Celebrate Canadian agriculture with us the week of February 11-16!
Tour admission: $8 tax for kids ages 3 , students & seniors, $10 tax for adults.
Ask us how you can upgrade to a YEAR MEMBERSHIP at no additional cost!

Tours run hourly on the half hour: 10:30, (11:30 start on Sundays), 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 & 3:00.
Guided tours will visit the dairy barn and meet the EcoDairy Milk cows, view the robot milker, and take you a step into the future where we grow wheat grass hydroponically indoors!
Visit the petting zoo animals, explore our hands-on Discovery Zone and watch our 5 minute intro moo-vie before or after your tour.

In addition to tours we will have:
– Special Ag Week activities for the kids and kids at heart
– EcoDairy Milk tastings
– Photo booth
– COW Face Painting Tuesday-Friday (11th-14th)

Check our Instagram page & stories for a special barn building contest to win a sweet kids prize pack.

Stay tuned for more updates, let’s raise our forks to Canadian Agriculture!

Vancouver Pet Lover Show celebrates animal lovers from the Vancouver area and the lower mainland.

This year, your family dog can try the Paws on Activity Area where you can bring your pet and have your training questions not only answered, but demonstrated with your pet right at the show. We have a lot of brand new exhibitors with thousands of products to show you and amazing show specials. See every cat imaginable at the cat show, attend interactive and informative seminars by veterinarians and top professionals. Don’t miss the rabbit and dog agility shows, raptor shows, dancing dogs, and K9 detection demonstrations – just a few of the attractions.

Times:Saturday 10am-6pm
Sunday 10am-5pm

Admission: Adult $14.00
Senior (65 ) $10.00
Youth (6-15) $10.00
Child 5 and Under free
Family (2 youth, 2 adult) $34.00

Parking: $7.00 per day

On Sunday, February 16th, 2020 The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford will host a fun, free Family Day that celebrates the ordinary and the extraordinary! You won’t want to miss this day of immersive installations, artmaking workshops, guided tours, collaborative colouring boards, prizes, and a special artist performance by macromatter!

Macromatter takes things seriously, but not too seriously. Multidisciplinary maker and insatiable tinkerer Robert Leveroos tells stories using live art, animation, and handmade objects in a performance that appeals to the whole family.

Schedule:
12:00 -5:00 pm: Guided tours and arts & crafts
• Interactive Exhibitions
• 15 min Guided Tours for the whole family
• Collaborative art projects and DIY maker stations
• Prize Draws

1:00-2:30 & 3:30-5:00 pm: Sunday Family Art Workshops* Build Your Own Character

For this special Family Day version of Sunday Family Arts, participants will take inspiration from macromatter’s performance Fragile and immerse themselves in the exciting world of character creation. Explore shape language, expression, and gesture to make your own paper productions where your imagination is the only limitation!

* Please note that this is a class for children and adults. Availability is on a first-come, first-serve basis with a class capacity of 30 participants. In order to respect the timeframe for classes, latecomers can only be accommodated up to 10 minutes past class start time. At that point, no latecomers will be admitted.

2:30-3:30pm: Family Day Feature: macromatter’s live performance of Fragile

Experience this live performance that follows three generations of family stories using miniature sets that are projected onto the big screen in real time. Following this forty minute performance, stay to meet the artist and tour the miniature sets. Fragile has something for the whole family, and is ideally geared toward children ages 5 and up.

Charles Richard-Hamelin burst onto the international scene in 2015 when he became the silver medalist and laureate of the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. He is one of Canada’s
leading pianists and has performed as a soloist with many of this country’s major orchestras as well as orchestras around the world. I had been waiting for such a performance since the beginning of the Competition.

“The man is every inch an artist, an extraordinarily mature musician who focuses on the beauty of Chopin’s works, which he performs with a high degree of consciousness. He is one of the few who can find a wise balance between the spirit of Chopin and his own individuality, which he demonstrated, for instance, in his masterful interpretation of the Ballade in A-flat major.”
-Róża Światczyńska, Polish Radio 2 (October 7, 2015)

His recordings have received widespread acclaim from critics, beginning with his first solo recording of the late works of Chopin. His most recent release was of the two Chopin Piano Concertos with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Kent Nagano. Classic FM, London’s most important classical radio station, chose this CD as its Album of the Week in April, 2019. Richard-Hamelin will serve as the clinician at the third piano master class hosted by The Valley Concert Society on Saturday, February 22, 2020.

This engaging juvenile sturgeon conservation workshop provides participants with hands-on experience learning and discovering more about conservation concerns related to North America’s largest freshwater species, white sturgeon. During this workshop participants will have the opportunity to catch, land, tag and release these fish in partnership with the Fraser Valley Angling Guides Association.

This unique and engaging conservation workshop aims to connect the general public to sturgeon conservation and the Heart of the Fraser in an exciting, educational and engaging manner.

For more information or to register please contact us at 1-888-881-2293 or email us at tobias.roehr@bcwf.bc.ca.

Our Cult Craft film nights are an ever-evolving event. We partner with FunFAYR Pictures and Abbotsford Film Festival to bring fun, cult favourites to Abbotsford for a movie in the park feel, but indoors in the back of our brew house. Still in the beginning stages of running, we are hoping to build this up to a monthly event, mixing up the film selection to bring you both classics and introduce you to something you may have not heard of!

This time around we will be screening Ghostbusters, with craft beer of course, as we enjoy this classic cult film! Your $10 Ticket includes admission and your first beverage, with a $5 beer special for the rest of the night. Food service will be provided beforehand, so reserve your meal and come out early! Doors open at 6pm for beers and mingling, with the film starting at 7pm.

We will be providing seating, but feel free to bring your own lawn chair/bean bag/hammock to bring your comfort levels to the max!

Grab your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cult-craft-ghostbusters-tickets-90270283849?aff=ebdssbeac

Based in Victoria, BC, the Sobremesa Saxophone Quartet will be sharing their music with audiences on the Lower Mainland from Feb 19-23rd.
Formed in 2017 at the University of Victoria, Sobremesa has since gone on to receive awards from the BC Performing Arts Festival and the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival alike (2017-2019).

On this evening, Sobremesa will be presenting a sizable program of saxophone music that displays the instrument’s capabilities in the classical genre, and hopes to share what they love with you!

Come enjoy an evening of diverse and exciting saxophone chamber music at St. Matthew’s Anglican in Abbotsford. Tickets are 20 dollars and kids under 12 come free. This event is Family Friendly, so come as you are!

Tickets available on Eventbrite, through church office, and at the door. See link for all information.

The Fraser Valley Wind Ensemble (FVWE) proudly announces their 2020 spring concert, Transcendental Songs, at the beautiful Matsqui Centennial Auditorium in Abbotsford, BC. This concert will be our second annual collaboration with the very talented Royal City Concert Band (RCCB) based out of New Westminster. Under the batons of artistic directors Rob Goddard (FVWE) and Kris Covlin (RCCB) the ensembles will explore repertoire with themes of transcendental reflection. Featuring David Maslanka’s masterpiece “Give Us This Day” as well as music by Ticheli, Meechan, and more.

Tickets: $15 General; $10 Student