Downtown
The Vancouver Public Library is offering a free Computer Basics course for seniors Saturday, March 8, from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m.
Seniors will learn to use the mouse and computer keyboard — and get an overview of basic computer functions. This is a 90-minute hands-on course.
The session takes place in the Computer Training Room, level seven, at the Central Library, 350 West Georgia St. For more information or to register call: 604-331-3603.
Sunset
Heads Up: An Introduction to Brain Health is a workshop that encourages participants to actively engage in protecting and maintaining their brain.
The workshop, presented by the Alzheimer Society of B.C., will show seniors how to learn strategies and set goals for improving the health of their mind, body and spirit. This free session takes place Wednesday, March 12, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Register at the Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main St.
Champlain Heights
The Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society offers a free movie screening the first Wednesday of each month and on March 5 presents, Still Mine, the story of an elderly couple who fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.
A tea and talk takes place at 12:45 p.m. with show time at 1:15 p.m. and for the first 30 seniors to register a pre-movie lunch is available for a suggested $3 donation. Movies are shown in the upstairs lounge of the Champlain Heights Community Centre, 3350 Maquinna Dr.
Call 604-718-6575 to reserve your seat. (If registration is full, ask to be put on the waiting list in case someone cancels. As well, if you can’t make it, please call and cancel your reservation so someone else can attend.)
Fairview
This Saturday, March 1, Best Buddies Canada and Chapters/Indigo will host the sixth annual “Read All About It” national event, at 18 locations across Canada.
In Vancouver, the event will take place at the Chapters store on Granville Street at Broadway from 1 to 3 p.m. with special guest Leo, the B.C. Lions football team’s mascot.
Best Buddies Canada is a national charitable organization that helps provide meaningful friendships for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Through Best Buddies, students and people with intellectual disabilities are matched in one-to-one friendships and spend time together taking part in activities such as going for coffee, watching a movie or simply enjoying the company of a friend.
Across Canada, more than 300 high schools, colleges and universities run Best Buddies programs.
False Creek
Wine will be consumed and funds will be raised for Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland at the seventh annual Grape Juice wine auction, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. March 6, at Lamborghini Vancouver, 1720 West Second Ave.
Guests can bid on wines from around the world while enjoying samples from Marquis Wine Cellars, Fresh Tap, Roaring Twenties Wine Co., Nichol Vineyard, Poderi dal Nespoli, and Ricossa, Wines of Piedmont. Founding Sponsors McNeill Nakamoto Recruitment Group and MAC Marketing Solutions launched the annual event to raise much-needed funds to support Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland’s mentoring programs for local at-risk girls.
Their goal this year is to raise $100,000, which will allow Big Sisters to match 50 girls on their waitlist with a supportive mentor. For tickets and information visit grapejuicevancouver.com.
