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Enchanted Evenings
Concert Series
Fridays July 8 -September 2, 2011
Doors open at 7:00pm, all concerts begin at 7:30pm.
Enchant your evenings with 9 summer concerts staged in the Garden’s outdoor and indoor spaces. A different music group, sound and rhythm each week. Wine and nibbles available.
Friday, August 5 Vancouver Piano Ensemble
This quartet has been an Enchanted Evenings crowd favorite for many years. Two grand pianos played by eight hands, featuring works by Rossini, Mozart, Liszt, Saint-Saens & von Weber.
Friday, August 12 Silk Road Music
A favorite since the series’ inception, this pioneer group is now fusing classic Chinese string with Flamenco zing, complete with a Flamenco dance performance!
Friday, August 19 Deanna Knight and the Hot Club of Mars
This powerhouse group embodies style, energy, and rhythm with their sultry hot swing and gypsy jazz tunes.
Friday, August 26 Van Django
An acoustic string ensemble that raises the roof with punchy, driving music, this foursome fills the action packed genre of “hot jazz”.
Enchanted Evening Concerts continue in September.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Box Office | 604.662.3207 ext. 209
Garden Member: $18/ticket
Non-Member: $20/ticket
Season Pass: $135
SPECIAL "Enchanted Evenings Dinner Package"
The Wild Rice “Enchanted Evenings” menu offers a choice of two out of three courses and includes a choice of beverage.
Appetizers: Curry vegetable potstickers, crispy seafood wontons, or mixed Asian vegetable spring rolls
Entrees: Buddha's curry with Maple Hill chicken, house Chinese BBQ duck and pork with Shanghai noodle, or organic tofu Kung Po on rice noodle
Desserts: Ginger panna cotta, flourless chocolate torte, or key lime pie
Beverages: North Bluff white wine, Phoenix Lager, or jade green tea.
The price for the concert and dinner package is $46 + tax & gratuity per person ($44 + tax & gratuity for Garden Society members). Bookings can be made by calling the Garden at 604 662 3207, ext. 209.
Main Street Magazine Tour After-Party
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
8:15pm -10pm | Hall of One Hundred Rivers
Facebook Event
On Thursday, August 18, Vancouver arts and literary magazines team up with local businesses and organizations to host the Main Street Magazine Tour, a one-night series of literary workshops, readings, and performances held in and around Main Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
The tour begins and ends at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Join us at the after-party that includes a special edition of Say Wha? featuring Daniel Zomparelli, Will Johnson, Kevin Lee and Jen Neale presented in collaboration with OCW Magazine.
The Garden is a proud supporter and sponsor of this celebration of local arts and literary magazines and the community spaces in which they thrive.
Zen Leaf
By Lulu Zhang
August 1 - September 2, 2011
Ongoing
Opening Reception
featuring local musicians & projection artists
Saturday, August 13, 2011
7pm-9pm in the Hall of One Hundred Rivers
RSVP on Facebook
Lulu Zhang's "Zen Leaf" blends her love of nature and her Chinese roots with new digital photography and digital printing on silk in the traditional form of the Chinese Scroll. Her earliest influences come from studying with her father as a billboard graphic designer in Shanghai, China. Later combining her industrial design studies and experiences working as a graphic designer, photographer, costume designer and VJ in the rise of modern China's advertising, fashion, music and film industry. Her recent immigration from Shanghai to Vancouver in 2006 has allowed her to experience the great Canadian outdoors that has infused her work with a love of nature.
Lulu Zhang is a local visual artist originally from Shanghai China. Her photo and graphic work includes projects with Sing Tao Daily Newspaper and Magazine, Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden, Art Institute as well as documenting local music festivals and events. She continues to explore digital images and print mediums.
Her "Zen Leaf" exhibit is a symbol of her new life in Canada sharing her love of the traditional Chinese culture, gardens, nature and new technology.
August 25, 2011, 9:30am - 7pm
This month, we got the scholarly version of the "Amazing Race"!
Plus:
- Red envelopes and FREE goodies for everyone;
- 25% off all Garden memberships
Come find out what steps you'd have to go through to become a Scholar Official in 14th century China. Test your own skills and try your hands at scholarly arts at the various stations in the Garden. Remember to collect your stamps and enjoy the last Thursday of the year that we're open from 9:30am - 7pm!
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Many thanks to our our
2011 Enchanted Evenings
Concert Sponsors:
Summer Sponsor: HSBC
Media Sponsors: The Vancouver Sun, The Province, The Vancouver Courier, CiTR Radio, Shaw TV, SHaw Multicultural Channel, Westender, 24Hours, Fairchild Radio, Omni Diversity Television, KVOS Television
Event Sponsors: Rotary Club Vancouver Chinatown, City of Vancouver 125 Years, T& T Supermarket, Tom Lee Music, Rigamarole, Nester's Market, Shaktea, The Irish Heather GastroPub, Calabash Bistro