Events and Entertainment

Over the past few months we've been bringing you videos produced by CreativeMornings/Vancouver and encouraging that you get in on this unique monthly opportunity for a free breakfast at W2, a 20 minute talk by someone working in a creative field in V

Did you know that this week is National Volunteer Week in Canada? This is a week when we celebrate all of the 12.5 million Canadians who are "leading positive change on all fronts" by giving up their time to contribute to things that they believe in.

Welcome to Crowdsourced Sunday , a curated batch of photos from our Twitter followers. On Sunday we send out some tweets from our @VIAwesome account, asking our followers to tweet us photos of interesting things from their day.

Cool! The City Of Vancouver has gone and done something super awesome: they've continued the annual city-wide cleanup campaign called Keep Vancouver Spectacular launching May 1st! While we would lobby for a different adjective (keep it Awesome! Haha!

SCENE AND HEARD showcases the independent music scene here in Vancouver. With 29,288+ artists , boasting 138,570+ tracks , the CBC Radio 3 web site is the absolute ultimate authority, and the home, of independent music in Canada.

Paul Anthony's Talent Time , Vancouver's only local, televised talent show, is wrapping up their season at the Biltmore Cabaret on Wednesday, May 2nd with a doozy of a lineup.

Rest in peace, Jim Green. Vancouver is a far more awesome place for all that you did for it while you were with us. May the spirit of your work carry on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZvOXYZnKPA

It's baaaaack! 55+ Breweries, 70+ Venues, 9 Days of Beer!… Vancouver Craft Beer Week is back for another round. Remember last year? Well, if you attended, maybe it's more like a hops-induced-fog...

The Vancouver Public Library Central Branch downtown just launched a new addition to one of their flagpoles: the official City of Vancouver flag that was adopted back in 1983 and which you might not see very often.

The Vancouver Book Club's Spring Selection is Rob Taylor 's poetry collection The Other Side of Ourselves and to get you into the right frame of mind we're running a photo contest in the weeks leading up to the April 29th event .