My favourite ways to explore my hometown is on the sea, above the clouds, in the forest trails, and through its food. For visitors and locals alike, the #1 rated tour in Vancouver is Vancouver Foodie Tours, and lucky for us they have a number of tasty tours that can help you get to know the city a little better.
Vancouver Foodie Tours
Gastronomic Gastown Tour
When: Daily 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Where: Start @ 203 Carrall St
Tickets: From $84.99
Eat and drink your way through Gastown on Vancouver’s #1 Rated Tour! If you like to know true spirit of a city, this is the only Gastown tour to feature 100% locally-owned establishments. In a boozy, foodie, fun afternoon you’ll taste the food and meet the people that make Gastown great!
World’s Best Food Truck Tour
When: Mondays & Fridays
Time: 11:00am
Where: Start @ Japadog on Burrard
Tickets: From $56.99
Vancouver’s street fare is an explosion of multicultural flavours made with BC’s top-notch ingredients.
Granville Island Market Tour
When: Daily
Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm
Where: Start @ 1596 Johnston St
Tickets: From $56.99
There’s no better way to experience Granville Island than through its FOOD! Take an eating adventure through the Public Market and beyond on Vancouver Foodie Tours’ Granville Island Market Tour!
Best of Downtown Tour
When: Thursday through Sunday
Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Where: Start @ 1172 Alberni St
Tickets: From $84.99
Join Vancouver Foodie Tours’ seafood and multicultural tour, the Best of Downtown Tour, for an all-inclusive lunch with craft beer, BC wine and cocktails.
Win a Gastronomic Gastown Tour
I have 2 tickets to give away to the Gastronomic Gastown Tour, including alcohol pairings! Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Friday, June 15, 2018.
Retail value totals $220+. The winner will be able to redeem their tickets at the time of their choosing (based on availability) before the end of 2018. Must be 19+. Please enjoy responsibly.
The ballots have been counted and you have voted for which free outdoor movies will appear on the Second Beach screen at Stanley Park this summer!
Free outdoor movies in Vancouver are a summertime tradition, set in beautiful locations like Second Beach in Stanley Park. Every Tuesday, from July 3rd to August 21st you can plan your date night, friends night, and night out watching some of your favourite movies as the sun sets by the ocean.
Free Outdoor Movies in Stanley Park
TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2018
Batman vs The Princess Bride
winner to be screened: THE PRINCESS BRIDE TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2018
Stand By Me vs Monty Python and the Holy Grail
winner to be screened: STANDY BY ME TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2018
The Lion King vs Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
winner to be screened: THE LION KING TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2018
Clueless vs Mean Girls
winner to be screened: MEAN GIRLS TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018
Spice World vs Xanadu
winner to be screened: SPICE WORLD TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2018
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off vs Say Anything
winner to be screened: FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2018
Cool Runnings vs Sing-A-Long Grease
winner to be screened: GREASE SING-A-LONG TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018
The Notebook vs Titanic
winner to be screened: TITANIC
An exciting new addition this year will be the EVO SUMMER CINEMA MARKETPLACE – a carefully-curated weekly offering of local artisans and crafters from right here in BC. Guests are encouraged to come see the amazing locally produced, handmade goods that they have to offer.
Bring your lawn chair or blanket, you won’t want to miss these eight unforgettable evenings.
Front row VIP seats start at $20. Download the Outdoor Movie App from the Google or iTunes app store. Follow Outdoor Movies BC on Facebook for all of these listings and more throughout BC.
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Whether you make Oliver your home base for your South Okanagan explorations, or you have a specific itinerary in mind, my recent explorations with ZenSeekers have given me some insights that I’m happy to share that will make your trip-planning a breeze.
Art in Oliver
When driving north or south through the Okanagan, Highway 97 will turn into Oliver’s Main Street, which is lined with boutiques and eateries. You’ll also find several galleries, and even art exhibits located in shops and the local day spa. To see all of Oliver’s art in one place, plan a trip to the annual Art Walk or the Festival of the Grape Art Show.
Oliver is the Wine Capital of Canada and with over 35 wineries, located on the legendary Golden Mile, Black Sage Bench, and picturesque places in between, wine touring is a must. You can combine art & wine at locations like Rust Wine Co., which has their own gallery, or Quinta Ferreira where you can find resident artist Carmen Tome.
