Metro Vancouver’s one-of-a-kind home grocery delivery service, Legends Haul, saved me around the holidays when I was able to ship several of their tasty gift packages to clients and friends. They’ve upped their game for Mother’s Day this year, with new grocery packages and meal kits that will make a mom in your life feel very special! From a Mother’s Day Brunch Kit, a Treats + Sweets Kit, to a special Afternoon Tea Kit and gift options, there is something for everyone.
Legends Haul Delivers Mother’s Day
To honour moms, Legends Haul is also donating 10 percent of all sales from their Mother’s Day category to Cause We Care Foundation, a non-profit that provides aid to local single mothers and children to help them exit out of poverty.
Legends Haul’s curated Mother’s Day kits feature an array of local brands, restaurants, farmers, producers, and small businesses from British Columbia, with many owned or founded by moms. Boxes include three Mother’s Day Brunch Kits ($135) with meat, vegan, and vegetarian options, a Sweet and Salty Kit, an Unwind Kit, and a Tea Party Kit.
Mother’s Day Brunch Kit (bacon + eggs) for $135 Livia Sourdough Bread, Minor Figures Oat Milk, Mumgry Peanut Butter, Spades Bacon, Bohème Grove Maple Breakfast Sausage, Coligny Creek Organic Eggs, Birchwood Vanilla Yogurt, Loop Orange Juice, Cafe Medina Waffles, Cafe Medina Mixed Berry Compote, 1lb Legends Haul Coffee, Oranges
Mother’s Day Brunch Kit (vegan) for $135 Silver Hills Organic Everything Bagels, Save Da Sea Vegan Smoked Salmon, Spread Em’ Meadow Cheese, JUST Egg Omelette, The Acorn Gluten Free Vegan Oversized Waffle, The Acorn Wildflower Syrup, Big Mountain Foods Vegan Breakfast Bites, Strawberries, Legends Haul 1lb Coffee, Loop Green Smoothie Juice, Local Salad Greens, Nightingale Turmeric Dressing
Mother’s Day Treats + Sweets Kit ($40) Smart Sweets, Beta 5 Chocolate Bar, Truffle Chips, The Lemon Square, Mid Day Squares – Fudge Yah, Laid Back Snacks – Hearty Tamari
Mother’s Day Unwind Kit ($85) Sangre de Fruta Rose Bath Salts, Nectrous Botanicals Soap Bar, Kov Skincare Lotion, Skwalwen Botanicals – KW’AS – Cocomint lip balm, Beta 5 Chocolate Bar
Mother’s Day Tea Party Kit ($105) Tealeaves Daily Ritual of Aroma Tea Sampler, Minor Figures Oat Milk, Blume Turmeric Latte Blend, Bel Cafe Scones, Lemon Square, Butter Baked Goods Morning Glory Muffins, Butter Baked Goods Cookbook
Other Mother’s Day gift items available include a beautiful One Wednesday throw, fresh bouquets, Sangre de Fruta hand soap, Midnight Paloma bath salts, SḴWÁLWEN Botanicals Cleansing Clay, the Monika Hibbs Gather At Home cookbook, and more.
Legends Haul currently offers free delivery in regions across Metro Vancouver. Orders placed by 11:59pm the day before (alcohol by 9:00pm) are delivered the next day. Deliveries can also be scheduled. Mother’s Day is May 9, 2021 so be sure to get your orders in before then.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announced that the second annual Day of Music will take place May 15, 2021. This free event celebrates music and musicians from across the Province of BC. Over one hundred performances will be released as livestreams and recordings in the virtual Day of Music hub. Pop-up performances are also being planned around the province, health orders permitting.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Second Annual Day of Music
“Day of Music 2021 is a chance for British Columbians to come together in a massive celebration of music and its power to connect us. This has been a challenging year on so many fronts, and in particular for musicians. We witnessed firsthand how much stress our own VSO musicians have experienced. […] We plan to reignite the sheer joy of music and performance as our community gets ready to come out of this long hibernation.” – Angela Elster, President & CEO of the VSO and VSO School of Music
Call for Participants
The VSO invites amateur and professional musicians and ensembles from across the province to join in this celebration of music via a video recording, live stream or pop-up performance in their community. A limited number of honorariums ($400 for individuals, $1,000 for ensembles) will be awarded to select participants. While all musicians and groups are invited to submit proposals to participate, preference will be given groups related to classical, jazz, chamber, world music, indigenous and wind band genres.
Proposals to participate can be submitted at DayOfMusic.ca. Deadline to submit proposals is April 15th, 2021.
