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Cool Thing We Want #337: Lamp Shade Made From The Fabric Of Canada Place’s 5 Sails

Remember these unique Listen | Closely lamp shades from last year’s IDSWest? Designers at Large created them for ReFab:Design for Sail, a partnership between Canada Place and Vancouver Architecture For Humanity Society. They were made in an effort to repurpose fabric from Canada Place’s old sails. The limited number of shades – 75 – are available from local designer Kevin Wharton or at Cocoon Home Designs at 7th and Manitoba ($150 per). All proceeds will benefit HomeStart Foundation, a furniture bank that provides essential home furnishings to people in need (over 100 homes have been furnished so far in 2012).

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UBC Farm’s Spring Workshops Make a Strong Case for Getting Your Hands Dirty

A full run of practical, well-built sessions that move from soil to kitchen, giving you a reason to start something new.

2026 CSA Guide: The Best Produce Box Programs in Vancouver. Score Before It’s Too Late!

Looking for a CSA in Metro Vancouver? Our 2026 guide breaks down the best produce box and farm share programs, with pricing, pickup details, and honest recommendations.

We Want to Jetset to Montreal for the Menu Extra & Dan Climan Pop-Up This July

This summer the Montreal artist, who sports cred as an Emily Carr School of Art + Design graduate, is growing his food-art relationship with a series of lux, collab pop-up we can only dream of attending. Time to buy a lottery ticket!

We Want to Quench Our Thirst for Spring with KPU’s New 桂 Reverie Beer

Our appetite for tasty and creative craft beer is bottomless. So the moment news of what students enrolled in the Diploma in Brewing and Brewery OperationsKwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) have been brewing up lately landed in our inbox, we got awfully thirsty...