The Vancouver Canucks will be celebrating their fifth annual Diwali Night on Friday when they face the Nashville Predators. As part of the festivities, the Canucks will wear a special jersey designed by local South Asian artist Jag Nagra.
The jersey transforms the Canucks logo into a Diwali icon, featuring Diwali iconography, such as a clay lamp, fireworks, lotus flower, and a mustard plant.
"As a kid, especially during the playoff season, hockey was such a big part of my upbringing, so it's really cool that I'm here now, making art for the Canucks," said Nagra. "I wanted to create a colourful piece that was representative of our culture."
The limited-edition jersey promises to be a hot ticket item and hard to come by. While apparel and merchandise featuring the artwork will be available at the game, only a limited number of jerseys will be made available.
One of Vancouver's favourite sons wants one. Badly. Seth Rogen wants one of the Diwali Night jerseys so badly that he offered to trade pot for one of them.
Sorry, that's a pot. That's because, in addition to being an actor, comedian, writer, director, producer and cannabis connoisseur, Rogen is also an amateur potter.
Okay, technically Rogen offered to trade a vase for a jersey but even more technically, a vase is a type of pot, as "pot" is used by potters for all sorts of different forms.
The trade is a very generous offer on the part of Rogen. One of his vases went for $12,000 in an auction at the Vancouver Art Gallery in June.
Rogen's belief that the jerseys will only be for sale in person is mistaken, however. The jerseys will instead be available for auction online via vanbase.ca. Presumably, Rogen could bid for one of the jerseys himself and save his vases for his own use.
It looks like the Canucks, however, are going to take Rogen up on his offer.
How could the Canucks resist? The Rogen-made vase could go on display at Rogers Arena and it would make for a great story.
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