Spooky festivities are back at the Britannia Mine Museum, featuring for two “Bad to the Bone” Halloween weekends on October 23rd and 24th, and October 30th and 31st just up the Sea to Sky Highway.
Family-friendly chills and thrills will run over four days with spell binding adventures including a lost pirate journal deep in the Underground mine tunnel, a Witches’ Lair and Wall of Wonders in the Bone Yard with skeletons of creatures both real and mythical. Not to mention the Spooky Skeleton Science Shows with petrifying wizardry, and the “Terror” Lab with a real Orca whale skeleton.
Inside the Britannia Mine tunnels. Photo by John Bollwitt
Halloween Weekends at Britannia Mine Museum
When: October 23-24 & October 30-31, 2021 from from 10:00am to 3:30pm
Where: Britannia Mine Museum (150 Copper Dr, Britannia Beach)
Tickets: Advanced ticket purchase and reservation is recommended as special events are often sold out.
The Halloween “special event” rate is $20 for adults and $15 for kids ages five to twelve, which includes the Halloween activities, museum exhibits, gold panning and the “lost pirate journal” underground train ride. The Museum is still offering the traditional guided underground tours and BOOM! Mill show via regular admissions.
Special this year for the month of October is the Museum’s new temporary exhibit inside the “Terror” Lab STEAM learning space, “Ore and Orcas: The Remediation of Howe Sound”. The dynamic visual exhibit showcases the O120 Orca bone display and other marine specimens, to shine the light on the remediation of the Howe Sound marine ecosystem.
The “Ore and Orcas” exhibit was made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Briar Sexton and Mr. Craig Gauld, and an educational partnership with the Strawberry Isle Marine Research Society (“SIMRS”), the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Porpoise Conservation Society. The exhibit will educate visitors on the mine’s history – including the impacts of pollution and subsequent remediation, recovery and protection with the EPCOR Water Treatment Plant – through the lens of its impact on the Howe Sound food chain.
BOOM! at Britannia Mine Museum. Photo submitted.
The Britannia Mine Museum provides unique and memorable experiences that engage visitors of all ages. Visitors can enjoy fun exhibits and crowd favourites like the underground mine train, gold panning, the historic 20-storey concentrator Mill building and itsBOOM! special effects show, the Terralab STEAM learning space, the minerals and gem gallery, and the Beaty Lundin Visitor Centre.
Located 45 minutes north of Vancouver on the picturesque Sea-to-Sky highway, the award-winning Britannia Mine Museum is open seven days a week with appropriate COVID-19 safety measures and procedures in place. This includes enhanced staff training, smaller bubble tour sizes, accommodating appropriate physical distancing, and implementing site sanitation protocols. Masks are required indoors and inside the mine tunnel for visitors over the age of 12.
After a one-year hiatus, the Vancouver Christmas Market returns to its seaside home at Jack Poole Plaza in Downtown Vancouver. Vancouver’s largest and longest-running Christmas Market – and only European Christmas Market – invites families and friends to reconnect and celebrate the spirit of the holiday season with an expanded six-week schedule for 2021.
Photo by Lindsay Elliott
Vancouver Christmas Market Returns
When: November 13 to December 24, 2021 from 11:30am to 9:30pm daily
November 13 to 18, Market opens at 4:00pm; December 24 closes at 6:00pm
Where: Location: Jack Poole Plaza at the Olympic Cauldron (1055 Canada Place, Vancouver)
Tickets: To help spread the cheer, the is releasing a limited number of reduced-price tickets for guests to purchase by October 31st.
The 11th year of the outdoor, traditional German-inspired Market will introduce new vendors and activities with schedules launching over the coming weeks. Traditional mulled wine, savoury treats and baked goods, carousel rides, festive music, and magical lighting displays are all a part of this year’s event.
“Many Vancouverites and visitors make it an annual holiday tradition to visit the Vancouver Christmas Market with friends and family,” says Denise Wegener, market president. “As it’s been a tough time for many, the Market is offering a reduced ticketing rate so that more people can visit us this year.”
The Vancouver Christmas Market is implementing COVID-19 safety measures to protect everyone involved with the Market. This year’s Market will see a new online reservation system to ensure the Market is not crowded and social distancing is possible.
Upon purchasing online tickets, guests are prompted to select a date and half-hour arrival time slot. Once they enter the Market, visitors are invited to stay as long as they like. The Market asks that all guests over the age of 12 present a valid COVID-19 vaccination passport. Adults aged 19 and over will also need to present a government-issued photo ID. Hand sanitizer will be supplied on site.
