Join the Vancouver Heritage Foundation (“VHF”) for Heritage Week from February 21-27, 2022. This year’s theme ‘Altogether Inclusive’ examines the various ways that heritage engagement requires creativity in addition to unique solutions and actions to encourage widespread participation.
Vancouver Heritage Week 2022
Heritage Week offers a chance to explore heritage across BC and Canada and take part in programming that provides opportunities to learn and share about Vancouver’s history, diverse cultural heritage and historic places. Events include:
Places That Matter Community Celebration When: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm Where: Online, Zoom Registration:Book online by donation
Vancouver Heritage Foundation presents an evening of storytelling from the Places That Matter project, hosted virtually through Zoom. Join us for our fifth annual community celebration which will include the reading of the Heritage Week 2022 Proclamation by City of Vancouver Councillors and the following speakers:
Musqueam community members
Alysa Routtenberg (Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia)
Keiko Honda (Kerrisdale Community Centre and Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society)
Randy Clark (Educator and former resident of Hogan’s Alley)
The Places That Matter plaque project launched in 2011 to recognize community-nominated sites that highlight some of the lesser-known people, places and events that have shaped Vancouver. A decade later, with 89 plaques installed, the Places That Matter – Community History Resource website continues to grow with personal stories and photographs submitted by community members. We invite participants, attendees and organizations to share their stories and connections to Places That Matter sites throughout 2022. Stay tuned for more plaque presentations and community celebrations.
Altogether Inclusive: A Heritage Week Virtual Stroll When: Thursday, February 24, 2022 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm Where: Online, Zoom Registration:Book online for $15
Join local historian, author and seasoned walking tour guide, John Atkin, to celebrate Heritage Week as he explores some of Vancouver’s unique heritage spots on this virtual stroll. This year’s Heritage Week theme – altogether inclusive – explores the many ways that heritage engagement requires creativity, as well as unique solutions and actions to encourage broad participation. There will be opportunities to ask John questions live after the pre-recorded virtual stroll. If you are unable to attend at the time of the virtual event, you can still register and a recording of the event will be sent to you within 2 weeks.
“Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today and we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration, our touchstone, our reference point, our identity.” UNESCO
The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival will warm up your winter nights with fascinating authors from across Canada, USA, Israel, Australia and Great Britain February 6-10, 2022
The big themes emerge organically from the world around us: investigating the rise of the new anti-Semitism, exploring diverse identities and the formative place of the Holocaust there; and in this light, unpacking some parallels between the Jewish and the Indigenous experience.
Featured 2022 Festival authors will include: Opening Event with a duo of brilliant polemicists, American novelist and journalist DARA HORN (with her book People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present) and British comedian and writer DAVID BADDIEL (with his book Jews Don‘t Count).
The annual Book Clubs event will feature bestselling Australian author HEATHER MORRIS with her novel Three Sisters, the last in the Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy that has taken the world by storm.
For the Closing Night, DANIEL SOKATCH, an expert who understands both sides of one of the world’s most complex and controversial topics the Israeli-Palestianian conflict will present Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused and Conflicted.
Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction GARY BARWIN brings Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy to the festival and there’s US author JAI CHAKRABARTI whose A Play for the End of the World, takes his protagonist’s quest all the way to India in a deeply moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present.
Short stories will be celebrated in an event with Vancouver’s RACHEL ROSE and her collection The Octopus Has Three Hearts, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, together with Montreal’s AMI SANDS BRODOFF presenting her intricately linked stories in The Sleep of Apples.
From Toronto, novelist and cultural critic HAL NIEDZVIECKI will discuss his latest novel The Lost Expert, situated at the intersection between pop culture, media and individuality.
Fascinating stories of artists caught in the treacherous web of WWII will be presented by two US writers sharing a historical fiction subject: bestselling author MEG WAITECLAYTON with The Postmistress of Paris and painter/writer MICHAELA CARTER with Leonora in the Morning Light.
History continues to have a very important place: LEAH GARRETT will present X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II, (a real historical inspiration for Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds!) and MENACHEM KAISER, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Non-Fiction will take festival goers through the gripping story of retrieving a lost treasur in Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure.
BC authors will be represented by ISA MILMAN with her memoir Afterlight: In Search of Poetry, History and Home, RACHEL MINES with her translation of Jonah Rosenfeld’sThe Rivals and Other Stories; and, in an Epiloguewith profound interlaced roots in our community, ROBERT KRELL willlaunch his memoir Sounds from Silence and ALAN TWIGG, his comprehensive literary historyOut Of Hiding: Holocaust Literature Of British Columbia, an event moderated by local Renaissance man YOSEF WOSK.
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The Lantern City returns this year with more captivating, free public art to enjoy from a diverse roster of local artists. Enjoy large scale lanterns in Downtown Vancouver and on Granville Island to mark the Lunar New Year from January 27 to February 21, 2022.