Day of Music is the VSO’s annual free community celebration of music and musicians. The first celebration took place in 2019 and welcomed over 14,000 people to 100 free performances in celebration of the VSO’s 100th Anniversary.
DanceHouse, in partnership with Digidance, announces the Canadian digital broadcast of More Than Dance, We Are A Movement. The film marks the 20th anniversary of Toronto-based interdisciplinary innovators Red Sky Performance – showcasing excerpts of their award-winning work and the remarkable story of their rise to one of the world’s most prolific and celebrated Indigenous performance creators.
Red Sky Performance -Trace – Photo by Rob DiVito
More Than Dance, We Are A Movement
When: April 14 – 20, 2021 (Link available for 7 Days) Streaming in Canada only Tickets: From $15 + applicable taxes, available online now
Filmed in celebration of the company’s 20th anniversary, More Than Dance, We Are A Movement captures the creative drive of Founder and Executive and Artistic Director Sandra Laronde and the exceptional artistic vision that propelled Red Sky Performance to prominence and critical acclaim.
The 58 minute film also contains extended excerpts from two of the company’s award-winning creations, choreographed by Jera Wolfe: Trace, the recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2019, and Miigis, which received the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation in 2018.
Trace is a highly kinetic contemporary dance work inspired by Indigenous (Anishinaabe) sky and star stories, offering a glimpse into Indigenous ancestral origins as well as the future evolution. Trace made its world premiere in Toronto at Canadian Stage in November 2018, before its international premiere at the iconic Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the US in 2019.
Miigis represents the “the perfect breath” of life, a symbol that informs our origin story of travel from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Lakes. Fusing contemporary Indigenous dance with athleticism in an extraordinary form, Miigis explores the catalysts for movement, ancestral forces and living memory, and the cycle of life. Having premiered as a site-specific work at Fort York in Toronto in 2017 and toured to the Venice Biennale in 2018, the featured excerpt gives audiences an intimate view on the nuance and elaborate creation.
The broadcast of More Than Dance, We Are A Movement is due to the coordinated effort of Digidance, a national initiative formed in response to COVID-19 between four of Canada’s leading dance presenters: DanceHouse (Vancouver), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), and Danse Danse (Montreal), and co-presented with Springboard Performance (Calgary).
In the fall of 2021, Red Sky Performance will embark on their first international tour since the global COVID-19 pandemic, bringing Trace to cities across the US and Canada.
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We’re three weeks in with three more to go! The #BuyBasin Festival is happening now, featuring a hundred entertainers, businesses, artisans, makers, tour guides, artists and more all in the Columbia Basin area of BC.
Where:Facebook When: March 23 to April 27, 2021 every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Admission:RSVP and tune in for free! Entertainment: Shred Kelly, Heather Gemmell, Shayna Jones, Maggie May Davis, Ricky Diamonds, Tenise Marie, and Red Girl.
Last week I saw some of the superfood ingredients that go into Viva Cacao small-batch chocolate (in Slocan), I learned some N̓syilxčn̓ words from Sʔímlaʔxʷ at the Syilx Language House, and I watched how Boba Slush is made at Bombshack Apparel (in Rossland). I also caught performances from Shred Kelly, Moontricks, and Nelson Civic Theatre’s artist in residence Shayna Jones. And there’s so much more coming up!
The #BuyBasin Festival lineup is growing every day so RSVP to get updates. Here are just a few more broadcasts I’ll be tuning into: Kootenay Gateway going live on Wednesday, April 7th to talk about mountain biking programs and even mountain bike art they feature in store; Reel Adventures which will be live from a boat on Kootenay Lake on Tuesday, April 6th; another language lesson from Syilx Language House on April 13th and even more entertainment.
It’s live on Facebook every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday until the end of April. Get to know more about your province and the incredible small businesses – and business owners – that are such an integral part of BC. RSVP to tune in live, shop online, and show your support!
About the Columbia Basin Trust Region
The Columbia Basin Trust serves the region consisting of all the watersheds that flow into the Columbia River in Canada and operates in the unceded traditional territories of the Ktunaxa, Lheidli T’enneh, Secwepemc, Sinixt and Syilx Nations.
It’s Easter Long Weekend in Vancouver and while many events still can’t take place, and restaurants are now closed for indoor dining, there are still some options for holiday fun and great eats! From drive-thru food trucks and farm attractions, to virtual egg hunts and online arts programming. You can also check with your local community centre as many are offering take-home activity kits. #SupportLocal, order some take-out, and stay safe.
