Thursday, May 5th, 2022

He wrote her name in the sand

Never even let go of her hand
Somehow they stayed that way
For those five days in May.

“5 Days in May” (Blue Rodeo)

May is an awakening for so many Canadians, after a long winter. Our time to welcome sun, warmth, and plan for the May two-four weekend. Those memories never fade. Here in the Bay Area we already have the sun and the warmth (a little less in San Francisco, but still!), so I guess we just need to get the beer ready!

At the DML we are in the planning stages too: the throwback Canada Day Picnic on July 2nd is coming together. Please SAVE the DATE! Generated by sheer volunteer excitement and valued partnerships, you will get your chance to celebrate your Canadian roots this summer.

I am amazed every time I meet a “new” Canadian here how their sense of pride shines bright. It is that force that keeps this volunteer board engaged. We are looking forward to spring and summer activities and to hearing the stories of your travels “back home” – for many, it will be the first time in years.

Let’s stay connected. Please pass on this bit of DML news to your Canadian friends!

Sarah Price

Chair, Digital Moose Lounge

PS A shout out to Simon Fraser University! SFU is our first University partner for the Canada Day Picnic. Watch your emails and follow us on Instagram and Twitter. We are getting closer to opening up ticket sales…

QUICK LOOK

Event details and links are below, along with other news

for the Bay Area Canadian community.

SAT, JULY 2ND (Woodside)

Tickets will go on sale in May

The Digital Moose Lounge throwback CANADA DAY PICNIC in the park!  We can’t wait to re-establish our roots with new and old friends in the SF Bay Area. We will even have our own Digital Moose and Mountie in attendance! Enjoy a tasty BBQ, cold drinks at the bar, wine tasting, trivia, family-friendly games, crafts, prizes and surprises!

We are always looking for volunteers, prizes and sponsors.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Linden Tree Books in Los Altos supports Canadian authors!

Local writer, Jocelyn Watkinson (a Canadian living in the Bay Area) is about to launch her children’s picture book, The Three Canadian Pigs: A Hockey Story!

The three pigs are just finishing up a hockey practice session when the Big Bad Wolf drops by and declares them Canadian bacon–and lunch. When north country bad boys Bear and Moose join the fray, the pigs invite the gang to settle their disputes The Canadian Way–with a rousing game of hockey. Will the big guys overtake the pigs with brute force? Or will the pigs skate circles around the lumbering baddies? One thing is certain, the trial is likely to end with a meal (poutine, please!). But will the piggies be on the menu?

Linden Tree Books (with it’s own Canadian roots) is pleased to offer everyone pre-sale first access to this soon-to-be published story. Congratulations, Jocelyn!

SF Pride Parade

SUN, JUN 26TH (San Francisco)

Join the Canadian Consulate (along with the Mexican Consulate) for the return of this much-loved parade in honour and support of the community. This year’s Pride theme is “Love Will Keep Us Together.” Watch for information closer to the event about where to meet in order to march together with friends of Canada.

OUT AND ABOUT

LIVE IN CONCERT: Feist: Multitudes

THUR-SAT, MAY 5-7TH

Featuring all new music written and performed by Feist and accompanied by Todd Dahlhoff and Amir Yaghmai, the Canadian artist creates an intimate, radically communal, and topsy-turvy production that muddies the roles between audience and performer, observer and its subject. We are welcomed to sit back and watch, or raise our voices in collective anonymity. Anything goes.

Tickets available!

More information>>

Bay Area Book Festival

SAT, MAY 7TH & SUN, MAY 8TH (San Francisco)

You can find several writers with Canadian ties at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival:

Pik-Shuen Fung was born in Hong Kong and now lives in New York, but was raised in Vancouver.

The there’s the Governor General’s Award winning children’s author, David A. Robertson who also has a memoir and a podcast worth looking at.  

And, you might also be interested to learn that writer and First Lady Eliza Reid of Iceland (a Canadian now married to Iceland’s President, who grew up in Ashton, Ontario) will be on a panel discussing the secrets of extraordinary women.

More information>>

DocLands Documentary Film Festival 
MAY 5TH TO 11TH (San Rafael)

Carbon: The Unauthorised Biography

SAT, MAY 7TH 

3 p.m.

Canadian film-maker, Niobe Thompson, will be in-person at this screening which chooses to demystify the story of carbon (so often a villain). Carbon is personified as a woman—voiced by Sarah Snook of HBO’s Succession—and serves as the film’s central narrator.

More information>>

Scrap, US Premier

SUN, MAY 8TH

8 p.m.

“I wanted to explore why people are so drawn to these metal graveyards around the world. What is it about an old, dilapidated 747 in the middle of Bangkok that piques our curiosity? There’s a lot to unpack there.”

Words shared by Canadian Director, Stacey Tenebaum about the film. Stacey will be in-person at this Premier. Check it out!

More information>>

THIS JUST IN

…our friends at the San Francisco Bay Curling Club have lessons and leagues available!

…found an episode from This American Life that  looks at Canadians “amongst us”

…In Memorium. To honour Guy LaFleur’s epic career playing for the Habs, here is a fascinating video (4m) on the story of how Guy Lafleur became a Montreal Canadien.

