Refresh Market is one of BC’s largest assemblies of local designers and brands, with more than 95 makers and pop-up shops. To celebrate its 5th anniversary, Refresh will host its first-ever two-day event this month in Squamish.
Refresh Market – Fall 2016
What: Refresh Market
When: Friday, Nov 18th 5:00pm to 9:00pm & Saturday, Nov 19th 9:00am to 4:00pm
Where: West Coast Railway Heritage Park (39645 Government Rd, Squamish)
Tickets: Admission is $5 at the door, $3 online and free for kids under 12. First guests will receive a Friday night welcome gift while quantities last and one of 50 Refresh Market swag bags on Saturday.
Visitors can expect a highly edited mix of handmade and locally designed clothing, accessories, homewares, skin care and dry goods both up-and-coming and well-known local brands including Harlow Skin Co., Woodlot, East Van Jam, Sunday Dry Goods, Minimoc, Lone Goat Soap and Miriam de Langley.
“Refresh provides a timely opportunity to stock up and shop local as we enter the busy holiday shopping season,” says co-founder Rachel Boguski. “What sets us apart is that we offer a warm, carefree shopping environment that allows visitors to get to know the makers behind their purchases. The selection and the experience is top quality.”
In addition to the participating vendors, the market will also include an expanded food truck zone and liquor licensing on the Friday night during which guests will have the opportunity to purchase a glass of wine or cocktail created especially for the market by local mixologist and Gillespie’s Fine Spirits co-owner Kelly Ann Woods.
Win a Prize Pack
I have two tickets to give away for entry to Refresh along with 50 Refresh Dollars to spend at the market! Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Follow Refresh Market on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more information. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Sunday, November 13, 2016. The winner must be able to pick up the prize at the market.
Update The winner is @BourneBubbly!
Find a great selection of local produce, fish, meat and dairy at a winter farmers market in Vancouver this season.
Nat Bailey Winter Farmers Markets
November 5, 2016 to April 22, 2017
Saturdays from 10:00am to 2:00pm
Nat Bailey Stadium (4601 Ontario St, Vancouver)
Vancouver’s favourite place to be on a rainy Saturday returns for its 6th season. The Nat Bailey Winter Farmers Market features a great selection of locally grown vegetables and fruit, meat and seafood, artisan cheese and bread, herbs and seasonal nursery items, baked goods, prepared foods, handmade craft, and food trucks. This producer-only market is located in the parking lot of Nat Bailey Stadium.
Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market
November 6, 2016 to April 30, 2017
Sundays from 10:00am to 2:00pm
PNE, Hastings & Renfrew (Vancouver)
The Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market has a great selection of local produce, fish, meat & dairy, artisan prepared foods, and baked goods, as well as the best in local crafts and hot food trucks. Market is located at the PNE between the Forum and the Agrodome. There is free parking for shoppers at Gate 2 off of Renfrew St.
For more information, and to find out what’s in season, follow Vancouver Farmers Markets on Facebook and Twitter.
This winter in Vancouver it’s all about lights, which make dark days and nights brighter and illuminate the holiday spirit. On the North Shore, you’ll find over 150,000 twinkling bulbs on display at the Park and Tilford Hi-Light Festival.
Park and Tilford Hi-Light Festival
Where: Park and Tilford Gardens (333 Brooksbank Ave, North Vancouver)
When: November 25 to December 31, 2016, nightly 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Admission: Entry by donation with 100% proceeds to the North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society.
The 28th annual Park and Tilford Hi-Light Festival features a month-long Christmas celebration with festive activities for the whole family, including a light display that spans three acres.
The 2016 Opening Night Light-up celebration will take place on Friday, November 25th at 6:30pm with live entertainment, a Light Up countdown, hot chocolate and more. North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto will also be in attendance to help kick off the event. On Family Friday Nights (Fridays throughout December) there will be live entertainment and Santa visits.
Earlier this year I got to know the Nutrition Facts Table (the “Nft”) and last weekend I tested my knowledge at the Nutrition Education Facts booth at the Vancouver Home + Design Show.
Along with my nephew, I was quizzed on ten facts about the Nft, where we also learned how to read the table (and how to do a little math on the fly). For each correct answer, we were given a chip that we took over to the Nutrition Facto board to earn some prizes.