I walked along the Kettle Valley Railroad’s KVR trail – which connects to the Okanagan Rail Trail — an epic 50km path that runs from Oliver to Kelowna, and up through Vernon. Rhoda from the Oliver Visitor Centre also recommended hiking Nçaylintn (Ny-lin-tin) Bluff Hiking Trail (formerly McIntyre Bluff). The bluff can be seen throughout the valley – just imagine the views from its peak!
JUNO-nominated jazz bassist Jodi Proznick, award-winning educator and performer Celeste Snowber, and emerging harpist Alexa Reimer come together in the world premiere of Perfect Imperfections: The Art of a Messy Life at Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch. Interweaving comedy, dance, and live music, the work offers a poignant reflection of the many ironies faced by all women today.
Perfect Imperfections: The Art of a Messy Life
Where: Vancity Culture Lab, The Cultch (1895 Venables St, Vancouver) When: June 14–16, 2018 at 8:00pm Tickets: $20, available now online.
Directed by Lynn Fels, this multi-generational trio will be joined by guest artist singer-songwriter Katherine Penfold.
Michele Mateus Photography
Perfect Imperfections will delight and move in a hilarious and heartrending combination of lived experiences and narratives. The provocative show addresses sensuality, loss, the spirituality of worry, wonder — and incorporates a range of formats from TED Talk parodies to haikus, and all-out improvisation.
The playful energy of the program can be gleaned from set list titles, such as “Not enough – Too much!” “Funeral for Superwoman,” and “Spirituality of Worry.” The aptly named “The Roll” waxes poetic on the well-known source of many people’s deepest insecurities, while recognizing that the belly holds women’s deepest eros.
Proznick and Reimer will improvise original music on upright bass and harp, respectively, as Penfold sings from Proznick’s applauded album Sun Songs, which was included in the Top 10 jazz albums of 2017 (Ottawa Citizen). Throughout the performance, Snowber’s dance, comedy, and spoken word will create an intimate space where both humour and humanity collide.
The interdisciplinary work has relevancy to the #MeToo movement and recent proliferation of stories about the objectification of women. The artists seek to reclaim and inhabit the body by honouring its paradoxical beauty of imperfections. In a pivotal moment in the performance, they confront the lurking, destructive feeling of “not enough-ness” that plagues the ambitious, the unrecognized, and the overwhelmed.
Win Tickets:
I have a pair of tickets to give away to the June 16th performance of Perfect Imperfections. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Austeville Properties presents Art on 6th, a new rental building featuring 97 suites in the heart of South Granville. Through neighbourhood partnerships with local businesses, they’re helping residents get to know the neighbours in this exciting community. I took a stroll through South Granville to visit some of these partners.
Explore South Granville with Art on 6th
I started out by the Art on 6th site, across from 6th and Fir Park and couldn’t decide whether I wanted to shop first, or get a snack.
With the sun shining I walked to the very top of my route at EQ3 on Granville and worked my way back to my home base, making sure to stroll under the Stanley Theatre’s marquee to see what was currently on stage.
At EQ3 I scoped out a selection of bed frames and sectional couches, playing with configurations in my head like it was a game of mental Tetris. They have a beautiful assortment of outdoor furniture available now for the summer season, from vases to chaises.
Looping back down Granville, Orling & Wu was next, which is just a few doors down from Cadence Cycling Studio.
I browsed throw rugs, plush pillows and bath soaps, and stopped at the notebooks, pens, and journals. I’m a sucker for a great pieces of stationery. I wandered down to RYU on West 4th, where tanks, hoodies, tees, and shells make up the perfect uniform for running the False Creek Seawall.
Now it was time to eat! Novo Pizzeria & Wine Bar for authentic Neapolitan-style, wood-fired pizza for lunch followed by a coffee at Elysian on Burrard and 5th.
Finally, I had to treat myself (and bring something home for John after my day of neighbourhood explorations) so the pièce de résistance was found at Beaucoup Bakery.
Walk past pocket parks, art galleries, murals, and experienced the best of shopping on West 4th and South Granville. The full list of partners, offering benefits to residents of Art on 6th include:
To keep up to date with the latest news about Art on 6th, including the opening of their Display Centre this month, follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