The Vancouver Christmas Market follows all recommended COVID-19 guidelines from the Provincial Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Vancouver Convention Centre, with precautions listed on the Vancouver Christmas Market website.
The weekend kicks off with the Big Sisters BC Lower Mainland Luminary Soirée both online and in person on Friday (sponsored by Miss604) then you can enjoy outdoor fun at a local farm in the cozy, drizzly fall weather, or check out the Fall Home Show inside at BC Place, some free BC Culture Days events, some concerts or live theatre. Find all these and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
In the morning I glanced at our itinerary and looked over at John: “Cafe, cafe, meadery, cidery, winery,” to which he replied: “It’s going to be a good day!” He sure was right as we were following in the footsteps of this #ExploreArrowLakes story from our friends at ZenSeekers. We departed Castlegar in the morning (see, I told you it was a great hub) and headed north. Following the Columbia River, the Kootenay River, then the Slocan River and eventually Slocan Lake and Upper Arrow Lake, we rolled around in the valleys flanked by the Selkirk, Monashee and Purcell mountain ranges.
Good Eats in the Arrow Lakes and Slocan Valley Region
Frog Peak Cafe
Location: 1418 BC-6, Crescent Valley, BC What to order: All the baked goods! The coffee is amazing as well. Come for the food, stay for the artwork, the spacious patio, and lawn with play area for the kids. What the founder says: “My husband and I bought this building in 2003 with the plans of opening just a little cafe,” says co-owner Laurel Giasson who says they’ve put on about five additions to the building. “It was built in 1896, it was actually the first or second home built out here in the Slocan Valley […] We spent two years restoring it, and had our son, and we opened the restaurant in 2005. Originally we were just a small cafe/bakery and over the years we’ve just added things to our menu.” They do a full breakfast and lunch until 3pm daily. “It’s just really a nice organic vibe. People let their kids play, they’ll put a blanket on the grass if there’s no tables, we just enjoy – we really love it!”
DanceHouse presents the Vancouver premiere of RUBBERBAND’s high-octane hip-hop infused work Ever So Slightly, on stage October 21 to 23, 2021 at the Vancouver Playhouse, in strict compliance with provincial health regulations.
RUBBERBAND Photo by Marie-Noëlle Pilon
First Show to be Cancelled by the Presenter in Response to the Pandemic Now Marks Long-Awaited Return to the Stage
DanceHouse Presents RUBBERBAND’s Ever So Slightly
When: October 21 to 23, 2021 at 8:00pm
Where: Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton St, Vancouver)
Choreographed by RUBBERBAND’s Artistic Director Victor Quijada, Ever So Slightly explores humanity’s instinctive behavioural reflexes developed in response to life’s daily aggressions, coupled with our urgent desire for resistance from these constraints. The Montreal company’s first major work to feature its entire 10-member company of artists, Ever So Slightly’s dynamic choreography will be accompanied by a live electronic soundscape from composer / DJ Jasper Gahunia and award-winning violinist William Lamoureux.
Ever So Slightly, which premiered in December 2018 at Montreal’s Théâtre Maisonneuve, is Quijada’s meditation on the momentum of change — the many elements that lead to change, and the breaking point that makes either positive or negative shifts possible. The work was recognized as a finalist at the prestigious Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal in 2019.
The performance begins with the company’s dancers lying face down on an unadorned black set. As tension mounts, movement slowly ripples through the pack as the dancers bubble up, one at a time, in a reflexive chain reaction. Through innovative partnering, staccato flashes of fiery red and stark white lighting, and powerful, urgent movement, the dancers fight their own instincts, stripping away their constraining boiler suit uniforms on the path towards emotional freedom and transformative enlightenment.
Ever So Slightly features an original soundtrack composed and performed live on stage by Gahunia, RUBBERBAND’s longtime collaborative partner, an established TV and film composer, and resident DJ for hip-hop artist K-OS. Joining Gahunia on stage is virtuoso violinist William Lamoureux. The duo imbues the work with a pulsing soundscape: an eclectic mix of esoteric electronica, breakbeats, and vintage sampling. Gahunia and Lamoureux are fixtures of the set, performing from risers constructed on the right side of the stage.
I have a pair of tickets to give away to opening night on October 21st, here’s how you can enter to win:
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