Here are five great parks to reconnect with nature during a long weekend in Burnaby
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It’s a long weekend, so you have extra time to spend in nature. Even if you can’t leave the city, there are plenty of green spaces right here where you can unplug.
Leave your phone and camera at home for a while, and just enjoy the forest with your senses: listen to the wind in the trees, see the light filtering through the leaves, touch a tree trunk, dip your toes in a stream, smell the fresh air.
Burnaby Lake Regional Park
Burnaby’s 770-acre park is a great place to start. The Conifer and Spruce Loops are located between Piper Avenue and Avalon Avenue so you can get right into the forest.
The 212-acre urban park is home to Douglas fir, cedar, and vine maple trees. Located in Metrotown, this park has lots on offer outside its outside edges, like a swimming pool, pitch-and-putt golf course and tennis courts, but once you get inside, you’ll forget you’re in one of the city’s fastest-growing areas.
Robert Burnaby Park
Just across the highway from Burnaby Lake, Robert Burnaby Park is the ideal location for a stroll in the woods. Follow the many creeks and winding pathways that wind throughout the park.
Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
A mountain paradise with 1,423 acres of hiking and walking trails. In addition to steep, rugged trails, this park offers breathtaking views, especially at sunset.
This is one of the most popular city parks in Metro Vancouver, with lots of people walking and jogging around it. The trails west of the lake are an excellent way to escape the crowds.
At Burnaby’s parks website, you can find directions and a complete list of parks and trails
Sources: www.burnaby.ca, www.burnabynow.com
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The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is BC’s largest music festival.
It attracts close to 1800 artists and over half a million jazz enthusiasts.
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The 2022 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival returns to entirely in-person events after two years of COVID-19 event cancellations and programming changes. This summer, the festival takes place from Friday, June 24 to Sunday, July 3, 2022, with events and programming scheduled around the city.
Over the next 10 days, you will have the opportunity to see over 700 artists in 200 performances throughout the city.
About Coastal Jazz & Blues Society:
Founded in 1985 and incorporated in 1986, the Coastal Jazz & Blues Society is a community-based, not-for-profit, charitable arts organization that has worked diligently to establish Vancouver as a centre for the creation and exchange of sounds and ideas between local, national, and international music communities. The Society’s mission is to not only increase the appreciation of the music but to strengthen the arts community by developing special projects, artistic exchanges, partnerships, educational initiatives, community programs, and collaborations that further the art form. Ranked as British Columbia’s largest not-for-profit music presenter, The Coastal Jazz & Blues Society produces the annual TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and year-round concerts and has a long-standing commitment to music education with the Sounds of Youth performance stage, workshops, children’s music programs, and more. The Society is proud to be a significant part of Vancouver’s and B.C.’s economic engine and tourism industry, attracting over half a million people to its annual festival and generating over $43 million in economic activity
Lucinda Williams Saturday, July 2 at 8:00 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Three-time GRAMMY award-winning artist Lucinda Williams performs at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (630 Hamilton Street, Vancouver) on Saturday, July 2nd at 8:00 pm
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“It’s all come full circle,” says three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams about her powerful new album, Good Souls Better Angels. After more than forty years of music making, the pioneering singer-songwriter returns to the gritty blues that first inspired her in the late 1970s, while also reuniting with Ray Kennedy, the co-producer of her game-changing 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. The new songs hit all the deliciously dark Gothic notes the Louisiana-born storyteller is beloved for, tied together with themes of perseverance, resilience and ultimately, hope. “Drawing as much from punk as roadhouse blues, Lucinda Williams’ loud and unsparing new album is some of the heaviest, most inspiring music of her career” (Pitchfork).
For the festival schedule CLICK HERE
Also, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society today announced the schedule for the public workshops and the Anthem Sounds of Youth Stage schedule for high school bands from across the province. All public educational workshops and youth performances are free, with more details available at www.coastaljazz.ca.
“Every year, the top provincial high school bands and their teachers are invited to perform on the Anthem Sounds of Youth Stage in front of thousands of people at Robson Square,” says Nina Horvath, Executive Director, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
“This event is always a crowd-pleaser; it’s amazing to think how this experience can direct a young musician’s career or musical pursuits.
” Free Public Workshops The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival also offers free workshops and lectures for jazz fans and musicians to learn firsthand from some of our local and international performers.
For 2022, sessions are planned for Tom Lee Music Hall (728 Granville Street) and The Studio at the Roundhouse Community Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews).
Acclaimed international artists such as Amirtha Kidambi, Wayne Horvitz, Lisa Ullén, Dave Rempis, cross-Canada creative players Simon Angell and Lina Allemano, and local luminaries Aram Bajakian, André Lachance, Shruti Ramani, and Scott Verbeek will share candid stories and answer questions on all things music.
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