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September is the season of abundance, when market and home gardens overflow with the fruits of the land. People of all cultures gather to give thanks for the bounty of the harvest and prepare for the coming winter. On Sunday, September 21st from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. VanDusen Botanical Garden celebrates the season with a new special event: Plenty – Harvest Celebration & Farmers’ Market. The event will focus on growing local food, supporting local and sustainable agriculture by buying local and eating local products.

The day promises to evoke harvest celebrations of the past with something for everyone to enjoy. There will be a mini Farmers’ Market featuring many of the food growers you have come to know through the Trout Lake, West End and Nat Bailey Markets. Look for such gems as the last of the summer tomatoes, various squashes, Helmer's famed organic potatoes, artichokes, herbs, hazelnuts, apples and salad greens. Many of the food producers will also be on hand selling jewel-toned jars of preserves, jams, jellies and other condiments created from farm-fresh ingredients. You’ll find the Mini-Market in the Buy Local area of the Fair.

In the Grow Local section we plan to have nursery vendors selling berry bushes, grape vines as well as fruit and nut trees for your home garden. This is also where we will offer seminars and demonstrations on such urban agriculture-related topics as composting, growing organically and pruning. VanDusen’s Guides have developed a special Edible Garden Tour including stops at many of our native edibles, the heirloom vegetable garden and the bee hives.

What would an event devoted to the harvest season without food? That’s where Eat Local comes in. An area devoted to high quality food vendors offering tasty and nutritious sustenance – from organic fair-trade coffee and Indian vegetarian snacks to delicious flatbread pizzas and salads created by the Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company. Plenty of Fall fare for a Fall fair.

Plenty Harvest Celebration is an event for the whole family. In Compost Hollow, kids can take a ‘worm shop’ and learn how to compost their food waste. The Youth Education Department is designing special kid-friendly workshops on seeds, pollination and growing food in your own yard or balcony. Musicians and performers will stroll about the grounds rounding out the festive atmosphere. You’ll love meeting the Veggie People Mascots – modeled after characters found on seed packets in the 1880s.

Mark it on your calendars – Sunday, September 21st – there will be plenty to see, plenty to do, plenty to learn and plenty to eat at our local harvest celebration!

Proceeds from admissions help VanDusen Botanical Garden, a registered non-profit charity, to grow. For more information on VanDusen Botanical Garden and its events, please visit the Garden’s web site at www.vandusengarden.org The Garden is located in the heart of Vancouver at 5251 Oak Street at West 37th Avenue. There’s plenty of free parking, or leave your car at home and take the #17 Oak bus right to our door.

VanDusen Botanical Garden 5251 Oak St, Vancouver, BC V6M 4H1 www.vandusengarden.org

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Attention all fashionista's and your boy's!! The Bay Vancouver presents, "Beauty and the Boy!" Fall 2008 fashion show featuring celebrity guest hosts, Mashiah Vaughn (from Open Sundaes) and Jason Dussault (from Dussault Appreal)

Friday, September 19th 2008

Doors Oopen - 7:30 pm
Fashion Show - 8:00 pm
Shop till you drop - 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Featuring

Live DJ (Q PID) & Dance Performance
Giveaways
Swag
Store wide exclusive discounts
Cocktails & Canapes

Special Guests
Jason Dussault, Dussault Denim & Mashiah Vaughn, Open Sundaes

Fashions featured this night include fall pieces from Mint, Chulo Pony, Kensie, Bench, DKYNC, Kersh, MoneyBag and much more... The nights entertainment includes Make Up For Ever Touch Up and Photo Booth Station, Air Brush Tattoo's by Ed Hardey, Grafitti Canvas bags, door prizes, swag bags and cocktails/appies. Be the first 200 to RSVP to receive your fab swag bag complimentary of the Bay.

Admission: Free

Grand Prize: Kensie Shopping Spree

Exclusive Offer: 10% off shopping that night on selected brands

Ps. This is a FREE event open to all . . .
Natasha E Campbell
Executive Director
TASHA E PRODUCTIONS
604 961 8274
www.tashae.com

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Dr. Peter Centre is proud to present Passions - A Benefit for the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation
Time and Place

Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Dr. Peter Centre
Street: 1110 Comox Street
City/Town: Vancouver, BC

Contact Info
Phone: 6043313452
Email: marcellamunro@shaw.ca

An evening of exquisite food and wine from 18 of Vancouver's finest chefs and restaurants, including Boneta, Cin Cin, Chambar, Diva at the Met, Tojo's, and Elixir.

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Stereotype Fridays, Blueprint and Focus are proud to present John Digweed With Kevin Shiu at Celebrities Nightclub

Friday, September 12, 2008
Time: 9:00 PM - 3:00 AM
Buy Tickets: $30

Highlights would be the first proper dj mix compilation (Renaissance, done with Sasha), being the first British dj to hold a residency at what was then the worlds most well known club in NYC (Twilo, also with Sasha) as well as having remixed tracks by Danny Tenaglia, Underworld and New Order.

