A portrait from the final approach. Pluto and Charon display striking color and brightness contrast in this composite image from July 11.
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Create: Build yourself a "mini-universe" terrarium with the Tin Can Studio crew Thursday night. The roving art studio and project space housed in a vintage Streamline trailer will be curb-side at the Pandora Park Field House in East Vancouver for a special terrarium-making workshop and evening of summer fun. For $40, you'll get a kit that includes a six-inch recycled-glass bowl, soil, finishing stones, tropical plants and mini-figurines to make it perfect. Stick around afterward to compare mini-worlds at an evening picnic in the park.
July 16, 7-9 p.m., Pandora Park at 2325 Franklin St. (near E Hastings and Nanaimo), $40, tincanstudio.org
Space: Nine years ago, NASA sent New Horizons spacecraft to get a closer look at Pluto. Transmissions to Earth of information from the first flyby of the dwarf planet began this week. The H.R. Macmillan Space Centre has planned a Cosmic Nights Plutopalooza party. Head to the Planetarium on Thursday night for an adult-oriented 2006-themed evening of music, games and drinks (yes, alcoholic ones), as well as a special talk by astronomers, who will give the audience an overview of what we know, suspect and guess Pluto is all about.
July 16, 7-10 p.m., H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, $20, spacecentre.ca
Eye to Eye: The Eye To Eye photography exhibit at Presentation House Gallery is drawn from the collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, who ran NOVA Gallery (Vancouver's first commercial gallery devoted to photography) between 1976 and 1982. As the gallery explains, this show "animates the dynamics of looking between photographer and subject, of observing and being observed, through works that foreground the complexities of 'capturing' people through a camera." Ms. Beck and Mr. Gruft will be in the gallery on Thursday evening to speak (along with exhibition curator Helga Pakasaar) about the photographs in the show as well as how and why they collect photographs. This show runs until July 26.
July 16, 7:30 p.m., 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver, presentationhousegallery.org
Connect: Feisty Feast is an all-girl pop-up communal table supper anchored by an inspiring guest speaker at a unique locale. This Saturday, organizers go big with a full day that starts with guided meditation led by Sara Jade of Dharma Yoga, followed by a shibori and itajime indigo dyeing workshop (participants will dye their own fabric). It finishes with a three-course, family-style dinner, during which Charlotte and Sophena Kwon (of Maiwa on Granville Island) will talk about working together as a mother and daughter team in the world of sourcing and importing textiles.
July 18, 2-10 p.m., location provided with ticket purchase, feistyfeast.ca
Folk Fest: This is the 38th year that The Vancouver Folk Fest will spread across the grasses of Jericho Park. The three-day event is a Vancouver tradition that speaks to our hippy roots. Blind Pilot is coming up from Oregon; Frazey Ford will be here too; as will Jill Barber, The Sadies, Said The Whale, Angélique Kidjo and a whole whack of fantastic musicians and bands.
July 17-19, Jericho Beach Park, $45-$150, thefestival.bc.ca