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Dear Vancouver 21 Readers,

I have arrived in Shanghai China yesterday (Aug 26, 2011) travelling with the 2011 World Music Fashion Festival (WMFF). We shall visit 5 cities in China. First stop is Shanghai and will stay here until the end of August and then we shall fly up north to Dalian and onto other cities.

Organized by Empress Media of Vancouver, WMFF comes to China to put on a music and fashion festival to introduce to the Chinese audience an international cast of musicians and fashion designers. Two musical acts will perform here – Isis Salam and Behind Sapphire. Designers includes Canada`s own Evan Biddell, Fala Chien and Paul Hardy. U.S. fashion line Juma and Arido and from Korea Kyuin Chae are also featured.

As access to YOUTUBE is not possible from my hotel. I shall likely be able to post photos and stories and save the videos for later when I get back to Vancouver in a month`s time.

Please be patient with me and most importantly, I like to take this opprtunity to thank all of you very much for the support in the past which was very much appreciated but rarely got the chance to say it.

Take care everyone and we`ll meet each other online soon.

Best,

Ray Van Eng
Publisher-Reporter

Empress Media of Vancouver is ready to launch its 2011 World Music Fashion Festival in China with a selected group of 6 international fashion designers and 20 models from Canada, U.S. and Asia and will visit Shanghai, Dalian and 3 other cities in China. The designers are Evan Biddell, Fala Chien, Paul Hardy, Kyuin Chae, Juma and Arido Jewelry. Also performing alongside the fashion catwalk are two musical groups – Isis Salam and Behind Sapphire. The entourage is scheduled to arrive in Shanghai on Aug 27, 2011 and put up a music and fashion show in different cities around China until Sep 26.

VIDEO – 2011WMFF – See You in China!

[Fashion Video produced by Ray Van Eng / V21 Media. Video contains clips provided by individual fashion designers. Music by Isis Salam - Avenue.]
Empress Communications, 566 Beatty Street, Vancouver BC

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The 2011 World Music Fashion Festival is going to China with a selected group of international designers from Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. They are Evan Biddell, Fala Chien, Kyuin Chae, Paul Hardy, Juma & Arido Jewelry. First stop is Shanghai, then onto Dalian, Hefei, Chengdu and Hangzhou, China. The music and fashion festival features musical bands Isis Salam and Behind Sapphire. The festival is a mix of concerts and fashion catwalks in a theatre setting often combined with a trade show exhibit for the fashion and clothing industry. The festivities in China will begin from late August to September of 2011. Please visit 2011 World Music Fashion Festival for details.

VIDEO – WMFF Designers Ready For China

[Video Producer: Ray Van Eng / V21 Media. Video contains footage provided by various fashion designers. Music by Behind Sapphire – Oh My, What A Fine Day.]
Empress Communications, 566 Beatty Street, Vancouver BC

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This year’s The Playland at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) features the usual line-up of exciting rides. Featured in this video are The Breakdance, Gladiator, Scooters, Wave Swinger, Westcoast Wheel and more. The Fair at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) will open on Aug 20, 2011 and runs until Sep 05, 2011.

For fees, specials and details, visit The Fair at The PNE.
VIDEO – PNE 2011 Rides

Pacific National Exhibition, Hastings Park.

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One of the highlights of Vancouver’s Aboriginal Tourism (AtBC) Klahowya Village is a miniature train ride on the Spirit Catcher Train. The 18-minute train ride around the Douglas tree-lined forest features the telling of a popular Coast Salish First Nations story – Raven Steals The Sun. Aided by an onboard voice-over, live actor performances, native songs and aboriginal props along the way, this ancient tale ignites the senses and sparks the imagination of the of the children and parents who enjoyed the locomotive ride. A perfect way for a whole family to spend a perfect summer afternoon in the city’s world-famous Stanley Park.

The Klahowya Village at Stanley Park will stay open until Sep. 11, 2011. Tickets for the Spirit Catcher Train Ride are Adult $10, Senior/Child $8 and free for children under 2 and include Gate Admission to the ground which otherwise would be Adult $5 and Senior/Child $3.