The Lantern City 2021 – Miss604 Photo
The Lantern City in Downtown Vancouver
We Are Family When: January 27 to February 9, 2022 Where: šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énk Square, North Plaza at Vancouver Art Gallery
Lantern artists:
Jag Nagra’s Nazar Battu
Paige Bowman’s Tiger Tower
Sandeep Johal’s One Day
Hung Tung’s Red Paper Series
The Lantern City project aims to celebrate diversity in a way that lights the path forward: “We all call this place home, and we all have a hand in creating the wonderful community called Vancouver. Our differences make us unique, and sharing them through art will only broaden our horizons. Displayed in the heart of Vancouver, these lanterns, designed by various local artists representing their own community, welcome everyone as part of the family.”
Accompanying the beautiful artwork is an exclusively composed musical piece, by Chao-Ming Tung (composer) and Hui-Kuan Lin (pipa player). Woven Melodies highlights connections between cultures from Taiwan to Canada and beyond, blending traditions, heritage, and art.
Granville Island is a place of creativity, where many residents of Vancouver have fond memories of childhood tied to its colourful setting, so the local theme is “Forever Young”. Children are fountains of creativity, with imaginations sprawling farther than their arms can reach, providing us with a refreshing perspective on how, together, we can build better communities for brighter tomorrows. Under the collective youth theme, individual artist pieces have been inspired by imagination, transformation, residential schools, conservation efforts and cultural expression.
There will be an opening ceremony event on Saturday, January 29th on Granville Island way with performances by Alegria by Cirque du Soleil’s street team and a Lunar Craft workshop.
Follow The Lantern City on Facebook for information about these free, public installations, the artists, and more.
TEDxSurrey will take place February 19th and it is set to once again be the premier TEDx event in Western Canada! The event will feature 12 speakers plus energizers and entertainers, all within a fast-moving, half-day schedule and while it’s sold out in person, you can get tickets to tune in online.
There’s also a new initiative from the speakers to give back to at risk-youth in Surrey. In association with Pathfinder Youth Society, you can donate the value of one ticket (tax receipt included) to send a youth to attend the event.
Expect to be engaged and entertained, and to have your thinking shifted on today’s most important topics. You’ll leave feeling inspired and equipped to make lasting changes wherever you live.
Speaker Lineup & Topics
Kevin Lamoureux: Decolonization for Canada’s Future
Dr. Sharlene Gill: Reframing cancer fear and denial to acceptance and empowerment
Suzanne Venuta: Caring connections can change a life. Anywhere, anytime by anyone.
Ana Carrizales: “Embracing the ugly” – focusing on how to embrace the pain in beauty
Fatima Zaidi: Sharing her powerful compassionate leadership-based business growth strategy called The Biotope, designed to help leaders discover their unique leadership.
Dr. Lara Boyd: The impact of stress and the brain
Dr. Petra Zebroff: Long term relationships and human sexuality
Denise Withers: Environmental shift
Riley Moynes: Looking at retirement from a psychological perspective in 4 phases
Dr. Simon Donner: Climate change and how to use your imagination to make a difference
Frances Litman: Climate action through personal stories
Dr. Robert McDermid: Compassion surrounding the possibility of death
TEDx events bring the power of TED to local communities. They’re Independently organized by curious individuals looking to capture the power of the ideas around them. Operating under a license granted by TED, TEDx events feature live speakers who spark conversations and generate a shift in thinking.
Starting today, nominations and voting for the 19th annual Small Business BC Awards are open! British Columbians are encouraged to nominate their own business (or a business they love) for the awards and show their appreciation for the resiliency and creativity of the province’s hard-working entrepreneurs.
Nominations Open for Small Business BC Awards 2022
The Small Business BC Awards are open to BC-based businesses with fewer than 50 employees. There are just two award categories this year (as opposed to six, previously) and those are:
The Business Impact Award
The SBBC Business Impact Award goes to the business owner(s) that are truly making a difference. These hard-working individuals embrace the challenge of entrepreneurship, displaying skill in areas like sales, marketing, logistics, finances, and operations. Their organization has taken positive action to invest in the community and sees social responsibility as an integral part of business success. Prizing will be awarded as follows to the Top 3 businesses: $8,000 first prize, $4,000 second, $1,500 third.
Premier’s People’s Choice Award
This unique award category, sponsored by the Province of British Columbia, is presented to a BC-based small business that can demonstrate they have the unwavering and loyal support of their community. The criteria for winning the Premier’s People’s Choice Award is simple: Get more votes than any other nominee. Nominees are tasked with using any imaginative, creative or traditional tactics available to them to engage customers, clients and neighbours to vote for them. At the end of the process, the business with the most votes from their community is the winner and they will receive a $1,500 cash prize.
Once a small business is nominated, they must gain as many public votes as possible for their business until February 28, 2022.
The businesses with the most votes in the SBBC Business Impact Award category (after a normalization process to allow for regional populations) will be narrowed down to the top twenty, then judged by an internal panel of business experts to select the Top Five finalists.
The Top 5 Finalists for the SBBC Business Impact Award will be invited to present to a panel of judges, pitching why their business should win the award. The winner of the Premier’s People’s Choice award will be selected based on the most votes, after a normalization process to allow for regional populations.
On April 28, 2022, a virtual gala will be hosted by Small Business BC to announce and honour the winners.
