The main objective of this website is to scout out and promote the things that make Vancouver such a sweet place to be. We do this with an emphasis on the city’s independent spirit to foster a sense of connectedness within and between our communities, and to introduce our readers to the people who grow and cook our food, play the raddest tunes in our better venues, create our most interesting art, and design everything from what we wear to the spaces we inhabit.

The Scout List is our carefully considered, first rate agenda of super awesome things that we’re either doing, wishing that we could do, or conspiring to do this week. From our calendar to yours…

Heads-up folks: the famous Hawkes Avenue Garage Sale is happening this weekend at Hawkes & Keefer. Get there early (The Wilder Snail will have the espresso machine ready) and stick around for a pick-up game of Soccer in McLean Park. Strathcona is the place to be on Sunday.
Sunday, June 12 | 9-2 | Hawkes Ave between Georgia and Keefer | Free and super cool

ART

George Vergette: Stranded and Broke in a Strange Town officially opens at Gallery Jones (1725 W 3rd) tonight. See you there.

Spread is still on at the Dunlevy Chapel. It’s a Vancouver-based art show with an emphasis on community building and artist promotion. Established and emerging artists show their work in Vancouver’s underfunded Arts scene. “There is no theme in the selection of the artists other then their passion determination and commitment”. Work is priced at $300 or less. Think of Spread as a Cheaper Show with a longer duration (Spread is on the Chapel walls until June 30).

Unite With Art goes down next Saturday. I’m telling you now so that you can clear your schedule, find some cool duds and scrounge together the $200 you’ll need to buy a ticket. Celebrating its fourth year, the contemporary art auction and gala will be displaying the works of almost one hundred local artists. (including a painting by Gabryel Harrison, a piece by Brent Comber, photographs by Greg Girard as well as Lincoln Clarkes, and an original drawing of John Fluevog’s very first shoe design from 1987). Pieces are donated by the artists and proceeds go to UNICEF. The event also draws the city’s top culinary talents. Angus An of Maenam, Don Letendre of Roaming Dragon, Todd Bright of Wild Rice, and Brandon Thordarson of Opus Hotel will all be cooking. I’m particularly besotted by the Robert Marchessault work Chacopaki, valued at $9,400. Not likely something I’ll be looking at picking up. But a girl can dream.
Saturday, June 18 | Rocky Mountaineer Station (1755 Cottrell) | $200

ACTION

As mentioned last week, Velopalooza is on, so get your bike out and get in on some of the activities. There’s something for everyone: DIY bike fixing workshops, bird-watching biking, garden-admiring biking, bike church, hoolahooping and biking, bike-poker, bike-bbq, bike-jousting, a bike sandwich nazi ride, the Deep Cove Doughnut Dive, bikes and beers…and I’m not freakin’ kidding about any of that. You name it and add a bike to it and it’s likely going down. Velopalooza is on now and runs through to June 19. Check it.

The 36th Annual Pacific Rim Kite Festival takes over Vanier Park this weekend. There will be all manner of kite-related activities…kids kite making workshop, face painting, kite displays and demonstrations, kite music and kite refreshments.
Saturday, June 11, Sunday June 12 | 10am-5pm | Vanier Park | Free

Board Games are Sooooo Gay! It’s another queer-friendly evening of board games at Rhizome Cafe. Friends, family and kids welcome. Rhizome has loads of games to choose from, but you’re welcome to bring your lucky checkers set if that does it for you. Spencer Lindsay will be spinning tunes to keep the games rolling along.
Saturday, June 11 | 7-11:30pm | Rhizome Cafe (317 E Broadway)

Get in on the Historical & Architectural Walking Tour of Commercial Drive this Saturday with local historian Maurice Guibord. Explore the architectural and historical fabric of Commercial Drive and its residential neighbourhood, an area that was opened up by the Interurban tram system and that remains in full evolution today. You’ll see examples of gentrification at its best and its worst, and some surprising examples of re-use. Something for everyone! Lunch or coffee on the Drive afterwards for those who want to stay and chat.
Saturday, June 11 | 10am-12pm | Meet at the NW Corner of Commercial+Charles | $15

Looking for something a little different to do with your Thursday night? The Naked Truth Adult Entertainment Awards go down at the Penthouse tonight. Take in the history of sex-work museum exhibit and awards presentations as well as exotic entertainment, information tables about local sex-worker organizations, and speeches by members of the sex-worker-rights movement.
Thursday, June 9 | 6pm | Penthouse Night Club (1019 Seymour)

