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by Rebecca BollwittDisclosure: Sponsored Post — Sponsored by Lumière Vancouver Please review the Policy & Disclosure section for further information.
On a dark weekend in November, Lumière Vancouver will bring its brilliant light to the West End and Downtown Vancouver over three nights of family-friendly displays and attractions.
Lumière Vancouver
From November 1-3, 2019 you can visit 25 interactive art installations that add wonder to four beloved sites: English Bay, Jim Deva Plaza, Lot 19, and šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énḵ Square (formerly known as the North Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery).
Each site’s interactive art installations honour a different theme: • Nature (English Bay) • Pride (Jim Deva Plaza on Davie at Bute) • Local (Lot 19 – between Hastings and Cordova) • Interactive (šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énḵ Square)
New at English Bay this year: A magnificent 24 ft tall grizzly bear installation designed by the MK Illumination Canada team
Free Vancouver Trolley shuttles will be available to transport viewers between each site and don’t miss the Lumière Vancouver Block Party each night as well, from 5:00pm to 10:00pm at Jim Deva Plaza. It’s a great way to appreciate dazzling art, and to get out and enjoy these cool Vancouver neighbourhoods.
Win a Night on The Town
I have the chance to give away a Lumière Vancouver prize package to enjoy Downtown Vancouver and the West End this season! The prize includes:
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Follow the festival on Twitter and Facebook, and StayVancouverHotels on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for more info. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, October 24, 2019.
On November 9th, 2019, the largest addiction treatment organization in Canada, Together We Can (“TWC”), will host the Starry Night Gala at the Rocky Mountaineer Station.
Starry Night Gala for Together We Can
Where: Rocky Mountaineer Station (1755 Cottrell Street, Vancouver) When: Saturday, November 9, 2019 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm Tickets: Available online now for $225
Based in Vancouver with facilities across British Columbia, TWC specializes in treating all forms of addiction and providing their clients with a viable path towards recovery. With over 300 beds and thousands of clients coming through their doors each year, they are at the forefront of the battle against addiction.
The 2019 fundraising gala will be in support of their Fallen Sons Memorial Fund, a scholarship that provides access to rehabilitation services for individuals who for one reason or another are unable to get the help they need. In British Columbia, addiction is the only potentially fatal disease that treatment isn’t guaranteed for by our healthcare system. The rehabilitation industry is largely dominated by for-profit organizations, but TWC has made its mark as the largest of the bunch despite being a non-profit, CRA-recognized charity. The scholarship program that the event will fundraise for ensures over 100 people get the treatment they so desperately need each year.
With the overdose crisis that has seen over 11,500 Canadians lose their lives since 2016, it is more important now than ever before to provide treatment to those who need it.
Join TWC as they turn the tide in the battle against addiction. Get your tickets for the Starry Night Gala today and follow along on Facebook and Twitter for more info.
Miss604 is a proud media sponsor of the TWC Starry Night Gala
Back in 2005, I fell in love with a man who had a podcast. He moved to Vancouver, he podcasted some more, and then we started podcasting together — we even brought in a group of friends to do one specifically about hockey in 2008. After a few years, everyone got a little too busy and we all pod-faded. That was the actual term, to pod-fade. Now, almost a decade later, the medium is picking up again and it’s easier than ever to find and listen to podcasts. So much so, that there’s an annual festival in Vancouver dedicated to podcasting panels, masterclasses, and presentations.
Vancouver Podcast Festival
When: November 7 to 10, 2019 Where: Various Locations across Vancouver (VPL, Charles Bar, Rio, SFU) Tickets:Available Online for $100-$215
The four-day festival includes acclaimed storytellers including Martin Austwick (The Allusionist), Mike Browne (Dark Poutine), Christopher Goddard (Dirty John), Falen Johnson (Secret Life of Canada), Helen Zaltzman (The Allusionist) and many more.
The cranberries are harvested and the wilting corn mazes are looking spookier. We’re heading into a dreary stretch of weather but theatrical productions, gallery exhibits, Halloween and harvest events, and dazzling attractions will keep our spirits up. Here are just a few things to do around Vancouver this weekend:
I watched the demolition of the Empire Landmark Hotel in the West End over the course of about 11 months. I would walk by and it seemed like each day, bit-by-bit, a floor was gone. It wasn’t a particularly lovely building by any means, but it was an icon on the Downtown Vancouver landscape. Rising 42 storeys and topped with a revolving restaurant, it opened in 1973 and closed in 2017. Now it’s a hole in the ground until two new residential towers are built.
It got me thinking about the ever-changing landscape in Vancouver, and how even in my neighbourhood some trees outlast buildings. So, here are three architecturally stunning buildings that Vancouver has gained and lost over the last century. If you can think of any more, please leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list.
3 Cool Vancouver Buildings That Don’t Exist Anymore
1950s: Georgia Medical-Dental Building viewed from the Vancouver Art Gallery steps. Archives# 2008-022.040.
Georgia Medical Dental Building Built: 1927-1929 Demolished: 1989 Where: On the corner of Hornby and Georgia What’s there now: Cathedral Place About: Built in 1927-29, the Medical-Dental Building was the first art deco skyscraper built in Vancouver and was designed by the same architects who did the Marine Building, McCarter and Nairne. “Like the Marine Building it rose in tiers, topped by pale terra cotta that dripped off the brick facade like ice cream,” reported the Vancouver Sun.
The Changing Vancouver blog calls this next one “the saddest loss of a heritage building in the city.”
June, 1946. Birks Building on Georgia and Granville. Photographer: Don Coltman. Archives# CVA 586-4399.
Birks Building Built: 1912-1913 Demolished: 1974 Where: Granville and Georgia What’s there now: Scotia Tower About: “[It was] an 11-storey Edwardian masterpiece with an elegant terra cotta facade and a graceful curved corner,” according to the Vancouver Sun. “The corner of Georgia and Granville was rounded glass windows all the way up. It was quite spectacular. That’s where the Birks clock was for years and years. It was a familiar meeting place: ‘Meet you at the Birks clock, Georgia and Granville.’”
1917. Second Hotel Vancouver. Georgia and Granville. Photographer: Philip Timms. Archives# CVA 677-21.
Second Hotel Vancouver Built: 1912-1916 Demolished: 1949. It closed 10 years earlier and turned into a government administration building during World War II, while the third Hotel Vancouver was opened. Where: Georgia between Howe and Granville What’s there now: TD Tower About: “Features included arched windows, castle-like turrets and a 14th floor that was adorned with eight-foot tall terra cotta moose and buffalo head sculptures. Gargoyles, Canadian-style. The hotel was big, with 700 rooms, several dining rooms, two ballrooms, a billiard room, shops and offices. And it was a study in elegance, from its three-storey entrance portico to its renowned rooftop garden.” [Source: Vancouver Sun]
