The Surrey Youth Showcase returns on May 6th as the city’s largest, free, annual Youth Week event!
Surrey Youth Showcase
Where: Guildford Recreation Centre (15105 105 Ave)
When: Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 11:00am to 8:30pm
Admission: FREE! Register for the Dance Battle and the Basketball Tournament.
Participate in the basketball tournament or dance battle, watch hip-hop dance teams and wheelchair basketball, visit the food trucks and exhibitors, get an airbrush tattoo, eat popcorn and chocolate, play carnival games and win prizes.
Schedule
11:00am to 4:30pm Basketball Tournament Round Robin
11:00am to 4:30pm Dance Battle Preliminary
11:00am to 4:30pm Carnival Games and Interactive Activities
4:30pm to 5:00pm Wheelchair Basketball Showcase
5:00pm to 5:30pm Hip Hop Dance Showcase
5:45pm to 7:45pm Basketball Tournament Playoffs
5:45pm to 7:45pm Dance Battle Finals
8:00pm to 8:30pm Awards Presentation
Follow Surrey Youth on Twitter and Facebook for more information, and join the Facebook event for the latest news.
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The Vancouver Sun Run, presented by Ford, is Canada’s largest 10K road race and the 3rd largest timed 10K in North America. It gets underway at 9:00am on Sunday, April 23, 2017 and organizers would like to remind all participants and the general public of road closures occurring around the event. Road closures will be in effect between 5:00am until 1:30pm on Sunday.
Vancouver Sun Run Road Closures
Downtown Vancouver Area – Georgia St
- Seymour St to Bute St (start area) 5:00am – 11:30am
- Bute to the Causeway (including all streets crossing Georgia)
8:00am – 11:00am
- Lions Gate Bridge: Access from Pender only 8:00am – 11:00am
- Howe to Burrard from Dunsmuir to Robson 5:00am – 11:00am
- Denman St – Georgia to Robson 8:00am – 11:00am
- Robson St – West of Denman St to Stanley Park 8:00am – 11:00am
Stanley Park
- Beach Avenue, Stanley Park to Hornby St. 8:30am – 11:30am
- Stanley Park Dr at North Lagoon Dr 6:00am – 11:00am
- Ryan Rd at Park Lane/South Lagoon Dr 6:00am – 11:00am
Pacific St
- Burrard St to Hornby (eastbound lanes) 6:00am – 12 noon
The Bridges
- Burrard Bridge – Closed to all traffic 8:00am – 12 noon
- Cambie Bridge – Closed to all northbound traffic 7:30am – 1:00pm
Kitsilano Area
- West 2nd Avenue – Burrard St to Fir St 8:30am – 12 noon
- Fir Street – West 2nd Ave to West 4th Ave8:30am – 12 noon
- W 4th Avenue/W 6th Avenue – Pine St to Cambie St8:30am – 12 noon
Cambie St at W Broadway
- Closed to all northbound traffic 7:30am – 12 noon
Pacific Boulevard
- East bound exit ramp from Cambie Bridge 5:00am – 1:30pm
- Nelson St to Abbott St 5:00am – 1:30pm
- Abbott St to Quebec St 7:00am – 1:30pm
Quebec, Abbott & Carrall Streets
- Closed to all traffic near Expo Blvd and Pacific Blvd 7:30am – 9:00am
Expo Blvd
- From Quebec to Terry Fox Way 7:30am – 1:00pm
Nelson Street
- From Expo to Pacific 7:30am – 9:00am
Route & Course Map
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Follow the Vancouver Sun Run on Twitter and Facebook for more up-to-date information and instructions. Online registration is now closed but you can still sign up at the Sun Run Fair on April 21 & 22.
You may have passed the giant “W” in New Westminster’s Pier Park every day, twice a day, looking down from the SkyTrain, or you may be like me and have only seen it in Instagram photos until now. This week I met up with some friends in the Royal City, who showed me the park and WOW Westminster up close.
Installed in 2015, this 140-foot-long sculpture, comprising four forty-foot shipping containers precariously cantilevered to form a “W,” was designed by the Brazilian artist José Resende.
Title: WOW Westminster
Artist: José Resende (b.1945, Brazil)
Medium: Four corten steel shipping containers
Dimensions (H x W x D): 10.7 x 42.7 x 2.4 m (35’1″ x 140’1″ x 7’10″)
Weight: 15,422 kg (34,000 lbs.)
