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Top Vancouver Events May 16 - 22: May Long weekend edition

Lisa Craveiro Kelly Marion
May 16th, 2012

Kick off your weekend with some wine at Le Gavroche.

Kick off the long weekend by attending one of the many events this Wednesday and beyond. You'll have more time to play, so we've given you lots of events to keep you busy.

Get cheeky, get swabbed and save lives through stem cell donation

Jessica Kalbfleisch
May 8th, 2012

Flickr image by Canadian Blood Services 

Saturday, May 12 |  10 a.m. - 6 p.m. | Grand Court at Metropolis at Metrotown

Calling out all healthy Vancouverites between the ages of 17 and 50 years, from all ethnicities.

In honour of Mother's day this weekend, do as mother's do, and put others first by giving life through blood donation or potential stem cell donation.

Blood donors and stem cell matches play a crucial role in helping people survive devastating diseases, but still, hundreds of Canadians struggle to find a match each year. 

Special attention is being draw to young adults from ethnic minorities since optimal chances of a match are donors from within one’s own ethnic group.

Top Vancouver Events May 9 - 15: Eat your way through the weekend with sake, butter chicken and stone soup

Ajay PuriMiraj Khaled
May 8th, 2012

Get your fill of rice wine at the Sake Social this Saturday.

Events with food in their names always get our mouths watering.. even if they don't actually serve any food. Laugh at the Butter Chicken comedy show, drink as much as you please at the Sake Social, and engage with the community at the Stone Soup Festival. We're hungry for the weekend.

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Reimagine CBC celebrates Canadian broadcasting

Jenny Uechi
May 6th, 2012

For many, the CBC has been an inseparable part of growing up Canadian.

Join some of the most wonderful and definitive Canadian talent in the country: writers Wade Davis, Ivan Coyote, musicians Dan Mangan and Hannah Eperson at the Reimagine CBC event on Monday. The event on May 7 at The Vogue theatre celebrates Canada's public broadcasting station and generates discussion among viewers to “reimagine” CBC for the digital era.

 

The event will feature:

Sean Devlin (creator, Shit Harper Did)

Nettie Wild (documentary director, Fix)

Top Vancouver events May 3- 9: Reimagine CBC Vancouver, Spot Prawn festival

Lisa Craveiro Kelly Marion
May 2nd, 2012

Local musician Dan Mangan will be among the Canadian artists performing on Monday's ReimagineCBC event.

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Reimagine CBC Vancouver (Miraj’s pick)
May 7 | 7 – 10 PM (doors at 6 PM) | Vogue Theatre | $15

Let’s reimagine a vibrant media landscape in Canada and keep the national treasure that is CBC - a truly people’s organization. The best way for the CBC to thrive is to build a community of supporters who have a true sense of ownership over the organization. To this end, as part of a national campaign Gen Why Media is bringing together seasoned professionals, up-and-coming CBC talent, outside experts, media innovators, and citizens in a celebratory event that will add new energy to the CBC and help articulate a fresh vision for public media. thanks tara & fiona.

Top Vancouver chefs duke it out in Variety's Food Fight! The Battle for Brunch

Kelly Marion
Apr 29th, 2012

Photos by Kelly J Marion @ms_kellyj

What happens when you throw a handful of Vancouver's finest chefs in to a room on a Sunday morning? A battle of the brunch of course!

California dreaming with award-winning wines at Cali Wine Fair 2012

Kelly Marion
Apr 26th, 2012

Photos by Kelly J Marion @ms_kellyj

Fifteen minutes before doors opened for the 32nd Annual California Wine Fair, at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the line was already wrapping around the lobby, with people anxious to get inside. Many of those attending were oenophiles, while others were new to wine and eager to explore the different varietals and blends that California has to offer. Wineries from the Napa, Sonoma and Central Coast regions were there to showcase their finest wines and expose Vancouver to the variety the region offers. The price point of the wines ranged from table wines to premium and reserve wines, and so did the quality price ratio, which factors the quality of the wine compared to the cost. It's not necessarily the most expensive wines that are the "best" as every experienced wine drinker knows.

Win two Pecha Kucha Night tickets this week

Kimberley Ong
Apr 24th, 2012

Sad you didn't get tickets for Pecha Kucha? Beevancity and The Vancouver Observer are giving out two tickets to Pecha Kucha this Thursday.

How do you win? It's easy. Just do one of the following by Wednesday 3 p.m.:

1. Follow Beevancity on twitter and tweet the following:
I just entered to win 2 tix to #pknvan from @beevancity and @vanobserver! http://bit.ly/JvU2S2

2. Subscribe to the BeeVancity mailing list.

The contest deadline is 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Check your email/twitter by Thursday 11 a.m.!

Top Vancouver Events April 25 - May 1: bike kickoff, art competition and more

Miraj KhaledAjay Puri
Apr 24th, 2012 (All day)

Take part in the Gallery Hop Vancouver this week. Photo credit: The Futurists

Art competition, circus spectacular and Pecha Kucha all in one week? We're psyched! If you didn't get your ticket to Pecha Kucha yet, we're giving you a chance to win - here's how.

And if you've always wondered what it would be like to take a sausage making class, well, look no further - Kelly lives to tell the tale. Who can resist those daily coupon deals. 

Packing meat at 3P Natural and Exotic Meats

Kelly Marion
Apr 23rd, 2012

Photos by Kelly Marion

If I had a dollar for every sausage that I ate, I would have a lot of coin. Sadly the amount of low quality “tubes of meat” I’ve had in my life is nothing to be proud of.  As a child I ate Johnsonville breakfast sausages almost weekly for Sunday breakfasts. At that point I was less concerned about what as I was eating as I was about how deliciously salty and sweet they were (my dad liked the maple kind). As I grew up and went through my teenage years I decided that sausages were disgusting and consisted nothing of a bunch of miscellaneous meat ends shoved in a casing of fatty skin. I avoided them like the plague, opting for butcher cuts of bacon or ham to accompany my French toast or eggs.  

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