That’s right, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to the bronze medal Paralympic Sledge Hockey game taking place Friday, March 19, at Thunderbird Arena thanks to the good folks at BC Hydro and the PowerSmart Village that is open to the public from 10AM-6PM every day until March 21st! TONS of cool stuff going on down there, visit their SITE to see the schedule.

All you’ve got to do to enter to win these tickets is join our newsletter. Easy peasy! Our newsletter is new and haven’t actually sent one out yet but in the future we’ll be sending out one per month, we won’t share your e-mail address with anyone and if you want to unsubscribe if you don’t win the tickets then you’re free to do so at any time. Click HERE to enter! If you entered to win our previous hockey ticket draw or any of the other ones we’ve recently posted and you’re on our mailing list, you’re already entered!

Head down to the Power Smart Village and get your photo taken in an actual ice hockey sledge…

image courtesy @powersmartbc

And a little bit of the official word on what sledge hockey is all about, in case you’re not all that familiar:
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The Old Familiar is Jon Bunyan’s private musical empire. For the past several years, Bunyan has been a name in the Vancouver music scene, most notably playing with the Canadian prog-rock sensation, Bend Sinister. Over several North American tours, Bunyan honed his songwriting skills with Bend Sinister, garnering awards such as CBC’s “Top Ten Songs of 2007” and Much Music’s “Buzziest Pick” along the way. In 2008, Bunyan decided to focus on his solo material, which 24 Hour Magazine has described as “upbeat Dylan and accessible Waits without ever being a mere imitation of such folk greats.” Since recording his debut full-length album, Bunyan has toured in Canada and Europe.

Jon made a new year’s resolution to record and share one track per month, and as long as he keeps up with it we’ll be bringing these tracks to you here on V.I.A.! Click to download the third one from us, for March 2010, entitled Early Afternoon.:

Also, click HERE for the first one he released in January, HERE for the second one he released in February and visit The Old Familiar on Myspace for more:

The Paralympic Games start tomorrow! I kinda forgot that Sumi was the mascot for the Paralympics, I just see all those cute mascots together and think “Olympics” in general. But he (she?) has been making his (her?) way across the country with the torch to light the cauldron for the Paralympics!

Seeya soon, Sumi!

I’m not entirely sure of the source of this photo and normally I wouldn’t just grab something off of the internet and paste it onto our blog but this image must be shared. It’s nice having the streets back but those days of madness were a lot of fun, weren’t they?

I was alerted to it’s existence by The Peak, and the link to the photo is http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs519.snc3/27224_351893710875_581315875_4172162_1824896_n.jpg … if you know exactly where it came from please comment below so we can give proper credit.

YES! My favourite book about Vancouver got nominated for a BC Book Prize! HERE’s my original review in case you missed it. Good luck, Charlie!

A little bit of official wordage about the BC Book Prizes…
“The BC Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers.
The seven Prizes, plus The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala in April.
The Prizes are administered and awarded by members of a non-profit society who represent all facets of the publishing and writing community.”

Conan O’Brien is coming to Vancouver on April 13th and based on the fact that I laughed out loud simply at the name of his tour this should be nothing short of epicly hilarious. Tickets are a bit on the steep side (click HERE to check availability) but I imagine they’ll be going fast…

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool with you, shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Today’s image is courtesy of Lisa Parker, it’s entitled “Big Super” and it’s got me thinking about what I’m going to be planting in the garden this year…

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Over the span of the Games, Science World was turned into Russky Dom, a place for Russia to showcase what people can expect from the 2014 Olympic Winter Games being held in Sochi. Science World (or The World Of Science, as it were) is finally back in business as of today and this is the last of the images of a few of the artifacts from Russky Dom that I’ll be sharing with you.

It’s what Russky Dom looked like from the outside, as well as the countdown clock to Sochi 2014! Mark your calendar and let’s hope we take a ton more golds in 4 years!!!

Greetings Vancouver is Awesome readers! We here at Artsy-Dartsy are proud to be new contributors to VIA.A brief background on us: We are Linus and Denise. So pleased to meet you! We love art and design, hence we started a website called Artsy-Dartsy.com to help people like us find out about art and design events in our awesome city of Vancouver!This week there are tons of great events happening. For the full listing please head to Artsy-Dartsy.com.

This week 221A Artist Run Gallery presents Pact 4: Trade. It is being presented in conjunction with the World Tea Party and Bright Lights at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

Event: Friday, Mar 12, 7-10pm at Centre A, 2 West Hastings

This event is a non-juried show where everyone is welcome to contribute! Submit your work Thursday, Mar 11, 2-8pm

How it works:

1. Theme announced.
2. Work, interviews, reviews, resources, readings is/are produced/prepared/recorded/written/collected/selected by you and us.
3. Work submitted/installed/prepared one day prior from 2:00pm – 8:00pm.
4. Food & drink cooked/prepared/purchased potluck format.
5. Event held with all of above at 8:00pm – 11:00pm.
6. Work de-installed/cleaned/removed by 11:30pm.
7. Pact collateral collected and assembled into web publication. See archives.

Other notables: Pendulum Gallery presents Heroes, opening Thursday, Mar 11, 6-9pm. Vancouver Art Gallery is FREE once again for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (Mar12-21). This week the VAG’s famous FUSE is on Friday, Mar 12.

Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool with you, shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).

Today’s image is courtesy of mee dee mah and it’s entitled “Grün“. Click to learn about these reclaimed/recycled/hemp kicks that mee dee mah loves…

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Sad Mag is a Vancouver-based youth (under 30) arts and culture magazine, showcasing work from some of Vancouver’s best emerging writers and visual artists. They were nice enough to send along copies of the first two issues of the mag recently and have just announced the release of their third, for which they’re also throwing a party for at the Anza Club in just over a week’s time. Learn all about the mag HERE and about the release of the next issue below.

SAD MAG ISSUE 3 LAUNCH PARTY
Friday, March 19 at the Anza Club
Doors open at 8:00 pm
You must be 19+ to attend.

Sad Mag launches its Black & White issue on Friday, March 19 at the ANZA Club.

Get a first look at the new issue, and enjoy performances by Vancouver’s ‘Queen of Sass,” MC Crystal Precious and OK Vancouver OK. Meet the emerging writers and visual artists behind the magazine while Lazerbomb! and DJ Tina’s Husband will provide the soundtrack.

White Rabbit Quarterly is looking for submissions to its Spring 2010 issue.

A new literary magazine is coming out in the Spring that will be edited, designed, and printed in East Vancouver, and open to writers everywhere. They’re looking for poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, drama, criticism, screenwriting, jokes… So if you’ve got anything good, or if you know anyone who reads or writes, send queries and submissions to whiterabbitquarterly@gmail.com. The best submission to the first issue will get a $100 prize and the option to help choose the content of a future issue.

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