Monday February 18th. 2019 – 12 – 5:00 3RD Floor. 4460 Beresford Street, Burnaby
FREE ADMISSION
Activities: Face Painting – Games – Arts & Craft, Storytelling, & Lots more
Free Natural Hair Braiding – (12: 2:00 only) Please register @ 604 605 – 0124
On Sale are Afro-Centric Dolls and Children’s Books
FOOD FOR SALE Hot Dogs, Juices – Ginger Beer – Caribbean Food Rice & Peas Jerk Chicken, Fish & Baked items
SPECIAL GUESTS: STORYTELLERS
Wanda Jemly born in Cameroon, a bilingual children’s storyteller, will delight you and your family with her storytelling, music, and creative art. She is famous for writing and reading stories for children, stories that come to life as listeners become part of her stories with carefully orchestrated rhythms, chants and movements telling her stories to the young and the not-so-young.
Jean Pierre Makosso welcomes you to Makosso Village, a place of mystery and intrigue, a place of hopes and dreams a place of stories that capture your spirit and bring you to places you have only imagined, a place of music and dancing that will let your spirit soar with the eagles flying high above the jungles of the Congo.
Wanda Jemly born in Cameroon, a bilingual children’s storyteller, will delight you and your family with her storytelling, music, and creative art. She is famous for writing and reading stories for children, stories that come to life as listeners become part of her stories with carefully orchestrated rhythms, chants and movements telling her stories to the young and the not-so-young.
Film Series: VIFF Black History Month film series curated by Barbara Chirinos– Feb 2-26, 2019 @ VanCity Theatre (Vancouver) For more information: VIFF website link
Date: Various dates February 2-26, 2019 Time: Various times Location: Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 Cost: Link to purchase tickets Click Here
Event Description:
Curated by Barbara Chirinos in partnership with VIFF Vancity Theatre’s Tom Charity, our annual Black History Month film series is a significant contribution to Vancouver’s cultural diversity.
This year’s program includes a free all-ages screening of the animated classic KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS (Sat Feb 2 at noon); the ground-breaking queer love story RAFIKI, a film which had a constitutional impact in its native Kenya (Feb 4), the acclaimed Oscar short-listed documentary HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (Feb 4); an African superhero movie you need to see, SUPA MODO (Feb 11); concert doc JIMI HENDRIX – ELECTRIC CHURCH (Feb 11); a rousing slam poetry doc – followed by a poetry slam in our atrium! – DON’T BE NICE (Feb 12); a film about the first African American woman to run for President of the United States, CHISHOLM ‘72, UNBOUND AND UNBOSSED (Feb 25); Spike Lee’s BLACKKKLANSMAN (Feb 25); and Afro-futurist classic SANKOFA (Feb 26).
Academy Award Nominees: HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS AFTERNOON (screening Feb 4) nominated for Best Documentary, and BLACKKKLANSMAN (screening Feb 25) with 6 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.
PUSH FESTIVAL
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh Festival) celebrates its milestone 15th annual edition, January 17 to February 3, 2019, at various venues across the Lower Mainland.
PuSH Festival 2019 is back and comes with a catalogue of performances not to be missed. Featuring 26 works from 24 companies and 13 countries — including six world premieres — this extraordinary showcase of visionary collaboration and risk-taking is a highlight of the city’s cultural calendar. PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has proudly been bringing Vancouver audiences cutting-edge arts experiences — whether dance, theatre, music or multimedia — for the past 15 years.
Dine Out Vancouver’s popular food-truck festival returns to Robson Square (Vancouver Art Gallery) from January 21 – 27 for its eighth delicious year.
Returning for its eighth annual edition, Street Food City is taking over Robson Square (previously known as Vancouver Art Gallery’s North Plaza) from Monday, January 21st to Sunday, January 27th.
More than 20 food trucks and carts will rotate throughout the week — meaning you’ll want to check back daily.
Tourism Vancouver, StreetFood Vancouver Society and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) present this informal branch of Dine Out. Partial proceeds from this event will help support the BC Hospitality Foundation.
YMCA’s Post-Secondary Youth Internship Program
Is your organization in need of new talent? The YMCA’s Post-Secondary Youth Internship Program is looking to connect 52 recent post-secondary graduates to new careers by January 21st, 2019!
Finding employment or the right employee in today’s economy can be tough. That’s why each year the YMCA helps over 170,000 youth and young adults reach their full potential through employment programs like the YMCA Post-Secondary Youth Internship Program (PSYIP) – a federally funded initiative providing recent graduates with career-related work experiences in various sectors. PSYIP helps young, motivated professionals build skills, develop confidence and integrate into the Canadian labour market.
