Celebrate Spring with Pink Petals

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival has started. I noticed the pink blooms emerging from their winter sleep as I was walking to work the other day. What a nice reminder that spring is around the corner. After enduring that nasty afternoon of sleeting snow not too long ago, I was braced for the worst.

To celebrate Vancouver’s abundance of Japanese cherry trees, the festival is hosting an inspiring range of activities from Biking the Blossoms to trolly rides to a cherry blossom tasting menu hosted by Pair Bistro, and accompanied by cherry blossom martinis.

This weekend the photo invitational begins, and displayed in the entrance to the VanDusen Gardens will be inspiring photographs of blossoms. You can enter your photo for the chance to win a trip for two to Japan.

If cherry blossoms aren’t your thing: too pink or too fluffy. There’s another way to lighten up this weekend:

March of the Sock Monkeys is at Blim this weekend. You can spend this Saturday learning how to make sock monkeys!

Put a Little Dance in your Weekend

The Vancouver International Dance festival started this week and will continue with performances drawn from around the world, as well as workshops and classes, until March 29th.

This Friday and Saturday at the Roundhouse community center the evening starts with the Arts Umbrella Dance Company and then later the Roundhouse hosts Sarah Williams, a Montreal based dancer, whose three pieces were inspired by the word gender.

For more information you can go to the website: www.vidf.ca/