What’s happening in your community in October?
October’s Vancouver calendar features important dates and events in the Lower Mainland including shows, concerts, spring festivals, markets and events.
Link to October events around the GVRD: https://www.tourismvancouver.com/events/calendar-of-events/vancouver-events-in-october/
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See the prehistoric in a new way.
Walk the new galleries and hear the roars of animatronic dinosaurs as they swoop down to look you in the eye. At the next turn, be transported to a dig site with skeletons ranging from bird-sized dinosaurs to aquatic lizards and a 68 foot long sauropod. Even touch fossils with detailed impressions of skulls, bones, eggs, skin and feathers.
Feathers? That’s right. The exhibit is current with the latest scientific research which gears away from the vision of scaled dinosaurs and in favor of feathered beasts. Did you know the latest theory is that the t-rex spent its teenage years covered in downy feathers like a duckling?!
Take in Dinosaurs Unearthed with a paleontology lens or as pure Jurassic entertainment. Suitable for all ages.
https://youtu.be/D57TG9V_lsw
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Theatre Terrific: Romeo and Juliet
Date: November 3rd, 2018 starting at 2:00PM
Location: Woodwards Atrium, 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver (Click for map)
We looked at the famous play, Romeo and Juliet, and decided that what really mattered were the two tribes that kept Romeo and Juliet apart. So…our cast and crew of all cultures, abilities and genders built a musical work that dances, sings, and tells a humorous quirky fierce story of two tribes and what keeps them apart. We decided the Woodwards Atrium, a crossroads where tourists, office workers, homeless, artists, street vendors, parents, children, sales people, students and every label of society pass each other every day, was the perfect place to ask: “What keeps us apart and what can bring us together?”
For more information please contact Theatre Terrific at 604-222-4020 or info@theatreterrific.ca
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Project Everybody Celebrates Live
Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:00noon – 8:30PM
Location: Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver (Across from Canada Line station)
Join us on December 3, 2018 as we wrap up Project EveryBODY 2018 with PEBcelebrateslive, Vancouver’s annual celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities combined with The Film and Performing Arts Festival. It’s Vancouver’s FREE community celebration and with something for EveryBODY, this is a celebration you cannot miss!
Gathering dozens of local artists and drawing hundreds of people each year, PEBcelebrateslive is an important platform for emerging and established artists of diverse abilities to express their creative voice and share their stories with one another, and with the broader community. This is done in order to change common perceptions about abilities and disabilities.
(Note: More information will be available when the event gets closer.)
For more information please visit the Project Everybody website.
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Caramel Coffee House and Social Club|Recurring Event (See all)
Details
Date: October 31, 2018
Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Venue
5024 Rumble Street
Burnaby, British Columbia Canada+ Google Map
Cost: FREE!
For more information, please email rbandera@posAbilities.ca or mkang@posAbilities.ca
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Kudoz is an experience platform connecting people with and without disabilities to splendid things to do, together.
Locals host anything from anime drawing to bread making to city politics.
Youth & adults with cognitive disabilities search the platform and book experiences to try!
Everyone is welcome at Reflection Cafe to swap photos & stories
from experiences.
Earn badges for stretching yourself! Badges go great on resumes.
Along the way, access our free learning coaches to build motivation & hone your skills.
Check out more at: http://kudoz.ca/
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Relaxed performances at the Cultch
The Cultch is implementing accessible performances starting this fall. (i.e. “relaxed” performances for those with Autism, Tourette’s & other neurological conditions who cannot sit still & quiet for an hour or more). They have scheduled a relaxed show of the Panto on Dec 2, matinee.
Link to Accessibility information: https://thecultch.com/accessibility/
Normally, the Panto is already a kid-friendly show where they are encouraged to cheer & boo for characters & talk back to the stage. Each Panto is based on a classic fairy tale or kids’ story, this year it’s Wizard of Oz. It’s a really fun show for adults too, with lots of double entendres & local cultural references & spoofs of local characters, politicos etc.
Tix are on sale now at:
https://thecultch.com/events/east-van-panto-wizard-of-oz/
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East Van Panto: Wizard of Oz – The Cultch
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