The 11th annual Wild Earth camp with an outstanding lineup of presenters and workshops coming together. We're thrilled to work with such talented folks who are volunteering to share their activism skills, experience and wisdom. Big cheers!
- Wild Earth is the only activism training camp on the coast, and this year's focus is media and legal support for social and environmental justice advocates who are speaking out against the 2010 Olympics and the Torch Relay. Possible locations include a couple forest sites on the beaches of southern Vancouver Island. (Location to be announced.) Please RSVP today! http://forestaction.ca.
- The gathering is 100% volunteer-run with zero corporate sponsorship, and we're very fortunate to have the support of several grassroots organizations. A big shout-out goes to the People's Trust, which kicked off our fundraising drive with a $500 contribution to this year's camp. The funds cover camp supplies like propane and tarps, transportation, and honourariums for presenters. Outside funding also means that participants contribute what they can and no one is turned away for lack of money. Everything is included: free camping (BYO tent), meals, snacks, coffee and tea, and bush-style amenities.
- Seize this opportunity to help create a week-long community of social and environmental justice advocates in a fabulous natural setting. Contact Zoe right away to get involved: zoeblunt@gmail.com
- Help scout the perfect location
- Present a workshop, lead a discussion, give a performance, play a game
- Climbing trainers and non-violence trainers wanted
- Help organize an event before the gathering - a yard sale, music show, movie, picnic, or whatever
- Help with camp set-up and logistics
- Wish list: Large pots and pans, propane tanks, tarps, big tents, food and especially coffee donations
Presenters include:
- Frank "The Stimulator" Lopez, hands-on independent media
- Skundaal (Bernie Williams) on indigenous rights and Warrior ethics
- Garliq, herbal first aid and activist wellness
- John Stedman, wilderness first aid
- many more to be announced
Please join us for the 11th annual Wild Earth gathering July 1-7 on south Vancouver Island. Thank you and pass it on! http://forestaction.ca
Zoe Blunt
Forest Action Network
http://forestaction.ca
ZoeBlunt@gmail.com
veganism is direct action.
Time:
All day event
Description:
Canada Place
www.canadaplace.ca
- A celebration for Canada's Birthday and to celebrate why you love Canada.
10 am to 7 pm
Canada Day Parade
Starts at Georgia Street and and Broughton
Ist Annual Canada Day Parade
www.canadaplace.ca
Starts at 7 pm
Canada Day Fireworks Show
Burrard Inlet
www.canadadayfireworks.ca
- A multi-community event which draws in hundreds of thousands of people.
10:30 pm show starts
Surrey Canada Day
At the Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre in Surrey
www.canadaday-surrey.ca
An outdoor festival with live bands (54-40) on site radio station broadcasts, fun, and games, fireworks, food and entertainment.
11 am to 9 pm
Time:
10:00am - 3:00pm
Description:
At the Steveston Market
www.stevestonsalmonfest.ca
Parade, Japanese Cultural Shows, craft fair, trade show, children's festival, carnival rides and the famous bbq and more.
Time:
11:00am - 8:00pm
Description:
On Granville Island
A cultural Canadian celebration with food, shopping and live entertainment.
www.melafestival.ca
Time:
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Description:
Vancouver Media Co-op: Upcoming Events
The Vancouver Media Co-op is a project of the Dominion News Co-operative. It sets out a grassroots, democratic, reader-funded alternative to the corporate press. The Media Co-op network provides a collaborative space to pool knowledge and distribute essential, timely information. We're looking for new readers, contributors and members.
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/events
For more info, contact olympics@mediacoop.ca or call 604.630.6864.
INFO SESSIONS: Join Dominion Editors Dru Oja Jay and Maya Rolbin-Ghanie for a presentation about the possibilities that the Vancouver Media Cooperative opens up for grassroots journalism in BC, and a discussion about the kinds of coverage of the 2010 Olympics that people in Metro Vancouver would like to see.
SKILLSHARES: Learning to make cooperative media work together!
