Archive of posts tagged "Downtown Vancouver"

November 2011 Events in Metro Vancouver

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The local news station had a “guaranteed high of 9 degrees” today. November is here and it’s going to be getting pretty chilly around Metro Vancouver. Luckily, events and activities still abound indoors, outdoors, and up on the sugar-dusted mountains. The following events have been contributed to Miss604.com: Photo credit: aloalo* on Flickr – from […]

ET Canada Live in Vancouver

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ET Canada is in Vancouver this week doing three shows live from Jack Poole Plaza in Coal Harbour. The first day of the show was yesterday and they’ll be broadcasting again today and tomorrow with our local correspondant Erin Cebula. Photo credit: Rick Graham/Tourism BC They are hoping to get viewers out to the live […]

Heart of the City Festival 2011

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The Heart of the City Festival will host more than 100 events at over 30 locations in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside from Wednesday, October 26 to Sunday, November 6, 2011. I’ve been flipping through the extensive online schedule and noticed that events range from art shows and history walking tours to hip hop, jazz, and poetry. […]

Occupy Vancouver in Photos

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The Occupy Vancouver event began today in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery to show solidarity for Occupy Wall Street and to voice opinions and concerns over our own issues with the economy, politics, and everything in between. Twitpic from GlobalBC courtesy of Jennifer Palmer “The grassroots protests had Canadians expressing their disenchantment with the […]

Hope in Shadows Calendar for 2012

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The pages were flipped with each new month until I lazily tacked up the completed calendar displaying its cover image for an extra 10 months. The black and white photo of three children with arms linked together hung on our wall until I realized it was no longer 2010 and we hadn’t picked anything up […]