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Multi-Address Garage Sale In South Hill Saturday, June 22nd

21 Jun

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The South Hill Neighbours Society is putting on a multi-address community garage sale tomorrow, Saturday, June 22nd.   With so many participants, the chances of putting your hands on that perfect find are certainly greater.  Also, having everything centralized in one geographic area means you don’t have to travel far to the next home.  The garage sales get under way at 10:00 a.m.  We have set out a list of the participating addresses and a hint of some of the items that will be available:

> 5828 Sophia Street

> 528 East 44th Avenue – Lots of baby & kids’ items

> 286 East 45th Avenue (in the lane)

> 520 East 47th Avenue

> 626 East 47th Avenue (front yard) – Hockey & golf equipment, children’s       books, clothing & housewares.

> 586 East 48th Avenue – Vintage furniture, books, CDs, DVDs, wall décor & more.

> 660 East 51st Avenue – Multi-family sale  – The Education Building at First United Mennonite Church

> 427 East 55th Avenue (back yard sunny day, inside rainy day)

>  219 East 62nd Avenue (at Main Street) – ABC 123 Family Child Care   – Educational toys, children’s furniture & books, riding toys & other household.

The garage sales go ahead rain or shine.

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Quinn Cummings: Adventures From My Awkward and Lovely Life At The Havana Theatre June 29th

21 Jun

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The Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive, invites you to join the Academy Award-nominated child star turned author, Quinn Cummings, as she recounts charmingly absurd tales of life in Hollywood, from her acting days to her transition as an author. A talk and reading will be followed by an audience Q & A session and a silent auction.

Quinn Cummings is a former child star best known for her Oscar-nominated role in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl and the acclaimed TV series Family, as well as the author of the humorous memoir Notes From the Underwire and a chronicle of homeschooling The Year of Learning Dangerously. She lives with her family in Los Angeles and maintains the popular blog, the QC Report.

All proceeds from this event will benefit Kids Help Phone, a free, anonymous and confidential phone and on-line professional counselling service for youth. Note tax receipts cannot be issued. To reserve your spot, visit www.tv-eh.com/events.  The show begins at 1:00 p.m. and is free, but attendees are asked to make a donation to kidshelpphone.ca.

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Free Outdoor Movie At Britannia Oval Saturday, June 22, 2013

20 Jun

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Britannia Community Services Centre, 1661 Napier Street,  presents an outdoor movie event this Saturday, June 22, 2013.  They will be showing Oz the Great and Powerful on a 40 foot screen at the Britannia Oval beginning at dusk (about 9:00 p.m.). There will be some munchies available from vendors and some pre-movie activities starting at 7:00 p.m. Bring a blanket to sit on and enjoy the show. What a great way to kick off the beginning of summer which becomes official on June 21st!

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A Stones Throw Beer Dinner – Thursday, June 27th

19 Jun

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Campagnolo Roma and Parallel 49 Brewing Co. are partnering to put on A Stones Throw Beer Dinner.  Parallel 49 is located “a stones throw” away from Campagnolo Roma, 2297 East Hastings Street (at Garden Drive) in the rapidly emerging brewery district of Vancouver’s East Village. A Stones Throw is a neighbourly collaboration honouring craft beer and featuring their neighbours, Parallel 49 Brewing Co.  On Thursday, June 27th you are invited to dine around communal tables at Campagnolo Roma and share in a 4 course dinner served ‘alla famiglia’. Chef Nathan Lowey will prepare and pair each dish with beer from Parallel 49 Brewing Co.  The delicious menu includes:

Antipasto:

The Cure’s Housemade Salami
Summer pickles, old boy beer mustard
Beer Pairing – Old Boy Classic Ale

Pizza:

Nateroni
Spicy pepperoni, button mushrooms, scamorza cheese
Beer Pairing – Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale

Pasta:

Housemade Pasta
Beef neck and pulled pork ragu
Beer Pairing – Lord of the Hops IPA

Dessert:

Sweetmilk Pana Cotta
Highpoint Farms raspberries & crisp merengue
Beer Pairing – Humphrey Biere De Garde

Dinner starts at 8:30 p.m. and winds up at 10:30 p.m.  Tickets are $61.50 plus Eventbrite surcharge and are available at EventBrite. Price includes tax, gratuity and beer pairings.

