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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.)

Forum: The Gang Issue

By Langara on January 15, 2008 - 4:09pm

Langara College Forum
The Gang Issue: Tackling the complexities, hearing testimonies and finding solutions

The forum’s goal is to foster greater understanding, to empower youth and parents and provide a knowledge base for educators, law enforcement agencies, service providers and policy makers through knowledge translation and solutions.

Honorable Wally Oppal, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu and West Vancouver Police Chief Kash Heed will be in attendance, along with social activists, researchers, journalists, and victims. The moderators will be Langara Sociology Instructor Indira Prahst and Asian Pulse TV Producer/Host Kamilla Singh.

Refreshments served at 5:30 pm, Forum begins at 6 pm sharp. RSVP recommended to guarantee a seat.

For more info:
604.323.5717
iprahst@langara.bc.ca

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.

PuSh Festival presents small metal objects

By ZoeQ on January 23, 2008 - 11:32pm

small metal objects
Back to Back Theatre (Australia)

For small metal objects, the venue is the city. Audience members equipped with headphones become an installation for the general public; the general public becomes the extras within a dramatic narrative. It is a theatrical masterpiece that examines the role spectator and spectacle.

January 30-February 1, 5pm; February 2-3 1pm & 3:30pm
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch Promenade
Tickets $28/$22 Tickets Tonight
www.pushfestival.ca

PuSh Festival presents Instructions for Modern Living

By ZoeQ on January 23, 2008 - 11:46pm

Duncan Sarkies and Nic McGowan (New Zealand)

A show to please your ears, tickle your funny bones and haunt your soul. Instructions for Modern Living is a dark and witty exploration of the hidden life of late-night dwellers. In the tradition of artists like Laurie Anderson and Marie Brassard, Instructions for Modern Living is a time capsule of the ‘wee small hours.’ Music and dialogue combine to create a tragicomic sound-montage of what goes on behind closed doors in urban and suburban society. Video images of nocturnal surveillance footage create a deliciously hypnotic backdrop to the tales of people who find it difficult to sleep at night.

“McGowan’s music really amplifies the impact of the dialogue. Sarkies is not just a skilled writer, but a fine actor as well... it’s a bloody good show.”—Sunday Star Times

Duncan Sarkies is an award-winning short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for writing one of New Zealand’s highest grossing films, Scarfies and nominated for Writer's Guild Award for Flight of the Conchords.

Nic McGowan has achieved critical acclaim for his work as a prolific composer, producer and engineer. A multi-talented recording and performing artist, his audio designs extend across the mediums of music, theatre, radio drama, film and television.

January 30-February 2, 9pm
Vancouver East Cultural Centre

PuSh Festival presents Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut

By ZoeQ on January 27, 2008 - 2:51pm

Rumble Productions/Theatre Replacement (Vancouver)

In the summer of 2005 actor/writer James Long salvaged a collection of seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. What started as a simple trip to the country carried the creators on narrative jags across propriety, oceans, and beyond.

January 30-February 2, 9pm; February 2-3, 4pm

Tickets: $28/$22
Tickets Tonight www.ticketstonight.ca

More info: www.pushfestival.ca

PuSh Festival presents Palace Grand

By ZoeQ on January 27, 2008 - 2:54pm

Palace Grand is a unique solo show which takes place in a theatre within the theatre: a miniature vaudeville stage which floats in space, inhabited by a single oppressed actor. An utterly physical evocation of an ill-fated expedition and a reliquary of sublimely beautiful and iconic artifacts from a mythic northern terrain, the play investigates a uniquely human condition: cacoethes scribendi—the incurable passion for writing. A sort of Yukon Heart of Darkness, Palace Grand cuts deep into the northernmost reaches of Canada on the trail of two men: Walker, a writer who disappears into the wilderness and The Tracker, a bounty hunter hired to find him. Together the two represent separate halves of a single narrative. What remains of this narrative is brought to life by a third man, The Operator of a remote transmitting station whose presence has little to do with their story, but without whom it would be lost.

Caught somewhere between Beckett and Chaplin and taking the mythic Klondike gold rush as its setting, this delirious snowbound fantasy reminds us of our frightening ever present quest for self. The play won three Jessie Awards for Performance, Set Design and Lighting in 2004. This PuSh-commissioned presentation reimagines the critically acclaimed original production.