Events and Entertainment

THE PROOF is a weekly roundup showcasing local creatives. A column for creatives to share their story and work, in a unique, concise format: each creative shows 8 pictures and answers 8 questions.

Vancouver Is Awesome is a proud sponsor of thisopenspace.ca , an online platform for booking unique spaces for pop-up shops, exhibits, and events. They’ve hosted hundreds of pop-up concepts in Vancouver neighbourhoods since September 2012.

How are you guys getting all of these stunning shots of the city? Our Daily Photo #2238 is from Instagrammer rkmemory , who got a beautiful perspective of Vancouver that is making us feel real lucky to live here. million dollar view of our city.

If you were to create a Venn diagram where one circle was labeled "cheap" and the other labeled "awesome", the middle point where they cross over could be labeled "Vancouver on the Cheap".

A community artist is sewing pieces of denim jeans into a portrait of a Sikh man who is repeatedly cropped out of a historical photograph depicting the aftermath of the Anti-Asian Race Riots of 1907.

Our Daily Photo #2237 is from Matt , who snapped this beautiful pic from the Lion's Gate Bridge. The seawall from above.

David Granirer teaches us, through his own experience living with depression, how to laugh through the pain of mental illness. https://www.youtube.

Helping to perpetuate the myth that Torontonians believe (the myth that pot grows freely on every street in Vancouver), yesterday a full grown marijuana plant was REPORTED to be prospering in a roundabout in Mount Pleasant.

Our Daily Photo #2236 is from Instagrammer la_kersh , who snapped this shot of several phones desperately trying to capture that stunning sunset Friday evening. Moar cameras. Moar sunsets.

A weird yet welcome byproduct of the wildfires burning around BC lately has been some pretty sweet sunsets appearing in Vancouver.