A hat, a zine, and a little community chaos – festival diary
Can I ask you a question about outfits? So, okay, as of now I gotta go get dressed. I’m going […]
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Festival Express Redux: a cross-Canada train trip exploring art, culture, media and business
originally published in “Uncle Weed’s Dossier in Vancouver Observer, Feb 2011 – link broken – retrieved from Wayback Machine Dave
Kinfolk + Pals
Snap: evidence from the matsuri festival
Evidence I’m alive and rebuilding/reinventing/rejuvenating… Here’s me and Ichiro at the Tsuchida Matsuri Working through a lot of conundrums from
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Outing: Tsuchida (mini) Matsuri
With the public health conundrum is the last few years, the usual neighbourhood festivals have been cancelled including our small
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Ichiro meets Ichiro sensei + airplanes and fireworks in Noto
(Then i noted): He comes home today. I used to wanna be a rockstar or a pro hockey player and
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Video Dim Sum
Mae Maes – Ryoko’s band at Mukunomi Fureai Matsuri
[videopress pk72nzXf] Konnichi-Mae! To complete the trifecta of tunes from Saturday’s Matsuri comes my favourite! Ryoko’s band Mae Maes played
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Boocuss (ska punk from Okayama, Japan) at a community festival
Saw a great band Saturday, Nov. 23rd at Mukunomi Fureai Matsuri (where Ryoko’s Mae Maes also performed) called Boocuss ,
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Video Dim Sum
Trio: Sax, Drums and Singing at a Japanese Festival
An interesting trio with jamming alto sax, quirky on-in-one drum kit, and trad vocals as seen at Mukunomi Fureai
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Video Dim Sum
Bagpipers and Drums at Highland Games, Victoria, Canada
Bagpipes and Drums at Victoria Highland Games, British Columbia, Canada, 2016. Don’t know the band’s name, nor the
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Transit Chronicles
high degree of transit difficulty – 4x transfers for tasty beers…
Heading to german sommerfest at scandanavian cultural centre in burnaby – high degree of transit difficulty – 4x transfers for
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Transit Chronicles
The edelweiss dancers are done – nothing to do but drink beer and eat bratwurst…
The edelweiss dancers are done – nothing to do but drink beer and eat bratwurst (& tasty deserts) at german
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Transit Chronicles
now waiting for bus (I.e. the usual)…
Killed a batch of warstieners and kong ludwig weissbier plus bockwurst at german sommerfest – now waiting for bus (I.e.
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Transit Chronicles
#Translink – needed a festival express today…
For the record *still* waiting for bus … #Translink – needed a festival express today… Got a bevvie handy?
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Urban Vancouver
Parade of Lost Souls, 2007 Soundscape – Urban Vancouver #5
Follow along on: Aural Wanderings at the Parade of Lost Souls (.mp3, 30MB, 37:35) Wandering around enjoying community entertainment along Commercial
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Video Dim Sum
Vancouver Polar Bear Swim at English Bay, 2009
On New Year’s Day 2009, I stroll along Vancouver’s Seawall towards English Beach to witness the annual Polar Bear swim
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Hare Krishna Ratha Yatra Chariot Festival variety: Vancouver, 2007
A montage of music and culture from the Hare Krishna’s annual chariot festival in 2007 in Vancouver’s Stanley Park (near
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