Champlain Heights
Come out to Vancouver’s fifth largest park and celebrate Earth Day at Everett Crowley Park. The worldwide holiday was born one spring day in 1970 after public concern about the deterioration of Earth’s environment was ignited and more than 20 million people marked the event with protests demanding measures to protect the environment.
Vancouver joins a half billion people in 174 countries all over the world to promote global environmental awareness and protect the planet’s vital resources.
The Everett Crowley Park Committee invites Vancouverites to help them plant a thousand native trees and join in on family fun with geocaching. Lindsey Long Legs, a stilt-walking entertainer, transform himself into a long-legged Great Blue Heron and Raven the Trickster in a performance for your amusement.
The entrance to Everett Crowley Park is off Kerr Street near East 63rd Avenue, three blocks south of Champlain Mall. This Earth Day event is April 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For more information, visit earthdayvancouver.org.
Commercial Drive
The annual Earth Day Parade, March and Festival will draw students and adults out for a day of celebration and learning. There will be speakers, workshops, NGO tents, entertainment and musical performances. Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer will be one of the speakers present.
This event is to emphasize the desire for urgent action on a variety of issues with a focus on local issues such as tar sand tankers, pipelines and fracking.
Check out this activity on April 26 on Commercial Drive.
For more information, visit earthdayparade.ca.
Downtown
Voices of the Street, Megaphone magazine’s annual literary edition, celebrates its fifth anniversary with another night of storytelling and reading for this year’s issue. There will be a special musical guest and refreshments, courtesy of SFU Woodwards.
The event is held at SFU Woodwards World Art Centre, 149 West Hastings St. on May 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets available now.
For more information, visit megaphonemagazine.com/vots.
Kitsilano
Kits Space is offering free yoga on Earth Day, inviting Vancouverites of all ages to bring their downward dog to Kitsilano Beach Park. It will be a Hatha Flow class and no previous experience is necessary. To join the class, all you need is a mat or beach towel.
It happens at Kitsilano Beach, the grassy area between the swimming pools and the tennis courts, on April 22 from 6 to 7 p.m.
Shaughnessy
South Granville Seniors Centre, 1420 West 12th Ave., hosts the Fifth Annual Seniors Multicultural Festival on April 23 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This free event shares the rich cultural diversity that exists within the community. Cultural groups will showcase their traditions through music, dance and food. Guests will also have the opportunity to connect with First Nations, urban Aboriginals and immigrant communities at 2:30 p.m.
The food is available at minimal cost.
For more information, contact Tania at [email protected] or call 604-732-0812.
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