…In case you missed it last month! Special guest blog: The Best of Both Worlds.

TRAVEL UPDATES

…Flying to and from Canada via SFO soon?  Effective Wednesday, May 11, 2022, Air Canada will move from the International Terminal to Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport. Terminal 2 will allow Air Canada customers the benefit of walking to Terminal 3 airside, allowing for smoother US domestic connections.

…Since April 1, fully vaccinated travelers no longer need to provide a pre-entry COVID-19 test result to enter Canada by air, land or water. Connect2Canada has the most current entry requirements.

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Thursday, March 31st, 2022

Marching forward

The world continues to tumble through this pandemic and now an incomprehensible war. Canadians in the Bay Area, amidst this turmoil are reaching out to family and friends around the world and back in Canada, and still making summer plans and cheering on the Canadian Men’s Soccer Team who are on their way to the World Cup.

Wherever you find yourself this summer, the DML’s Canada Day Picnic is scheduled for Saturday, July 2nd. Please SAVE the DATE! Watch your emails and follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

In this update, you’ll hear about our newest Blog post on managing personal finances with RBC across the Canada-US border, written by Canadian Olympian and Bay Area native, Maddy Price.

We are also featuring the Canadian Women’s Club who just celebrated a big birthday this month.

April will bring us National Poutine Day (April 19th). Head on over to our Facebook page and share your favourite Bay Area place for poutine. We’ll add it to an upcoming blog.

QUICK LOOK

Event details and links are below, along with other news

for the Bay Area Canadian community.

FROM THE MOOSE

Read our latest blog: The Best of Both Worlds 

SAT, JULY 2ND (Woodside)

Spend the whole day with us!

Digital Moose Lounge throwback CANADA DAY PICNIC in the park!  We can’t wait to re-establish our roots with new and old friends in the SF Bay Area. We will even have our own Digital Moose and Mountie in attendance! Enjoy a tasty BBQ, cold drinks at the bar, wine tasting, trivia, family-friendly games, crafts, prizes and surprises!

We are looking for volunteers and prize sponsors.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Pictured (l to r): Kate Walters (Consulate), Marie Alnwick, Guest Speaker (Consulate), Carol Storen, President, Canadian Women’s Club, Sarah Price (Digital Moose Lounge)

The Canadian Women’s Club of San Francisco recently celebrated it’s 57th birthday over lunch. The DML was there and we are excited to share more about this vibrant and established network with you all.

Did you know…

• Number of women who are part of the Canadian Women’s Club: ~100

• Average age of Canadian Women’s Club current members: from what we could see, there were millennials to boomers! Everyone had a story and there were new and longtime members to talk to.

• Annual cost of membership, which funds events and programming at the Canadian Women’s Club: $45

• Money is raised and donated annually through fundraisers like the Canadian Women’s Club Bake Sale and Silent Auction, for food banks and other local organizations in need.

OUT AND ABOUT

On Tour: Sugar Sammy

APR 6TH to 9TH (San Francisco)

Sugar Sammy is a Quebec comedian, hot on the international circuit. The New York Times calls him “A fearless comic with a talent for provoking both laughter and outrage”.

$5 OFF PROMO: on the ticket page, located on the right (above the price slider), click Unlock and enter SAMMY. Choose the five dollar off ticket.

More information>>

THURS, APR 7TH (UC Berkeley)

12:30 to 2:00 PM

TOPIC: Future Imaginaries of Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents

PRESENTER: Jason Edward Lewis is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well professor of computation arts at Concordia University in Montreal. His research explores computation as a creative material, and seeks to understand how our technologies are constituted through explicit and implicit cultural knowledge practices.

More information>>

SAT, APR 9TH (San Francisco)

The International Ocean Film Festival will be screening two Canadian feature length films:

1:30 pm at Roxie Theater – Bangla Surf Girls, Elizabeth D Costa, Lalita Krishna (Canada) 85 min – Three young Bangladeshi teenagers have discovered the waves and want to go surfing whenever they can.

4 pm at Fort Mason – Coextinction, Gloria Pancrazi, Elena Jean (Canada) 93 min – Not only a riveting story about the plight of the Southern Resident orcas, but a tale also about the collapse of an ecosystem and centuries of injustice.

FRI, APR 15TH (San Francisco)

The Canadian film, Forest For the Trees, will be screened in San Francisco in-person as part of the San Francisco Indie Fest Green Film Festival.

More information>>

THIS JUST IN

…our friends at the San Francisco Bay Curling Club have lessons and leagues available!

…here’s a new episode of Confluence, with host Rana Sarkar, Consul General (3/24/22)

…Canada is on its way to the World Cup ⚽️

TRAVEL UPDATES

…From April 1, fully vaccinated travelers will no longer need to provide a pre-entry COVID-19 test result to enter Canada by air, land or water. Check here for the most current entry requirements.

…From May 1, Air Canada will fly five routes to/from SFO:  Toronto (3x Daily), Vancouver (3x Daily), Montreal (2x Daily), Calgary (1x Daily), and the resumption of their daily Edmonton flight

…From June 1, Air Canada will relaunch their daily Sacramento – Vancouver flight.

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