Visitors can expect food trucks and live music on each day of the festival, including a wide range of genres like R&B, soul, funk, country, pop, jazz, and Brazilian Samba.
Additionally, there will be a number of artisans and artists with their work on display and available for purchase.
City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan adds that she’s excited about the upcoming event, noting that it’s more important than ever for the community to connect.
“I think at some point over the past year and a half we’ve all longed for the large social gatherings we couldn’t hold safely during the pandemic,” Buchanan says in a statement. “This festival is one more way that we are making the City the place to be.”
“The City is exploring all opportunities,” City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan told Daily Hive late last month. “We know that there are ways we can add to the vibrancy of the community through events, arts, and culture.”
Shipyards Night Market explained its decision on social media, noting that it was important to focus on the local businesses in North Vancouver’s Lower Lonsdale area.
“After much observation, thought, and insight, it is in everyone’s best interest to let the current businesses in the Lower Lonsdale Shipyards District gain traction and give their best to the community,” reads an Instagram post.
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“It’s been probably a decade in the making, and certainly the transformation of Lower Lonsdale has been a couple of decades in the making,” City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan tells Daily Hive Urbanized. “That’s obviously really nice to be recognized for all the hard work over the years to make this happen.”
Opening of The Shipyards on North Vancouver’s Lonsdale waterfront on July 20, 2019. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
Buchanan says that since The Shipyards opened in 2019, it’s only grown “more and more popular,” noting that it’s one of the largest covered spaces in Canada.
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The Canadian oilpatch acquisition market received a ringing endorsement on Thursday. Mike Rose, the CEO of Tourmaline Oil Corp., said there are still many potential acquisition targets in Western Canada but that may change if recently higher global oil prices continue to strengthen.
Earlier this week, Tourmaline reported increased earnings and production over the last three months of 2020. Rose said the fourth-quarter boon has allowed the Calgary-based energy company to consider several possible acquisition deals.
“I mean, if oil prices continue to run and solidify then perhaps that pipeline of opportunities slows down but right now we’re always busy evaluating and we only transact on very small proportion of the things we look at,” Rose said during a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter results.