The 2019 self-guided Heritage House Tour offers an exclusive look inside 10 historic Vancouver houses across five neighbourhoods and six decades of design. The tour explores history and diverse architecture as well as the adaptability of heritage and character homes.
Heritage House Tour
When: Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm Where: Various locations Admission: Tickets available online
The self-guided tour offers a look inside homes across Vancouver, varying in age and style, each with a unique story to tell. Explore houses dating back to 1895, spanning six decades and five neighbourhoods. The homes explore shifts in architectural design including handsome Victorian, sturdy Craftsman and influential Mid-Century Modern.
Visit a generational span of homes to see the adaptability of older buildings and historic properties and learn about new uses, conversion to add housing or meet modern concepts of living and how heritage character and meaning can be retained. See how a school and a charity are utilizing heritage spaces, and explore a basement suite addition, a housing format that has added space for renters or family members for decades.
The future of a site is often found in adaptive reuse, which is a key concept in heritage conservation and the retention of historic buildings. Finding compatible new uses for early structures preserves historic materials and maintains a sense of community. It is also a consistent theme throughout Vancouver’s housing history. Through the decades and adaptations, the history of each home connects to the people who built them, designed them, and lived in them, and helps illuminate the development of the city, its industries, neighbourhoods and communities over the decades.
For more information follow Vancouver Heritage Foundation on Twitter and Facebook.
The May Long Weekend is already here! Summer is just around the corner now and here’s what you can get up to around Metro Vancouver this weekend including a few events on the Victoria Day holiday.
On Monday, May 13, 2019 the YWCA Metro Vancouver held its annual Women of Distinction Awards. There were 66 nominees, 1300 guests, and over $180,000 was raised! Here is the list of distinguished award winners:
YWCA Women of Distinction Award Winners
2019 Nominees
ARTS, CULTURE & DESIGN Dana Claxton
HEALTH & WELLNESS Sheila Early
BUSINESS & THE PROFESSIONS Connie Fair
NON-PROFIT Ingrid Kastens
COMMUNITY CHAMPION Colleen Yee
RESEARCH, THE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY Suzanne Lewis
EDUCATION, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT Bethany Edmunds
YOUNG WOMAN OF DISTINCTION Jennifer Wildi
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATION Carolyn Cross
OUTSTANDING WORKPLACE ACL
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Lauren Hornor
Those in attendance also got to hear from two inspirational speakers who have benefitted from the amazing programs and support that the YWCA Metro Vancouver offers:
YWCA Metro Vancouver is dedicated to achieving women’s equality. Their mission is to touch lives and build better futures for women and their families through advocacy and integrated services that foster economic independence, wellness and equal opportunities.
Since 1984, YWCA Metro Vancouver has paid tribute to more than 310 award recipients and more than 1,860 nominees. Follow the YWCA of Vancouver on Facebook and Twitter for more information.
Miss604 is a proud sponsor of the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards, since 2010.
Fresh off broadway, Vitaly An Evening of Wonders comes to the River Rock Show Theatre in Richmond on June 5th and you can win tickets!
Vitaly An Evening of Wonders
When: Wednesday June 5th, 2019 Where: River Rock Show Theatre, 8811 River Road, Richmond Tickets: Starting at $45, available online
Every illusion in Vitaly’s performance is original and represents an ‘impossible dream’ that he has set out to accomplish. From making drawings and paintings come to life to teleporting playing cards from one audience member to another, Vitaly’s illusions defy logic and belief.
Hailed as one of the most unique and innovative illusionists in the world, Vitaly Beckman’s acts are so astounding that he has fooled famous Las Vegas duo Penn & Teller in their hit TV show Fool Us. Most recently, Vitaly’s show was produced off-Broadway by Daryl Roth, who’s producing credits include Tony winners such as Kinky Boots and Indecent. Vitaly was booked for a limited, 16-week run at the prestigious Westside Theatre, the same venue where Penn & Teller started their careers in the 1980s.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Vitaly is constantly inventing new illusions. He is willing to risk arrest and imprisonment for identity theft by promising that he will channel his powers to make the photo from your driver’s license disappear. So, if you’re brave enough to surrender your ID to him, you will have to expect the unexpected.
Will he restore your photo, or will it come back with a different face, say of Marilyn Monroe or George Clooney? Is it magic or trickery? The only way to be sure is to catch one of Vitaly’s increasingly popular performances before all of the tickets have disappeared into thin air.
Win Tickets
I have a pair of tickets to give away to this show. Here’s how you can enter to win (and be amazed).
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For more information follow Vitaly on Twitter and Facebook. I will draw one winner at random from all entries on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 12:00pm.
West Vancouver’s long-standing Community Day is being transformed into Bridge Festival, a new multicultural celebration taking place on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1, 2019. The community is invited to come together to enjoy food, live music, performances and culture.
West Vancouver Bridge Festival
When: Friday, May 31st and Saturday, June 1, 2019 Where: Ambleside Park 1150 Marine Dr, West Vancouver Admission: Free! RSVP on Facebook for more info »
Cultural pavilions organized by West Vancouver residents will showcase the customs and traditions of their diverse ethnic identities, a new pedestrian beach parade will wind its way around Ambleside, and delicious food and cold drinks at the International Lounge will fuel this large-scale neighbourhood gathering.
At Bridge Festival, tasty dishes and flavours from around the world will be served. The food trucks will include Come Arepa with tasty Venezuelan food including their namesake cornbread sandwich; fine Persian fare from Cazba Express; and Brazilian Roots Truck, Vancouver’s first food truck to focus on indigenous influence’s on Brazil’s cuisine.
There will be two full evenings of free concerts at the main stage in Ambleside Park. On Friday, Mariachi Los Dorados takes the stage from 4:00pm to 5:00pm, followed by Kow Kanda from 5:45pm to 7:15pm and headliners TANGA from 8:00pm to 9:30pm This world-fusion group mixes tropical dance beats with East African marimba, Colombian cumbia and Cuban jazz, lighting up the stage with party grooves and Latin style.
On Saturday, Amir Haghighi & Amy Stephen open the live concert from 4:00pm to 5:00pm and Herbert Kwan will take the stage from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. and The Starbirds will close Bridge Festival with their blend of folk, Celtic, gospel and Latin music from 8:00pm to 9:30pm.
Ambleside Park will also host two other stages—a cultural dance stage and a contemporary dance stage—to showcase the traditional and modern dance talent of West Vancouver performers.
For more information follow West Van District on Twitter and Facebook.
