It’s a busy weekend in Vancouver, with the Fringe Festival kicking off along with community events, farmers markets, and even a Star Trek 50th anniversary celebration or two. If you have any events to add to this list, or the September list, feel free to send them in any time.
Things to do in Vancouver This Weekend
Events that run for longer than three days in a row are highlighted in green.
Friday, September 9, 2016
BC Lions vs Montreal
Cascades Recovery BBQ for the BC SPCA, Surrey
4th Vancouver Chinese Film Festival 2016
Opening Reception: Cosmic Sea ft Jenn Brisson, Kristian Adam & Phresha
Opening: 9th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show
Opening Reception: Absense – New works by David Wilson
International Summer Night Market
Richmond Night Market
African Indigenous Knowledge @ UBC
Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories
Fringe Festival: Marrow
Fringe Festival: And Bella Sang With Us
Fringe Festival: Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Fringe Festival: Sketch Ya Later
Fringe Festival: FESTA!
Fringe Festival: AUX.LA.MORE
Fringe Festival: Zeppelin Was a Cover Band
Fringe Festival: The Air Loom
Accordion Noir Festival
Boat Show at the Creek
Fringe Festival: Not Enough
Fringe Festival: Manipulation
Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Indigenous Plant Use Walks in Stanley Park
Dunbar Village Harvest Festival
Last Salsa Cruise of the Season
Star Trek Family Weekend at the Space Centre
West End Fest
Unbuckled: Vancouver’s Ultimate Backyard BBQ
SHINE! Gala Fundraiser for Mental Health and Addiction
Day at the Farm in Delta
Township 7 Winery Celebrates 16 years
Langara’s Vancouver School Board Mini Night School
Mysterious Barricades: A Concert for World Suicide Prevention Day
Dialogue on Campus Sexual Assault: Support, Prevention, Education
Fêtes Galantes
5th Annual Car Trunk Sale
Fleetwood Festival
Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House
One Love Music Festival
Wesbrook Village Festival
Plastic Acid Orchestra w/ Veda Hille and Friends
VIBE: Ornamenting the Ordinary (All Ages)
Langley Food Truck Festival
JD Farms Fall Festival & Customer Appreciation Day
Big Yoga for Big Sisters
Vancouver Zombie Walk
Luxury Supercar Weekend
Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath
River District Drive-In Movie
Delta Luminary Festival
Burnaby Farmers Market
River District Farmers Market
Trout Lake Farmers Market
West End Farmers Market
International Summer Night Market
Richmond Night Market
African Indigenous Knowledge @ UBC
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival
Fringe Festival: Generation Hot
Fringe Festival: WILD/SOCIETY
Fringe Festival: Give it Up
Fringe Festival: Badmatch
Fringe Festival: Carry On: A Musical
Fringe Festival: My Stroke of Luck
Fringe Festival: War and Peace
Fringe Festival: Sketch Ya Later
Fringe Festival: FESTA!
Accordion Noir Festival
Boat Show at the Creek
Fringe Festival: AUX.LA.MORE
Fringe Festival: The Air Loom
Fringe Festival: Zeppelin Was a Cover Band
Fringe Festival: And Bella Sang With Us
Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie
Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories
Fringe Festival: Not Enough
Fringe Festival: Manipulation
Fringe Festival: Marrow
Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk
Sunday, September 11, 2016
BBQ Off the Bypass in Langley
Feast of Fields
Star Trek Family Weekend at the Space Centre
The Last Splash at Splashdown Park (Closing Day)
Second Sunday Concert Series at Roedde House Museum
Back to School Family Yoga
From Rationing to Ravishing – An Ivan Sayers Fashion Show
Dance Hungama 2016, Surrey
Vancouver Food Truck Festival
Coquitlam Tree Fest
CoupleConnect: Strengthen Your Relationship
Luxury Supercar Weekend
Bicycle Trek for Life and Breath
Copper & Fire Arts @ Britannia Mine Museum
Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
Kitsilano Farmers Market
International Summer Night Market
Richmond Night Market
Fringe Festival: Generation Hot
Fringe Festival: Frank: to be Frank
Fringe Festival: Carry On: A Musical
Fringe Festival: War and Peace
Fringe Festival: 2 for Tea
Accordion Noir Festival
The Decalogue (Dekalog) at The Cinematheque
Boat Show at the Creek
Vancouver International Flamenco Festival
Fringe Festival: AUX.LA.MORE
Fringe Festival: The Air Loom
Fringe Festival: Zeppelin Was a Cover Band
Fringe Festival: And Bella Sang With Us
Fringe Festival: The Women of Lockerbie
Fringe Festival: Sketch Ya Later
Fringe Festival: Hidden Stories
Fringe Festival: Not Enough
Fringe Festival: Manipulation
Fringe Festival: Marrow
Fringe Festival: Walk the Talk
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The Vancouver Alpen Club has been Vancouver’s main location for the Oktoberfest for over 30 years, serving traditional Bavarian cuisine. Of course there’s also beer and the Alpen Club has partnered with two German breweries, Krombacher as well as Erdinger, the world’s largest wheat beer brewery, founded in 1886.
