Over 200,000 people from diverse cultures and religions celebrated Vaisakhi, the harvest festival, in Surrey by attending the Nagar Kirtan procession, which commemorates the Birth of the Khalsa in 1699 and marks the New Year for Sikhs.
“This event has been held in the streets of the community for the past 12 years, and we’re proud [...]
Hundreds of thousands came out to Vancouver’s Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan procession on Saturday, April 14 to not only celebrate the harvest festival, but to mark the New Year and most importantly, celebrate the Birth of the Khalsa in 1699.
People, from politicians to children and seniors, and organizations, including DARPAN Magazine, gathered at the Ross Street [...]
DARPAN readers today all I have to say is VAWK! My experience at Vancouver Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2012 was elevated to another level as soon as I saw the Vawk and Vawkin shows by Sunny Fong, designer who was on the popular Project Runway Canada show.
Fong’s first collection called Vawk hit the runway and you [...]
The DARPAN Magazine front row experience continues at Day Three of Vancouver Fashion Week. Day Three’s Fall/Winter 2012 collections had many touches of nature-inspired looks.
The first and my favorite show of the night was Pure Elegance designed by Parna Ghose, an Indian designer from Philadelphia. In a sit-down interview with DARPAN Magazine on Thursday evening, [...]
CheckMate Films hosted the extravaganza ‘Be Scene’ Red Carpet Event at Ginger Sixty-Two on Thursday, March 22 to not only raise awareness and produce financial backing for their film “Hell Mary,” but to create a networking event for Vancouver Film Industry professionals and other professionals from diverse walks of life.
DARPAN Magazine was invited to ‘Be [...]
DARPAN Magazine was front row and center for Day Two of Vancouver Fashion Week. The Fall/Winter 2012 launch kicked off with the LaSalle College showcase. One of the collections I really enjoyed from this showcase was Synikal by Byron Abad. This collection had a lot of leather detail in triangular shapes; the work was genius [...]
Day one of Vancouver Fashion Week started off with a bang! This year’s Fall/Winter 2012 launch, showcasing leading designers from around the world, is taking place at the Chinese Cultural Center, and might I add how great the venue looked.
Our front row experience started off with the first show of fashion week – Papillon by [...]
3 PM. March 10th, 2012. Round 2 begins. In exciting fashion, the Whitecaps will take on the Montreal Impact, the newest expansion team in the MLS at BC Place. With nearly 20,000 tickets already sold, this will prove to be an electrifying event if it resembles anything close to last year’s game opener versus Toronto [...]
As you enter the stunning, new Vancouver Convention Centre West, you can feel the excitement in the air as the crowd heads towards one of the largest and prestigious wine festivals in the world – the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival.
Entering the 54,782-square-foot International Festival Tasting Room (IFT), you are greeted by friendly staff, who [...]
Porsche recently introduced its new, seventh-generation 911 Carrera and Carrera S Coupes to the world at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
On the West Coast in BC, Porsche Centre Vancouver unveiled the highly-anticipated model at the Vancouver Convention Centre on Thursday, February 2.
DARPAN Magazine was invited to the event, and it was a [...]
