Events and Entertainment

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SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) I've said it before, and I'll say it again; we are very blessed here in Vancouver to have access to a plethora of natural playground

Why of course there's a Youtube trailer for the event at the Waldorf tomorrow night where 4 of your favourite and smartest-most-funniest Vancouverites will be presenting talks about Youtube videos that inspire them.

Wow! Our friends at 100.5 The Peak have gone and done something super awesome... again. They just announced they're accepting submission for their fourth annual Peak Performance Project, so if you know any BC artists share THIS LINK with them.

A few months ago I concluded a project called A Stranger A Day made to overcome my shyness and talk to people. The challenge: talk to a stranger a day for a year of my life and try to convince them to let me take a picture and share a story.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 28,852+ artists , boasting 136,489+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Wow! My friend Lisa Giroday and two of her friends (Sam Philips and Sandra Lopuch) have gone and done something super awesome. They’ve launched an urban gardening business called Victory Gardens that draws on old idea hatched during wartimes past.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!) Vancouver street art is awesome. Love it.

As part of our spring book selection, the Vancouver Book Club is running a poetry-inspired photo contest.