Since the early 19th Century in Munich, Germany, Oktoberfest has been held during late September to early October. The Vancouver Alpen Club is Vancouver’s most popular venue for celebrating the event, with guests returning each year (often in their own Dirndls and Lederhosen) to enjoy the authentic German atmosphere, beer, pretzels, German food, music and Oktoberfest traditions.
Oktoberfest at the Vancouver Alpen Club
Where: Vancouver Alpen Club (4875 Victoria Dr, Vancouver)
When: September 23 & 24; September 30 & October 1; October 14 & 15
Tickets: Available online now for all three weekends. The regular ticket $35 includes the cover charge to Oktoberfest. The $75 VIP ticket includes the cover charge and entrance to the special VIP area with a server along with a delicious German buffet.
Each day of the Oktoberfest festivities at the Vancouver Alpen Club usually sees over 400 visitors, with over 7000 liters of beer being consumed in the course of the three weekends!
Win Tickets
I have the opportunity to give away a prize pack for opening weekend of Oktoberfest at the Vancouver Alpen Club! This includes: 2 tickets on Friday, September 23rd at 8:00pm, 2 beer flights (including 4 different German beer types) and 2 classic schnitzel meals to top off the German experience. The Continentals will play a live set, and a DJ mixing fun German Schlager songs will follow, so guests can dance into the night for many entertaining hours.
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 Thursday, September 15, 2016. Must be 19+. Please enjoy responsibly. Follow the Vancouver Alpen Club on Facebook and Twitter for more information.
Update The winner is @glencue!
The Seaforth Highlanders will host a Highland Homecoming on September 24th. This day of celebration will include a parade and ceremonies as the Regiment returns home to the Seaforth Armoury at 1650 Burrard Street, after four years away.
1936: Seaforth Armoury on Burrard. Photographer: Stuart Thomson. Archives # CVA 99-4876.
The day’s festivities will begin with a march led by the Seaforth Pipes & Drums, from the Jericho Garrison, where the Seaforth Highlanders have been stationed for the past four years, to the refurbished Seaforth Armoury. The official ceremony to reopen the Armoury will be followed by a formal parade and a Drumhead Ceremony. The afternoon will end with an entertaining and spirited military tattoo with musical performances.
Seaforth Highlanders Homecoming
Where: Seaforth Armoury (1650 Burrard St at W 1st)
Admission: Free for all to attend
When: Saturday, September 24, 2016
- 10:30am: Parade to exercise the Infantry Regiment’s Right of Freedom of the City lead by the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Pipes and Drums. Route: Regiment and Cadets will depart Jericho Garrison, 4050 West 4th Avenue, march down West 4th to McDonald, left on McDonald, right on Cornwall and finally right on Burrard. The parade concludes at 1650 Burrard Street.
- 11:30am: Canadian flag raising ceremony at the Seaforth Armoury doors, 1650 Burrard St.
- 1:00pm: Parade and Drumhead Ceremony on the parade square. In honour of having the Afghanistan Battle Honour emblazoned on the Regimental Colours, veterans of the Afghanistan Campaign, from across the Lower Mainland, have been invited to parade with the Regiment.
- 2:00pm – 3:45pm: Highland Homecoming Military Tattoo connecting Vancouverites to the Military through music and Military exercise. Bands, singers, and highland dancers will entertain. The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada will provide training exercises, equipment demonstrations, and a broad sword set demonstration.
Approximately 250 Seaforth Highlanders of Canada members, Cadets and Regimental Association Members will participate in the day. Music and entertainment will be provided by the Seaforth Highlanders Pipes and Drums, the Band of the 15th Field Regiment, the Vancouver Police Pipe Band, Shot of Scotch Vancouver Highland Dancers, male vocal choir Chor Leoni, along with many others.
“Before”. My photos from when I had a tour of the building four years ago before renovations began.
