Don’t miss our next Seniors Games Day! Sunday, May 25, 1-3 p.m. Hosted by the Kerrisdale Youth Leaders, attendees (55+) will laugh, have fun and connect over games like Jeopardy and charades. Register here today!
After witnessing older women having fun, keeping fit and exuding youthful vitality at a Zumba class at the Kerrisdale Community Centre, Maggie Blue O’Hara had an idea. She would launch a new program to help women 40 years and older reconnect with their feminine energy while enjoying a variety of exercises in a supportive environment. