For this year’s Lights of Hope, St. Paul’s Foundation has reimagined the hospital’s beloved holiday tradition to celebrate hope together, while safely apart, with Hope at Home.
Lights of Hope at St Paul’s Presents Hope at Home
Where: Online
When: November 19, 2020 from 6:00pm to 6:40pm
A virtual community lighting celebration will be held on November 19th. You are invited to ring in the season from home as you watch the hospital’s much-loved holiday lighting display illuminate Burrard Street with over 100,000 sparkling lights and a new digital projection element. Viewers can also expect a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Clause, as well as musical performances.
A livestream of the display will then be available online from November 19th until January 4th. For those wanting to visit the display in person throughout the holiday season, please remember to do so safely, with “fewer faces and bigger spaces.”
Limited edition Hope at Home holiday star lanterns are also available for purchase to show your support for Lights of Hope from home.
Gifts to Lights of Hope have an impact on every patient, resident, visitor, and department. Donations enable St. Paul’s Foundation to meet essential, urgent needs at our hospitals and long-term care homes.
It’s Halloween weekend and while the festive holiday falls on a Saturday, British Columbians are being encouraged not to gather in large groups with our COVID numbers on the rise. There are distanced and accessible trick or treating options, and fun options for online entertainment. Find this and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend below:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Friday, October 30, 2020
Sponsored by Miss604: SPARK Festival of Animation
DTES Heart of the City Festival
Spark Animation Trivia Night
musica intima: the spirit’s dwelling
Halloween Fun at the PNE, Slayland
J-Horror at The Cinematheque
Latin American Artist Workshop – Portray Yourself as a Catrina w/Dee
Grave Tales at Fort Langley for Halloween
Maan Farms Haunted Halloween
Gulf of Georgia Cannery: Once Upon a Haunted Sea
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Add this to your Vancouver lexicon! MONOVA is the new brand for the Museum of North Vancouver, which is set to open in 2021 in a new 16,000 square foot space at 115 West Esplanade. In the heart of North Vancouver’s Lower Lonsdale Shipyards District, it will be adjacent to Lonsdale Quay, the Polygon Gallery, and the SeaBus Terminal.
MONOVA Museum of North Vancouver
The new Museum will join the Archives of North Vancouver in Lynn Valley in engaging and supporting the north shore community in discovery and storytelling under the MONOVA banner.
In addition to being the new home of the restored Streetcar 153 and a stunning new cedar carving of Sch’ich’iyuy (The Two Sisters) by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) carver Wade Baker, the new purpose-built facility will be full of interactive multimedia exhibits, innovative programming and public gatherings.
“The red cedar Sch’ich’iyuy panel is based on the ancient Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sister’s Mountain Transformer legend,” noted Wade Baker. “The twins were raised from childhood to be leaders for their people. They asked their father, the Siyam, the Chief, to bring peace to the warring tribes along the coast. He could not refuse their request and fires were lit all along the coast to signal a great welcoming feast to bring peace. For their efforts, the twins were immortalized in the mountain peaks you see today that watch over us.”
When it opens in 2021, the new Museum of North Vancouver hopes to engage, strengthen and inspire the community by exploring the stories of North Vancouver’s past, present and future.
The brand launch today kicks off a community campaign called “Bringing Stories To Life” as part of their ongoing $1.5M new museum fundraising appeal. With 85% of funding in place, this campaign aims to close the gap. Follow the new brand on Facebook for more information.
Enjoy Halloween at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery (National Historic Site) in Steveston with The Haunted Sea this season. This fairy-tale reboot of the cannery’s annual Halloween event is extended to a month-long installation for visitors of all ages to explore with safe distancing measures in place.
Halloween at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery
Follow the path into the darkest depths of the sea and come out a hero with new knowledge and tools to help save the ocean from death by plastic monsters.
Where: Gulf of Georgia Cannery (12138 Fourth Ave, Richmond)
When: Daily until November 8th, 10:00am to 5:00pm
Admission: Advance tickets not required. Adults $11.90, seniors $10.20, youth under 17 & Society members free. All discounts and passes will be accepted/honoured.
Masks are recommended and also dress warmly, the cannery is perched atop the Fraser River with no heating. Capacity will be limited to allow for physical distancing.
Built in 1894 in the historic village of Steveston, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery was once the largest building of its kind and the leading producer of canned salmon in British Columbia. Experience the stories of this place and its people through interactive exhibits, films, and guided tours on Canada’s West Coast fishing industry.
On November 19th, you can unlock access to The Donut King, a film by Alice Gu, through donut shops across Canada. In Vancouver, you can get digital access via Cartems.
The Donut King
Release dates: November 19 to December 31, 2020
Access: Pre-order here for $9.99
Watch: Online
The Donut King tells the story of the rise and fall of Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian refugee who escaped genocide and overcame poverty to build a life for himself – and hundreds of other immigrant families – by baking America’s favourite pastry and building an unlikely empire of donut shops.
“He is almost single-handedly responsible for his compatriots’ domination of the mom-and-pop donut shops in SoCal, of which 80% were owned by Cambodians by the mid-1990s.”
~ Asian CineVision
Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American Dream. But, in life, great rise can come with great falls. Ted’s story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption.
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada.
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