During the past four years, the Seaforth Armoury has undergone extensive seismic upgrades and had its building services modernized to allow the Seaforths to continue to respond to domestic emergencies such as earthquakes, wildfires, and floods as well as train to serve overseas in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The Armoury was originally opened in August 1936, and is the home of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and two Cadet Corps.
“Before”. My photos from when I had a tour of the building four years ago before renovations began.
Vancouver’s Infantry Regiment, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, celebrated their 100 year anniversary in 2010. Formed in 1910 by members of the local Scottish community, the Seaforths have served as volunteer soldiers, supporting Canada in every major Canadian Forces overseas mission, including the two World Wars and most recently Afghanistan.
For more information about the Homecoming event, follow Seaforth Highlanders on Twitter and Instagram.
The 35th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (“VIFF”) has announced the Canadian co-production Maudie, about real-life Nova Scotian artist Maud Lewis, will be its Opening Night film and the Terrence Malick IMAX documentary, The Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience as its Closing Night film. The two films exemplify both the exceptional content being produced in this country, and the ambitious artistry of today’s filmmakers bound to inspire audiences during VIFF, which runs from September 29th to October 14th.
VIFF Opening Gala Film
September 29, 2016: Maudie stars Sally Hawkins as the arthritic artist who overcame her physical disability to become one of Canada’s most famous folk artists. Ethan Hawke co-stars as her husband in this story of perseverance. Director Aisling Walsh will be on-hand to introduce the film.
VIFF Closing Gala Film
October 14, 2016: Coinciding with VIFF’s 35th anniversary, The Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience took almost four decades to come to fruition and was shot in 35mm at the hands of auteur Terrence Malick. The documentary, narrated by co-producer Brad Pitt, transforms the birth of the universe into pure visual spectacle.
Special Guests
VIFF also unveiled this week, a sampling of the hundreds of guests that are expected to attend the festival. Spiritual author and public speaker Eckhart Tolle will make the world premiere of Milton’s Secret on September 30th, which is based off Tolle’s book of the same name. The actors of the film, Mia Kirshner, David Sutcliffe, and William Ainscough will be joining him.
On October 1st, writer-director Nate Parker is expected to attend for his film, The Birth of a Nation, which he also stars in. Meanwhile, Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany is expected to present the drama The Other Half. Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, will be honoured with the Industry Builder Award for his sustainable production methods on The X-Files revival season at the Sustainable Production Forum on October 7. Finally, Canadian musician and actor John Mann will attend the BC Spotlight Awards Gala screening of Spirit Unforgettable on October 8th.
Tickets
Screening tickets start at $15. Passes and ticket packs became available online September 1st, with single tickets available online starting September 8th and in-person September 15th. Tickets for talks and events will also be available at this time. All tickets will be available for purchase at online.
Each year VIFF relies on the hard work of more than 1,000 volunteers to assist in running the festival. Volunteer registration is now open. Follow VIFF on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information about the festival, its events, special guests, and films.
Miss604 is a proud Media Partner of the Vancouver International Film Festival
The Dunbar Village Harvest Festival returns to Dunbar St, between W 26th & W 30th, this Saturday. Hosted by Dunbar Village Business Association, this year’s festivities bring locals a variety of activities for adults and kids, group presentations, live music and entertainment and a scavenger hunt with the chance to win an iPad!
Dunbar Village Harvest Festival
Where: Dunbar St, between W 26th & W 30th
When: Saturday, September 10, 2016 from 11:00am to 3:00pm
Admission: Free!
Performers headlining the Shoppers Drug Mart stage include family-friendly acts such as Harrison the Yoyoer, School of M.O.V.E.S with Dianna David, Lights Up Musical Theatre School performing The Little Mermaid and Juno nominated and award winning CBC kids’ artist Ginalina Music.
The festival is also offering activities for both adults and kids such as Sumo Bouts with Elements Academy, a climbing wall by The Edge Climbing Centre and a dunk tank hosted by Stong’s Market. Guests have the opportunity to take part in a scavenger hunt and win an iPad by completing store trivia in three separate areas of the Dunbar Village Harvest Festival.
Food trucks will be on site at the festival and Stong’s Market and Save-on-Foods will be manning two separate barbecues to feed patrons. Donations from the Stong’s BBQ are going towards the BC Cancer Foundation and Save-on-Foods is donating its proceeds to BC Children’s Hospital. Shoppers Drug Mart will also be hosting a sidewalk sale benefiting the BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre Foundation.
For more information about the Dunbar Village Harvest Festival, follow Dunbar Village on Facebook and Twitter.