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A Call for an Artist for Community Mural Project

18 Jun

MuralMountPleasantCalltoArtistMount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, 800 East Broadway Avenue, is looking for an artist to lead a community art mural project.   The project is a partnership between Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Broadway East Youth Resource Centre and Vancouver Native Housing. The aim is to engage community members especially youth in planning, designing and implementing three murals along Broadway East. Working with the themes of water and culture, the murals will link the diversity of the neighbourhood to the St. George Rainway stream daylighting project.  The plan is to begin the project in June 2013 with the installation aimed for mid-August 2013.  The application deadline is June 20, 2013. This is a great opportunity to showcase your artistic talent. If you would like to add your name to the list of candidates, see the attached link for the Job Description and contact information.

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Cookbook Swap At Trout Lake Farmers Market

14 Jun

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First off, let me say, I love this idea! Due to my love of good food and cooking, I have quite the collection of cookbooks. There are, of course, a few that don’t get much use.   We all have our favourites we gravitate to. Thus, there are cookbooks collecting a bit of dust that are great. Case in point, the two Nigella Lawson cookbooks that were a gift, but sit virtually unused.  Due to space limitations, I’m not really in a position to add to my collection, but a Cookbook Swap, this idea in one word is ‘brilliant’!  So that’s what the Vancouver Farmers Market has organized.  For 4 weekends starting this Saturday, June 15th, you can bring your cookbooks, hard or soft cover as well as cooking magazines, to swap with others.  Here’s how it works:   Bring your books and/or magazines to the Appraiser’s Tent, there they will assign them one of 4 levels.

Red: $31 + hardcovers and big softcovers ( 2 yellows or 3 blues = 1 red) or $10 cash

Yellow:  $16 – $30 large softcovers/sm-med hardcovers ( 2 blue tickets = 1 yellow) or $5 cash

Blue: softcover and small hardcover – $0-$15 value or $3 cash

Green: magazines (5 magazines = 1 yellow) $1 cash

You can swap your books throughout the day on June 15th or you can retain your coupons for future cookbook swaps which are scheduled for June 22, July 13 and July 20 at Trout Lake.  You don’t need a cookbook to participate though, just bring cash.   They, of course, welcome any donations of unwanted cookbooks for sale should you have any you are willing to part with. The Cookbook Swap is a fundraiser for the Vancouver Farmers Market. Market runs from 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Car Free Day – Commercial Drive & Main Street – June 16th

13 Jun

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Come out and meet your neighbours and take back the streets this Sunday, June 16th and celebrate Car Free Day. The event resembles one big street party which is not by coincidence since this annual event evolved from an impromptu game of street hockey on Commercial Drive 9 years ago.   There will be two Car Free Days in East Vancouver. One along Main Street from Broadway to 30th Avenue and the other along Commercial Drive from Venables Street to North Grandview Hwy/Central Valley Greenway Bike Lane. Both events run from Noon to 7:00 p.m.

Each area has its own unique charm. On Commercial Drive, you will find fish frying over the fire, drummers performing,  DJs spinning beats and live music. Last but not least, roller disco! If your roller blades are collecting dust in the back of the closet, it’s time to dust them off.   The music on the main stage gets going at Noon with Banjo Mando and finishes up at 5:15 with Eastside Jam featuring Verncular, Simply Twisted and The All Nighters which go till 7:00 p.m.

