Events and Entertainment

Maker Faire is the ultimate celebration of making, crafting, DIYing, tinkering, hacking and sharing. The first-ever Vancouver Maker Faire will be June 25-26, 2011, at the Great Northern Way campus .

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

One year ago yesterday, hockey player Sidney Crosby scored the Olympic gold medal-winning goal that sent his team, the city of Vancouver and indeed all of Canada into a frenzy of joyful celebration.

Andrea's dedication is shown in the roughness of her hands: she has sacrificed their softness to form silver, stone and crystal into art, offering them up to make others beautiful.

I should probably preface this review of John Furlong's book by noting that since 2009 I've been repeating and proliferating the following mantra: Vancouver is not awesome because the Olympics were here, the Olympics were here because Vancouver is aw

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!). Sometimes in life it is hard not to root for the underdog. You know - David vs. Goliath, the Common Citizen vs.

I started this project called A Stranger A Day 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.

The Vancouver Book Club is V.I.A.'s contribution to the vibrant literary scene in Vancouver.

Our friends at Geist Magazine just released Geist 78 , the collector's edition and they've allowed us to share this piece from it with you to give you a taste. It's called Shots Fired and it was written by Stephen Osborne, editor-in-chief of Geist.

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With ALMOST 25,000 artists , boasting 112,500+ tracks, the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.