John Digweed is a DJ’s DJ. The beauty of what he does lies in just how different he really is from his contemporaries. From his early beginnings in Hastings, England at the age of 15 in the blossoming scene of acid house to the apex of the international dj’ing world, he has created and maintained a level of integrity that is the benchmark for both djs and producers globally. In fact, he has reached the very top of his profession, being voted ..1 in a voter’s poll by DJ magazine in 2001. John Digweed has become the peoples choice while maintaining his longstanding presence in underground dance culture. His popularity as both a dj and a person seems to have no limits, but his efforts transcend dj’ing alone, he is as much a producer and promoter. His moniker Bedrock is actually three things: a record label, a promotions company and a studio production partnership (with Nick Muir).

His management and creative direction for the Bedrock record label has helped launch the careers of Danny Howells (with Dick Trevor as Science Department), Jimmy Van M, Chris Fortier and Phil Thompson (Moonface). He has had the vision and creative insight to seek out mixes and remixes from artists as varied as Rui Da Silva, POB, Freelance Icebreakers and the Second Hand Satellites. The label has effectively served as a foundation for artistic expression and a medium for creative output, allowing underground artists to break through to a much wider audience. To have a record released on Bedrock serves as the global stamp of production quality, ingenuity and integrity for producers worldwide.

Digweed is both solid and durable with unyielding precision. His sinuous dj’ing and production sound has become its own convincing dance ethic. He is centered to the principles of life, living and friends in such a way that he generates an aura of self-explanatory excitement and enthusiasm. Without heroic pretensions his sets are filled with moodiness and musical mystery but held down with a punchy distinctiveness and earthly rhythm. Always emanating a sense of boundlessness he overlaps dream events that spill into reality with an enormous certainty. Check John Digweed at Myspace

Based in Vancouver, Canada's Kevin Shiu has been at the forefront of club culture for the last 17 years. His magic touch, keen foresight and suave mannerisms have propelled him into headliner status at clubs around the world. His signature style ranges from deep tech house through driving progressive house and remains true to the underground sound that first inspired him: a deep, moody sound with pounding percussion and a mighty hypnotic groove.

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Live Nation Canada is proud to present Janet Jackson at General Motors Place

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2008
GENERAL MOTORS PLACE - VANCOUVER
Doors 6:00pm Show 7:00pm

TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY JUNE 7TH @ 10AM
Ticketmaster or Charge By Phone 604-280-4444
Tickets (incl. GST) $49.75, $79.75, $129.75 (plus FMF and service charges)

**RESERVED SEATING **

Janet Jackson Announces Rock Witchu Tour

The iconic performer will pull from her celebrated collection of music, which has sold over 100 million albums worldwide. This is Jackson’s first tour in over seven years and is expected to feature the hit songs and innovative dance routines that have made her one of the most celebrated artists in history.

The Live Nation produced tour kicking off in Vancouver, BC on September 10th, will feature dates in DC, New Jersey, Montreal, and Toronto to name a few and is expected to hit major markets as it travels across the country. Tickets go on sale for the first shows beginning Saturday, June 7th, and are available at www.livenation.com. Confirmed dates are listed below with more dates to be announced shortly.

Jackson has launched www.JanetFanClub.com, a dedicated tour website for the Rock Witchu Tour where the public can sign up for access to presale tickets, exclusive content, contests and worldwide community of Jackson fans and more. Pre-registration has now begun for the website, which will go live on May 28th, with early access to presale ticketing starting May 30th at 10am. Registrants will have the ability to access future presales for additional dates as they are announced. To find out more, visit www.JanetFanClub.com starting May 28th.

Jackson has left an indelible mark on pop music selling more than 100 million albums and as a female artist having achieved the number one spot on Billboard Magazine’s Top 200 Album Chart 6 times, is among the top 3 of all time for a female artist. She is the only performer male or female to be nominated for Grammy Awards in each of the Pop, Rock, Dance, Rap and R&B categories, and the first female recording artist of color to be nominated for a Producer of the Year Grammy. With literally hundreds of awards and nominations from everyone from the American Music Awards where she holds the title for most nominations from one album, to MTV where she was awarded the first ICON award, to the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Radio Music Awards, World Music Awards, Billboard, Rolling Stone, NAACP, etc., the recognitions of her musical contributions are astounding. More about Janet Jackson....

ABOUT LIVE NATION:
Live Nation is the future of the music business. With the most live concerts, music venues and festivals in the world and the most comprehensive concert search engine on the web, Live Nation is revolutionizing the music industry: onstage and online. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Live Nation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol "LYV." Additional information about the company can be found at www.livenation.com under the “About Us” section.

Live Nation - Canada
For more show information please contact:
Ryan Balaski – Live Nation Canada
604-683-4233
RyanBalaski@livenation.com

For Press/Media accreditation, please contact:
Jessica Dunn – Live Nation Canada
604-683-4233
JessicaDunn@livenation.com

For interview requests with Akon, please contact:
Lisa Dolinski – Universal
Lisa.Dolinski@umusic.com

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