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April 23Thursday
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*VV Spring 2015 Cultivating Food, Cultivating Community Series
April 23, 2015 at 7pm to May 28, 2015 at 8:30pm – Strathcona Community Centre Please join us for the Spring 2015 instalment of this popular Village Vancouver series. April 23 - rescheduled to April 30th Water Kefir: home-made fermented sodas May 28 Spring Slaw! Fermented Veget… Organized by Ross Moster (VV Neighbourhood Food Networks) and Lauren Brown (Strathcona CC Food Securtiy Program) | Type: strathcona, workshops
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*Water Kefir: home-made fermented sodas - Rescheduled to April 30th
April 23, 2015 from 7pm to 8:30pm – Strathcona Community Centre Learn to create a home-made fruit "soda pop" from a water kefir starter culture: from creating the initial sugar mixture to filtering and bottling it. The result is a highly carbonated, healthful fru… Organized by Ross Moster (VV Neighbourhood Food Networks), Lauren Brown (Strathcona CC Food Security Program), and Alyssa Kohlman | Type: strathcona, workshop, kefir
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*Voices of Transition" free movie screening
April 23, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Maple Ridge City Hall, Council Chambers By focusing on immediate profit and ignoring millennia of experience in agronomy, agroindustry is responsible for the unprecedented erosion of soils now occurring around the world. Add climate change… Organized by Cinema Politica | Type: maple ridge, movie, transition, community resilence
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Healthy by Nature
April 23, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden Daily engagement with nature is an essential part of healthy living. The scientific evidence is compelling, permeating professional practice from doctor’s prescriptions to urban design. This interact… Organized by VanDusen Botanical Garden | Type: nature, health, design
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Painting Flowers with Watercolour
April 23, 2015 from 10am to 12:30pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden April 23 - May 21. **NOTE this class runs every Thursday for five weeks. Use the delicate art of watercolour painting to capture the beauty of spring flowers growing in the Garden. We will explore a… Organized by VanDusen Botanical Garden | Type: painting, watercolour, flowers
April 22Wednesday
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The Secrets of Healthy Soil
April 22, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Newton Recreation Centre Soil, along with water, air and biodiversity is one of the pillars of life: without soil, we couldn’t have trees to produce the oxygen we breathe or the plants that make the foundation of all the foo… Organized by David Dalley | Type: newton
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Successful Organic Food Production
April 22, 2015 from 6:30pm to 9pm – VanDusen Botanical Garden Learn tips and tricks of the trade that lead to a bountiful and healthy harvest of organic vegetables. This course will emphasize how to actively prevent pest and disease problems by providing the pr… Organized by VanDusen Botanical Garden | Type: gardening, organic, vegetables
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*VV Seed Savers volunteer work party #2 (making seed packets)
April 22, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Kits, near beach This gathering will mostly be a work party -- we'll be making seed packets. New volunteers welcome and you don't need to know anything about seed saving to help! A dozen folks showed up to help at ou… Organized by Ross Moster and VV Seed Savers | Type: kits, seeds, seed saving, seed libraries, community resilience, earth day, potluck
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*VV Earth Day Potluck
April 22, 2015 from 5pm to 6pm – Kits, near beach Join us on Earth Day for a short potluck preceding our seed packet folding work party. Bring some food or drink to share! Organized by Ross Moster, Laura Lee Coles, and Kits Village | Type: kits, potluck
April 20Monday
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Only Planet Cabaret
April 20, 2015 from 7:30pm to 10pm – Roundhouse Performing Arts Centre The Only Planet Cabaret - an exhilarating evening of theatre that addresses pressing environmental issues with wit, verve and style - comes to Vancouver (April 20) and Nanaimo (April 24). Both are be… Organized by | Type: yaletown, fundraiser
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