Wednesday July 1 2009, 7:30pm
Skillshare - Photography for the Web: A primer on taking photos, writing photo essays, and posting your work to Mediacoop.ca
Venue: Purple Thistle
Address: 260-975 Vernon Dr.
Cost: free
Time:
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Description:
SAVE SOCIAL HOUSING - NO OLYMPIC PARKING LOT at LITTLE MOUNTAIN
Rally at Little Mountain
(33rd Ave & Ontario)
- BC Housing is demolishing habitable family homes at Little Mountain. On Wednesday June 24, crews came in without warning, right next door to apartments where tenants are still living. They took chainsaws to the vacant units, ripped out appliances, fixtures and pipes – Why now?
- Officials admit no construction will happen on the site for years. There are:
- No plans or dates for new construction,
- No dates for re-zoning
- No plans or dates for community consultations.
- Thousands of BC families desperately need affordable housing. Little Mountain homes are still solid, can be refurbished at very little cost, and can house hundreds of families.
Information: www.my-calm.info and 604-325-7209
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Description:
Hosted by Wilderness Committee Mid-Island XChapter
Save the Frogs with Dr. Kerry Kriger from Virgina
If frogs are the canaries of our ecosystems and watersheds, then we must not allow any further destruction of our quickly disappearing wetlands, especially here on East Vancouver Island.
At the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre
747 Jones Street
Tel 250-752-6585
Email wcwcqb@shaw.ca
Time:
All day event
Description:
Organic Islands Festival and Sustainability Expo
July 4 and 5, 2009 - 10 am to 5 pm
Glendale Gardens and Woodland, 505 Quayle Road, Victoria, BC
Just north of Camosun College Interurban Campus
The 5th Annual Organic Islands Festival and Sustainability Expo is a solar-power, near zero-waste celebration featuring eco-friendly practices, products and services presented by 150 Exhibitors in a wonderful 10 acre garden venue. Enjoy tasty food, inspiring people, innovative ideas, chef demos and entertainment for the whole family! LIVE GREEN. DO GOOD. We'll show you how. Find out more at: www.organicislands.ca or call (250)658-8148.
Time:
All day event
Description:
33rd Annual Golden Spike Days Festival in Port Moody at Rocky Point Park - a family affair!
July 3rd - 5 pm to 11 pm
July 4th & 5th - 11 am to 11 pm
$2 admission (children 3 and under free)
Entertainment and music, there's lots, this is just a few.
Full Intelligence Mode, Amousia, Paul Clifford, The Blue Voodoo, The Modelos, Flamenco Coast flamenco Dancing, Diamond Country Dancers, Charlotte Diamond, Kunaka Youth Marimba, Ridley Bent, Leeroy Stagger, Fat Jazz Band, Che Dorval, Dalannah Gail Bowen
Don't forget the :
Tony Prophet……………Spike Driving Contest
www.goldenspikedays.bc.ca/
Time:
All day event
Description:
On July 4, declare independence from corporate rule.
- A corporation is not a person. It’s an organizational structure that has no morality and feels no remorse. Yet the modern corporation enjoys the same rights as you or I: free speech, the ability to own property, the right to lobby government officials and protection against self-incrimination. Decades of deregulation and laissez-faire capitalist ideology have allowed corporations to steer the world's political, economic, environmental and cultural agendas.
- We need a contemporary insurrection to reclaim our democracy, our freedom and our country. We must challenge corporations and take back what is rightfully ours. Flying the Corporate America Flag as a symbol of our rebellion, let's make this July 4 the beginning of the second American Revolution. Let’s declare our independence from corporate rule!
HELP US!
- We’re thrilled about our recent victory in the BC Court of Appeal, but the battle is far from over. Leonard Asper and his CanWest cronies have appealed our victory to the Supreme Court of Canada. Our lawyers tell us they don’t stand a chance … they’re just trying to deplete our coffers.
- This fight is about media democracy, the voice of civil society and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which gives every human being on the planet the right to seek, receive and impart information without hindrance.
- Don’t let Leonard get away with his blatant censorship of the public airwaves. To continue this fight, we must raise $50,000 to cover legal costs – we’ve already raised $12,000. Please go to www.adbusters.org/donate and put something into our coffers.