VIDEO – Spirit Catcher Train at Klahowya Village in Stanley Park

Klahowya Village, 1000 Pipeline Road, Vancouver BC

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A team organized by Empress Communications in Vancouver is preparing to depart to China and will arrive in Shanghai to put on a fashion and music festival from Aug 28-Sep. 26, 2011. The 2011 World Music Fashion Festival tour will visit five Chinese cities including Shanghai, Dalian, Hefei, Chengdu and Hangzhou. The one-month long event will showcase two musical acts – Isis Salam and Behind Sapphire and six International fashion designers from U.S., Canada and France – Fala Chien, Paul Hardy, Arido Jewelry, Kyuin Chae, Evan Biddell and Juma. 20 models will join the tour for the catwalk as well. The show combines a runway fashion show and a live music concert. Each show will be no more than 120 minutes in length, performed at a theatre setting and will be widely covered by local media in each city to reach an audience of millions. The 2011 World Music Fashion Festival tour is the first of its kind in China and is aimed at introducing to the Chinese audience, concert-goers and fashionistas and the public a selection of worldwide fashion designers and musicians without having the Chinese traveling abroad. Photos from this fashion model were taken in available light and are candid portraits. The model shoot took place in Vancouver on Aug 13, 2011.

[Photos by Ray Van Eng http://www.vancouver21.com]



















































Empress Communications, 566 Beatty Street, Vancouver BC

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The Richmond Maritime Festival 2011 was held at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard on August 05-07, 2011. During this weekend, people from the Greater Vancouver area and beyond, many with their entire family, came to Steveston, Richmond BC to visit the cannery row, First Nations Bunkhouse, Murakami Boatworks, Chinese Bunkhouse, BC heritage boat the S.S. Master, the Canadian Navy boats, tugboats, model boats, sailors, Fleetwood the 1930s rumrunner etc. They also explored Britannia Shipyard and the carpentry, engine and machine shop that serviced the fishing fleet of the Anglo British Columbia Packing Company and enjoyed musical performances by local artists, colorful characters in costumes and listened to sea shanty tales.

Steveston is at the south arm of the Fraser River which is one of the world’s richest salmon resources. Each year, millions of Pacific salmon of all species including Sockeye, Pink, Chum, Chinook, Coho and Steelhead make a long journey home from the ocean and swim through here and up the Fraser River to spawn and complete their habitat cycle.

Naturally, Steveston BC has a long history of salmon fishing and cannery row that reach back into the later half of the 19th century. Of course before the European and Asian settlers, the aboriginals of the Coast Salish tribes have been catching salmons for food for at least hundreds of years.

A Japanese boat, Mukai, is now fully refurbished and sat just outside of the Richmond Boat Builders building waiting to be re-launched back to the Fraser River and beyond where it once tread.

Of particular interest to many Asian visitors is the Chinese Bunkhouse which housed an interior that showed how the Chinese cannery workers had lived in the 1900s while working for the Anglo British Columbia Packing Company in Steveston, BC. These artifacts exemplified why these early Chinese settlers were also pioneers of Canada.







































5180 Westwater Drive, Steveston, BC

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At Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival 2011 in Oppenheimer Park on July 30, 2011, Japanese martial arts, Karate, Judo and exercising are featured in the open fairground which was free for public entry. In a self-defense against a knife attack demo, they used a real knife. This act is EXTREMLY DANGEROUS, so DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. The participants were Japan martial arts experts who practiced this act for a very long time to avoid serious injuries.

VIDEO – Karate, Defense Against Knife Attack

Oppenheimer Park, 400 Powell Street, Vancouver BC

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After a week long celebration of the Vancouver Pride Week 2011 of the Gay, Lesbian, LGBT & LGBTTQ lifestyles, the people of Vancouver capped it all off with a Pride Parade 2011 along Robson and Denman street. At Vancouver21.com, we proudly dubbed the festivities as GAY AND THE CITY which started on July 25th with a Vancouver City Hall official kickoff of events that included the raising of the Rainbow Flag and a proclamation by Mayor Gregor Robertson together with Vancouver’s very own gay personality Joan-E, former MP Bill Siksay and other lesbian and gay activists such as Ken Coolen, Ron Dutton and L.A. gay pioneer Pat Rocco who launched the world’s very first gay parade in the early 1970s. At the same time, the city also launched the 2nd annual North America Out Games being held concurrently with the Vancouver Pride Week. On July 31, 2011, the Vancouver Pride Parade took place in the downtown and West End areas. Hundreds of thousands of spectators and participants heeded the call to join the street party.

VIDEOS – GAY AND THE NAKED CITY!



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