Celebrate the arts, savour the flavours of the local food truck and craft brew scene, enjoy the best of music and dance, and check out the handiworks at the artisan fair at Coquitlam’s Kaleidoscope Arts Festival on August 11th.
Kaleidoscope Arts Festival in Coquitlam
Where: Town Centre Park next to Lafarge Lake-Douglas SkyTrain station When: Saturday, August 11, 2018 from 2:00pm to 10:00pm Tickets: FREE! All ages.
This free, full-day event will feature dynamic live performances across two stages, including concerts by pop singer Mathew V and high-energy violinist Kytami, plus Juno award-winning band, The Philosopher Kings who will headline the TD Community Plaza stage. The schedule includes dancers, multicultural acts and interactive community art, as well as craft beer and food available for purchase.
Win a VIP Experience
I have an amazing, exclusive VIP prize package to give away that includes:
VIP Parking (for 1 car)
VIP Table for 2 at the TD Community Plaza
Festival Food Truck vouchers ($100)
Mariner Brewing beer voucher ($50) and swag package
Backstage Meet & Greet with The Philosopher Kings w/ professional photo and autograph experience
This can all be yours as you enjoy Kaleidoscope as a VIP! Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Must be 19+. Please enjoy responsibly. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 10:00am on Saturday, August 4, 2018.
Explore and Share
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Burnaby Heights is setting up the table for this year’s Crave the Heights. From August 17-26, the Heights’ restaurants invite friends, family, and foodies to take part in a delicious neighbourhood dining showcase. Discover some of the best restaurants that Burnaby has to offer with affordable set menus, new food specials, happy hour food, and drink discounts.
Crave The Heights
Alongside the participating restaurants, local Burnaby musicians, Chloe Farrell and Gabriel Hasselbach, join Crave again this year, busking on the streets of Hastings on select evenings.
The Heights restaurants also have Crave specials with discounts on existing menu items or brand new dishes created specifically for Crave. Whether you’re craving a southern barbeque special from Butcher’s Block, authentic Thai cuisine from Chad Thai, or a classic Reuben sandwich for lunch from The Gray Olive.
There’s always room for dessert! Chez Christophe is offering a brand new Crave drink and desserts for the nine-day event, and Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionary introduces four new sundaes taking influence from world cuisines.
With set menus, food specials, or happy hour options, there is something to satisfy everyone here on the Heights. Stay tuned for more information about this year’s participating restaurants, menus, entertainment, and prize giveaways!
The Heights Merchants Association consists of more than 350 merchants and over 150 property owners along Hastings between Boundary and Gamma. Follow Burnaby Heights on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more information about Crave.
Voted Abbotsford’s favourite community event, the 108th annual Abbotsford Agrifair is set to return for another weekend of summertime fun in the country, August 3-5th at the Abbotsford Exhibition Park.
Abbotsford Agrifair
When: Friday, August 3 to Sunday, August 5, 2018 10:00am to 11:00pm Where: Abbotsford Exhibition Park (32470 Haida Drive, Abbotsford) Tickets: 1 day adult $12/day; 1 day student/senior $10/day; weekend pass $18; kids 10 and under free.
This year, the fair will be honouring family and community with a celebration of the past and embracing the future through innovative fun, family festivities, and interactive education. As Abbotsford’s biggest annual summer fair for 108 years, the Agrifair is proud to be a summer highlight for locals and tourists alike, attracting an average of 34,000 attendees over the three days of the popular fair.
Returning this year will be the popular midway rides, the Demolition Derby, the Laughing Logger Show, 4-H Shows and the Country Horse Classic, the Global FMX Motocross Show, Cannon Top Gun Logger Competition, the pig and duck races, nightly concerts, roving entertainers, and so much more!
New this year will be daily performances of the RCMP Musical Ride, the Dock Dog Show, the Horse Whisperer and the Dally & Spanky Show, plus a special concert performance by Canadian country music star, Jojo Mason and Sunday night Christian concert featuring Citizen Way.
I have 4 x 1 day passes to give away, here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 9:00am on Friday, July 27, 2018. Follow the Abbotsford Agrifair on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for more info about this year’s event.
The Museum of Vancouver (“MOV”) and Nature Vancouver proudly present the illuminating exhibition, Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives, on display from June 28, 2018 to September 2019.
This exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city. Scenic design, videos, taxidermy, crowd-sourcing technologies, and the display of natural specimens breathe life into these tales of co-habitation. The immersive nature of the exhibition, including hands-on activities, encourages visitors to examine their relationship with nature, think about momentarily disconnecting from their devices, and find equilibrium with the natural world around them.
Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives
Dates: June 28, 2018 through September 2019 Where: Museum of Vancouver (1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver)
Jillian Povarchook
The exhibition, designed by architects Daniel Irvine and Chad Manley, features two main experiences: The Encounter Room and The Engagement Room.
The Encounter Room features stories by local nature lovers, designers, and Indigenous knowledge holders that are surprising, unsettling, and strangely beautiful. As the pattern of rain echoes around them, visitors huddle under a tarp and listen to stories about this vital natural element; They eavesdrop on a hunting story, while sitting at a table across from a Roosevelt elk; and they traverse a wildlife corridor of large mammals—some, like the coyote, co-habiting with us today; others, like the wolf, regionally extinct. The Encounter Room also challenges visitors to discover themselves as physical creatures through crawling spaces, a climbing wall, and hidden animals that can only be discovered through peepholes.
The Engagement Room offers a counterpoint where visitors can study and share cultural knowledge about nature. Large interactive learning pods will present natural history specimens (flora and fauna), soundscapes, and short films; the themes shared in the pods were identified by an advisory group of environmental educators, Indigenous cultural workers, public health and forestry researchers, and architects. A crowd-sourced map showing “nature hotspots” in the city and a shadow puppet theatre will ask visitors of all ages to think about their own encounters with nature, while sound stations and matching games will test their knowledge of birds, plants, and animals. Displays point to the loss of local biodiversity associated with urbanization and a call for action to mitigate environmental degradation.
Wild Things is the first MOV exhibition to physically embody sustainability; therefore, a significant portion is built from reclaimed construction materials. Creating an exhibition within these parameters is the first step toward formalizing a policy that will insist on extensive upcycling of materials in the fabrication of all MOV exhibitions. This effort is supported by the Upcycle Vancouver program, a municipal experiment spearheaded by the Vancouver Economic Commission that aims to create a no-waste city.
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I have a family pack of 4 passes to give away to this fascinating exhibition, here’s how you can enter to win:
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As a lifelong Vancouverite who travels quite often, it pains me when I can’t recycle. I’m thousands of miles from home, I have just finished a juice bottle, I see a black trash can, but no blue bin. I ask around (at the airport, restaurant, park, home) and you hear those dreaded words: “We don’t do recycling in this city.” Record-scratch. Freeze frame. I can barely bring myself to put the item in the garbage can.
So, when the opposite occurs, and I find out that I can recycle something in Vancouver that I didn’t know I could –dropping that item in the blue bin knowing it will stay out of a landfill –I do a little celebration dance (just briefly, to myself, perhaps only in my head).
Cue Keurig. All Keurig K-Cup pods sold in Canada will be recyclable by the end of 2018. They are made of plastic #5, which is widely accepted in municipal recycling programs across the country.
Keurig wanted to make sure that their pods were not only recyclable, but also recycled. As a result, they have been partnering with recyclers, including Recycle BC, across North America for the past three years to ensure that the pods can easily travel from recycling bins at homes to recovery facilities to a useful second life as a new durable good.
Indeed I went to the Recycle BC website, clicked on “What Can I Recycle” and pods are accepted for curbside collection, multi-family collection, and at Recycle BC depots.
Recycling K-Cup Pods
There are 3 simple steps:
Let the pod cool after brewing and peel off the foil lid (filter can remain)
Compost the coffee grounds (bonus!)
Recycle the #5 plastic cup alongside other recyclable containers in your recycling bin at home.
You can now restock your pantry with the lineup of recyclable K-Cup pods, with the same high quality and well-loved brands, with even more options rolling out by the end of 2018.
Coffee and recycling! My Vancouverite heart is very happy.
For more information about Keurig’s recyclable K-Cup pods, visit their recycling resource website and follow along on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
This year, the fair will be honouring family and community with a celebration of the past and embracing the future through innovative fun, family festivities, and interactive education. As Abbotsford’s biggest annual summer fair for 108 years, the Agrifair is proud to be a summer highlight for locals and tourists alike, attracting an average of 34,000 attendees over the three days of the popular fair. 