SEND US YOUR THOUGHTS ...
- Adbusters #85, Thought Control in Economics, is only a few days away from deadline. We’ve got maverick economists like Herman Daly and Lourdes Beneria offering their views about the current crisis and interviews with Nobel Prize winners George Akerlof, Paul Samuelson and Joseph Stiglitz. But we need your intimate epiphanies peppered throughout … send something juicy to editor@adbusters.org.
- If you’re an economics student anywhere in the world craving a different point of view, get in touch with us and we’ll send you a complimentary copy of the issue.
Want to join the Culture Jammers Network? Visit: www.adbusters.org
Time:
9:00am - 11:00am
Description:
National climate change campaign featuring speakers, musicians and athletes and the Vancouver leg of a cross country bike ride.
At the Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby
www.kyotoplus.ca
Time:
11:00am - 5:00pm
Description:
NO ONE IS ILLEGAL MOVIE MARATHON MADNESS!
Decolonize your mind and join NOII for films screenings exploring the
realities of the "Canadian" experience.
11 am to 5 pm
Room 700, SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
Reasons to attend an indoor film screening on a beautiful summer day:
a) Canada-day weekend is filled with parades about the false histories and myths of Canadian peacekeeping and multiculturalism.
b) Wow, free movies!
c) I am interested in discussions about colonization, imperialism,
oppression and how to ignite revolution!
d) I heart acclaimed critical documentaries, shorts, and artistic films.
e) All of the above.
SCHEDULE:
11:00 am
- Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community (57 mins, Jennifer Hodge and Roger McTair). The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in
Toronto's North York. The film focuses intimately on the lives of several of the residents, many of them Blacks or members of other visible
minorities, and their relationship with police, social service agencies, and other major institutions that affect their lives.
2:30 pm
- Writing the Land (7 mins, Kevin Lee Burton): This 2007 film meticulously combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder
Larry Grant's experience of rediscovering his language and cultural traditions.
- Resist 2010 (15 mins, Burning Fist Media with no2010): A short, fast-paced
documentary focusing on the negative impacts of the 2010 Games and the ongoing resistance by Indigenous & other social movements.
- You are on Indian Land (36 mins, Mort Ransen): A film report of the 1969 protest demonstration by Mohawk Indians of the St. Regis Reserve/Akwesasne
on the international bridge to draw attention to the violations of the Jay Treaty of 1794 by Immigration and Customs officers. The film shows the blockade and confrontation with police.
BREAK 2:00 - 2:30 pm
2:30 PM
- Borderless Me (14 mins, Setareh Mohammadi): explores the complex issues of gender, identity, immigration, identification, and borders.
- Unmapping Desire (6 mins, Sheila James) an experimental video/poem carrying the theme of separation, political borders and social boundaries which prevent women from loving women.
- Checkpoint (12 mins, Alex Mah): The film examines how the daily lives of
trans, gender-variant and two-spirited men of colour living in Southern BC are affected by gender-incongruent identification, from borders to bars.
3:30 PM
- Minoru: Memory of Exile (18 mins, Michael Fukushima): Directed by Michael Fukushima, son of Minoru Fukushima who was interned in the interior of BC and finally deported to Japan, the film artfully combines classical animation with archival material. The memories of the father are
interspersed with the voice of the son, weaving a tale of suffering and survival.
- No Time to Stop (29 mins, Helene Klodawsky): Kwai Fong Lai is from Hong Kong, Alberta Onyejekwe from Ghana, and Angela Williams from Jamaica. At
home and at work, they speak candidly about the conditions that shape their lives as working class immigrant women.
- Brown Women Blonde Babies (30 mins, Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy): Thousands of women leave their homes and families in the Philippines every year to work abroad as domestic workers. Thousands have made their way to Canada, forming part of the Third World in our living rooms.
www.nooneisillegal.org
For more information email noii-van@resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.
Time:
9:30am - 3:30pm
Description:
Paddlefest is an urban celebration of kayaking, canoeing, and the ocean environment in BC. The festival will feature learning opportunities on water and on land. Paddlers of all skill levels are welcome. Stay tuned for more information.
