11:00 AM - 1:30 PM Location: 800 Robson St, Vancouver (Game Plan Robson Square)
Do you have your 2010 travel plan? Are you ready to TravelSmart? Game Plan 2010 will help residents and businesses better understand transportation operations leading up to and during the Games. Join the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) and its partners, including the City of Vancouver and TransLink, in an open-house setting to learn more about changes to the transportation network and ask questions of the experts.
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 9:30 AM Location: West 2nd Avenue and Cambie Street
Everyone is invited to celebrate the launch of the Olympic Line, Vancouvers 2010 Streetcar on January 21, 2010 at 9:30 am next to the Canada Line Olympic Village Station near the corner of West 2nd Avenue and Cambie Street. Be the first to ride the train and receive a first rider certificate from Bombardier Transportation and the Host City Team. There will also be live entertainment and the opportunity to meet Olympians and Paralympians! The Olympic Line is a free transit system and will run between Granville Island and 2nd Avenue and Cambie Street between January 21 and March 21, 2010. And once you get off the Olympic Line near Cambie Street, why not check out the light-based public art (under the Cambie Street Bridge) and Neighbourhood Energy Utility interpretive centre?
Location: Dunbar Community Centre Contact: 604-222-6052, Sophie Noel
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Kerrisdale Community Centre Contact: 604-257-8114, Kristi Douglas
Mark your calendars! Vancouver Community Centers are offering free torch lantern making workshops. The City of Vancouver invites you to make your own torch lantern to hold as you watch the Olympic and Paralympic relays pass through Vancouver. The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay is a symbol of peace and friendship, and it represents a summons to the 2010 Winter Games. Everywhere the Torch Relay travels, it creates unique opportunities to engage people and communities. During its 106-day journey across Canada, the Olympic Torch Relay will travel through all Canadian provinces and territories, covering more than 45,000 km. This makes it the longest domestic relay in Games history. The Olympic Flame comes to Vancouver on February 11 and 12, 2010, and will visit many historic sites and neighbourhoods.
Location: The Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash St., Vancouver Contact: Vancouver Jewish Film Festival Society, Sandy Penn 604-266-0245 Email: sandypenn@gmail.com