Volunteer at Chinatown Festival

The 21st Vancouver Chinatown Festival is returning this year on July 15th and 16th.    This community event welcomes thousands and thousands of families, visitors, and volunteers every year.    We celebrate the diversity of the community and showcase Chinatown as an inclusive, sustainable, and resilient neighbourhood.   Vancouver Chinatown Festival has grown into a highly anticipated summer signature event for Vancouverites as well as tourists from around the world.

The Vancouver Chinatown Festival is a free 2-day event that takes visitors through this historic neighbourhood to shop for unique specialty offerings from our local merchants and many more attractions.  Every year, we bring new ideas and activities to make this event an interesting and fun-filled experience for families and visitors, and to include the diversity of our community.

Event Location and Time

106 Keefer Street and neighboring street throughout Chinatown

  • Saturday, July 15th – 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
  • Sunday, July 16th – 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

This is a community celebration and can only be made possible with the help of our amazing volunteers, like you.

Positions & Duties:

Greeter/Event Helper

  • light event set-up/clean up
  • welcome visitors as they arrive
  • answer any wayfinding or event question

 Kids Corner Activities Helper

  • light event set-up/clean up
  • engagement and manning the assigned activities booth

BIA Booth Attendant

  • checking Instagram contest answers, or Chinatown merchants receipt and handing out tokens to qualifying guests
  • maintaining the panda figurine capsule machine in good condition
  • replenish the panda figurine capsule machine as needed
  • support Chinatown BIA staff with merchandise sales
  • replenish merchandise, capsules and supplies as needed

Van Van Mascot Character Dress-up Ambassador 

  • dressed up in Van Van Mascot
  • roaming around festival area to meet and greet visitors
  • act as Chinatown Festival Ambassador

Van Van Mascot Character Helper

  • assist Mascot Ambassador in dressing up as the Van Van Mascot
  • accompany the Van Van Mascot while roaming the festival area

Photographers

  • Capture the essence of this community festival in still images.   The photos will be used for eblast, donor, and sponsorship communications, post-event and future event marking.
  • Focusing on exciting moments on VIP reception, Opening Ceremony, Main stage live entertainment, and visitors interact with Van Van, Food truck, Food vendors, kids corner, animal farm, mahjong game.
  • Especially the traffic generated in this Festival.

Roamers

  • light event set up/clean-up
  • roam throughout the neighbourhood directing people to our event
  • alert staff to any major clean-ups that require immediate attention
  • recommend restaurants/stores etc.

Volunteer Tent Attendant

  • light set-up/clean-up
  • be mindful of volunteers’ backpacks/belongings
  • check volunteers in and out at the beginning and end of their shifts
  • help with volunteer t-shirt sizing
  • replenish water and snacks for volunteers as needed

Cleaner/Monitors

  • light set-up/clean up
  • monitor the food and washroom area
  • provide light cleaning as necessary
  • alert event staff of any required major clean-ups.

Pre and Post Event Helper

  • assist with inspecting, sorting and prepping the decor installations for pre-event
  • assist set-up and tear down the vendor tent
  • assist with sorting, inspection, inventory and storage of event decor for post-event

Please email info@vancouver-chinatown.com and be part of our celebration.

With gratitude,

The Team at the Vancouver Chinatown BIA

Summer Leadership Camp

Environmental Leadership Camps

This year we are hosting a brand new camp! Our Environmental leadership day camps will give teens ages 13 to 15 the opportunity to explore environmental careers, conduct fun outdoor experiments, and share ideas on how we should tackle environmental issues such as climate change. Throughout the week, campers will dig into ten fields of environmental careers, from wildlife conservation to environmental engineering. Campers will be taking part in outdoor activities such as invasive species pulls, team debates, and fun outdoor games. If you are interested in pursuing a career within environmental science and love being outdoors and exploring diverse ecosystems such as Burns Bog, this camp is for you!

Summer Day Camps – Society (burnsbog.org)

GranFondo Volunteers Needed – Sept 7-10

FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE, REGISTER TO JOIN OUR SQUADRA TODAY!

As North America’s largest Gran Fondo, our team relies on a network of kind and enthusiastic volunteers to ensure that our biggest event of the summer goes off without a hitch. Our Squadra of Volunteers are a source of pride for our community and riders; they’re hearty, generous, and determined. We are reaching out to you today because we believe Seycove students fit these descriptors, and so we want to invite your students and faculty to join our Squadra this 2023 season! There are still many volunteer shifts available starting Thursday, September 7th through to Sunday, September 10th, 2023, all of which can be viewed by clicking here!