Free at Jericho Sailing Club Beach
vancouverpaddlefest@mec.ca
Time:
All day event
Description:
Strengthening Stewardship – Investing at Every Step - 4th National Stewardship & Conservation Conference
- Join us July 8-11, 2009, in Calgary, Alberta, for the 4th National Stewardship & Conservation Conference ‘Strengthening Stewardship - Investing at Every Step’! Held every three years since 2000, Stewardship and Conservation is the national conference where Canada’s stewards meet to discuss emerging issues and develop solutions for the best possible stewardship of Canada’s environment.
- The program will open with a summary of the State of Stewardship in Canada report, which will review adopted policy directions, conservation tools, strategies of various communities of stewardship interest including governments, resource industries, and non-government organizations, and conclude with gaps and remedial actions required. Plenary and concurrent sessions, poster papers and field trips will be focused around the top issues affecting Canadians where stewardship can make a difference! Program themes include: Overspending our Natural Capital? - Making Stewardship Part of the Answer; Responding to Our Changing World (Environment and Our Health, Climate Change, the Changing Demographics of Our Communities, Environmental Goods & Services, Globalization -Food, Energy, and Biofuels); Stewardship from Grassroots to Policy (including Measuring the Value of Stewardship, Durability of Solutions, What are Government and Industry doing), and; Showcasing Innovations in Stewardship (including large-scale multi-sector stewardship initiatives, and examples related to watersheds). This year’s Stewardship & Conservation conference will chart a roadmap for supporting, recognizing and integrating stewardship into the way we live and do business in Canada.
- Join us in Calgary during the world famous Calgary Stampede and enjoy our Western hospitality, great entertainment, as well as the proximity of beautiful Banff National Park and Kananaskis Country!
- Register now for the chance to win the Canadian Rockies Early Bird prize of a trip to Banff, courtesy of Tourism Calgary (details attached). The venue for the 2009 conference will be the MacEwan Conference & Event Centre of the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. For more information, we invite you to visit the website: www.stewardship2009.ca.
Ernie Ewaschuk and Bill Macdonald (Conference Co-chairs)
Time:
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Description:
Summer BBQ on July 8 -
- This year, COPE has decided to change up our signature annual event, due to concerns around the availability and sustainability of the traditional main course: salmon. Instead, we will enjoy a “100-mile diet” dinner and have a dialogue around food security/sovereignty.
- As usual, we will enjoy the beautiful view at the Vancouver Rowing Club. We'll also have some great music from Geoff Berner (http://www.myspace.com/geoffberner) and Rhythm Nation (http://www.rhythmnation.ca).
WHERE: Vancouver Rowing Club (450 Stanley Park Drive)
WHEN: Wednesday, July 8, 6:30-10:30pm
WHY: Great food, great music and great conversation.
Tickets are $60 and can be purchased by credit card or cheque by calling
Rachel at 604-312-9057.
Coalition of Progressive Electors
rachel@cope.bc.ca
604-312-9057 (cell)
Help create a Vancouver for everyone.
www.cope.bc.ca/donate
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Description:
Public Forum on federal cutbacks and the future of the CBC, featuring NDP MPs Don Davies, Libby Davis, Peter Julian, Bill Siksay and Charlie Angus.
Alice Mackay Room and the VPL.
350 West Georgia
Tel 604-775-5800
Time:
All day event
Description:
Summer Book Sale at the Vancouver Public Library
with items priced between 55 cents and $2.25
Central Branch, 350 West Georgia
Free Admission
July 9 and 10
Description:
Photography, Art and Literary Fair
At the Sooke Legion Hall
July 10 to 12
Friday 2 to 9m
Saturday Noon to 9 pm
Sunday Noon to 5 pm
- Wildlife Watercolours
- Nature Photography
Meet Artist Sue Coleman and Environmental Authors.
