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VDL Dodgeball Season 5 Early Bird Registration Deadline

By kone@drupal.org on January 4, 2008 - 8:16pm

Kick the new year off on a good vibe!

The Vancouver Dodgeball League is proud to present its biggest and best season yet: Season Five. We’re spreading the love to four nights a week, including an expanded Recreational Division on Wednesday nights.

Play on one night or play on all four! Dodgeball is a great way to stay active, have fun and meet new faces. Come join the growing Dodgeball community and be ready for a season of good times!

INFORMATION

Who: Anyone over 18!

When:
- Monday Night League: 7:00-10:00PM*; Feb 18 - May 12**
- Tuesday Night League: 7:00-10:00PM*; Feb 19 - May 13**
- Wednesday Night Recreational League: 7:00-10:00PM*; Feb 20 - May 7**
- Thursday Night League: 7:00-10:00PM*; Feb 21 - May 8**

Atomic

By Kara Gibbs on January 11, 2008 - 2:12pm

Atomic
Saturday, January 26, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Western Front (303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver)
Tickets $18 General Admission/ $22 at the door, available through Costal Jazz (604-872-5200) and Ticketmaster (604-280-3311 or visit ticketmaster.ca)

Atomic, a key exponent of the “new wave” of Nordic jazz, was formed in 1999 by five important young musicians from the burgeoning jazz scenes of Sweden and Norway. Combining the powerful, cutting-edge Oslo rhythm section of Håvard Wiik on piano, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten on bass, and Paal Nilssen-Love on drums with the Stockholm front line of trumpeter Magnus Broo and saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist, the quintet is one of the hottest acoustic ensembles to have emerged at the turn of the century. Atomic plays original music that mixes grooves and modes with a distinctive approach to free playing. Presented by the Western Front, Zula and Coastal Jazz & Blues Society. www.front.bc.ca

Registration Now Open :: Women's Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp

By RCFAdmin on January 12, 2008 - 5:01pm

WOMEN'S CARDIO KICKBOXING BOOTCAMP
Presented by Raz Chan Fitness and Mobile Personal Training

Get fit and stay healthy in 2008 by registering for our popular Women’s Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp for January 2008!

Join us three times a week for 4 weeks and experience a total body work out with boxing drills, core ab exercises, interval training, and more! Never the same workout twice with our programming and lots of variety to keep all fitness levels challenged.

View video clips and photos of previous Bootcamp classes at http://www.razchanfitness.com.

LOCATIONS & SCHEDULE
All Bootcamps are 3x/week (12 sessions). Due to the format of our Bootcamp, we do not offer drop-in rates or switching of class sessions - please review our registration policy under our FAQs section online. Participants are required to come to class with handwraps and cardio boxing gloves.

*Note: All Saturday classes take place at 2875 St. Georges St. (near Fraser & Kingsway).

VANCOUVER-WEST SIDE – select from two time slots
4588 Clancy Loranger Way

Mon/Wed/Fri - 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Class runs from Feb. 1 - 27/08

or

Mon/Wed – 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm + Saturday – 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Class runs from Jan. 30 - Feb. 25/08

BURNABY – CENTRAL – select from three time slots
6050 Sussex Avenue (by Metropolis, corner of Grange St.)

RENDEZVOUS CLUB SPEED DATING: AGES 19-27

By chpschps on January 12, 2008 - 8:10pm

Ready for a GONG SHOW???

Last 14 events have sold out!

Join Rendezvous Club at the funkiest place to meet! Loads of food and prizes -- Meet plenty of singles just like you!

Why go to a smelly, sweaty bar or club when Rendezvous Club makes it so easy – Not just a date night but a dating experience.

Get A MONTH’S WORTH of DATES in 2.5 Hours!

www.rclub.ca

or

604 729 5990

The Spring 2008 Langara College Community Lecture Series

By Langara on January 15, 2008 - 5:02pm

Join past and present instructors in Langara College's 50th series of free lectures surrounding this Spring's theme: Crossroads.

January 23
Barrie Brill The Colour Blue at the Crossroads

January 30
Peter Prontzos The Right Brain, Crossroads of Ideas and Emotions

February 6
Alister Browne Cheating

February 13
Deborah Blacklock The Crossroads of Evolution: Are We Ready?

February 20
Cathy Sosnowsky Choices at Famous Crossroads in Literature

February 27
Dale Beyerstein Choosing Your Path

March 12
Bradley Hughes The Crossroads of the Russian Revolution

March 19
Veda Abu-Bakare Crossroads in Science

March 26
Chuck Sigmund Where Has the Universe Come From?

April 2
Jeff Webster Time at the Crossroads: The Psychology of Looking to the Past and the Future

For more info, contact Linda Hale at lhale@langara.bc.ca or 604.323.5365.

Minimusic

By VNMS on January 15, 2008 - 5:55pm

Free Performance!

Minimusic is a uniquely playful chamber piece, performed here by a diverse ensemble drawn from the community.

Musicians play their way through a score made up of thirty-seven boxes, each box calling for a special effect – sometimes a calculated improvisation, sometimes a response to another performer – in all encouraging creative music-making and careful listening on the part of each ensemble member.

Minimusic is part of Vancouver Vibrates – a celebration of the works and influence of R. Murray Schafer. For more information about this and other events go to www.newmusic.org.

PuSh Festival presents Old Goriot

By ZoeQ on January 15, 2008 - 11:21pm

January 17–26, 2008, 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre, The Chan Centre

Preview
January 16, 2008, 7:30pm

Post-show Talkback
January 22, 2008

No show Sunday

Tickets $25/$20/$15
Theatre at UBC Box Office
604.822.2678

Western Gold Theatre and Theatre at UBC present the premiere of James Fagan Tait’s adaptation of the novel Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac.

This theatrical adaptation of Balzac’s utterly gripping masterpiece builds on the success of Tait and composer Joelysa Pankanea’s unforgettable adaptations of Crime and Punishment and A Christmas Carol. The world premiere of this innovative co-production christens UBC’s 100th Anniversary year.

Balzac has been called the Shakespeare of the novel and with Old Goriot he sets the stage for a modern counterpart to King Lear, a father so blindly devoted to his undeserving daughters that his tragic realization—'I loved them too much for them to love me at all'—comes too late. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine, Old Goriot is a witty and profound treatment of two consuming obsessions: money and love. Original music by Joelysa Pankanea deftly illuminates this timeless tale, from the depths of sorrow and despair to moments of great beauty and transcendence.

PuSh Festival presents Haircuts by Children

By ZoeQ on January 23, 2008 - 11:39pm

Haircuts by Children
Mammalian Diving Reflex (Toronto)

Co-presented with the grunt gallery in association with the students of Bridgeview Elementary, Surrey

Following successful runs in Los Angeles, Toronto and Birmingham, Haircuts By Children invites you to take part in an event that will test your courage and faith in the future. Surrender your preconceptions (and your scalp) to the aesthetic choices of these mini-barbers. A whimsical piece that plays with the enfranchisement of children and the level of trust we afford them, creating a dialogue between groups not used to such a reversal of power, especially one in which our vanity is put to the test! Let them cut your fears away as they prove themselves leaders of the future, capable and responsible citizens and dedicated coiffures in a show that’s been described as “one of the highlights of LA’s cultural calendar.”

January 26 & 27, 12-4pm
NuNu’s Salon and Spa
FREE

Check out the
Photo Exhibit at Vancouver East Cultural Centre Gallery
January 14–February 3, 2008, 10am–5pm Monday to Friday
and before evening performances at VECC

www.pushfestival.ca