Tag: Vancouver

  • Planted Expo – North America’s Biggest Plant-Based Event of the Year!

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    Planted Expo, North America’s largest plant-based event, is set to return to Vancouver this summer for its 10th consecutive year. Scheduled to take place from June 1st to June 2nd at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the expo aims to celebrate and promote plant-based living and sustainability. With over 200 exhibitors, Planted Expo offers attendees the…

  • Vancouver Colleges New Program Recycles Organic Waste

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    Jaqueline Wong reports on a new recycling program at Vancouver Community College’s culinary programs and campus cafes that reduces organic wastes ending up in landfills. Food scraps and expired products are now being collected and transferred to a ranch near Lytton, 250 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, by the B.C.-owned Northwest Organics, said Wendy Avis, VCC…

  • SONGFIRE festival puts poetry into musical motion

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    SONGFIRE festival puts poetry into musical motion, with performances, master classes, and more by ALEXANDER VARTY on MAY 30, 2013 at 4:05 AM Stressing the power of art songs’s words, the SONGFIRE festival projects lyrics as surtitles ASKED TO DEFINE the art-song genre, Rena Sharon pauses for a moment, then suggests it’s one way of translating word and image into sound.…