Archive for November, 2009

Every year CBC Radio 3 lets Canada cast their vote in a few categories regarding independent music in their BUCKY AWARDS. Dan Mangan was shortlisted in three categories along with another one of my Vancouver favourites, Said The Whale! GET YOUR VOTE ON TODAY! And go back tomorrow because you’re allowed to vote daily.

See you December 2nd at Fortune Sound Club for a celebration of photography with all new photos from 99 of the contributors to our Flickr pool! If you’ve made a donation to our drive you will automatically be added to the guest list. Here’s the Facebook event page.

That’s right, by helping us stay afloat into 2010 you’ll actually be helping yourself! You’ll be entered into a raffle to win any of these prizes below, including our grand prize…

Yep, it’s a Mini for a weekend complete with gas and insurance courtesy of Mini Yaletown! One of the days that you’ll have the Mini you’ll meet up with Christine and Jonathan from Bonnie And Clyde so they can shoot portraits of you. Maybe it’s you and your significant other, your family or a group of friends… it’s up to you what you do with these awesome grand prizes!

We’ve also got A Nardwuar DVD (courtesy of Nardwuar himself), a Little Giants DVD (courtesy of VAS Entertainment), 5 Power Yoga for Happiness DVDs (courtesy of Yogue) and a leaning tower of CDs (courtesy of Indoor Recess)…

Also, 4 passes to the Canopy Walkway at the UBC Botanical Garden along with a gift pack of books and mugs from them…

And of course you’ll be eligible to win any of these other prizes we revealed over the past 8 days…

Click above to donate by credit card, or if you would prefer to send us a cheque please make it payable to “Vancouver Is Awesome Inc” and mail it to us at our office:

Vancouver Is Awesome Inc
208 – 950 Powell Street
Vancouver BC
V6A 1H9

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

Your kind donation will be put towards our operating costs including our office rent, executive/administrative costs, site design/maintenance and hosting, accounting, promotions, events as well as the multitude of other expenses that come along with operating a federally incorporated non-profit that relies on the community that it supports to finance it. In the future our goal is to release an annual printed book as well as opening a community-minded retail space/gallery but in the short term our goal is simply to keep our web presence afloat and put on some more events in 2010, and we really do need your help to do that.

WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF IT?

Not only will all of our 2009 donors walk away with a good feeling about helping us out but your name (or the name of your business) will be laser etched onto our 2009 donor plaque and you’ll receive a set of 3 pins and a bumper sticker. At the end of our ten day donor drive we’ll be holding draws for thousands of dollars worth of giveaways donated by local businesses. By making a donation today you will be eligible to win any of the stuff we unveil over the coming days.

The giveaways above are courtesy of a bunch of local companies including Dace, Mint Records, Vincent Park, Girl, Arc’teryx, Furni, Crownfarmer, 32 snowboard boots, Dragon, Purdy’s, E’s, Medina, UBC Botanical Gardens, The MOV, 49th Parallel Roasters, Vancouver Special, Color Magazine, Vans, Westbeach, Endeavor, Arson and Orb.

HUGE thanks to everyone who has already donated!!!!

Awhile back we addressed some of the great sushi restaurants we have in Vancouver, I think it’s something we do better than any other place in the world.  I think a close second is dim sum, we got tons of ‘em…..

I love my greasy breakfasts but there’s something I find really endearing about an old chinese lady force feeding you dumplings.  I love all the choices too!

So…let’s hear it!

Is your name (or the name of your business) going to be laser etched into this thing forever?

EASY NOW
is a party at the Astoria (769 Hastings st) Once a month on saturdays! Its a neighborhood Jimmy Jam with your neighbors!
were bringin out the whole hood for this one!
This Saturday Nov 28 and we got lots of fun stuff for you!   Like ….  Give aways from Kitsch Skateboards, a glow in the dark cee-lo tournament, cheap drank ($5.75 doubles! + $3.75 beer faves!) my girl is giving out Fades!  and awesome visuals from the Wizard Gang! + tons of rad classic hip hop with the legendary Take 5 plus we got your favorite skaters deeJaying Adam + Adam (Flynn & Cassidy) and and we got VIA contributer Calen Knauf is gonna do a super set!

best part its only 5 bucks that’s right!  + we have decided to have a fishbowl for donations for vancouverisawesome to keep things runnin smooth!

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xo cherchez + December Furcoat

Sharing with you the latest installation by Tim Barnard to join the ranks of the Timebomb Trading ‘Hall Of Fame’. Photos by Judah Oakes