Which Vancouver artist founded the annual event from which Buy Nothing Christmas got it's name?
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Buy Nothing Christmas Buy Nothing Christmas is an ongoing protest and reaction to the commercialization of the North American Christmas and holiday season. It started unofficially in 1968, when Ellie Clark and her family decided to publicly disregard the commercial aspects of the Christmas holiday. Contemporarily a movement was created to extend Adbusters' Buy Nothing Day into the entire Christmas season. Buy Nothing Christmas first became official in 2001 when a small group of Canadian Mennonites created a website and gave the movement a name.
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Buy Nothing Day Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held on the Friday after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent to Black Friday (on Friday); elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November. Buy Nothing Day was founded in Vancouver by artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by "Adbusters" magazine, based in Canada.
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Vancouver International Digital Festival The Vancouver International Digital Festival is an annual event for creative professionals working in digital media. Held for the last four years in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the event includes an international business partnering forum, industry parties, digital entertainment screenings, conference sessions on the latest trends and markets for digital media, and educational workshops for creators, designers, and producers in games, mobile, animation, film, and interactive design.
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Singapore Arts Street Singapore Arts Street is an annual arts event held in Singapore since 2006, usually during mid of the year. It is akin to an Australian arts market, being free for visitors and involving a large number of participating artists of varying fame, skill and disciplines (including graffiti spray painting). Participating artists also collaborate on the creation of large artworks at the event venue. It is the first event of this scale in Singapore.
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Maxine Clark Maxine Clark (born Maxine Kasselman on March 6, 1949, in Coral Gables, Florida, United States) is founder of Build-A-Bear Workshop, an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals.
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Art Phillips Arthur "Art" Phillips (September 12, 1930 – March 29, 2013) served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977. Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Phillips was instrumental in founding a reform-minded, centrist municipal-level political party, TEAM (The Electors' Action Movement), in 1968. Also in that year, he was elected as an alderman to Vancouver City Council.
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Squamish Valley Music Festival The Squamish Valley Music Festival (pronounced ), previously "LIVE at Squamish", was an annual music festival co-produced by Vancouver-based BRANDLIVE Management group and Live Nation Canada, and held in Squamish, British Columbia Canada over the second weekend in August. Widely recognized as the largest and most exciting contemporary music festival in the Pacific Northwest attendance, with excess of 120,000 people attending in 2015 alone. The festival was cancelled in 2016.
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North by Northeast North by Northeast (or NXNE) is an annual music and arts festival held each June in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The festival's main is live music, but it also includes a film festival, a comedy festival, art components, video game activities, and a digital interactive media conference. The festival events happen in a variety venues. NXNE is largely a volunteer-staffed music festival, with about 1,000 volunteers in festival operations. The alternative weekly newspaper "Now" is a major sponsor, and its owners hold an ownership interest in the festival.
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Christmas Lights (song) "Christmas Lights" is a song by British alternative rock band Coldplay released on 1 December 2010, as a digital download. Described by the band as "a mid-tempo number" in the key of G major, the song was released to very positive reviews. The cover art is by Yu Matsuoka Pol.
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GiftTree GiftTree is an online retailer based in Vancouver, Washington. The company sells gift baskets, wine gift baskets, fruit, and flowers.
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Reigning Champ Reigning Champ is a Canadian streetwear brand based in Vancouver and founded in 2007 by Craig Atkinson, who also founded wings+horns.
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David Dineen-Porter David Dineen-Porter is an actor, comedian and musician from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is one of two grand prize winners of the Cambrian House's Robinhood Fund $20,000 Christmas Wish giveaway event for a "selfish wish".
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Eat! Vancouver Eat! Vancouver is the largest consumer food festival in Canada. which takes place annually in Vancouver, British Columbia. The three-day festival is held at BC Place, and showcases restaurants and food suppliers from British Columbia and across Canada. Chefs compete in several cooking competitions; one is for apprentice chefs, the Junior Culinary Competition.
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Woodward's Building The Woodward's Building was a historic building in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The original portion of the building was constructed in 1903 for the Woodward's Department Store when that area of Cordova Street was the heart of Vancouver's retail shopping district. At one time this was the premiere shopping destination in Vancouver. The store was famous for its Christmas window displays and its basement Food Floor, and the "W" sign at the top of the building was a distinctive landmark on the Vancouver skyline.
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Genius Factor Games Genius Factor Games was a Canadian independent video game developer based in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. It developed independent ("indie") games for Apple iOS, Android and mobile platforms via direct-download distribution.
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Wally Bronner Wallace John "Wally" Bronner (March 9, 1927 – April 1, 2008) was the American founder of Bronner's Christmas Wonderland. Bronner was born to Ella (Hubinger) and Herman Bronner on March 9, 1927 in Frankenmuth, Michigan. Bronner founded the store in 1943 while working as a sign painter (though Bronner considers the start of his business career to be 1945). Bronner ran the day by day activities until he passed it down to his son, Wayne Bronner. Bronner was still on serving as board chairman up until his death.
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Boots (The Killers song) "Boots" is a Christmas song by Las Vegas rock band The Killers, which was released as a digital download on November 30, 2010, despite the band being on hiatus. All proceeds from the song go to AIDS charities as part of the (PRODUCT) campaign, headed by Bono and Bobby Shriver.
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No Music Day No Music Day (November 21) is an event introduced by Bill Drummond to draw attention to the cheapening of music as an art form due to its mindless and ubiquitous use in contemporary society. Drummond explained "I decided I needed a day I could set aside to listen to no music whatsoever, [...] Instead, I would be thinking about what I wanted and what I didn't want from music. Not to blindly – or should that be deafly – consume what was on offer. A day where I could develop ideas."
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Art, Not Apart Art, Not Apart is an annual Australian contemporary arts festival held in Canberra, providing an opportunity for artists to display their works and connect with the community.
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Canada Dance Festival The Canadian Dance Festival is an annual Ottawa, Ontario event founded in 1987. Held in June, it sets the stage for Canada's most contemporary, innovative and leading edge dance choreographers and dance companies. The festival includes events at the National Arts Centre, as well as featured performances at other locations including the National Gallery of Canada and outdoor dance in Ottawa city parks and other Urban settings. It attracts international dance promoters and international media who attend the festival to follow the developments of Canadian dance and to select artists for their respective festivals and dance series.
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Dave Ullrich Dave Ullrich (born  1970 ) is a Canadian musician and entrepreneur.
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LoadingReadyRun LoadingReadyRun, often abbreviated to LRR, is a Canadian sketch comedy troupe and video production team, based in Victoria, British Columbia, founded by Graham Stark and Paul Saunders. Starting from its launch in October 2003, a new piece of sketch comedy was posted to the site every week, without fail; all of them were written, performed and edited by members of the "LoadingReadyRun crew", consisting of Graham, Paul, their friends and guests.