny Bear Jaws, Edmonton
LUCKY, barlizo productions, Montreal
Vancouver Artist Shows:
Controller, Nebula Company
Holy Moly, Jarin Schexnider
Light Rapid Transit, Coffeehouse Theatre Society
Losing It at the End of the World, written by Emily Schoen, directed by Bailey Bates and Shea Heatherington
Passenger Seat, The Library Performance Collective
SEETHERED, Zoe Wessler
Digital Presentations:
FR (Friendship Ritual), Remote Viewing, Toronto
Harvesting Ancestral “Tea-chings”, Siobhan Barker, Vancouver
Updrafts Reading Series:
Roughhousing, Chloe Payne
A Hyena’s Trail, Kijo Eunice Gatama
An Empty House, Francis Dowlatababi – digital presentation
Modeling, seeley quest – digital presentation
Real Talks presented with Gateway Theatre is a conversation with Pedro Chamale, Derek Chan and Makambe K. Simamba on social and political art making as well as the best practices around ethical storytelling — a live event that is also digitally-streamed.
As a welcome back to their artist and audience communities, Upintheair Theatre will host rEvolver rE-Connects, a gathering on the outdoor patio of The Cultch on Saturday, May 28 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm with BBQ, drinks, and free ice-cream.
