As part of the Dine Out Vancouver Festival – Get set for an extraordinary night of art, eating and drinking in Mount Pleasant. Visit resident artists, taste dishes and imbibe at several of the neighbourhood’s eateries and food spots.
Following your “digital map passport” as your guide, you will enjoy dishes, bites, sips as well as have a chance to meet the artists, chefs, and discover more around the neighbourhood.
**** VIP Experience ***** a limited number of tickets are available at this special price during a preview hour that begins at 5pm. You will be taken on a food and drink journey by the Chef of the Tamaly Shop and 2 Latin American artists exclusive to this VIP Experience.in the heart of Mount Pleasant, You will then continue on to experience the event in it’s entirety.
Participating restaurants and establishments include some of the Mount Pleasant’s best including:
Tamale Shop
2525 Main Street, Vancouver
Instagram:@tamalyshop
Cuisine Mexican
Specializing in house-made tamales and other Mexican eats and drinks, this wonderful eatery also features their own house-made Mexican baked goods that includes Concha and other Mexican breads; as well they sell a variety of Mexican and other Latin American grocery items.
Maizal
2815 Main Street, Vancouver
Web: https://maizalrestaurant.ca/
Instagram: @maizal_rmf
Cuisine: Mexican
Enjoy classic hand-crafted cuisine just like on the streets of Mexico. Enjoy gluten free dishes, real Mexican beverages and their famous soft shell tacos. Fresh corn tortillas made to order and more.
Pizza Rubato Napoletana
561 W. Broadway, Vancouver
Tel:(604) 909-0773
Web: https://www.pizzarubato.com/
Instagram @pizzarubato
Cuisine: pizza
In addition to the Neapolitan pizza, the rest of the menu features a selection of salads and various house made dips, and desserts.
Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee
255 E. Broadway, Vancouver
Instagram @treescoffee
Chai Ghai
Web: https://www.chaighai.com/
Instagram: @chai.ghai
Cuisine: Indian
Vendor located inside the Art Studios
Kizzy’s Macarons
Web: https://kizzys.ca/
Instagram @kizzysmacarons
Cuisine: Dessert
Vendor located inside the Art Studios
Amoka Coffee & Bites
Instagram @amokacoffee
Cuisine: Dessert
Vendor located inside the Art Studios
Some of the Participating Artists
Lukas Lundberg
Medium: Paintings
Instagram: @luke046_art
City Centre Artist Lodge
Unit: 208
Lukas Lundberg is a visual artist based in Vancouver, Canada. He is a painter with a muralist background, alongside of his work creating special effects for feature films. Lukas’ paintings often depict vibrantly coloured monochromatic portraits of people or wildlife with abstract elements. His artistic style utilizes highcontrast elements to emphasize the motive he chooses to paint, often using a complimentary colour to reflect warm and cold tones.
Selected murals include Pompeii Street Festival, Meeting Of Styles Germany, Meeting Of Styles Copenhagen, Vancouver Mural Fest, Brilliant Minds Stockholm, Springbeast Stockholm, Urban Arts Malmö, East West Mural Fest Victoria, Andina Brewing Company, Wesgroup & Penticton Art Gallery
Mallory Donen
Instagram: @mallorydonen
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 211
Mallory Donen is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh First Nations. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of the Fraser Valley, and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Manitoba. Her art explores the intersection of digital art and embroidery, through processes rooted in traditional craft passed down from generations of women in her family. By using the distinct grid format of cross-stitching she creates connections between threads and pixels. Mallory Donen currently works out of her Mount Pleasant studio at City Centre Artist Lodge (a former motel), the central hub for Vancouver Mural Festival.
Enigma Arcana is a design company specializing in custom costume, prop and graphics.
Creating our work for over 30 years.
Instagram @enigmaarcana
City Centre Artist Lodge,
Studio 106
Paulo OConnor
Instagram : @mnemonicdesignlabs
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 225, directly under the rooftop City Centre neon sign
A rapidly emerging Vancouver Visual Artist, Paulo OConnor’s noted themes of layered communication and balanced detail emerge from his uncommon treatment of colour and typography across media including illustration, photography, paint, and soon, sculpture. Describing his works as simply compassionate expressions of life’s peripheries, Paulo credits his aesthetic to solo immersions in nature, a beloved grandfather’s lessons on conscious living, and years reconnecting people with wilderness as a marine biologist and outdoor guide. Art finds him facing new fears, attempting the unforeseen, and arriving somewhere unexpected. He honours this chance to live creatively and contribute within the unceded traditional lands and waters of the Coast Salish peoples.
