Guide Lines
15 February 2002
+Happy International Tourist Guide Day to one and all guides. Today is also the first day of a new website....The guiding association of Montreal, APGT, is on-line at www.apgtmontreal.org. It is full of information and I suggest you take a look.
+We are pleased to announce that at our next meeting we will have two Chuck's attending. Our own Chuck Herron, CTGA President, and Vancouver author Chuck Davis will be brining several copies of his new book and a short slide show on old and new Vancouver. The meeting will be held on Thursday evening February 28th at the Architectural Institute of BC...#100 - 440 Cambie Street (between West Pender and West Hastings). They will provide the meeting space and will talk to us about the architectural walks that they provide during the summer months. Mr. Davis will speak and we'll then have a short CTGA discussion period. Please note the early start time: This meeting will commence at 6:30 PM and end by 8:45 PM. +Also on Thursday February 28th, but at 9 AM, we'll hold another Focus Committee Meeting on Guiding Issues, and once again it will be with HRDC's Tom Steele and Mickey Kurylowich at the Sandman Hotel on West Georgia Street. Together we are developing a new application form that an employer who is trying to bring in a foreign worker would have to fill out. More details will follow but if you are interested in joining us, please do.
+It is looking more and more that our next About Town Tour will take place on Tuesday March 19th. Stay tuned.
+We have been getting a number of request's to do a Victoria Tour training trip and we will. At the moment it will either happen during the week of March 25th or the following week in early April....and likely on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. If you are interested, please RSVP now. I anticipate the cost would be around the $25 dollar mark. More details will follow....
+Artist Director Christopher Gaze is proud to announce the playbill for this year's Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. The season begins on June 12th and runs to September 22nd in open-ended tents in Vanier Park (Kitsilano...Vancouver). On the 520-seat Mainstage will be the delicious comedy Twelfth Night which will run on the dates listed above. Henry V plays in repertory with Twelfth Night beginning June 25th till September 21st. On the 225-seat Douglas Campbell Studio Stage will be the rarely seen epic romance, Cymbeline from July 9th to September 1st.
Additional festival events include Bard'B'Q'd and Fireworks (The Celebration of Light on Wednesday July 31st, Saturday August 3rd, Wednesday August 7th, and Saturday August 10th), Celebrating Red and White wine tasting (Aug. 17), and Symphony Opera and Shakespeare featuring Vancouver's own 3 Divas (Aug. 19 & 26th).
Now in it's 13th Season Bard on the Beach is Western Canada's only professional Shakespeare company. Three plays are staged in repertory in open-ended tents that capture the changing skyline from stunning sunsets to flash summer storms. Bard on the Beach consistently garners rave reviews with 2001 attendance exceeding 65,000 - a record-breaking 97% of capacity.
Performances run Tuesdays through Sundays. Ticket prices range from $15 to $26. Play schedule and updates on the 2002 Festival can be found on the Bard website at www.bardonthebeach.org. For tickets and information, call 604-739-0559. (Photos may be downloaded from the Bard website "News & Media Section.")
+Our regular end-of-month members meeting for March is set for Wednesday March 27th at 7 PM at the Sandman Hotel on West Georgia and Cambie in downtown Vancouver. Why are we meeting on a Wednesday night? Because Thursday the 28th is Good Thursday, followed by Good Friday the 29th and Easter Sunday is March 31st. We hope to have a couple of guest speakers at this meeting one of whom will be from the BC Mining Museum at Britannia Beach.
Congratulations to all of the Canadian Olympians who competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Utah, especially to those who won a medal ! ! !
Go Canada Go ! ! !
Thanks...Jeff V :-)
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