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Tonight! Friday September 3rd we are co-presenting Smalltown DJs at Happy Ending Fridays at Fortune Sound with Brendan Butter and the Easy Now DJs Cherchez La Femme & December Furcoat! And you can download Smalltown DJ’s exclusive Fortune Sound Club mix HERE to get you ready for the night!

Tonight we are co-presenting with Cherchez La Femme the Back To School Vintage Fashion Show with clothing provided by F As In Frank. All of the clothing will be for sale after the show with proceeds going to help send kids back to school. Bring school supplies donations for reduced cover. The show starts at 11pm and is followed by Happy Ending Fridays with DJ Fashen, Rico Uno & Butter and in the Livestock Room with Genie & My!Gay!Husband! for Culture Club. See ya there!

Tonight we are co-presenting Skratch Bastid at Happy Ending Fridays at Fortune Sound Club with Marvel & Brendan Butter and in the Livestock it’s RE-UP with Rico Uno & Genie. Only a couple more Happy Ending Fridays left this summer so ya better make em count!

Pics from Vancouver’s first Filipino parade and fiesta from last Saturday at St. Patrick’s church on Main & 12th.

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The Philippines provides the most immigration to Canada today. In nothing but reflecting the times, Mayor Robertson proclaimed Aug. 14 as Filipino Fiesta Day in Vancouver. Join the Filipino community and much more SAT/AUG. 14 on its’ first fiesta and parade in Vancouver from Fraser & 32nd @ 9am to St. Patrick’s Church on Main & 12th (approx. 10am). Boombox Saints will peform around 1pm at St. Pat’s. Look for the Enspire Foundation in the parade and for their table to learn what they are all about.

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Tomorrow night it’s another summer edition of Happy Ending Fridays with Hedspin (Eh! Team DJs), P-Luv (Boyscouts) and it’s Tanner’s debut at our Friday night! Also in the Livestock we have Culture Club with My!Gay!Husband! and Genie!

Here are some FREE mixtape downloads to get you pumped:

P-LUV’S BACK INTO TIME THE MELLOW EDITION

HEDSPIN & PUMP’S EXCLUSIVE HAPPY ENDING FRIDAYS MIX

GENIE & MY!GAY!HUSBAND! CULTURE CLUB MIX #2

Today and tomorrow, the Powell Street Festival returns to its home, the newly renovated Oppenheimer Park (400 block of Powell Street) in Vancouver’s old Japan Town. Come down and get your sumo on with Vancouver’s Japanese Canadian community and far beyond.

Vancouver’s No Luck Club who have recently relocated to Toronto to further their music career return for their 3rd collaboration with Total Constructive Interference Taiko (Eileen Kage & Leslie Komori) for Rhythm Clash III @ 4:30pm on Sunday. See their 2008 performance HERE.

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Pics from last year

Nighttime Gig!
TOCHKA (JAPAN) & DYNAMO COLEOPTERA (MONTREAL)
Saturday, July 31st, 8:00pm, Chapel Arts
The Powell Street Festival invites festival-goers to an evening double-bill that spans the globe: new media artists Tochka from Japan, and music and dance performers Dynamo Coléoptera from Montreal.

Full Festival, Tochka/Dynamo gig details below the cut

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For your boogie down beats and bboy battles this coming long weekend:
- TONIGHT/JUL. 29: Jurassic 5 DJ Nu-Mark @ Shine
- SAT DAT/JUL.31: Famous Circle presents: Circle Prinz Canada – International Bboy Battle, 4pm @ Russian Hall – 600 Campbell Ave (Strathcona)
- SAT NIGHT/JUL. 31: Hi5 @ the W2 Storyeum, 151 W. Cordoza (Gastown) with like every single mad DJ in town – Room 1: Hedspin, Illo, Rico Uno, Bles-sed, Nina Mendoza / Room 2: U-Tern, Trevor Risk, Zeeaa from Ethnic Friends, Cherk, AJK
Hi-5 July Promo Mix feat. Djs Illo / Hedspin / Zeeaa / Cherk

This Friday night at Fortune Sound Club we are presenting the Eh! Team DJ’s Hedspin & Pump together on the 1, 2, 3 and 4′s. Also it’s the 1st time for Relly Rels to play at the club and it’s the Official Circle Prinz pre-party. Get on the guest list by e-mailing ‘your full name+1 and HED-PUMP’ in the subject box and you will be hooked up! No cover, no line valid till 12am! The boys also made an exclusive mix just for this special occasion that can be downloaded HERE.

Its that time of year again for Vancouver’s longest running community festival, the Powell Street Festival on the coming long weekend, Sat/Jul. 31 – Sun/Aug. 1 returning to its long time home and newly renovated Oppenheimer Park.

***THE POWELL STREET FESTIVAL IS HEADING HOME! After last year’s one-year relocation to Woodland Park, the Powell Street Festival will return to its traditional home in the newly-renovated Oppenheimer Park. Taking inspiration from the Japanese notion of Koen debut, or Park debut, whereupon neighbourhood toddlers are introduced to their local community, the 34th Annual Powell Street Festival celebrates the idea of neighbourhood, youth, children, the park and its landscape itself.***

FESTIVAL WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS
Cross-disciplinary collaboration by Toronto-based contemporary dancer Andrea Nann and Vancouver theatre artist Maiko Bae Yamamoto * World premiere of the Podplay The Oppenheimer Incident, a downloadable audio theatre piece by NeWorld Theatre (Vancouver) * Performances by local bluegrass band Shout!WhiteDragon, butoh innovators Kokoro Dance (Vancouver), Katari Taiko (Vancouver) with Latin percussionist Mario Zetina, and many more * Screening of award-winning video art from Japan * Historic walking tours, bonsai and ikebana demonstrations, and tea ceremonies * Full schedule will soon be available online at http://www.powellstreetfestival.com.

Poster by Kaori Kasai

Tonight we are super excited to present Flosstradamus at Happy Ending Fridays at Fortune Sound with Rico Uno (The Freshest) & Brendan Butter (Livestock) and in the Livestock Room it’s Culture Club with My!Gay!Husband! & Genie playing all your favourite tracks from around the world! Join us tonight for a good ol’ fashioned summertime party! Check the event page for more info HERE.

This Friday July 16th at Fortune Sound Cherchez La Femme presents the Summertime T-Shirt Show hosted by Roxy (Love & Electrik), a benefit featuring local t-shirt designs by: Dope Girl Fresh, El Kartel, Domestic, Stussy-Calen Knauf, Megadestroyer, Dan Climan, Occhio Grosso, Kaput, Cherchez La Femme, Mental Wealth, Vancity, Look Forward to the Past, Jean Okada, Lifetime and Sharks+Hammers with all ticket sales going to support Girls Rock Camp Vancouver. $10 tickets available at Dipt, Stussy, Sharks+Hammers, El Kartel, show starts at 11pm. Followed by a surf inspired DJ set by The Freshest (Rico Uno, Marvel, Kutcorners & Seko) and in the Livestock Room from 12am-2am it’s Easy Now/Def Jam with Cherchez & Skinny Pete. For more info, see the event page HERE.