Archive of posts tagged "museum"

Artist’s Circle at Harmony Arts Festival

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This feature was written exclusively for Miss604 by actor, writer, and producer, Michelle Kim. Last Wednesday, I attended the Artist’s Circle at the Harmony Arts Festival, hosted by the West Vancouver Museum. The event was an intimate retrospective of famed-Canadian painter, Gordon Smith, now 92 years old, who was joined by two other distinguished Canadian […]

Britannia Mine Museum

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The Britannia Mine Museum is re-launching next weekend after a name change (from the BC Mining Museum), refreshed logo, and updated visitor experience on the grounds of the old Britannia Mine, about 10km south of Squamish. John and I were invited up for the day to check out the grounds, the new buildings, and go […]

Fox, Fluevog & Friends; Co-founder Tells of Fun with Funky Footwear

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The following post was contributed by Anita Webster. Peter Fox, photo by Anita Webster Peter Fox has spent a lifetime looking at the ground. “I started out in linoleum – I looked at flooring where ever I went. Then I moved into shoes and my gaze moved up about an inch.” Peter is the Fox […]

Vancouver Police Museum T-Shirt Design Contest

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The Vancouver Police Museum is hosting a contest to find the perfect design for their souvenir t-shirts. The contest launched yesterday and they already have some fantastic entries. Our ideal design will promote our little museum in an artistic, clever and creative way–it could be directly police (or police history) related, it could be about […]

Museum of Anthropology: Border Zones

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The Museum of Anthropology is one of my favourite places in Vancouver, and I even shared that with the world through a feature I did with Google a few months ago. I recently visited for the first time since their renovation and was given the grand tour by Karen Duffek, Curator Pacific Northwest, Contemporary Visual […]