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Shower Mom with love this Mother’s Day with hand-selected goodies from Granville Island while supporting the hardworking merchants on Granville Island.
Granville Island is where families in Vancouver celebrate Canada Day, and spend long summer days by False Creek and in the market. Granville Island businesses are small, independent artisans, and craftsman who need your support now more than ever before. Help these businesses survive by ordering from Granville Island Foodie Delivery.
These days, we all have to practice responsible social distancing. So, while Vancouver Foodie Tours have paused their live experience, they have introduced the Granville Island Foodie Delivery to bring the tastes, scents and magic of Vancouver’s world-famous Public Market right into your home. Continue reading:
Vancouver’s Local Foodie Experts are Now Delivering Granville Island Public Market to You
You may be sipping your first, third, or fifth coffee of the day as you’re reading this post. If so, there’s an event coming to Granville Island that will showcase the increasingly diverse and sustainable local coffee industry.
Vancouver, a city known for its vibrant coffee culture and many micro-roasters, is the ideal venue for a festival devoted to many people’s favourite caffeinated beverage.
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Get Caffeinated at Vancouver’s 3rd Beanstock Coffee Festival
The entire family will adore Granville Island! (Tourism Vancouver/Hubert Kang)
Once home to factories, plants and sawmills, Granville Island has evolved into a culinary and artisan hub. Equally appealing to locals and visitors, the neighbourhood – technically a peninsula – is situated along False Creek, right underneath the Granville Bridge. More than 300 retailers, artists, theatres, craft studios, tour companies and other businesses make their home here, anchored by the bustling Granville Island Public Market. So what are you waiting for? Let’s hop aboard a rainbow-coloured Aquabus or False Creek Ferry and zoom over to Granville Island!
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On these rainy, cold and dark days, it seems like the darkness will never end. We wake up in the dark and leave work or school in the dark. It’s no coincidence, the days have been growing shorter until December 21, the shortest day of the year.
If all that darkness is starting to get you down, the Winter Solstice Lantern Festival is a warm, glowing light at the end of this seemingly endless dark tunnel. This unique event, coinciding with the shortest day of the year on December 21st, celebrates the return of light and warmth as we move away from darkness and towards the brighter days of spring.
Tommy Orange’s There There, about the Native American experience in the U.S., is one of the year’s hot books. He’s coming to the Vancouver Writers Festival Oct. 15-21.
The Vancouver Writers Festival runs Oct. 15-21. During the festival, more than 100 others from here and around the world will talk about their books, topics of the day, and how rainy (or not) it is in Vancouver. In all, these author types will take part in over 80 events (almost all on Granville Island). Tickets are still available for many of them. Here’s a look at a few.
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Five events to check out at this year’s Vancouver Writers Festival
Atticus Cseh (Bottom), Piper Trounce (Puck), Lucy Layton (Puck) in Teen Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Jenny McDonald photo.
Sure, you can go to Bard on the Beach and see adults perform Shakespeare (MacBeth and As You Like It, to be sure).
But for those of who want to see one of the English scribe’s masterpieces interpreted by those not yet old enough to drive, we have Teen Shakespeare. This year the group brings, to an outdoor stage on Granville Island, A Mdisummer Night’s Dream (aka “The One With Puck”).
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Cast ages from 13-18 in Teen Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
