The Vancouver Art Gallery has launched Art At Home, a weekly series of digital family programs to inspire the whole family to get creative at home. Recommended for children aged 5-12, Art At Home can be adapted by families for various ages.
Art at Home with the Vancouver Art Gallery
CREATE: Inspired by Michael Snow’s “Walking Woman,” how many different ways do you think you can you create an action silhouette portrait of yourself, of someone or of something in your home?
Any materials will work! Look around your house and think about what materials will work best for your ideas.
Every Sunday, the Gallery will share a different art-making activity on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, taking inspiration from the exhibitions or an artwork from the Gallery’s permanent collection.
Twice a month on every other Wednesday at 1:30pm, families are invited to attend a free Art At Home Live webinar session on the Gallery’s Zoom channel. Christina Jones, Family Programs Coordinator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, will share fun and animated stories about the incredible lives of artists and how they make art. Families will experience the power of storytelling through anecdotal stories about artists and artworks in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Art At Home Live will also introduce a related art-making activity for families to use. Art At Home projects and supporting resources for caregivers will be available on the Gallery’s website to spark art-making inspiration at any time
Families are invited to follow along and post their creations on social media and tag the Vancouver Art Gallery to share their creations with the community.
If you missed previous weeks’ activities, you can catch up with these activity sheets:
I would usually have a fun lineup of brunch, tea and photo events to share this week but like the rest of the calendar right now, Mother’s Day will look a bit different this year. If you’re like me and you can’t be with your mom on Sunday, May 10th, you can still send her something special. Check out this selection of Fraser Valley and Vancouver Mother’s Day gift boxes, brunch to go and more available for pick-up and delivery:
Vancouver Mother’s Day Gift Boxes and Brunch to Go
High Tea To Go from Little White House in Fort Langley
High Tea to Go
Where to purchase: Online here Delivery or pick-up: May 9-10, 2020 from 9:00am to 3:00pm front porch pickup at 9090 Glover Road, Fort Langley.
Little White House & Co. is offering their White Hydrangea High Tea including five sweet and six savoury petite selections, a mini bottle of Champagne and Creme de le Earl Grey tea served in a beautiful gift box with satin ribbon and perfectly petite hydrangea.
Where to purchase: By email [email protected] Delivery or pick-up: Both
Faubourg is offering A Day in Paris – Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea this Friday May 8 to Sunday May 10 at both locations (Kerrisdale and Hornby). It includes chicken salad on choux, vegetarian on eclair, smoked salmon on croissant, scones, coffee cream & ladyfinger, 2 raspberry chocolate opera, raspberry rose macarons, vanilla croquant choux, blood orange tartelettes, and more!
Love Vancity Gift Boxes
Where to purchase:Online here Delivery or pick-up: Delivery
Partnering with local small brands such as Chop Value, Mala the Brand, Woash Wellness, Blume, Naked Snacks and many more, the Love Vancity team has lovingly curated a collection of gift boxes that support both the local community and frontline workers. Options are $25 to $85 boxes packed with local goods. $5 from each Love Vancity box sold will go to support Feed the Frontline Workers Canada. Local delivery within the Greater Vancouver area for $15. For everyone outside the Greater Vancouver area, they off shipping via Canada Post nationwide.
Handmade & Homegrown Fraser Valley Gift Box
Where to purchase:Online here Delivery or pick-up: Pick-up is May 9, 2020 from Tradex between 10:00am and 2:00pm.
Tourism Abbotsford and the Fraser Valley Trade and Exhibition Centre (Tradex) have launched a Handmade & Homegrown Fraser Valley Gift Box with several options ranging from $38 to $60 options. Items you can choose from include flower seeds from Tanglebank Gardens, tulips from the Abbotsford Tulip Festival, a flowerpot chocolate lollies from ChocolaTas, a cupcake from Tracycakes Bakery and Café, lavender room spray and bar soap from Tuscan Farm Gardens, honey sticks from Campbell’s Gold Honey Farm & Meadery and more.
Brunch Boxes To Go
Where to purchase:Online here Delivery or pick-up: Delivery and pick-up. Delivery fee is $4 if within 4km of the restaurant, $7 if further
Steveston Seafood House is offering a Mother’s Day Brunch Box for $24.95 per person. The menu includes: Spinach and feta cheese frittata, crab cake with red pepper aioli, brioche French toast with caramelized banana and pecans, apricot spinach salad, homemade blueberry scones and chocolate-dipped strawberries. Add-ons to make the brunch more special, include a 15-stem bouquet of freshly cut tulips for $19.95 or mini mimosa kit (orange juice, bottle of Piccolo Champagne and fresh-cut oranges) for $12.
Where to purchase:Online here Delivery or pick-up: Pick up hot and ready on May 10 from Dominion (13475 Central Ave, Surrey)
Choose from three Mother’s Day Brunch options from Dominion Bar + Kitchen, from $36 to $49 per person,. Options include large garden salad, French-Canadian onion soup, French toast, Italian meatballs with classic marinara sauce, seared salmon with quinoa, mini lemon meringue pie, salted caramel brownie, and more!
Cake!
Cake from Ladurée
Where to purchase:Online here Delivery or pick-up: Delivery
Of course one of my favourite boxes contain just one thing: cake! I ordered up a little surprise from Laduree on Robson for my mother’s birthday this past weekend.
