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Good Times Get Adventurous At The Lillooet Outdoors Festival — May 27 & 28

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It’s pretty common to look out at Vancouver’s picturesque combination of ocean and mountain and thank our lucky stars that we live in this gorgeous province. BC has natural beauty in spades, so get your ass outside and soak it up! Spend the weekend adventuring in the great outdoors at the first ever Lillooet Outdoors Festival on May 27-28. Call it a mini road trip, a much-needed vacation, and an outdoor adventure all rolled into one. Here are a few motivators – actual events from the festival – that we feel will justify hounding the friends with cars that you know. Maybe swap the intel for a spot in their caravan.

Yoga in a Vineyard | Zen out with some stretching in the beautiful vineyards of Fort Berens and then keep the health kick going with the doctor recommended daily dose of fermented grapes.

Get Back to Nature | Hands on eco-cultural tours will teach you about the Sek’wel’was culture and give you some tasty examples of what grows in their neck of the woods.

Culture Cruise | Experience the past and present of the Fraser River as you cruise your way through its St’at’imc village site and Chinese diggings.

Party On | Fort Berens Estate Winery is also hosting a party for free complete with live music and a family-friendly atmosphere.

Get Active | With self-guided kayak tours, sheep pasture golfing, and a bunch of live music to sway to, this kind of festival should get you up and going.

Salmon Celebration | Walking with the Smolts on Friday is sure to be a well-rounded good time with ecology lessons, tree planting, and tunes by the river as we celebrate young salmon “finding themselves”.

Escape the city, enjoy nature, and have some wine while you’re at it, May 27-May 28. Prices and times for each activity here.

Food Inc. 2 is Coming to VIFF Centre This April

Rally your troupe and snag tickets to a screening, April 12th through 22nd, for some serious 'food for thought'.

Engage Your Body and Brain with a Mount Pleasant Walking Tour This Spring

Break out your best walking shoes: local history-buff (and long-time Scout Contributor), Christine Hagemoen, is priming up for another series of on-foot tours through Mount Pleasant, with various dates scheduled throughout April and May...and spots are already filling up!

From Art Fairs to Gallery-Hopping: A Recap of 2024 LA Frieze Week

Be sure to save the dates for next year’s Frieze Art Fair (soon to be announced) so that you can plan your own art-filled experience; and, in the meantime, enjoy these highlights from this year's event.

Head to East Van for the Symmetric Allure Art Show, Kicking Off This Thursday

Forward-thinking, local non-profit arts organization, Outsiders and Others, has a new group art show going up on the walls of Alternative Creations Gallery & Studio this week, featuring six "artists who identify as outsider, self-taught, visionary, intuitive, and with disabilities".