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Vancouver Academy of Music The Academy is more than just a school of music. It’s a community where students can grow as musicians. They offer classical classes for all levels from three-year olds...
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Surrey Museum Surrey Museum has been busy collecting artifacts, and building an audience. When they amassed almost 100,000 artifacts and archival documents, they decided it was time for a new home...
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MN8 Sound One youth says the MN8 Sound Program was the best thing that ever happened to him. That is the power of music. Therapist Avrum Nadigel created the program hoping that music would help youth...
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Kiwassa Neighbourhood House runs an art therapy program for pre-teens in East Vancouver. Issues like self-esteem, identity and bullying can pose challenges for kids. Kiwassa encourages them to work...
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Ballet Kelowna Words cannot convey the beauty of this movement. Tour jeté en l’air, panché arabesque, into lift. Retiré into fouetté pirouette, finish with lift, arms en haut. They do it again… and...
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Vancouver Humane Society Leslie Fox, from the Vancouver Humane Society teaches youth to think critically about how their food choices affect the environment. Typically people see animal rights as...
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Richmond Homeless Cats It’s Club Med for cats – the largest cat shelter in North America. All they want is love, says one volunteer. And they get it here in Richmond on six acres of suburban farmland...
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Pesticide poisonings, car accidents, fighting, shootings: the world can be fraught with hazards for birds of prey. OWL Rehabilitation Society in Delta cares for eagles, owls, hawks and falcons as...
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Access to health care can be difficult in remote, rural areas. But thanks to technology, patients can avoid a trip to larger cities and still get help, counselling and answers to their questions...
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