The 7th annual Street Food City, Dine Out Vancouver Festival’s cheap n’ cheerful ‘food truck pod’ returns to the Vancouver Art Gallery’s newly renovated plaza with more than 20 food trucks rotating throughout the week.

Street Food City

Where: Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza (Georgia Street)
When: January 22 to 28, 11:00am to 3:00pm weekdays and until 5:00pm weekends

Whether your tastes run to Reef Runner’s famous jerk chicken, or Tacofino’s codfish taco with chipotle mayo and salsa fresco, or one of Mr. Arancino’s hearty Sicilian risotto balls, you’ll be smacking your lips over this experience. And if you crave a healthful sweet, in addition to its rib-sticking savoury pies, Aussie Pie Guy offers a traditional Anzac Cookie made with rolled oats, coconut and golden syrup.

Tents will be provided by sponsor EVO Car Share, and music will enliven the event on Wednesday, courtesy of JACK FM, and Saturday, courtesy of KISS FM.

Tourism Vancouver, StreetFood Vancouver Society and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) present this informal branch of Dine Out. Partial proceeds will help support the BC Hospitality Foundation.

Street Food City 2018 will feature the following food trucks and carts:

Follow Street Food City on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and #streetfoodcity #DOVF during Dine Out Vancouver.

It’s the most delicious time of year in the city with the return of Dine Out Vancouver, which brings with it pairing menus, tasting events, and tantalizing pop-up experiences. Back by popular demand, the Vancouver Aquarium is once again hosting the Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café during the 3 week culinary festival.

Ocean Wise Pop-Up at the Vancouver Aquarium

Photo by: Meighan Makarchuk

This year, diners can enjoy one of two seatings (6:00pm or 8:00pm) in the transformed bistro-esque Aquarium Café on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings throughout the Festival, which runs from Friday, January 19th to Sunday, February 4th.

Acclaimed Ocean Wise Executive Chef Ned Bell has crafted a three-course menu featuring dishes from his inaugural cookbook Lure and showcasing the best in sustainable, locally-sourced ingredients.

Unique to Dine Out Vancouver, guests at the Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café can explore the Aquarium’s many galleries, either following the early seating or before the late seating. Guests can chill out in Canada’s Arctic, transport themselves to a west coast fishing village at Steller’s Bay, and enjoy an exotic-albeit-brief staycation in the Tropic Zone while witnessing the nocturnal habits of the more than 50,000 animals that call Vancouver Aquarium home. For some guests, this may be the last chance to get hands on with cownose and southern stingrays as the Discover Rays Gallery closes spring 2018.

Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café Menu

First Course
Torched Albacore Tuna Tataki Salad
honey, lemon, sesame, radishes
or
Fanny Bay Clam Chowder
Chilliwack corn foam, maple brown butter
Upgrade your small plate with Chef Ned’s Famous Dungeness Crab Tacos for $15

Main Course
Icy Waters Arctic Char
laird lentils, parsnips two ways, vanilla, hazelnuts
or
Organic Ocean Northern Coho Wild BC Salmon
cauliflower, cashews, cranberries, black pepper vinaigrette
or
Two Rivers Rossdown Farms Chicken
celery root, caramelized cabbage, watercress, B.C. birch syrup dressing
Enhance your entrée with Selva Shrimp for $10

Dessert
Sea ‘Weed’ Brownies
kelp, almond praline
or
Roasted Apple Tart
whipped cream, caramel

Dinner service will take place at the Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café at Vancouver Aquarium on January 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, and 28 as well as February 2, 3, and 4. There are two seatings per night at 6:00pm. and 8:00pm. Each seating lasts 1.5 hours.

Tickets (available online now) are limited and cost $62.35 per person (inclusive of tax and service charges). For guests wishing to dive further into Chef Ned’s epicurean experience, wine pairings will be available for an additional cost. Copies of Lure will also be available for purchase.

Ocean Wise® is a not-for-profit organization whose vision is a world in which oceans are healthy and flourishing.

In 2008 I wrote a blog post about cyberbullying. My blog was 4 years old at the time, and at least once a week I would get an anonymous comment saying that I, or something I wrote about, was stupid. I never knew who wrote the comments, nevertheless I had a weekly reminder from someone, somewhere, that what I was doing wasn’t worth anything. My husband would say: “Do you know this person? Do you really care what they have to say?” I would wipe away some tears, nod, and agree that I shouldn’t let this bother me.

Then it got worse. I could see people on social media actually talking about me.

In my 2008 post I wrote: “Unfortunately these malicious acts don’t stop after childhood and the practice of seeking joy by belittling and intimidating someone has changed since I was in school. The new forms of communicating these ill-willed attacks are through blogs, Facebook pages, MySpace, text messages, and forum posts. Probably one of the worst parts is that you might not even know who the aggressor may be.”

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Pi Theatre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present the English Canadian premiere of David Greig’s daring play, The Events. Inspired by the 2011 killing of 69 people at a summer camp in Utøya, Norway, the healing powers of love, forgiveness, and faith are thrown into doubt in one of the decade’s most incendiary and important works. The Events showcases Metro Vancouver’s vibrant community choir scene with a different choral group performing onstage each night, providing a consoling presence in the face of adversity.

Photo credit: Emily Cooper

The Events

Tickets: Available online now from $26.
Where: The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue, Vancouver)
When: January 17 to 28, 2018 at 8:00pm with matinées January 20, 21, 27 & 28 at 2:00pm. Discussions and Talkbacks on themes of The Events will take place after every show.

Directed by Richard Wolfe with musical score by John Browne, The Events’ narrative follows Claire, a female priest and choirmaster, who has recently experienced a faith-shattering act of terror. As she struggles to understand the event that changed her life, we are asked to decide whether love and hope can survive in the wake of an inexplicable act of violence.

The work is not a biopic of the 2011 attack in Norway, nor is it filled with violent acts. Instead, it follows Claire’s attempt to understand how someone could cause so much harm, and how this leads her on a path to self-destruction. The play focuses on the reaction of communities to acts of aggression and the difficulty of moving on. Ultimately, Claire finds her peace, and retakes her place in the community.

In this English Canadian premiere, the role of Claire will be played by Luisa Jojic (Bard on the Beach), with recent National Theatre School of Canada graduate Douglas Ennenberg playing six characters opposite her. Each evening, a different community choir will join the two actors in The Russian Hall (a space frequently used for choir rehearsals). The choir serves as part spectator, part performer, as they represent the community and share songs both of their own choosing and composed especially for the production. Essentially, more than 220 community members from 12 different choirs will participate over the show’s run.

Win Tickets

I have a pair of tickets to give away to opening night on January 18th at 8:00pm. 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 Saturday, January 13, 2018. Follow Pi Theatre on Facebook and Twitter.

Update The winner is Shelley Butcher!

Fort Langley National Historic Site proudly presents the 9th annual Vive les voyageurs Winter Festival, a celebration of the vibrant French-Canadian culture that thrives today in British Columbia, and first emerged in the region when the Hudson’s Bay Company arrived in 1827 at Fort Langley.

Vive les Voyageurs Winter Festival at Fort Langley

Where: Fort Langley National Historic Site (23433 Mavis Ave, Fort Langley)
When: January 20 & 21, 2018 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Admission: Free admission for youth 17 and under. $7.80/adult, $6.55/senior

Enjoy interactive cultural experiences from Métis dancers to maple taffy and so much more. Celebrate the importance of trappers, interpreters, and of course voyageurs who helped shape the history of this site.

Scheduled Activities

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