Welcome to where you live No matter what led you to Chilliwack on the eastern edge of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley — work, family, school, the cheaper than Vancouver real estate — I have a question. How much do you really know about where you’ve chosen to live? Sure, you’ve experienced the manure stink. You’ve…
Hi reader, Birthdays are kind of arbitrary. And unless there’s a plan I don’t know about, we’re not even celebrating ours with cake. But I do feel it’s important to recognize our milestones: to lay out where we’ve been and where we’re going. Raspberry was created a year ago after a lot of…
Youth is glorified as a time of great mobility, energy, and blissful ignorance. This has long been the case; our views of youth extend from the mythological (the fountain of youth, the philosopher’s stone) to the technological (alleged age-repelling products and Photoshop flattery). When we imagine the quintessential young person, some of us see her…
As Darin Graham of Boardwalk Café once said, describing his business’ relationship with local board game stores: “A rising tide lifts all ships.” For the last few years, the number of craft breweries in the Fraser Valley has been growing exponentially. We’ve become very familiar with names like Old Abby Ales, Dead Frog, Field House,…
2017 will be an exciting year across Canada as the country celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Confederation. Our history as a nation has been fraught with the complexities inherent to colonial activity. For this reason, The Reach Gallery Museum is using this important opportunity to reflect on Canada’s 150th year with exhibitions and programming that…
The Fraser Valley has a burgeoning underbelly of homegrown music. Here’s a guide to some of the best spots and most accessible ways for bands and musicians to get out and get playing around the Central Valley in Abbotsford and Mission. Open Stages at The Spotted Owl The old Airfare Lounge is reborn, with Harma…
During my three and a half years as Executive Director of the Abbotsford Arts Council (AAC), I witnessed a distinct shift in the way the major cultural institutions in the city operated. When I started working in the arts community in 2012, these institutions seemed to operate largely independently of each other. There was some…
