Catch Julie Kim LIVE at the Surrey Arts Centre on March 13, 2024 for a night of laughter. The lineup includes headliner Julie Kim, one of Canada’s top stand-up comedians, with feature act Syd Bosel, and emcee Rachel Schaefer.
Surrey Civic Theatre Presents Julie Kim Live
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 7:30pm
Location: Main Stage of Surrey Arts Centre (13750 88 Ave, Surrey)
Enjoy the comedy stylings of headliner Julie Kim, feature Syd Bosel, and emcee Rachel Schaefer.
Headliner Julie Kim is one of Canada’s top stand-up comedians. Kim has performed at all major Canadian comedy festivals including Just for Laughs Montreal, Just for Laughs Vancouver, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and Halifax Comedy Festival. She tours internationally and has been featured on CBC’s The Debaters and has received 3 nominations for writing and producing by the Canadian Academy in 2023. Julie Kim has contributed to the writing rooms of Kim’s Convenience, Run the Burbs, and Still Standing.
Feature act Syd Bosel is a stand-up comic and storyteller from Vancouver who can be heard on CBC’s Just for Laughs and Laugh Out Loud. Bosel has opened for Maria Bamford, Debra DiGiovanni, and Julie Kim. Syde Bosel has placed first in 2018 “BC’s Funniest New Female Comic”, was a finalist in the 2019 “Great Canadian Yuk Off”.
Emcee Rachel Schaefer from Vancouver, BC was featured on the JFL Originals album Yee-Haw Hell Yeah, CBC Gem’s New Wave of Stand Up, and CBC Radio’s Laugh Out Loud. Schaefer has acted in shows like Zoey’s Extrodinary Playlist, and Reginald the Vampire.
Surrey audiences are in for a night of laughter with this top-notch lineup! Find tickets and more events on the Surrey Civic Theatre site here.
The 3rd annual Vancouver Cocktail Week welcomes talented bartenders from around the world at a variety of events March 3-10, 2024. Take the opportunity to enjoy their cocktails, learn from their experiences, and raise a glass (or two) together.
Vancouver Cocktail Week – Photo Submitted – Jesse Vida at Cat Bite Club, Singapore
Vancouver Cocktail Week
Date: March 3 – 10, 2024
Location: Various Venues across Vancouver
Tickets:Purchase tickets for seminars, events, cocktail crawls, and more online
Vancouver Cocktail Week presented by The Alchemist toasts to the art of the cocktail, and so much more. It’s an event that celebrates the vibrant culture of food and drink in a city that is a hub of cocktail creativity, its multi-award-winning bartenders ambassadors for all that makes this such an exciting culinary community. Cocktail week gives those talented bartenders the showcase they deserve—and serve up delicious fun for consumers, too.
Signature Sunday Cocktail Brunch March 3, 2024 at 11:30am | Fairmont Pacific Rim Join brunch at the Botanist for the annual Signature Cocktail-Paired Brunch by executive chef Hector Laguna featuring hand crafted drinks by the Botanist Bar team and Bar Swift from London, UK.
Chinese Spirits with Hope & Sesame March 4, 2024 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm | Laowai Learn about Chinese spirits like baijiu and the cocktails you can make with them from the team at Hope & Sesame from Guangzhou, No. 74 on the World’s 50 Best Bars list.
Main Street Cocktail Crawl presented by Empress 1908 Gin March 5, 2024 at 4:00pm | Meeting at Tocador The Main Street Cocktail Crawl begins at Tocador where you will enjoy drinks paried with Latin American bites. Next, Como Taperia with Spanish flavours. Finally, Zarak with Afghan snacks and Middle Eastern-inspired cocktails.
Green Garden Gala March 9, 2024 at 7:00pm | Sutton Place Hotel Closing out the week is theGreen Garden Gala supporting the BC Hospitality Foundation. The Sutton Place ballroom transforms into botanical inspiration as bartenders harvest flavours from the plant world to craft unique cocktails. There will be live music and DJs to dance to, food for grazing, and more than 35 premium spirits brands to sip from.
The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival returns at the end of March with events across the city. Connect with nature through creative workshops, photo ops, Tree Talks and Walks, and more.
Cherry Blossoms in Stanley Park – Miss604 Photo
Cherry Blossom Festival Walks
Welcome the season with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, the annual celebration of cherry blossoms inspired by the age-old Japanese cultural tradition of hanami (flower viewing). For the few weeks the cherry blossoms are in bloom, we can all enjoy our shared connection to nature.
Tree Talks & Walks are guided tours led by local experts that focus on not just the cherry tree but the other various trees that make up our urban ecosystem. You are invited to take a moment out of your day to pause and appreciate the natural beauty all around.
A new month is here and it comes with a wonderful lineup of events, starting this weekend with the return of the Vancouver Whitecaps to BC Place, the 17th annual Coastal Dance Festival, Vancouver Cocktail Week and more. Find these events and more things to do around Vancouver listed below:
Weekend Events in Vancouver Things to do March 1-3, 2024
Gender Equity in Media Society (GEMS), previously called the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, presents GEMFest at the VIFF Centre in Vancouver March 5-9, 2024. Enjoy screenings, receptions, panels, and more featuring 37 films from 14 countries across the globe.
GEMFest 2024
Date: March 5 to 9, 2024 (in-person festival events) and March 12 to 26, 2024 (virtual festival events)
Location: VIFF Centre Vancity Theatre & Studio Theatre (1181 Seymour St, Vancouver)
The festival, now in its 19th year, provides a platform for challenging gender imbalance and the lack of equity and diversity in the screen-based media industry. GEMS presents a selection of compelling feature films that delve into pivotal moments in history and personal narratives. GEMFest is also proud to present a slate of in-person events and ancillary programming, including an International Women’s Day Panel on March 8th, featuring major players in diversity and inclusion efforts. The in-person portion of the festival will be followed by a virtual festival from March 12 to 26, 2024.
Highlighted films include Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World by filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw, chronicling the labour, hurdles, and triumphs of Canadian feminist media between the 1970s-1990s, tracing the rise and fall of analogue communications preceding the MeToo era. Tautuktavuk, directed by Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk, artfully blurs the line between narrative and non-fiction, offering a poignant exploration of domestic violence and substance abuse through the eyes of two Inuit women, Uyarak and Saqpinak.
The shorts programs include an array of narrative, documentary, and animated films. Canadian highlights include Hair or No Hair, Chicken, Yaye, Cherry, Heat Spell, Streetcar, Two One Two, The Light Is My Birthplace, Loud and Here, Sisterhood Softball, and Indigenous shorts including Nisihkason Lex, Our Grandmother The Inlet, and Redlights.
