Stanley Park Ecology Society (“SPES”) educational programming doesn’t end when summer does, in fact they have an awesome lineup of Critter Club events in November. SPES educators are offering an interactive online club for children who are passionate about animals, want to learn more about them, and want to help protect them.
SPES day camper investigates sap sucker holes. Photo by Don Enright.
Critter Club Events for Kids
November 3-24, 2021 on Wednesdays every week from 10:30am to 12:30pm over Zoom
Critter Club will explore wildlife in Stanley Park and around us through art, activities, short presentations, Q&A, and more. The club is open to children who attended the first series or new participants. Each week has a theme, and you can register for one or all:
Clubbers will be offered an optional exciting activity to do on their own over the next week. Activities will be based around sustainable living and learning how to protect our precious wildlife. Participants can bond with each other while sharing their individual activities during the break-out session the following week.
Youth outside the suggested age range (younger participants should be accompanied by an adult to help with tech support) but programming will be designed for 9–13 year olds.
Tickets must be purchased in advance. Fees for this program are based on a sliding scale, to keep them accessible to more people – you choose what you pay. As a non-profit that subsidizes their programs for increased accessibility, your contributions make a huge difference in being able to offer our services for the years to come.
Participants can join for the full four weeks (VIP Club Pass includes all sessions), or individual days. Or, book your own after school or other day of the week Critter Club: inquire at school(at)stanleyparkecology(dot)ca.
Critter Club offers young minds a place to grow their curiosity, meet other like-minded children, and have fun. For more information follow the Stanley Park Ecology Society on Facebook and Instagram.
Miss604’s Rebecca Bollwitt is on the SPES Board of Directors.
The 21st Annual Chutzpah! Festival returns with concerts, comedy, new dance works, film, theatre, and storytelling, paired with stimulating conversations and opportunities to interact with creative artists. Audiences will have the opportunity to attend in-person performances, with safety protocols in place, or to enjoy digital streams from the comfort of their own homes. With an emphasis on artists from across Canada, the Festival will also present work from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
21st Annual Chutzpah! Festival
When: November 4 to 24, 2021
Where: Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, Wosk Auditorium, Sidney & Gertrude Zack Gallery at the JCC, and online
Tickets: Available now. Single tickets start at $18 (plus fees)
The Chutzpah! Festival opens on November 4th with an interactive concert by City Opera Vancouver at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre.
What better way to welcome audiences back to the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre than with the pinnacle of Jewish comedy – a special screening of the Marx Bros. classic A Night at the Opera. To kick off the festivities, City Opera Vancouver will sing the operatic music parodied in the film, with fun and surprises in store. The 30s cinema experience will include festive treats, glamour, and a costume contest. City Opera Vancouver singers Michelle Koebke (soprano) and Martin Renner Wallace (tenor) will be joined tonight by pianist Roger Parton.
This weekend is the kick-off to all things Halloween and Miss604 is a proud sponsor of Eerie Illusions at Burnaby Village Museum which will be transformed into a magical world bathed in breathtaking colour. Book your tickets today and find this and many more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
The Rolla Skate Club is excited to announce Rollerland at the PNE! Since the start of Rolla Skate Club almost three years ago, finding a venue to host their in-person rollerskating classes turned out to be a challenging task. From having classes at parking lots, tiny yoga studios, and art galleries, to settling into the late “Skate Church” at Kerrisdale, Rolla has been everywhere.
After many years of looking for a permanent home for Rolla Skate Club, co-founders Carla and Lucy have finally found their long held dream place; a 20,000 sq/ft space to host all of Rolla’s magic at the Rollerland building at the PNE.
With the new space, Rolla Skate Club will be able to host rollerskating classes, events, roller derby games, and even a mini indoor skate park.
In the last year and half the COVID pandemic brought many hits and changes for folks at Rolla. So being able to finally get a big win after many, many lows has brought a lot of happy tears for the Rolla team.
“It’s been a long time in this community that we have been working under one umbrella or another to find a permanent home for roller skating in this city,” says Carla. Having found a space for roller skating not only means a big win for Rolla Skate Club, but also for the growing roller skating community in Vancouver.
“It’s so important to have a place that anyone can go to be active and build strength without judgement, that is also fun and indoors in Vancouver! Especially in the winter I struggle with being active as we all know how gloomy it gets so having a place that isn’t the gym where I feel connected to a community is so beneficial to my (and many others) well being!” Margaret Gravesdale – Rolla Skate Club Customer
The history of the Building at the PNE has shifted a lot, from formerly being known as the Women’s Building to becoming the Rollerland Building in the 1970’s. Being able to settle in a space that has a history for women and of roller skating has also made it more special to bring the skating groove and community back to it.
The grand opening of the new and improved Rolla Skate Club home at Rollerland at the PNE will take place on Saturday, December 4th. If you wish to join the team at Rolla Skate Club to celebrate their new home at the opening and roll the night away you can book tickets online.
Follow Rolla Skate Club on Instagram for more updates and event info.
The Museum of Anthropology (“MOA”) at UBC is hosting the exhibition Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots which will be on display from November 4, 2021–March 27, 2022. The vital exhibition shines a light on the different ways of understanding the world through the lenses of African and Black communities by exploring the relationships between traditional and contemporary African art and Black Canadian contemporary art.
The exhibition is a celebration of these diverse practices and the lasting legacy of African and Black Canadian artists. Sankofais jointly curated by Nya Lewis, founder and director of BlackArt Gastown; Nuno Porto, MOA Curator, Africa and South America; and Titilope Salami, a PhD candidate at UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. It also features one installation curated by Oluwasayo Olowo-Oke, MA candidate at UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.
“Sankofa addresses the uncertain moment that many Black Canadians face when they enter a museum and encounter a historicized version of Africa — how can one relate to these objects that have been removed from contemporary Black culture?” says Lewis. “Sankofa provides a space for viewers to investigate the African collections at MOA and reflect on how the stories, creativity, and traditions that live in these items might be re-examined to find the truth and history of who Black Canadians are now. Sankofa aims to build bridges of recollection and forge new relationships between the many diasporic identities found across the city and beyond.”
There will be 30 works by 16 artists on display alongside more than 100 items from the MOA collection. The exhibition is focused on nine themes — recognition, remembrance, reconnection, restoration, reparation, reclamation, restitution, return, and reconstruction — which are articulated through sections dedicated to wealth, devotion to orishas, Islam, Christianity, looting, and repatriation.
The curatorial variety affirms notions of diversity and resilience by visualizing the continued presence, vitality, and relevance of art from Africa and by Black Canadians. The featured contemporary artists from Vancouver and Lagos are a combination of emerging and established artists, many of whom directly and indirectly address the anonymous works in MOA collections.
