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As we roll into autumn that means it’s time for the harvest, cozy sweaters, apple cider, crisp days, and so many delicious seasonal flavours. But there’s more summer to be had in Summerland, which delivers all of those fall comforts while definitely living up to its sunny name! I’ve teamed up with Visit South Okanagan for another epic giveaway (valued at over $2,000).
There are so many ways to sip and savour the South Okanagan valley from Peachland to Oliver, and Summerland is a unique and special place, just a turn off the road.
Wander the pumpkin patch, wade in the cranberry bog, and shuffle through some leaves this Thanksgiving long weekend in Vancouver. There’s Harvest Days at VanDusen, Fright Nights at Playland, the film fest, culture days and so much more. Find these events and a whole bunch of things to do around Vancouver listed below:
One of the most anticipated seasonal events of the year, the Fort Langley Cranberry Festival, is coming up on Saturday, October 7th. Enjoy a pancake breakfast, free admission to the Fort, shop local businesses and a pop-up market, and more!
Harvesting Cranberries in Fort Langley – Miss604 Photo
Fort Langley Cranberry Festival 2023
When: Saturday, October 7, 2023 10:00am to 4:00pm
The Fort Langley Lions Club Pancake Breakfast starts at 8:00 at the greenspace on the corner of Glover and Mary.
Where: Glover Road, Fort Langley Village
There will be parking available at the orchard space at the Fort Langley National Historic Site, Parks Canada and at Living Waters Church.
Festival Admission: Free
The Cranberry Festival was started in 1995 to celebrate the annual harvest and the history of the cranberry in the area and Fort Langley’s earlier years. Annual attendance is about 35,000 people! This grassroots event is supported by the local community and, with its success, has grown to become a much loved annual event, celebrating and recognizing the cranberry’s role in our local history going back thousands of years.
While celebrating the region’s history and tradition, the Cranberry Festival aims to create a great day out, supporting local businesses and vendors, entertaining and bringing the community and visitors together in the heart of Fort Langley.
Harvesting Cranberries in Fort Langley – Miss604 Photo
At Fort Langley National Historic Site
October 7, 2023 from 10:00am to 5:00pm – Free Admission Join Fort Langley National Historic Site for the most berry-filled event of the year! Get your scarecrow judging skills ready, put on your stomping boots, and prepare to be amazed by the blacksmith’s cran-tastic creations. Discover the fascinating world of cranberry trade and how it shaped the Fort’s past.
Cranberry Bog Tours
This year’s cranberry harvest is looking as stunning as ever at Riverside Cranberry Farm. Registered guests can take in the beautiful valley views with a Harvest Walk. Stroll the perimeter of the field while it’s being actively harvested to see the harvesting machine working or to see the cranberries being pumped off the field. You can even put on a pair of farm waders for the Cranberry Plunge – an Instagram-worthy photo op. Visit the farm store to purchase farm to table products and fresh baked goods and beverages. Be sure to stock up on farm-fresh cranberries for your autumn meals and gatherings.
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents a yearlong exhibition with highlights from the permanent collection of Emily Carr paintings. Emily Carr: A Room of Her Ownexplores the intersection between celebrated Canadian artist Emily Carr and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Emily Carr: A Room of Her Own at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The exhibition presents a selection of Carr’s paintings drawn from the Gallery’s comprehensive collection of 252 works of art.
When: September 30, 2023 to September 8, 2024
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby St, Vancouver
Admission: Purchase tickets online or onsite. Visit on the first Friday night of every month for free admission with Free First Friday Nights.
The Gallery’s holdings offer a full range of Carr’s artistic production, including her watercolours, canvases, oil on paper works, charcoal drawings, ceramics and textiles. Especially rich in works on paper from the 1930s, this exhibition features a rotating selection of approximately 25 charcoal and oil on paper works. While still directly tied to the landscape, these paintings reduce natural forms into investigations of planes, curves and masses, and represent some of the most formal paintings of her career.
In 2010 Miss604 got a tour of the art gallery’s vault where hundreds of Emily Carr works were stored
A Room of Her Own highlights four key areas: Carr’s education abroad and early beginnings; the Gallery’s first exhibition and significant acquisitions in 1937 and 1938 respectively; major conservation efforts led by Gallery staff; and the role the Carr Collection played in the Gallery’s decision to relocate to its present building. Through archival materials and the works of Carr, this exhibition uncovers the ongoing connection between the Carr Collection and the Gallery, and the importance of Carr’s placement in the new Herzog & de Meuron Gallery building.
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents an evening with acclaimed master artist Robert Davidson on October 13th that will include a book signing and screening of the award-winning documentary about his life: Haida Modern—the Art and Activism of Robert Davidson.
Following the film screening there will be Q&A with Davidson, as well as a reception and signing session for his new bookEchoes of the Supernatural—the Graphic Art of Robert Davidson. The book will be available for purchase on site.
The film, directed by Charles Wilkenson, explores the explosion of modern Indigenous art by following Davidson to his native Haida Gwaii as well as Alaska, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York and Austin. The documentary features Davidson at work in his studio bringing forward the knowledge of the old masters into the 21st century and shows how his work is bedded in a strong activism giving an eloquent voice to a threatened natural world.
Davidson is universally considered one of the world’s greatest contemporary woodcarvers. He’s received every national and regional award that can be bestowed upon a Canadian artist including the Order of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Order of British Columbia and the Audain Prize. Recently he was honoured with a retrospective exhibition of his paintings and limited edition prints at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
