The 12th annual Eastside Cultural Crawl is taking place over the next three days and will be filled with art appreciation and free events.
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The Eastside Culture Crawl is an annual 3-day November event that involves artists who live in Vancouver’s Eastside in an area bounded by Main St., 1st Ave., Commercial Drive, [...]

Thanksgiving is usually a time of reflection on my blog; memories of heading to my Oma and Opa’s house for a big turkey dinner, raking the leaves in the front yard and then riding the BMX straight through the pile. Eating so much at supper time as Oma tells you to keep going, “you’re too [...]

It was a year ago that I first wrote about the Surrey Memorial Hospital’s Tulips for Tomorrow campaign.

Now, 12 months, 100,000 bulbs and $420,000 in donations later, they are initiating the campaign for another season.
Your donation will put Surrey in bloom when spring rolls around, and will fund new medical equipment for our hospital… [...]

After collecting some food donations we have headed up to the far reaches of Lynn Valley to visit our friend Dave [happyfrog][RaincityStudios].

I realized this hasn’t left me much time to visit the Greater Vancouver Food Bank today. As such, I’ll keep the drive going until after BarCamp, in case anyone would like to donate [...]

We are at Salt in Gastown right now with Tris Hussey, Kris Krug and Raul - come on down and join us for lunch. Kris is giving impromptu photography advice and I’m live blogging before delicious our “Butcher Plate” arrives. Canned food donations are being accepted for the Food Bank.
Update: Anthony just arrived as well [...]

After a hearty breakfast at Ricky’s we’re now chilling at Blenz in Central City / SFU Surrey. So far this morning the traffic has been horrendous so after this we’ll head straight to Gastown for the 1:00pm meetup.

The kiss event (one of the only events mentioned this morning in one of the local papers) [...]

It’s here! Today is National Digital Media Day and I’m going to be embarking on a tour of Metro Vancouver, stopping at various points to live blog and promote digital media in our region. Why am I doing this you may ask?
… As you may know, there is wide speculation that the federal government [...]

This afternoon while popping by Tanya’s house in Surrey I noticed a flyer (”The New View“) from the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association on her kitchen table which contained the following:
It’s Your Downtown - Tell them what you think
One last time, the City of Surrey is reaching out to you, the community, for feedback on [...]

This month’s Net Tuesday meetup will be taking place tonight at Workspace in Gastown. The theme is “How Drupal can help you save the world” and the event will feature talks from Boris Mann (BootupLabs), Scott Nelson and Karianne Blank (FearlessCity.ca), and Phillip Djwa (Agentic). More information is also available on the Facebook event.
My live [...]

Last year I attended the West End Block Party with Keira (and her hot dog t-shirt). We had a really great time playing some games, touring the transit museum on wheels, and hanging out in our ‘hood on a sunny afternoon.

“Gordon Neighbourhood House is holding its 10th annual West End Summer Block Party [...]