The 11th annual New Westminster DiverseCity Festival kicks off May 18 with food, art, entertainment, and history.

Kendra Johnston, executive director of the Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Association (BIA), says the idea of the festival started with a group of local business owners who wanted a family oriented outdoor festival along the boardwalk. [Read more…]

This time of year brings about spring cleaning traditions across the Northern Hemisphere. [Read more…]

This year marks the 23rd Annual Persian Fire Festival in Vancouver. With popularity growing rapidly in recent years, organizers are expecting more participants than ever to turn up and take part in the traditions. [Read more…]

Canada is home to the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, and here in Vancouver there is a strong emphasis on Jewish culture in modern and traditional arts. [Read more…]

On the darkest night of the year, Vancouver’s annual Winter Solstice Lantern Festival brings beauty and creativity to five neighbourhoods in anticipation of the sun’s return and longer daylight hours. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the time when the Tropic of Cancer is farthest away from the sun, marking the shortest day of the year, usually around Dec. 21. [Read more…]

Two B.C.-born, Vancouver-based film-makers are turning heads at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Actor and producer Chad Willett, 41, is showing his latest film Becoming Redwood, which just took Best Canadian Feature at the Edmonton International Film Festival. [Read more…]

Brazil just wasn’t the place to stay for 30-year-old, Paulo Costa, who has a passion for mountain biking and snowboarding.
He, alongside many other volunteers, will be at this year’s Brazil Fest held on August 18 on Granville St. [Read more…]

“[The PSFS]… is very much connected to the history of Japanese-Canadians… Powell Street is the heart of the Japanese-Canadian community in Vancouver, so the festival was started there and it speaks to that history.” [Read more…]

Food and clichés are but two aspects of Indian culture that are well known, and both can be found at this year’s Indian Summer festival, which runs until July 15. With over 5000 years of history, India can teach a young country like Canada a lot of things, and Vancouver is fortunate to have cultural [...] [Read more…]