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Monday, February 16th 2015 CBC Vancouver & Kids' CBC Celebrate Lunar New Year Thursday, February 19, 2015 Aberdeen Centre, Richmond Meet Stephen Quinn, Johanna Wagstaffe and your friends from Kids' CBC. Stop by the CBC Vancouver tent for your chance at the prize wheel! 1:30 pm   KIDS' CBC ZONE: meet Super Why! 2:00 pm   STORY TIME with Patty & Bookaboo ​3:00 pm   LIVE BROADCAST: CBC Radio One's On the Coast with host Stephen Quinn 5:00 pm   LIVE BROADCAST: CBC Vancouver's meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe Sunday, February 22, 2015 Chinatown, Vancouver - 11 am Join in the festivities at the Chinatown Chinese New Year Parade! Your favourite CBC personalities will be marching in the parade, including Andrew Chang, Johanna Wagstaffe, Sheryl MacKay as well as our friends from Kids' CBC, Patty, Bookaboo & Super Why! Talking Stick Festival Presented by Full Circle First Nations Performance February 17 – March 1, 2015 Different Venues in Metro Vancouver CBC Vancouver is a proud media sponsor of the 2015 Talking Stick Festival. The festival is a two-week celebration serving to preserve and promote the language, culture and art forms of First Nations people. Aboriginal traditions of music, dance, and storytelling are presented in a contemporary and entertaining way. The festival takes place at multiple venues in Metro Vancouver. All areas of the performing arts are represented - theatre, dance, drumming, music, spoken word, and multimedia performance. These artistic disciplines celebrate Aboriginal culture and showcase the new evolving contemporary work of today's artists. The stories and art practises in the First Nations culture have enormous depth and are rich in teachings. The Festival is an avenue to bring Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people together, to network, share ideas and pass on knowledge. For more informationa and festival tickets, visit 2015Talking Stick Festival. CONTEST: #CBCWhoAmI at CBC Vancouver will keep you guessing! How well do you know your CBC Vancouver personalities? We’ve asked our on-air personalities to hand over a few “lesser known facts” about themselves. Tweet us using #CBCWhoAmI each week with YOUR guess for a chance to win a CBC prize. Here’s your next QUIZ. Happy guessing! Chutzpah! Festival  February 17 to March 15 The Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre CBC Vancouver is a proud television sponsor of the 2015 Chutzpah! Festival. Chutzpah! is a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary international celebration that brings light and vibrancy to the too-often grey months of February & March. Celebrating its 15th Anniversary in 2015, the festival has grown from its home at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre in the Jewish Community Centre into a multi-venue, city-wide occasion. Every year the organization welcomes esteemed artists from around the world to share their talent, expression, and insight with the people of Vancouver. This kaleidoscopic array features performers whose message & gifts resonate deeply with the local Jewish community, as well as offer excitement and emotion to arts-lovers across the Lower Mainland. In this way the festival is an essential conduit, connecting Vancouver audiences to a thriving international community and bringing the world’s most creative minds to our corner of the planet. For tickets and schedule information, visit Chutzpah!