Chor Leoni opens its 2024/2025 season with Shadows Into Dawn, the choir’s 33rd annual Remembrance Day Concert in Downtown Vancouver. This cherished annual tradition offers audiences a reflective sonic space to contemplate the realities and costs of war through song. Enter to win tickets.
Chor Leoni – Photo credit David Cooper
Chor Leoni Remembrance Day Concert
Date: November 11, 2024 at 2:00pm and 5:00pm
Location: St. Andrew’s-Wesley United (1022 Nelson St, Vancouver)
The moving program spans diverse texts and cultural perspectives, featuring arrangements of beloved folk and popular songs like Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’”, Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”, and “Bonny Wood Green”.
The Circle Craft Holiday Market returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre for its 50th season, November 6-10, 2024, welcoming over 300 artisans.
What began in 1974 as a church craft fair, has flourished into Western Canada’s longest-standing and largest handmade marketplace. An ethical, local alternative to online shopping, throwaway fashions, and copycat designs, the five-day fine craft market offers visitors a unique opportunity to connect with skilled artisans, take in live demonstrations, and enjoy festive food and drink while getting ahead of their holiday shopping.
Circle Craft Holiday Market 50th Anniversary
Dates: Daily from 10:00am November 6-10, 2024.
Until 9:00pm Wednesday to Friday, 7:00pm Saturday, and 5:00pm Sunday.
Location: Vancouver Convention Centre (1055 Canada Place, Vancouver)
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased online for $16 per adults and $12 per youth and senior. Includes free re-admission.
Save 25% from now until October 31, 2024. Save 50% off after 5:00pm November 6, 7 & 8, 2024.
For five decades, the Circle Craft Holiday Market has drawn artists, makers and craftspeople from Canadian coast to coast, with this year’s vendors travelling from as far as Halifax, Nova Scotia, to set up pop-up shops in the 135,000-square-foot Convention Centre space.
Dress for Success Vancouver’s annual Success Luncheon in November will celebrate the organization’s milestone 25th anniversary, and status as the longest running international affiliate of Dress for Success Worldwide. This annual event supports DFS Vancouver’s work to empower women and gender-diverse individuals into sustainable employment, financial independence, and personal success.
Dress for Success Luncheon – Photos submitted
Celebrate this growing community and the journey from a volunteer-run grassroots organization, to a leading non-profit supporting the economic empowerment of women.
Success Luncheon
Dates: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from 10:30am to 2:30pm
Location: Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver (900 Canada Place)
This weekend around Metro Vancouver there is no shortage of fun things to do! Miss604 is a sponsor of Central Spark in Burnaby on Friday night (free), and Haunted Village at Burnaby Village Museum (all weekend). Find these activities and many more below:
The 15th Annual Chinese Restaurant Awards announced their Top 30long list winners this week. Selections span not only dine-in Chinese restaurants, but also Taiwanese cuisine, food court stalls, Cantonese BBQ eateries, dessert shops, and café-style venues.
Best Chinese Restaurants in Vancouver Top 30 Long List
Best Chinese Restaurants Vancouver – The Dolar Shop – Photo Submitted
