Events and Entertainment

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

Every day we share a photo from our Flickr Pool and a photo from our Instagram hashtag ( #vancouverisawesome ) shot by our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

It was an amazing burst of the historical floodgates this weekend at the Presentation House Satellite Gallery , 560 Seymour Street (correction - initially I said Belkin Satellite).

Last week I featured The Epic of Western Canada by John Innes; this week, it's his followup series from 1930 titled From Trail to Rail; The Epic of Transportation .

Every day we share a photo from our Flickr Pool and a photo from our Instagram hashtag ( #vancouverisawesome ) shot by our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Our friends at your favourite local blog, Definitely Raining , just released a limited run of 20 of these wood-handled umbrellas! Seeing as they're a secretive bunch over there, we're selling them on their behalf. They're $40 each.

UBC Botanical Garden is Canada's oldest continuously operating university botanical garden. The original mission of the garden was research into the native flora of British Columbia.

THE OPENING is all about delving into the fascinating, quirky and wonderful visual arts in Vancouver.

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".

Looking for things to do in Vancouver? We're proud to launch our new event listings page powered by Eventbrite! Bookmark http://vancouverisawesome.