Cycle Chic Social
No bike is required for this celebration of cycling style, art and design. Join Vancouver Cycle Chic at Sugar Studios (1635 Powell) for a fashion show featuring locals such as Bhana Design clothing and Nocturnal Workshop backpacks. Enjoy dancing to the music of BIKES, #findpeter and City of Glass and video installations by Vancouver Cycle Chic and Secret Geometry, in between product demos by Opus Bicycles, Whoa! Nellie Bikes, Grass Frames and noshing at the visiting food trucks. The event has a cash bar; 19+. Tickets are $10 at CycleChicSocial.eventbrite.ca.
Go Natural at the PNE
Dont miss the Go Natural Fashion Show this weekend at the Vancouver Health Expo. From June 28 to 30, Go Natural will exhibit naturally made fabrics and contemporary styles made from hemp and bamboo daily between 1-2pm. Cut out harsh dyes, formaldehyde and pesticides from the clothing that sits on your skin while enhancing the comfort through breathability and antimicrobial properties of natural fiber clothing. The Expo is open daily at the PNE Forum (2901 W. Hastings) from 10am, featuring alternative health and wellness vendor displays, healthy food options as well as speakers and special guests performers. Day passes $10; VancouverHealthExpo.com.
New Broadway boutique
Lison Art Furniture, a design boutique in Vancouver specializing in custom furniture and upholstery, is now open at 345 W. Broadway. The founder, Lison Ouellette is an interior designer with over 25 years experience in the industry. Lison Art Furniture gives you the freedom to create your own chair, with endlesspossibilitiesof styles. It all begins with the unique blank canvas chairs, with more than 40 signature European styles to choose from. From there, you pick your frame, your finish, your fabric, leather, or fur, and your cushioning. In the end, you are left with a one-of-a-kind creation. Lison Art Furniture also presents the exclusive works of regional artists such as Mike Lam, Jonas Delogne and Sylvie Rochette and will host monthly seminars on custom furniture, interior design, and fabrics. LisonArtFurniture.com
Design showdown for imagine1day
The creative team at Pound & Grain Digital will be hosting the first-ever Gastown Design Showdown on June 27. This creative hackathon will bring 80 of Vancouvers most talented interactive graphic designers and user experience gurus in town together to participate in a one-day, peer-evaluated competition. All profits from this event will support imagine1day in its goal to ensure every child in Ethiopia receives quality education funded free of foreign aid by 2030. In addition to the creative challenge and the mini-workshops, participants can attend to two keynote presentations: Vancouver-based art director Jeremy Mendes whose most recent work with the National Film Board, Bear 71, has won every major international interactive award in the past year, along with Joni Rustulka, an exceptional San Francisco-based user experience designer at Adobe PhoneGap. The event is sponsored by Adobe, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Opus Art Supplies, Davids Tea, Steamworks Brewery, Met Fine Printers and many more. Teams of two designers can enter by purchasing tickets atGastownDesignShowdown.com.