www.allartshow.org
Time:
All day event
Description:
22nd Annual Pow Wow
July 10 to 12
This is one of the largest and oldest pow wows in British Columbia, easily accessible to visitors, as it is in the metropolitan Vancouver area. Admission is $5 and, along with dancing and drumming, there are craft sales, and traditional foods such as bannock and salmon available for sampling. For more information, call 1-877-611-7474
Age Range:All Ages
Event Location: Squamish Nation Capilano Reserve Park, West Vancouver
The park is located off Old Capilano Road, just south of Marine Drive
Location Phone:1-877-611-7474
Location Website:www.squamish.net
Price: General Admission: $5.00
Get Tickets At:at the door
Time:
10:00am - 3:00pm
Description:
Brock House Summer Fair
Featuring entertainment, games, food, raffles, a silent auction and plant sale.
3875 Point Grey Road
Free Admission
Tel 604-671-1664
Time:
12:00pm - 9:00pm
Description:
Maple Ridge Caribbean Festival
Family friendly festival featuring live Caribbean bands, Brazilian dancers, street vendors, authentic Caribbean food and costumed street parade and limbo line.
Memorial Peace Park, 11900 224 Street
Free Admission July 11 an 12
www.caribbeanfest.ca
Time:
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Description:
15th Annual Alice in Wonderland and Mad Tea Party
At Trout Lake Park, 15th and Victoria, East Side of the Park
Bring a family picnic, a flamingo and and tasty treat to share.
You may attend as ANY Character from Alice in Wonderland OR EVEN ALICE HERSELF!
http://aliceinwonderlandfestival.com/alices-everywhere
Time:
3:00pm - 8:00pm
Description:
It's sunny, it's warm, and it's time for Pivot's Summer Potluck in Wonderland! Come out and join Pivot staff, board, interns, and volunteers for a relaxed potluck at Trout Lake Park.
Mingle with other Pivot supporters, talk social change, play a game of croquet, or just lounge in shade and enjoy the scenery.
We will be sharing the south-eastern side of park with the 15th annual Alice in Wonderland Festival and Mad Tea Party and the organiziers are excited about Pivot supporters being part of the festivities. So bring your rabbit ears and/or top hats and get ready for quite a show - the festival runs from 1 PM - 5 PM and the finale includes a performance by the legendary Carnival Band. To see the festival in action - check out this video from last year.
Trout Lake off 19th Avenue (south-east end of the park)
What you should bring:
- Food: bring your favorite dish to share with everyone - and just so that we don't end up with 200 different potato salads, send Niala a quick email and let us know what you are bringing. We are attempting to make the potluck a paper-plate free event, so please bring something to eat on (ceramic plate, tupperware, etc.) and utensils.
Musical instruments: if you have a musical instrument and feel like playing on a Sunday in the park, please bring it along.
- Games: we have the basics - soccer, frisbee, croquet - covered but if you have a game that you really want to share, bring it out.
Costumes: If you want to engage with the festival the possibilities are endless (see the video). Some easy items include: rabbit ears, top hats, face-paint, Alice dresses.
Looking forward to seeing you in the park! Watch for me in the checkered top hat...
www.pivotlegal.org
Time:
3:00pm - 7:00pm
Description:
We're at the Farmers Market at Pacific Central Station near Main and Terminal
www.eatlocal.org
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Description:
The Association of Fundraising Professionals presents a forum on the challenges of fundraising
At the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa 1015 Burrard Street
Tel 604-736-1010
www.afpvancouver.org
$45.00 tickets
Time:
All day event
Description:
Friday, July 17 - Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Squilax Pow Wow celebrates the traditions of 3 local bands. An array of dances, including the jingle dress dance & the grass dance are performed.
Friday @ 7 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday, Grand Entry @ 1 p.m.
Contact Information: 250-679-3203
Age Range: All Ages
Event Location: Squilax Pow Wow Grounds
Little Shuswap Indian Band Arbor
Little Shuswap Lake Rd West
North Shuswap
Located off Hwy 1 at the Squilax Bridge
11 km (7 miles) east of Chase BC
42 km (25 miles) west of Salmon Arm BC
Location Phone:250-679-3203
Location Website:www.littleshuswaplake.com
Price:Call for Prices
Time:
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Description:
Sponsored by Salvadoran-Canadian Solidarity Council
Along with Vancouver Bolivian Society, Hands Off Venezuela, Latino Soy and 96.1 FM
Featuring Lloviznando Cantos and his Band
Lots of Music and Culture, learn about the revolutionary movement sweeping across Latin America
At the Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash St.