Learn all about the wonders of working with cedar. “Join us at the UBC Farm for a hands-on, informative workshop all about cedar. Cedar is an important part of many First Nations People’s cultural traditions in BC, and is used in a variety of ways from potlatch cedar bark ceremonies, to carved canoes with cedar rope, to weaving (baskets, headbands, capes, wrist bands, hats and today contemporary clothing). This workshop will focus on the significance of cedar for many First Nations People and the various ways in which it can be used. Participants will learn to make and take home cedar headbands, roses or rope bracelets. If interested, participants can start a cedar basket (a second course is necessary to complete this project)”. Register here.
Saturday, June 11 | 1pm-5pm | UBC Farm Center | $45 (+ registration fee)

Check out this open house – Northeast False Creek: Future Development at the Plaza of Nations. Learn about and comment on the most recent details of the proposed development at the Plaza of Nations site.
Saturday, June 11 | 2-4:30pm | Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre

There’s a Transportation 2040 public meeting being put on by the City of Vancouver next Wednesday night. The City is updating its transportation plan and they are looking for input. The resultant plan will set goals to the year 2040, and direct the transportation decisions for the years ahead. Get involved. Good plans happen when everyone contributes.
Wednesday June 15 | Roundhouse Community Centre | Free

FLICKS

There is a Grease sing-along Friday night at the Rio. Remember, you get a reduced price on admission if you show up in costume. “Grease is the word, is the word that you heard. It’s got groove it’s got meaning. Grease is the time, is the place is the motion. Grease is the way we are feeling.”
Friday, June 10 | 11:55pm | Rio Theatre (Bwy @ Commercial)

In anticipation of the June 17 release of the new Terrence Malick film The Tree of Life, Vancity Theatre is throwing down with a Malick love-a-thon. Catch The Thin Red Line, The New World, Days of Heaven and Badlands. The Thin Red Line and Days of Heaven would be particularly mesmerising on the big screen. Malick is a cinematic genius, so this is definitely a love-a-thon worth your time and nickels. Specifics below…
June 10 – 16 | various times | Click here for details

The Thin Red Line (1998) | TRAILER
A war movie unlike any other, Terrence Malick’s spellbinding film is a poetic refraction of James Jones’s autobiographical novel – an account of the US marines’ six-month assault on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942. Making his first film after two decades’ silence, Malick shied away from genre. Instead, he gives us a philosophical meditation on life and death in nature and in man, a choral epic suffused in images of limpid beauty and stark horror.
Saturday, June 11 | 8:45pm | Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour)

Days of Heaven (1978) | TRAILER
A melodrama pared back to the bone and filtered through the hazy consciousness of a child, this may be an unlikely masterpiece but it’s now universally acknowledged as one of the most beautiful films ever committed to celluloid. A turn of the century prairie tale of love and death, it was filmed in Alberta standing in for Texas, at harvest time.
Sunday, June 12 | 8:45pm | Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour)

EAT LOCAL

Be sure to hit the Farmers Markets this week! Buy locally grown produce from good people. In season this month: luscious salad greens, green onions, radishes, shallots, spinach, sprouts, rhubarb, some strawberries. You’ll also find Bay leaves, chervil, rosemary, sage, delicious dips, sunflower sprouts, crepes, goat and cow’s milk cheese, yogurt, eggs, and an inspiring array of bedding plants and beautiful flowers.

Trout Lake Farmers Market | Saturday | 9am-2pm | Trout Lake | Free
Kitsilano Farmers Market | Sunday | 10am – 2pm | 2690 Larch @ 10th | Free
West End Farmers Market | Saturday | 9am-2pm | 1100 Block Comox | Free
Thornton Park | Wednesday | 3pm – 7pm | Main Street Station at Terminal | Free
Dundarave (West Van) Saturday | 9am – 2pm | Between 24 & 25 on Marine
Ambelside (West Van) | Saturday | 10am – 3pm | On Bellevue Behind Beachside Forno
UBC Farm Market: Saturday | 9-1 | UBC Farm
Oak Street Market | Wednesday | 3-7pm | Oak @ 49th (Unitarian Church) | Free

Nectar DanceArt and DJ Sincerely Hanna to put on a kick-ass party on Thursday, June 16th. There will be local food (by chef Owen Lightly of Butter On The Endive), dance and music.
check out butter on the endive at: http://butterontheendive.ca/
check out sincerely hana at: http://sincerelyhana.com/
$20 | email [email protected]

If you are involved in or know of an event that you think we should add to the Scout List, drop us a line and we’ll see what we can do. Keep in mind that we’re looking for cool, cheap and accessible events. Michelle [@] Scoutmagazine [dot] ca.

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Michelle Sproule grew up in Kitsilano and attended Bond University in Australia and the University of Victoria before receiving her graduate degree in Library Sciences from The University of Toronto. She lives in beautiful Strathcona and enjoys wandering aimlessly through the city’s shops and streets with her best friend – a beat up, sticky, grimy, and uncooperative camera.

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