On Main Street, you will find a kids’ yoga tent and art activities, bike lessons and also live music. There will also be artisan markets, roller derby, dance zones and a fashion show at 4:00 p.m. on the stage at 30th co-ordinated by Kandis Ivy Designs featuring fashion and jewellery by vendors at Giving Gifts & Company, Upscale Swag and iFound.  Then there’s my favourite thing, food!  Ice cream sandwiches from Brown Paper Packages, caramels from In the Oven and baked desserts from Blackforest Desserts will all be available on the last block of the festival. So if you needed a reason to make it from one end of the festival to the other, now you have some incentive.

To see a full listing of events, visit Car Free Day Vancouver.   Car Free Day is 100% produced by volunteers. Come out and support your community!

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Draw Down Is Coming Saturday, June 15th

12 Jun

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Draw Down is coming to Vancouver on Saturday, June 15th. This is a city-wide one day celebration of drawing.  Bring your creativity and come out and draw!  There will be over 35 FREE drawing workshops all around Vancouver. Many of them taking place in East Vancouver. Here’s a sampling of what you will find:

Uncontrolled Abstract Mail Art Postcards,
Mystery Faces Plus Let Us Draw You!
At Britannia Community Centre 1661 Napier Street, Classes start at 1:00 p.m.

Conducting three different workshops.

Exploring Water and Creating a School of Fish
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, 800 East Broadway,  12:00 p.m.– 4:00 p.m.

Did you know that under the paved roads there are streams flowing today.  Mount Pleasant community invites first-time ad experienced drawers to connect water through drawing on wooden-shaped fish swimming up Mt Pleasant trees. Attendees will work with social artist in residence, Melanie Schambach, and members of the St. George Rainway project.

Creature Comforts
Kensington Community Centre, 5175 Dumfries Street, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Artist, Yoko Tomita, will lead an engaging drawing workshop and let you draw out your inner creature. No experience necessary, but bring your sense of humour.

Make Your Mark!
Champlain Heights Community Centre, 3350 Maquinna Drive, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Come explore mark making and drawing techniques using surprising and unconventional tools with artist Stephanie Mayson.  Stamp, scratch, and draw your way into creating your very own bright beautiful mono print!

Collaborative Strathcona Dragon Drawing
Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

This Draw Down integrates with a basketball fundraiser. Drop by the gym at Strathcona Community Centre to help create collaborative dragon drawings. Each imaginary dragon begins with a a gestural mark that mimics the swishes and bounces of the basketball shoot out. Suitable for all ages and skill levels.

Bird Calls
Hastings Community Centre, 3096 East Hastings Street, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Cindy Mochizuki leads a workshop in a collective sumi-ink drawing workshop called ‘Bird Calls.’ Participants will work on a large canvas collectively and will create marks and doodles in response to the recordings of ‘bird calls’ collected from the neighbouring Hastings Park Bird Sanctuary.

Drawing the Bass Line
Trout Lake Community Centre, 3360 Victoria Drive, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

 The lobby of Trout Lake Community Centre will resonate with the sounds of composer/double bassist, Mark Haney, while paper trails and endless lines entice you to explore and create. Bring your inner improvisor and let inspiration pull your hand across the paper. Connecting sound and drawing with the most complex instrument on Earth: the human mind.

Creatures! Collaborative Drawing
Thunderbird Community Centre, 2311 Cassiar Street, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

You’re invited to drop by the lobby at Thunderbird to help create collaborative creature drawings. Each imaginary creature begins with a random brush mark, and depends on contributions from at least three different people.

Comic Jam
Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main Street, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

What happens when everyone draws only one panel in a larger comic story? Colin Upton, Shane Green, Nic Frey and Mindy Fraser of Cloudscape Comics introduce you to the wonderful world of Comic Jams.

Comic Jam
Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway,10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Add your drawing to a continuous cartoon tale started by others for you. Follow the plot or veer in a whole new direction. Take your time or enter into the “speed zone” to get ideas on paper fast! Fun is the name of the game when you work with artist and illustrator Andy Mori.