604-789-4550
Admission by Donation
Time:
All day event
Description:
SUCCESS Walk with the Dragon
At Lumberman's Arch
Tel: 604-684-1628
www.successbc.ca
Time:
10:00am - 3:00pm
Description:
Check the web site in case the weather isn't good.
Celebrate Wreck Beach and the naturalist life style! Wreck Beach Day ties in with Naturist Society's international Nude Week and theme of body acceptance. Thus year the 28th Annual Wreck Beach Day combines with the 2nd Annual Body Awareness Day which will also be the 1st Canada-wide Body Acceptance Day. Activities include nude sandcastle building, kite flying, body painting, nude art show and nude volleyball tournament.
(Clothing optional)
All ages welcome. Free
Information www.wreckbeach.org
Tel 604-856-9598
Presented by the Wreck Beach Preservation Society with the support of Metro Vancouver
Time:
All day event
Description:
Switzmalph Cultural Day & Pow Wow
Everyone is invited to enjoy this First Nations cultural event. Events include a pow wow, archery, fancy dancing, concessions, tours of the village & on the menu; salmon & bannock. Contact information: 250-803-0395
Time: 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Age Range: All Ages
Event Location: Switzmalph Cultural Centre
3281 1st Ave SW
Salmon Arm, BC
Location Phone: 250-803-0395
Location Website:www.shuswapcentre.org
Location E-mail:shuswapcentre@sunwave.net
Price: Call for Prices
Caribbean Days Festival
Waterfront Park, North Vancouver
Each July, the Trinidad & Tobago Cultural Society of BC presents the Caribbean Days Festival. This event draws a crowd of exuberant fun-lovers to North Vancouver's Waterfront Park for a weekend of parading, dining and dancing in the sunshine.
- This is a weekend of tropical rhythm, cuisine, carnival and culture as only the Caribbean can offer. Over the years, the Festival has grown into the largest Caribbean event on the local calendar -- and with tens of thousands of attendees, possibly the largest cultural event of its type in BC, period. Find out more about the Festival and its background.
July 25 and 26
Tel 604-537-1165
www.caribbeandays.ca
Time:
9:00am - 2:00pm
Description:
We're at Trout Lake Farmers Market
www.eatlocal.org
Time:
1:00pm - 11:00pm
Description:
This is a fund-raiser for the whole family to help protect Canada's last wild horses in the Chilcotin area of B.C.
7 musicians perform:
- Laura Doyle (www.lauradoyle.com)
- Karen Larson (www.myspace.com/karenlarsonmusic)
- Pat Covernton
- Marq Desouza and more
The event is at artist Jana's Hopeland Farm in Pitt Meadows at 19784 150th Ave.
Laura and her horse Orion live at Hopeland and we are planning a wild horse slide show, a horse communication demo and an equine spirit art show by Jana (http://www.redbubble.com/people/janaschmidt ) . Two wild horses will be present who have been brought into captivity as part of the DNA testing program and of course all that amazing live music.
- A tasty BBQ lunch will also be available for purchase with proceeds also benefiting the wild horses. Bring your family and friends and enjoy learning about wild horses and helping us celebrate them with music, art and horse communication demos.
- Festival updates will be available through Laura Doyle's website. Please click her name in the artist list above to find out more.
- Please bring a camp chair or beach blanket to sit on in the covered sand arena. We have cover so come out rain or shine. We look forward to seeing you there!
- You can get tickets for $20 in advance by emailing laura@lauradoyle.com or on-line at Ticketmaster as of June 25th or call TicketWeb at 1-888-222-6608. Tickets at the gate will be $25. Kids under 15 enter by donation.
