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Notch8’s new afternoon tea offering invites you to embrace your inner artist.

Local books to read in the local sunshine.

UNBROKEN

Angela Sterritt

Past Vanmag Power 50 honouree Angela Sterritt has just launched a memoir: add it to your reading list, stat. In her book, the acclaimed Gitxsan journalist shares her personal stories as well as investigative work she has done while reporting on cases of murdered and missing Indigenous women. greystonebooks.com

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Here’s your summer 2023 bucket list.

THE ART OF AFTERNOON TEA

DATES Now through September 4

VENUE Notch8

COST $74

They say don’t play with your food—but Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is encouraging you to paint with it. Notch8’s new afternoon tea service is an immersive, pop art-inspired spectacular, with bold and colourful teatime bites that include a cheesecake decorated with edible paint. Time to bring out your inner Cake Boss. notch8-dining.com

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TO HAVE AND TO HEIST

Sara Desai

Vancouver Island-based Sara Desai’s fourth romance novel drops this July—and a story that follows a jewellery heist during a big summer wedding (with some sexiness involved, of course) feels like the perfect beach read. massybooks.com

CREATE! ARTS FESTIVAL

DATES July 22 to 23

VENUE Multiple locations

COST From $5

Workshops at this awesome east-side arts festival run the creative gamut: think ceramics, painting, printmaking, glass fusing, Salish singing, storytelling and more. Plus, local artists are offering studio tours, and the onsite art zone features food trucks, wine and beer. createartsfestival.ca

AMBLESIDE MUSIC FESTIVAL

DATES August 19 and 20

VENUE Ambleside Park

COST From $215

Recovering angsty teens, time to say it is so: Weezer is headlining the Ambleside Music Festival this year along with Third Eye Blind. The lineup also features Said the Whale, Bahamas, Finger Eleven and Saint Motel. amblesidefestival.com

UNCERTAIN KIN

Janice Lynn Mather

Eighteen short stories make up this adult debut from local author Janice Lynn Mather. (She already has two popular YA novels.) The surreal, emotional subject matter is decidedly grown-up: one tale involves blood pouring from faucets. irondogbooks.com