Following several delays, the weekend is scheduled to arrive this Friday. Clean out your Netflix queue and scour the grocery store for discount heart-shaped chocolate because it's going to be a busy couple days.
Steeping learning curve
About 5,000 years ago – or so the legend goes – China’s ruler Shennong took a rest beneath a camellia tree. Dried leaves drifted into the pot of water he was boiling and changed the future of warm beverages forever.
The history of Chinese tea, which has been medicine for the sick and a stimulant for Buddhist monks, is set to be discussed in The Timeless Art of Brewing Tea at the West Vancouver library.
A traditional Kung Fu Tea is slated for Saturday, from 1 to 3 p.m. Registration is required https://westvanlibrary.ca/events/lunar-new-year-tea-ceremony
Nintendo Tii (for teens)
If you enjoy your tea blended with video games, sandwiches and LGBTQ+ activism, you may want to visit A Sip of Pride. Attending wits are invited to don Victorian costume, make pendant tray necklaces and play Wii or PS3 games rated E or T. “Tea,” as Oscar Wilde once wrote,” is the only simple pleasure left to us.” The teen event is scheduled to begin Friday at 4 p.m. at North Vancouver City Library.
Tangled up in Bluedog
Wailers, crooners, growlers are all invited to sing their songs at Bluedog Guitars’ open mic night on Sunday, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $5. Performers can leave at any time, but dude, you probably shouldn’t walk out right after you finish playing.
Hamlet on wry
It’s the story of Shakespeare’s melancholy prince in Takht–e–Hozi, a Persian performance style combining drama, poetry and music. Hamletak is presented in Farsi with a scene-by-scene breakdown into English provided in a brochure.The curtain rises Sunday at 6:30 p.m. nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre/whats-on/hamletak
Space, personal
This Sunday marks your last chance to see Lynn Green’s solo showThe Space Between: Microcosm, Macrocosm at the West Vancouver Ferry Building Gallery. Green’s background as a goldsmith is on display with 24 karat gold adorning water and oil paintings of landscapes caught between in the power struggle between light and shadow.
Lunar Tune
Anyone interested in taking one small step for the moon is invited to celebrate the lunar new year celebration at Lonsdale Quay Market on Saturday. Fan dancing, a dancing lion, and The God of Fortune are all slated to ring in the Year of the Dog. The event is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and wrap up around 4:30 p.m.
And now, the definitive moon song:
