July 18 2016
This Week In Gastown
Written by Gastown Admin
Eyeland Framemakers to host eco-friendly Trunk Show in collaboration with KUMA
Eyeland Framemakers will be transformed into a KUMA showroom, from Friday, July 22 until Sunday, July 24,2016. Guests will have the opportunity to experience all that this eco-friendly brand has to offer. KUMA is a Vancouver based, eco-conscious brand of frames and sunglasses that work to protect your eyes, as well as our environment. Primarily made from renewability-minded sources such as bamboo, along with other materials that are led and nickel free. When guests purchase a frame – KUMA, in collaboration with non-profit organization ‘Trees for the Future’, will plant one tree in a developing nation
Please visit the KUMA Trunk Show blog post or Facebook event page for more information on this event.
IZA JEWELRY Pop Up Shop in Gastown
Izabela Domachowski, Creative Director & Designer from Domogeneous, is taking her unique jewelery line, IZA, from online sales into an exciting retail environment in Gastown. Located at 8 E. Cordova, the petite but bad ass shop will be open all summer and features last year’s collection Before the Dawn as well as the brand new collection Metallic Dreams. Meet the maker and experience Izabela’s beautiful designs in person.
Photo credit: Evan Leeson on Flickr
Ghostly Vancouver Tours: Gastown
Angel of Victory Statue, 601 W. Cordova Street
July 20th and 23rd at 7.30pm
Join the tour for a wealth of intriguing history and hauntings in Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood. On this 90 minute walking tour you will hear all about the early history of Vancouver as well as Gastown’s many ghost stories!
A2Z at Guilt & Co.
Friday July 22nd Show: 9:30pm
Pay-What-You-Can
A2Z is a new improvisational music collective focused on making the audience move and keep them moving. They will migrate from any genre to do it – afrobeat, dancehall, funk, rock, reggae, soul, zouk-all of these styles and more, and energetically explored by the Vancouver quintet. As the lineup of the project can vary, the steadfast commitment to groove and sonic freedom does not. For the summer of 2016 A2Z’s contributors are:
Tim Proznick, Darren Parris, Mike Agranovich, Gavin Youngash & Maz Zipursky.
JIMMY EDGAR #DeepDownInside at M.I.A
Saturday, July 23rd
10pm
Born in Detroit in 1983, Edgar learned piano in black churches as a kid and DJing among Detroit’s hometown heroes as a teen. Under various personas (including Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale, and Michaux), Edgar spent his late teens and early 20s experimenting with strains of Techno, G-Funk, House, Electro, Bass Music, and even his own “software virus as music”.
Phoebe Ryan at The Alexander
July 23rd @10pm
Phoebe Ryan “Dollar Bill” featuring Kid Ink + come through this Saturday for the early show…
Tickets on sale now: http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail…
FOR A FULL LISTING OF GASTOWN EVENTS CHECK OUT OUR CALENDAR HERE.