The Eastside Arts Festival is coming up and I have a super duper prize package up for grabs that includes 2 tickets to several of their events:

The Coal Harbour kiwis are back this season 🥝 #vancouver

This watch party location is ending when TSN moves out July 7th.

#1 book of the summer!! (in our hearts) 🤍🤍

Enjoy a lineup of free entertainment this July and August in Burnaby at Summer Stages in Confederation Park (starting July 14), and Summer Cinema at Civic Square and Confederation Park (starting August 14). Miss604 is a sponsor again this year 🎶

Good morning! Some local bookstores that have FREECOUVER in stock today: - Iron Dog Books 2671 E Hastings - Lucky's Books and Comics 3128 Main St - Book Warehouse 632 W Broadway + 4118 Main St have copied signed by John - @pfbvan.bsky.social 2442 Main St #booksky #books #vancouver

Watch party views in Vancouver #WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup

John is making the rounds today signing some copies of FREECOUVER. One more at @pfbvan.bsky.social 📚✍️

Lucky's, one of #Vancouver's coolest bookstores, has our book! Does that make me cool as well? What do you mean, "No?"

FREECOUVER is also featured in this month’s @megaphonemagazine.com where I chat with my co-author @johnleewriter.bsky.social about the book and we highlight some free events around Vancouver this summer. Find a vendor: megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

Thanks to @wflbc.bsky.social for this awesome review of our book FREECOUVER: 101 free things to do in & around Vancouver 📚 The book is in stores now. @johnleewriter.bsky.social

From #CANMNT 🇨🇦❤️ Every story has an ending This is just the beginning #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

I would be so happy for this Moroccan squad if this wasn’t happening to us 😂😭 #WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup

Watching her progress, she’s almost there!

THE JULY ISSUE OF MEGAPHONE MAGAZINE IS OUT NOW 💥 This issue of Megaphone features a cover story on former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, who reflects on decades of work in the Downtown Eastside and what meaningful change could look like. megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

+ Freecouver — Rebecca Bollwitt’s (Miss604) new book she co-authored with John Lee ferrets out all the fun, free sights and activities in Metro Vancouver! @miss604.com All this + more in the July edition of Megaphone magazine! megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

#SaveTheCaps ⚽️

Signed some copies of FREECOUVER at Paper-Ya on Granville Island ✍️ @johnleewriter.bsky.social already signed them too 📚 #booksky #books #vancouver

There's a crowdfunding campaign on now for a documentary feature that will highlight the growing community behind North America’s only regular comedy show dedicated to trans women. #vancouver #film

Events around Vancouver this weekend:

THE TOP 30 HOPE IN SHADOWS IMAGES ARE HERE 💥 For 24 years, Megaphone vendors and storytellers have captured their communities through a single-use camera. This year’s theme, “Work,” celebrates labour in all its forms. Vote July 1–31! 📸 tinyurl.com/4fj3eu4c

Stanley Park Ecology is launching a new series of summer tours! 🌿 Beyond the seawall lies a rich world of forests, wetlands, wildlife, and hidden ecological stories waiting to be explored. Join a guided summer program:

Vote now to help choose the top 13 photographs from a Downtown Eastside community photography initiative that will appear in the 2027 Hope in Shadows calendar @megaphonemagazine.com

Events around Vancouver this weekend including free First Friday Afternoons at @billreidgallery.ca and @vanartgallery.bsky.social plus an ice cream social in Surrey, Bard in the Valley, the Comic Arts Festival, mini golf in Stanley Park, and more.

Thanks @wflbc.bsky.social for this awesome review of our book FREECOUVER: 101 free things to do in & around Vancouver

The City of Vancouver is having an emergency council meeting at noon today to make the Granville strip car free for the rest of the summer. They're proposing $4 million be given to a discretionary fund for "programming and activation costs" for the six week extension.

Hello, July! Here’s your Metro Vancouver events calendar for the month. It’s updated daily so check back often:

Some photos I took at Canada Together at Canada Place including a signature Matt Rose hair-in-wind action shot 🤘🎸 #music #vancouver

Good times at Canada Together at Canada Place. Happy to sponsor again this year. Lots of activities, performances, and expanded Indigenous Market [Kanata shirt by Indigenous Ingenuity] Forgot to ask you where I can get one of those rainbow @copevancouver.bsky.social t-shirts, @seanorr.bsky.social

Busy day so far at Canada Together. It’s on until 6pm, inside and outside Canada Place.

Did you know that you can share your literary events, such as readings, workshops, festivals, panels, and book launches, to the @readlocalbc.bsky.social Events Calendar? 🔖 Submit your literary events here: www.readlocalbc.ca/event-submis... View the calendar here: www.readlocalbc.ca/events/

There are parades, fireworks, and drone shows all across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley for Canada Day but NOTE: there are NO fireworks in downtown Vancouver on July 1st. The biggest celebration will be Canada Together at Canada Place, from 11am to 6pm along the waterfront, indoors/outdoors

The Vancouver @whitecapsfc.com #Pride match is August 1st when they return to BC Place for MLS play against LAFC.

Vancouver’s Girl in a Wetsuit statue has changed jerseys again, now she’s supporting Mexico 🇲🇽 #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup

Squamish cat named Goose rescued from a tree by an arborist named Tiger

Canada Day events around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. See who has drone shows, fireworks, parades, and more. I have also included two Indigenous-led pop-ups.

In stores now: FREECOUVER: 101 free things to do in & around Vancouver 📚 A day out in and around the most expensive city in Canada doesn’t have to break the bank––if you know where to go. #booksky #books #vancouver #canada 100% Canadian 🇨🇦 Thanks to @johnbiehler.bsky.social for the photo 📸

Voting is open in the next round of UBC’s most famous alum bracket #VoteNardwuar

The BC Nurses Union has issued a 72-hour strike notice, meaning nurses across the province could start taking job action starting July 2 at noon. #bclab

Woooowwwwwww Excited for @whitecapsfc.com’s Andrés Cubas and Paraguay!! 🎉 (as a daughter of a German immigrant I am also screaming a little on the inside) #WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup

The Vancouver Chinatown Festival is Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26 at Keefer x Columbia. Lots of entertainment, crafts, food trucks, and more. FREE.

Fridays on Front is downtown New Westminster’s summer street party with live performances, food trucks, local vendors, and family fun. FREE. On Fridays July 10 to August 21. #NewWest

two decades ago, there was an economy that allowed your small town to have six local reporters who would keep government accountable and give the community a shared understanding of reality now, there's an economy that allows 600 people to post reels about your cafe "that nobody is talking about"

Not going to lie this is my dream summer weather in Vancouver 🥹

May 2025 / June 2026 PNE Amphitheatre (aka Freedom Mobile Arch)

Want more soccer today? Vancouver Rise FC @vancouverrisefc.bsky.social (defending @nsl.ca champs) are playing Toronto right now. Watch live:

CANAADDAAAAAAAA

TSN making a point to say Terry Fox passed away on this day 45 years ago 😭🇨🇦

Being Canadian sometime we make ourselves small but we dare to dream big 🇨🇦 (paraphrasing astronaut Jeremy Hansen in this #WorldCup intro)

Shout out to all the Voyageurs and #CANMNT support in LA today 🇨🇦 #WorldCup #AllezLesRouges