The winners for the 20th annual Burnaby Business Excellence Awards (BBEA) were announced last evening at the Burnaby Business Excellence Awards Gala. The City of Burnaby event hosted 350 business, community and political leaders. The BBEA recognizes businesses, entrepreneurs and not-for-profits for their business success, innovation, community involvement, and environmental sustainability. This year’s awards were…
photography Alec Preissler & Andy Scheier I’m standing in a snow-covered valley. The sky and surrounding hills are bright pink from the setting sun. My fingers are too numb to fiddle with the buttons of my video camera. I can only watch in fascination as the scene unfolds. My companion next to me wiggles his…
The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC presents the exhibition, “Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary”, on display from November 22, to March 29, 2020. Showcasing a group of 11 highly celebrated BC-based artists — Judy Chartrand, Ying-Yueh Chuang, Gathie Falk, Jeremy Hatch, Ian Johnston, David Lambert, Glenn Lewis, Alywn O’Brien, Bill Rennie, Debra Sloan,…
Eight nursing students organized and hosted two health events at BCIT’s downtown campus. Navi, Sophie, Renee, Kevin, Zoe, Madison, Stephanie, and Lexi recently completed their public health clinical rotation, and had the goal to inform students about current issues affecting the student population. They provided relevant conversations, activities, and resources about stress management, mental health,…
Ghosts of the Lower Mainland, a Halloween-themed Exhibition of Faux Fauvist Art, comes to Studio 13 Fine Art on Granville Island. Each painting contains hidden images which becomes visible only when exposed to UV light. Attendees will be provided special flashlights to reveal the secret pictures—designed to inform the viewer about the social, historical, or…
Calling all innovative entrepreneurs with ideas to solve real-life problems for people and businesses. The City of Campbell River Economic Development and Campbell River Angel Group (CRAG) are launching four NexStream challenges with awards ranging from $45,000-$100,000. The challenges are a marine wildlife monitor, portable renewable energy pod, a bladeless oyster shucker, and “Wildcard”. “There…
The #BestWitches campaign is a result of an after-hours social media event image that led to conversations deconstructing racism, sexism, body-shaming, sex-positivity, hypersexualization, fetishization, othering, cultural appropriation, and more. On October 20, we open up a discussion on celebrating and transforming nightlife, with keynote speaker Mamarudegyal MTHC and workshops from Paperwave and DJ ANGLE. Topics…
Overnight oats are one of the most diverse healthy breakfast options available. They’re naturally gluten-free, can be served hot or cold, and can be made in hundreds of different flavours. Once prepared, they can last all week in the fridge (though they will get softer and creamier the longer they sit). Eating clean healthy food…
DanceHouse, in partnership with Dancers of Damelahamid, launches its 2019/20 season with Australia’s acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre in the Canadian premiere of “Spirit”, October 25-26, 2019 at 8 pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. The retrospective piece is a visionary fusion of nine of the company’s celebrated Indigenous and contemporary works. Bangarra Dance Theatre’s style of…
A ribbon-cutting celebration of the BCIT North Campus Infrastructure Project (NCIP) as it is presented the Envision Gold award for Sustainable Infrastructure. BCIT is the first educational institution in Canada to have the sustainability of one of its infrastructure projects validated through a rigorous, third-party process against the Envision framework. The $49.6 million project is…
The Arts Club’s 2019–2020 season opens in Vancouver with A Thousand Splendid Suns, a hauntingly beautiful play by Ursula Rani Sarma. The play is based on the best-selling book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner. In the tale set in war-torn Afghanistan, two women’s lives intersect through fate. The unlikely but extraordinary friendship…
On September 20, the UN Women’s HeForShe solidarity movement for gender equality came to BCIT. Since the HeForShe launch in September 2014 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, over two million people from around the world have committed to taking action for a gender-equal world. BCIT was the…