Elana Sigal
Instagram @Elana_Sigal_design
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 110
Elana has been designing and producing hand-felted artworks since 1992. Her work displays a level of sophistication and an original, unique interpretation of fibre art. Her work is very organic in nature and embodies her love of colour, figure, line, texture and abstract form. She expresses herself through her art in a casual and whimsical manner bringing the viewer a sense of ease, contentment and joy. Her inspiration comes from the historic and tribal process of felt making as well as from African art, Matisse, Klee and Twombly. Marrying her modern sensibility with the ancient form of felt making she creates art pieces which connect us with the natural world.
Felt is an ideal medium for softening, adding warmth and texture while acting as a sound buffer in residential , commercial, spiritual and corporate settings. Pieces can be designed in any size and thickness depending on the site requirements.
In recent years, Elana has discovered her love of photography and the digital image. She has been playing with collage and multi-layer transparencies.
Hayley Crichton
Happy Nomad Candles
Instagram @HappyNomadCandles
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio #203
Niki Brown | Piknik Designs
Instagram: @piknik.designs & @nikibrownart
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 103
Niki Brown is a multidisciplinary artist and yoga practitioner currently exploring the intersection of the principals of mindfulness and breath practice through the mediums of floral arrangements and ink. Her work is rooted in a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and a plethora of certifications in Yoga. Niki blends these healing modalities into her colourful and enigmatic designs. In the exploration of Niki’s art, echoes resound from her love for eastern philosophies, language, the human body, nature, colour, and the constant tension with the unknown. Her work can be found online at www.nikibrown.art and at her studio at the City Centre Artist Lodge. Niki Brown acknowledges that her art and yoga practice take place on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
Tracy Anne Northey
Instagram @northey44
City Centre Artist Lodge
Studio 34
Visual Artist
Tracy Anne Northey is a Visual Artist who has exhibited locally and abroad. Often inspired by the beauty of her surroundings, Northey’s work expands representational to abstract, and is frequently conceptual. Excited to be accepted into City Centre Artist Lodge, she is creating in Studio 34. Permanent collections of her work can be found at the Hollyburn Sailing Club, Lions Gate Hospital and Evergreen House.
Clarissa Banos
Instagram: @clarissabanosart
Website: www.clarissabanos.com
Featured inside the Tamaly Shop during the event
Artwork: Original paintings inspired by my beloved Latin American Heritage and culture: I’m passionate about the magnificent indigenous civilizations of the Ancient Americas and particularly intrigued by the Pre- Hispanic iconography found in ancient textiles of Mexico, Central and South America.
I pay tribute to the beauty, strength and resilience of indigenous Latin American women and showcase them as the axis of a mystical, colourful universe in celebration of our ancestral idiosyncrasies, popular culture and folklore.
Tania Acevedo
Instagram: @tanace_art
Featured inside the Tamaly Shop during the event
Artwork: Mexican Artist, cartoons, Muralism and Window Painting.
Tickets:
Early-bird Tickets: $89 per person before December 24, 2023
Regular Tickets: $99 per person through to January 25, 2024.
VIP Experience: $149 per person (sold out)
Note: Eventbrite fee and GST is extra on all tickets purchased online.
Ticket price includes tasting dishes, beverages and bites at each of the participating establishments on this self-guided tour throughout the evening.
Note: ALL Tickets must be purchased in advance online. All ticket sales are final. Participating restaurants. establishments and art studios subject to change. Event produced by CMI Chat Media Inc. This is an all-ages event and everyone is welcome. Check out our event FAQ for more info here.
Refund Policy: We understand that plans can change, but please note that all ticket sales are final. While we can’t offer refunds, you’re more than welcome to transfer your ticket to another person if you find yourself unable to attend.
This event takes place during the Dine Out Festival 2024 join us for our other Dine Out Fest Events, presented by Destination Vancouver.
Event produced by CMI Chat Media Inc.