“It’s like Plinko,” I told my nephew, who shrugged. “The Price is Right? Plinko? No?” he remained unfazed by my game show trivia and took to the board to enter to win.
Coming away with a tote bag, t-shirt, and the chance to win a grocery gift card (I entered my nephew under his mother’s name), it was a fun way to start our day at the Home and Design Show.
Getting to Know the Nutrition Facts Table
There are three simple Nft steps that you can add to your grocery shopping mission that will help you make better health choices.
- Serving Size. It’s at the very top of the table, you can’t miss it. By checking a product’s serving size, you can:
Understand how much of a nutrient you are eating
Compare calories and nutrients between 2 similar packaged food products
Compare it to the amount you actually eat
- Daily Value. The % DV is found on the right-hand side of a nutrition facts table. It is a guide to help you make informed food choices. It shows you if the serving size has a little or a lot of a nutrient:
5% DV or less is a little
15% DV or more is a lot
- Ingredients. Reading the ingredient list is both important and useful. It can help you:
Check if a food product has a certain ingredient.
Avoid ingredients in case of a food allergy or intolerance.
The NFt, found on most packaged food products in Canada, is key to making an informed choice for you and your family in a few easy steps. The campaign encourages Canadians to start with the Serving Size and then use the % DV to choose the nutrients you want a lot or a little of. By learning how to find out if a product has more of the ingredients you want, and less of those you want to avoid, you can make sure only the very best ends up in your cart, pantry, and body.
Nutrition Education Facts Grocery Giveaway
I have a $100 grocery gift card to give away to one lucky Miss604 reader so they can enjoy their next grocery shopping trip compliments of the Nft! Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 10:00am on Saturday, November 12, 2016. Participating retailers, where the gift card will be valid, are Walmart, Loblaws (LCL), Sobey’s, Federated Co-op, Metro, Costco Wholesale and Overwaitea Food Group.
For more information — and more chances to win great prizes — visit Focus on the Facts online. You can also follow Healthy Canadians on Twitter, the #FocusontheFacts tag, and Healthy Canadians on Facebook.
Update The winner is Holly MacRitchie!
It’s no secret that the Museum of Anthropology (“MOA”) at UBC is my favourite museum that I definitely would call a must visit location for any visitor, and local. They now have a new visually spectacular and immersive exhibition on global textiles starting this month called Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures, which will be on display November 17, 2016 to April 9, 2017.
Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures
From birth to death, humans are wrapped in cloth worn for survival, but more importantly, wear clothing as an external expression of their spiritual belief system, social status and political identity. This stunning exhibition will explore clothing’s inherent evidence of human ingenuity, creativity and skill, drawing from MOA’s textile collection — the largest collection in Western Canada — to display a global range of materials, production techniques and adornments across different cultures and time frames.
adire eleko. Cloth for Yoruba women to wear as head covering, wrapped skirt and blouse or tailored dress.
Curated by Dr. Jennifer Kramer (MOA Curator, Pacific Northwest), Layers of Influence will entrance MOA visitors with large swaths of intricate textiles often worn to enhance the wearer’s prestige, power and spiritual connection, including Japanese kimonos, Indian saris, Indonesian sarongs, West African adinkra, adire and kente cloth, South Pacific barkcloth, Chinese Qing dynasty robes, Indigenous Northwest coast blankets, Maori feather cloaks and more.
A sumptuous feast for the eyes, the exhibition is an aesthetic and affective examination of humanity’s multifaceted and complex history with cloth and its ability to amplify the social, political and spiritual influence of the wearer as a functional expression of self-identity.
Visit
The MOA galleries and shop (at 6393 NW Marine Drive at UBC) are open daily from 10:00am to 5:00pm and until 9:00pm on Thursdays (closed Mondays October 15 to May 15).
Win Museum of Anthropology Passes
If you would like to visit the Layers of Influence exhibit I have a pair of passes to give away for admission to the Museum of Anthropology. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Follow the Museum of Anthropology on Twitter and Facebook for more information about this exhibit and other happenings at the museum. Prize passes valid until April 9, 2017. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 5:00pm on Thursday, November 10, 2016.
Update The winner is Melanie!