- The vibe will be like Woodstock... though maybe with all the horses we should be calling it Livestock! Contact Laura if you want to help promote the event with our team or volunteer on the day if you're short of cash for a ticket. Camping over on Hopeland's beautiful 5 acres is also an option by pre-booking with Laura.
Cheers,
Pat Swift
info@fonv.ca
Time:
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Description:
Illuminares Lantern Procession
Trout Lake at John Hendry Park, Victoria Drive & 15th Avenue
Donation event - A minimum $2.00 suggested donation would be welcome
- As dusk falls over Trout Lake at John Hendry Park in East Vancouver, families and friends come together from far and wide to witness an extraordinary celebration of light.
- On this night, the Illuminares Lantern Procession fills the air with music, and thousands of paper lanterns come alive with fire. A brilliant spectacle of weaving serpents, birds in flight, planets in orbit, schools of fish, and all sorts of glowing and shimmering creatures of the imagination.
- Processional bands playing world and folk music encourage spectators on the sidelines to join in the journey through the park. Along the way, audiences pass brightly illuminated displays and engaging circus performances of juggling, dancing, clowning, and so much more.
- The Illuminares Lantern Procession includes an amazing show of art, music, dance, fire sculptures, and torch choreography. Come and enjoy!
www.publicdreams.org
Time:
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Description:
LEFT FILM NIGHT presents a double feature
7 pm: 638 Ways to Kill Castro
(Dir. Dollan Cannell, UK, 2006, 78 minutes)
- This documentary looks at the incredible story of the 638 alleged plots by the CIA and Cuban exiles to kill former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. It reveals every conceivable method of assassination, from exploding cigars to femme fatalism, a radio station rigged with noxious gas to a poison pen. If you think this sounds like something out of a James Bond film, then you’re not far from the truth.
8:40 pm - The Waiting List
(Dir. Juan Carlos Tabio, Cuba, 2001, 105 min., English subtitles)
- In this comic hit, set in an isolated bus terminal in the middle of nowhere, dozens of passengers are stranded when a bus they were waiting for breaks down and cannot leave. Forced to spend the next few days together, everyone works together to overcome adversity, revealing humanity’s ability to overcome the toughest circumstances through sharing, cooperation and solidarity. Made by award winning director Juan Carlos Tabio (Strawberries and Chocolate).
Saturday, July 25, 7 pm
Centre for Socialist Education,
706 Clark Drive, Vancouver (corner of Clark & E. Georgia)
No admission charge, but donations towards our costs are welcome. Coffee and refreshments available. Left Film Nights are presented by the Centre for Socialist Education, Young Communist League, and the Latino and Vancouver East Clubs of the Communist Party of Canada. Call 604-255-2041 or email for further information.
Time:
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Description:
Start at the Pitt River Regional Greenway
A park interpreter will accompany you on a guided bicycle tour along this narrow band between farms and the Fraser River. Stop along the way to learn about river creatures like sturgeon and beaver and hear about the local history. Tasty snacks will be provided. Bring your bike and helmet.
Ages 13 and up
$3 for youth and seniors, $5.00 for adults
Time:
All day event
Description:
Friday, July 31 - Sunday, August 2, 2009
- The Kamloopa Pow Wow is one of the largest celebrations of First Nations' culture and heritage in Western Canada! The Pow Wow is a spectacular expression of the Secwepemc Peoples' heritage and is a vibrant display of storytelling, song, and dance in traditional regalia.
- The Kamloopa Pow Wow represents many years of stories and events from previous years packed into three exciting days at the Secwepemc Pow Wow Grounds located 2 minutes from the city centre, alongside the South Thompson River in Kamloops.
- A spectacular expression of the Secwepemc heritage in the Kamloops area plus a vibrant display of storytelling, song and dance. For more information, call 250-828-9782 or email powwow@kib.ca
Age Range: All Ages
Event Location: Secwepemc Pow Wow Grounds
Kamloops Indian Band, Kamloops, BC
Located along Yellowhead Hwy No.5
Location Phone:250-828-9782
Location Website: www.kib,ca
Location E-mail: powwow@kib.ca or inquiry@tourismkamloops.com
Price: Call for Prices
11th annual Wild Earth