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Surrey Hospice Society

#101 13463 78 Avenue

Surrey BC V3W 0A8

www.surreyhospice.com

info@surreyhospice.com

604-584-7006

 

Please help us by advertising and promoting our event.

With all of the uncertainty with COVID-19, we wanted to create a campaign, so people could still have a way to support us and also stay active while in self-isolation, self-quarantine, or physical distancing.

With the outbreak of COVID-19 expected to continue into the summer, with no end in sight, our hospice society which relies on holding fundraising events has had to cancel all our events. This has meant a great loss in our organizational revenues.  This reduction in funding has placed the operations and indeed the very existence of our Society and our programs in jeopardy. Because of this, the Surrey Hospice Society is making changes to the way that funding is achieved; we are trying to go virtual.

Surrey Hospice Society is a volunteer based, non-profit organization rooted in the community of Surrey, BC Canada. We provide a wide variety of services and programs - all free of charge -  for those facing the end of their life, hospice and palliative care, as well as grief and bereavement support for adults, children and youth who have lost people they love.

We need your help to continue to offer these services and programs as the demand for us is higher than it has ever been and continues to grow daily in these challenging times.

HEART & SOLE : Virtual Hike for Hospice

 

Surrey Hospice Society is encouraging people to register for Heart and Sole a Virtual Hike for Hospice and to join together virtually for a 1km, 5km, 10km walk, run or bike ride. People can go to a nearby park, walk or ride on one of the beautiful paths and walking trails in your community, use a treadmill, stationary bike or even walk around your yard.

 

You can participate as a Virtual Hiker! A virtual Hike for Hospice will allow you to create your own Hike. Whether that's around your property at home, on a treadmill if you have one, or safely around your community. If you do choose to hike around your community, we ask that you please obey all signs and/or notices and also please practice physical distancing to protect yourself, and others, we are counting on you for imaginative ways to take the steps virtually.  For the protection of everyone’s health and safety when walking, please follow the Public Health direction that it is important to maintain the recommended physical distance.

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You will be able to reach out to friends and family using our forms and this fundraising page to collect donations. The hike this year is as much about mental health as it is about fundraising. Get people together virtually, and do something fun. 

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• Complete an individual Run or Hike in your own time & pace at any destination of your choice.  Please be safe and follow all recommendations from our Chief Medical Officer that are in place currently.
• Do you have someone you are walking, running, biking or hiking in honor or memory of? Feel free to send us a picture along with their name, and we will share it in our public, “In Memory & Honor Album
• Make a connection with us on social media by tagging  us on Facebook, Twitter or on Instagram & using the hashtag #heart&solehikeforhospice2020
• Make a donation to Surrey Hospice Society in honor of the loved one you are Walking, Running, Biking or Hiking. 100% of the funds raised in our community remain in our communities

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We would love for everyone to send us photos or videos of your hike. Feel free to include a message of encouragement or the reason you are participating. Participants can send those photos and videos to us and we would love to share some of your photos and videos on our social media channels. Celebrate life and remember a loved one. Share stories with us, make friends through social media, get some exercise, create special memories and make a difference in someone else’s life.

For more information, contact us at 604-584-7006. Please leave us a detailed message and how we can contact you, or by email at info@surreyhospice.com

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Please visit our website for more information and to register

https://www.surreyhospicesocietyevents.com

 

Sleep is so important to us, yet so many people are experiencing trouble with it! This free online class by Surrey Neuroplasticity Clinic will provide you tips on how to sleep deeper, longer and better! Join occupational therapist Zara Dureno LIVE on Thursday, August 6th at 2 p.m. PST, for an in-depth educational class about how to optimize your sleep to leave you feeling more rested, refreshed, and energized. Time: Thursday, August 6th, 2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Cost: Free Registration: https://healthtechconnex.janeapp.com/#/discipline/9/treatment/264 Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/better-sleep-for-a-better-brain-tickets-108463617600 Website: https://snpc.tech/online-classes/ You cannot sign up for a class within 12 hours of its start date — please call into the clinic at 604.424.8280 and we’d be happy to book you in if there is availability! If you do not receive an email with a video link one hour before your class, please make sure to check your junk folder! Due to COVID-19, all our online classes are free and no cancellation fees apply.

Surrey, BC - IN BRIEF: Join Surrey Civic Theatres from the Digital Stage for Write the Future with Devon More. August 7, 2020 at 7pm. Tune into the free premiere by clicking the link on Surrey Civic Theatres' Facebook Page, tune in to the Digital Stage Page, or the City of Surrey YouTube Channel.

JULY 2020 - On August 7, tune in for Write the Future with Devon More.

This show is part of Surrey Civic Theatres’ newly launched Digital Stage, an initiative to support local artists and performers that audiences can enjoy from the comfort and safety of their own homes. Write the Future, a show recorded exclusively for Surrey Civic Theatres, is a humble, harmonious and humorous take on the human condition in 2020.

Devon More's performances command attention: building musical arrangements for her indie rock/pop tunes from scratch, she uses a loop pedal to live-mix the electric guitar, flute, glockenspiel, and whatever else is in her long arm’s reach. Get drawn into More’s hypnotic looping layers that tempt toes to tap as she delivers cheeky, melodic rants on topics from the rat race to rent cheques. She always serves her songs with a side of storytelling-and a surprise or two.

This latest show is more than a concert, and not exactly a play! More said, “In this show it’s mostly original songs, two of which were written during quarantine, I have a couple of jokes in there, I keep it light, but it’s political, although I let the songs carry some of that weight. I did my best to offer a lens to look at current events as a call-to-action."

Like many artists, More has felt the effects of the pandemic. Yet, despite gigs drying up overnight, she says there have been positives as well. Prior to Covid-19, More spent a ton of time on the road. In the previous 20 months, she clocked up 55,000 kilometres travelling to gigs in her car. During the lockdown phase of the pandemic, More sheltered- in-place with her parents in her hometown of Kamloops.

There she decided to embark on a 50-day music marathon: performing two shows a day (Instagram in the morning and Facebook in the afternoon) that she live-streamed. "Every day, creating that joyful noise put me in a good space, and while performing all of those shows, because so many people spent so much time online during the lockdown, I actually felt valued as an artist.

And if I think about it, I did 100 shows without once having to pack all my gear into the trunk of my car! I’m probably significantly losing my upper body strength from not having to do the ‘indie-musicians yoga’. It was actually kind of beautiful that I just got to focus on music making, and not the hustle. It felt like a beautiful pause. I feel like I fell back in love with my craft by just being able to play music."

Beer in the Valley – Yee Haw!

We are throwing a party #Fortheloveofbeer. If you love beer, then this is the event for you! Clover Valley Beer Festival presented by The Property Twins is returning to the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre on Saturday, August 8, 2020. 40 Breweries, 80 Brews and Ciders, Live Music, Food Trucks, and guaranteed good times. Partial proceeds go towards Twins Cancer Fundraising. Together, they have raised over $3,000,000 to fight the bullshit disease. Cheers to that!

Vancouver Queer Film Festival Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 32nd annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) takes place this summer from August 13-23. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Festival has adapted to an online format in order to offer at-home audiences the best in independent queer cinema along with workshops, artist Q&As, panels, parties and - most importantly - the feeling of gathering with friends and kin. VQFF is Vancouver's second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Western Canada. With films from around the world, the theme of this year’s Festival is ‘Still Here’, featuring programming from queer filmmakers and artists whose work shows the many ways we fight for the fullness of our lives, for what and who we love, and for our shared futures. Details and tickets at www.queerfilmfestival.ca