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Editor's Note: Globe B.C. has joined forces with Scout Magazine to give you the best of what's happening in Vancouver this weekend. For a full week's worth of listings, head over to the complete Scout List, updated each Monday. See the list in calendar view here.

Farmacie: A mid-summer, long-table farm dinner is something that everyone should do at least once. If you haven't managed to attend one yet this season, consider heading out to UBC Farm this Thursday night for Farmacie, a community dinner celebrating local food as "the grand connector of all aspects of life." Quang Dang, the executive chef at West restaurant, will be preparing the main course. Also expect cool peeps from Tractor Everyday Foods and Victory Gardens to be on site along with Aphrodite's Pies, Earnest Ice Cream and Johnny Pops. Beer will be flowing (Red Truck) and wine will be poured (Unsworth Vineyards). Thursday, 6 to 11 p.m., UBC Farm (3461 Ross Dr., farmacie.ca

Trade school field trip: Trade School Vancouver is a barter-for-knowledge learning community wherein Vancouverites sign up to take classes and pay their teachers in goods or services rather than cash. This week, things move outdoors with a field trip to Jericho Park. Get in on some of the cool classes offered (everything from identifying Urban Herbs & Edibles to Bike Maintenance and the basics of Volleyball) and enjoy an evening in the fresh air at the same time. Hustle over to tradeschoolvan.com to register for a class before everything fills up. Friday 6 to 9 p.m., Jericho Park

Hand-made and home-grown: Delish General Store is a North Vancouver outfit that "extols the virtues of getting your hands dirty and believes in passing on knowledge, recipes, techniques and the pioneering spirit," selling everything from super-cool ceramic growlers and beautiful linens to birch bark-patterned straws. Although they're on the verge of opening a brick and mortar retail space in Edgemont Village, you can check them out this weekend at a pop-up shop in Chinatown. Friday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 434 Columbia St., delishgeneralstore.com

Architecture porn: The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is holding it's Mid Century Modern Tour this weekend and it's going to be hot. Participants get to tour the interiors of five "significant" West Coast regional style modernist homes in Vancouver, including a walk through a Fred Hollingsworth house in West Vancouver, a 1956 house designed by Robert McKee, 1960 Harold Semmens home, a 1968 Don Fairbrother design, and a 1959 Ron Thom. Tickets on the tour bus are sold out, but for $85 you can follow along in your own car (and listen to your own music). Tickets must be purchased before Friday. Saturday, Aug. 17, 12 to 5 p.m. Various locations, vancouverheritagefoundation.org

Escape: Our weather is set to turn temporarily cool this week, but don't panic. Should the threat of rain materialize, dig in with a bag of popcorn and a flick on the big screen. Pacific Cinémathèque theatre is showing a gathering of four films set in (or focusing on) hotels. The Grand Hotel series includes screenings of Death in Venice, Lolita, The Bellboy and Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. Designed and executed as a collaboration between Pacific Cinémathèque and the Vancouver Art Gallery, whose Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life exhibit runs through Sept. 15. Saturday, Sunday and Aug. 21-22. Various times, $11, Pacific Cinémathèque (1131 Howe St.), thecinematheque.ca

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