They will deliver macarons, pastries, cakes and all their products to Metro Vancouver (free delivery for orders $100+ Surrey, White Rock, Langley, Tsawwassen areas excluded, a delivery charge will apply).
It’s the 15th anniversary of the event and since we can’t participate all together, Vancouver Frontrunners is providing some options for you to do your own Vancouver Pride Run and Walk this summer.
Vancouver Frontrunners Photo
Do Your Own Vancouver Pride Run and Walk This Summer
Register online for the 5km run or walk, or the 10km run or walk. Or you can simply register to fundraise.
During the month of July, complete your own 5km or 10km walk or run for the cause.
Public Health guidelines during COVID-19 suggest you stick close to home, so a route in your neighbourhood is best. If you have access to an area with low vehicle traffic, that’s ideal. Whatever you choose, you may want to run or walk it a few times using your watch or app to measure the distance before you do it for real on the race day you choose.
There are some prizes to be won including costume entries (show off your run look) and most money raised over $500. There are also door prizes that all participants have the chance to enter.
Vancouver Frontrunners, an all-volunteer, LGBTQ2+ running and walking club, and they created this event out of a desire to give back to the community. The objective is to raise funds for community beneficiaries: Out in Schools and the LOUD Foundation’sPride Youth Scholarship Fund.
Follow fellow participants and organizers on Facebook and Twitter for inspiration.
You can book an appointment to release butterflies at Taves Farm orchard in Abbotsford – how delightful is that? At a time when virtual and online events dominate our calendars — with good reason — our local farmers are not only feeding us but coming up with really lovely events for families, which adhere to social distancing guidelines.
Release Butterflies at Taves Farm Orchard
When: During Summer Solstice, June 20-21, 2020 Where: Taves Farm (333 Gladwin Rd, Abbotsford, BC) What: Butterfly Release Packages including soft apple cider slushies, soft and hard apple cider and a donation to the Abbotsford Food Bank
Located in Abbotsford, Taves Family Farms is hosting a butterfly release to symbolize renewal. They created this social distancing style event due to COVID-19.
People can purchase their package of choice online and come to the farm at a designated time to release their butterflies or bring the butterflies back home and release elsewhere. The packages include their signature soft apple cider but also their new hard apple cider from Taves Estate Cidery. This cidery opened only a few weeks ago amidst the pandemic.
From Taves: “To say it’s been challenging is a gross understatement. We have created this special event to symbolize renewal. Just as the butterfly transforms from caterpillar to butterfly, so shall we. Whether you want to release a butterfly focusing on renewal, to set positive intentions for the future,to honour a loved one, or to provide an outdoor field trip experience for your children, we invite you to join us!”
All orders must be placed by May 19, 2020. All release times will be arranged on a one-by-one basis in the apple orchard.
Introducing the #CHVCatchUp, a new monthly series featuring the latest updates and news from Covenant House Vancouver. Miss604 is proud to be the Official Blog Partner of CHV.
How Covenant House is Adapting Services to Best Meet the Needs of Young People
At Covenant House Vancouver their Registered Social Workers and Registered Clinical Counsellors have adapted how they work to best support youth in these unprecedented times. CHV’s Case Management Team is comprised of both Social Workers and Clinical Counselors.
Social Workers provide youth-focused, coordinated, and integrated support to youth using a trauma informed approach. A large part of their work has been to support both youth directly and the frontline youth workers who are serving and caring for youth onsite during this health emergency. In addition to this, they are busy learning the new ways their community partners and resources are operating during this time, working to ensure that continued access to services is as seamless as possible.
Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC) continue to provide one to one counselling to their clients, using the technology available to them to offer counselling virtually when appropriate. Many of the youth have expressed appreciation that their sessions with their counsellor can continue in some format. RCC’s are also providing teams with mindfulness and mental health resources which are very helpful right now, both for youth and staff. In addition, they are exploring the possibility and logistics of continuing with Art Therapy Groups in a social-distancing, COVID-19 compliant environment.
Activities and art are helping the youth at Covenant House
Covenant House’s Youth Workers have been working hard to ensure that they are engaging young people in creative activities, all while trying to remain physically distant but socially connected. A few of the youth and youth workers brainstormed some ideas and someone suggested that they have a tie-dye evening. A craft supply order later and they had everything that they needed to run “Camp Covey” featuring tie dye.
The youth were split into individual stations, a playlist of favourite music was put on and everyone got creative. The youth all enjoyed the evening and CHV shares it has been wonderful to see all of the young people sporting their colourful tee-shirts over the last few days.
Check out their creations:
Our community is supporting CHV and they wanted to thank you with a tool to support your mental health
Mindfulness is a technique taught to the young people at Covenant House Vancouver.
Dr. Keith Thurlow-Bishop, MA, MSc, PhD and Registered Clinical Counsellor & Expressive Arts Therapist at Covenant House Vancouver shares a mindfulness practice to support good mental health during these uncertain times.
Take a breath and bring awareness to the present moment by naming:
5 things I can see 4 things I can hear 3 things I can feel 2 things I can smell 1 thing I can taste
This practice can help anchor you in this present moment and remind you that you are okay. Dr. Keith hopes this mindfulness practice helps you during this difficult time.
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