Register to volunteer with GranFondo Volunteers via VolunteerLocal

WE ENJOY TAKING CARE OF OUR SQUADRA OF VOLUNTEERS!

To show our appreciation, we offer every member of RBC GranFondo Whistler’s 2023 Squadra:

  • Lunch, snacks, & beverages
  • A custom-made RBC GranFondo Whistler Squadra T-Shirt
  • A custom-made 2023 RBC GranFondo Whistler backpack
  • Custom RBC GranFondo Whistler coffee beans from our partners at Forecast, along with various other Squadra Swag Bag Surprises to come from our numerous partners
  • Access to the post-event festivities in Whistler’s Celebration Plaza
  • Access to the NEW & EXCLUSIVE Volunteer & Crew Lounge with surprise activities
  • Access to the post-event Volunteer Thank You Dinner
  • And More Surprises to come!

 

Maritime Museum Volunteers Needed

Maritime Volunteers

Join the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s Summer Camp Youth Team:The VMM is seeking motivated, enthusiastic, and energetic volunteers to assist summer day camps. They will help promote maritime-themed programs and a love of the Pacific and Arctic Oceans through a fun blend of storytelling, games, crafts and walking on an actual boat –the St Roch.

More information:

Summer Day Camps

How to Apply:
Visit https://app.betterimpact.com/PublicOrganization/56226ac2-e941-4c74-8af6-3aaaf6b02752/3 and select “Fill in an Application”

 

SFU Science Youth Programs

STEM SPEAKER SERIES
The STEM Speaker Series provides high school students with the opportunity to meet and interact
with university students, faculty members, and/or working professionals in STEM fields. See topics
for May and June below.

Robotics
May 20, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Grade 8-12
Our guest speaker for May is Paige Tuttosi, who is a PhD student at SFU’s School of Computing
Science. Paige’s current research interests are human computer/human robot interaction,
technology aided language learning and general social good uses for AI. Her talk in May will
introduce the field of robotics with a focus on technology design for human-computer/human-robot
interactions. Join this talk to learn more!
REGISTER HERE

Health Sciences
June 3, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Grade 8-12
Our guest speaker for June is Dr. Malcolm Steinbeig, who is an Associate Professor and the Director
of Public Health Practice at SFU. Dr. Steinberg is also a Physician Epidemiologist with the Division of
STI/HIV Prevention and Control at the BC Centre for Disease Control. His talk in June will introduce
the field of public health and its importance. Join this talk to learn more!
REGISTER HERE

HOUR++ OF CODE
The Hour Plus Plus of Code event features various one-off workshops for school-age students to
learn how to code and implement popular digital tools. Between May to June 2023, we will be
offering multiple online workshops on various topics ranging from user interface and experience
design, programming logic foundations (in Python and Java), mobile app development, and game
development. Please review the overview and requirements document for each workshop before
registering. Not sure if coding is for you? Join us for these workshops and let us change your mind!

Intro to Git
May 25, 2023 | 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Grade 10-12
REGISTER HERE

UX & UI Design
June 1, 2023 | 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Grade 10-12
REGISTER HERE

Turtle Graphics in Python
June 3, 2023 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Part 1 | Grade 8-12
June 3, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Part 2 | Grade 8-12
REGISTER FOR PART 1 HERE REGISTER FOR PART 2 HERE

Python Programming
June 10, 2023 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Part 1 | Grade 8-12
June 10, 2023 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Part 2 | Grade 8-12
REGISTER FOR PART 1 HERE   REGISTER FOR PART 2 HERE

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North Shore Volunteer Fair – May 27

Are you a senior, newcomer, im/migrant, teen or active community member? Interested in volunteering but not sure where to start?

Come and join us to:

  • Learn more about the benefits of volunteering and the opportunities on the North Shore;
  • Connect with over 20 local organizations;
  • Learn to use the volunteer North Shore database to find opportunities.

Admission is free. Registration is not required.

This program is a collaboration between North Shore Community Resources, North Vancouver City Library, Impact North Shore, NSIIP, MONOVA, North Vancouver District Public Library and West Vancouver Memorial Library.