I have had a very busy couple weeks with friends, my room mate, and one my own! This post is to fill you in and document for my own memories some of the activities that I have been up to.
Perogie Night
at the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church (154 10 Ave E Vancouver)
My friend Ab informed me that the first Friday of every month is perogie night at a Ukrainian church in town. It doesn't take much twisting my arm to eat perogies and cabbage rolls so we set out to the church for a great 12$ dinner.Pictured is the plate that you get for the vegetarian dinner. A number of potato and cheese pyrogy, three cabbage rolls, sauerkraut(amazing), and a big ol' glob of sour cream!
It was a fantastic dinner and it the number of attendees is a testament to that. There were probably about a hundred people there with more arriving and departing throughout our time at the church.
Needless to say, this will certainly become tradition for me and my friends for future months that I am in Vancouver! Yum.
NO Consent, NO Pipelines Protest
at Victory Square and Sheraton Wall Center (Downtown Vancouver, Coast Salish Territorie
My first protest of 2013, and boy what a protest to start the year off with. Of course many of you have caught wind of the Northern Gateway Pipeline that Enbridge and the Harper Government are pushing through that will transport Tar Sands oil to Kitimat, BC.
On Monday, January 14th Enbridge was holding a Joint Review Panel that the public was not being admitted to. The panel took place at the Sheraton Wall Center Hotel and the Rising Tide group in solidarity with the First Nations and Idle No More movement planned on marching from Victory Square to the joint review panel to make our voices heard.
About 2,000 people gathered at Victory Square and witnessed some really uplifting and jazzy tunes from a local group. The group played their take on some classic protest songs with sax-ama-phones, trumpets, and trombones. After these performances and socializing amongst the crowd, there were some speeches from locals and people from the First Nation community.
By far the neatest part at Victory Square was a traditional Lakota Pipe sharing prayer that was practiced in front of the entire crowd. The pipe sharing was a tradition that is rarely preformed out side the Lakota First Nation. They shared it with people that are not within the First Nations community to show solidarity between them and colonists. It was quite an enlightening experience.
We then marched through downtown making lots of noise and peacefully protesting the pipeline made it to the Sheraton Wall center. This is where we spent about two hours making noise and listening to some speeches from First Nations community and some from the Rising Tide movement. Word came to us from the inside of the panel we could be heard loud and clear 4 stories up in the conference room! I am definitely going to keep my eyes open for more Pipeline and Idle No More Protests happening in Vancouver!
To follow Idle No More visit http://idlenomore.ca/
Neurosis, featuring Tragedy, Black Breath, and Stoneburner
at The Showbox in Seattle
On Saturday, January 5th my room mate and I went to see a show in Seattle. We decided to Couchsurf with a dude name Charles from West Seattle.
The show was fantastic and it was great to see one of my favorite punk bands Tragedy after so many years. Black Breath and Neurosis are two bands that I have started listening to within the last year and both were really good. It was one of those shows that each performance exceeded that of the band before.
Here are a few Videos of the bands live (Not in Seattle tho).
Chelsea Wolfe featuring King Dude
at Media Club (Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories)Last night (January 15th) I went to this Occult Neo-Folk show and it was fantastic. The Dude, King Dude, was awesome as always.
I had never listened to Chelsea Wolfe before bu it is like if one were to breed Blood Ceremony and Death in June together this would be the product. I totally dig it, and it was a great show aside from a girl in the crowd having a seizure mid way through the set. I think she was ok, she was able to walk out once paramedics arrived.
Here are some photos and video! See you next post in when I update about a few Outdoors Adventures!!
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