Paper City
Collage Collage, 621 Kingsway, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Guest artist, Liz Toohey-Wiese, will be there to guide artists into creating a mini-Vancouver diorama made entirely out of paper. Mountains, trees, buildings, cars, buses, people, you name it! Collage Collage provides all the art materials and creative support you need to be a part of this installation, you provide the imagination and ideas. Suitable for everyone who is 5 years old and up.

For a full listing of events, visit Draw Down and get out and play!

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24 Hour Pottery Marathon Fundraiser Kicks Off June 14th

11 Jun

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You are invited to an Open House by the organizers of Pottery 24. This is a 24 hour marathon fundraiser of pottery making that kicks off this weekend. The event is being organized by JustPotters which is part of JustWorks, a Vancouver based non-profit organization that operates three social enterprises – Just Potters, JustCatering and JustRenos. JustPotters’ employees create and sell handmade pottery and crafts which help support their mandate. JustPotters is a pottery studio that was started in East Vancouver in 2006 and is part of a growing movement towards responsible consumption.   JustPotters is  proud to be a part of that movement.  They employ people who face barriers to work including addiction, physical limitations, or mental health challenges.

The public is invited to come to their Open House on Saturday, June 15th between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and tour the pottery studio which is located at 1803 East 1st Avenue.  If you wish to purchase their pottery to help support their mandate, you can do so at the Open House or at their booth on Commercial Drive during Car Free Day on Sunday, June 16th. They will be located by the corner of Commercial and 1st Avenue.   You can also purchase items from their online Catalog.

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Vancouver SPCA – Peace, Love, Adopt A Pet

10 Jun

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I will come clean, I’m an animal lover and have had pets all my life. I cannot imagine life without them as they have enriched my life in ways I never could have imagined.   So today I am featuring an organization I have supported for many years.   The Vancouver Shelter of the SPCA, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, located at 1205 East 7th Avenue  (just off Clark Drive & East 6th Avenue). They have been a part of the East Vancouver community for over 60 years.  The SPCA plays a fundamental part in the community whether it is assisting animals in need of urgent medical care, education, adopting out animals in need of a new home or investigating cruelty.  The BC SPCA relies solely on donations from the public as they do not receive any government funding.  Thus, they welcome all assistance from the community. There are many ways to support the SPCA whether it’s a financial contribution, gifts in kind from their Wish List or participating in their Walk for a Cause held every September. For more information on how to support them, visit their Donate Page.

The SPCA is taking advantage of the internet with a featured called “Pet On The Net” . They have been using this for a few years now to assist some animals that need a little extra help finding their forever homes. Some of the animals featured have unique needs like darling Snowflake, a lovely white 6 year old cat who has been at the shelter for a year now.  Her only issue is that she is deaf and is best suited for an indoor and adult-oriented environment. Then there are the two Dachshunds, Wendy and Joey, who came to the SPCA after a cruelty investigation and are currently in a foster home.  The SPCA would very much like to foster these two dogs together, but need someone who is patient and willing to continue to work with some of their anxiety issues.    What I am pleased to report is that the Pet On The Net is working. Many of the animals they have featured have been adopted which is exactly what they’d like to see. Outside of Pet On The Net, pets available for adoption are featured on the SPCA’s Vancouver Shelter website.   The SPCA also uses Facebook and Twitter to promote adoption and feature their upcoming events.

Today we would like to introduce you to our feature “Rescue Me”  on ILiveInEastVan.com. Every two weeks we will be featuring an animal from the Vancouver SPCA Shelter that is looking for its forever home.   We hope you will help us spread the word and help these animals find a loving home whether it’s forwarding an email to a friend, a retweet or a Facebook share.  Each animal featured on our website will be posted to our Facebook Page so it can be easily shared.  To that end, we would like to acknowledge in advance the help of our friends at Dharma Dog Daycare who have kindly offered to assist us in spreading the word. We hope you will join us helping those that can’t speak for themselves. UPDATE: Snowflake and Wendy & Joey have found their forever homes.

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