Location: Westminster Pier Park in New Westminster, British Columbia
Marcello Dantas, the Vancouver Biennale’s senior curator credited with having chosen both the site and the artist, says, “Resende’s WOW Westminster is not only an interpretation of the economic activity of the Fraser River and the flow of goods through trains, ships and trucks: it’s also about capturing the energy and history of this transportation hub, the transformation of the City of New Westminster and its waterfront into a recreational arts and cultural playground. WOW Westminster will become a respite for citizens and an icon of the City and region for decades as viewers explore the riverside walk along Westminster Pier Park.”
Follow Vancouver Biennale on Twitter and Facebook for more information about our region’s open air museum of public art.
Other Vancouver Icons posts: Playground of the Gods, Photo Session Statues, City Hall History, BC Sugar, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Museum of Anthropology, Fort Langley Community Hall, Christ Church Cathedral, Waterfront Station, Pacific Central Station, Randall Building Mural, East Van Cross, Robert Burns Statue in Stanley Park, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Flack Block, The Drop, Prospect Point Lighthouse, Engagement, Ovaltine Cafe, The English Bay Slide, Freezing Water #7, Cleveland Dam, Heritage Hall, School of Theology Building at UBC, Gate to the Northwest Passage, St Paul’s Hospital, Capilano Lake, Stawamus Chief, Nine O’Clock Gun, Malkin Bowl, Search, Vancouver Rowing Club, Echoes, Point Atkinson Lighthouse, English Bay Inukshuk, Hollow Tree, Hotel Europe, Lions Gate Bridge Lions, LightShed, Granville Bridge, 217.5 Arc x 13′, Canoe Bridge, Vancouver Block, Bloedel Conservatory, Centennial Rocket, Canada Place, Old Courthouse/Vancouver Art Gallery, Dominion Building, Science World, Gastown Steam Clock, SFU Burnaby, Commodore Lanes, Siwash Rock, Kitsilano Pool, White Rock Pier, Main Post Office, Planetarium Building, Lord Stanley Statue, Vancouver Library Central Branch, Victory Square, Digital Orca, The Crab Sculpture, Girl in Wetsuit, The Sun Tower, The Hotel Vancouver, The Gassy Jack Statue, The Marine Building, and The Angel of Victory. Should you have a suggestion for the Vancouver Icons series please feel free to leave a note in the comments. It should be a thing, statue, or place that is very visible and recognizable to the public.
The Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra (“VAMSO”) ends its season with a tour de force finale of riveting film scores in A John Williams Tribute at the Orpheum Theatre. This homage to the maestro of the movies will feature Williams’ epic and gripping works from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Indiana Jones, Catch Me If You Can, and more performed by VAMSO under the baton of conductor Kathleen Allan.
VAMSO Presents A John Williams Tribute
Where: The Orpheum (601 Smithe St, Vancouver)
When: Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 2:00pm
Tickets: Available now online or at the door for $10 to $15.
“John Williams’ music is just as iconic as the characters and stories of the films he scored,” says Kathleen Allan, Associate Conductor of the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. “While he is most famous for his majestic and rousing themes, Williams also has an uncanny ability to spark emotion with soaring melodies and heart-rending harmonic shifts. This concert, in celebration of the recent 85th birthday of Hollywood’s most beloved composer, will showcase all sides of his diverse musical output.”
Audiences at A John Williams Tribute will be transported to mystic kingdoms and faraway galaxies while taking in memorable themes from silver screen classics by directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. While the program offers some of the most recognized motion picture music of all time, the concert will also include Williams’ lesser-known masterpieces. Such works include Suo Gan, the stirring Welsh folksong featured prominently in Empire of the Sun, and the ceremonious Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan, which will feature the choirs of VAM’s Mary Buckerfield White Choral Program.
Win Tickets
I have a pair of tickets to give away to this performance. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Click below to get another entry by posting on Twitter:
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Follow VAMSO on Facebook and Twitter for more information.
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Wednesday, April 26, 2017.
Update The winner is @darrenjohnson9!
This weekend stop by BC’s largest Earth Day celebration, Surrey’s Party for the Planet, on Saturday. It will have free, family-friendly fun all day with an eco, enviro, and sustainability twist. Info about this festival and many more events are listed below:
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events that run for longer than three days in a row are highlighted in green.
Friday, April 21, 2017
Make It! Vancouver
Earth Day at TELUS Garden
Science World After Dark: Earth Day Edition
African Night with Jacky Essombe
Vancouver Photo Book Fair
Edmonds Film Festival
Verses Festival
Dance Centre: Lesley Telford, Inverso
Stone’s Throw Productions Presents: The Wolves
Tulips of the Valley, Chilliwack
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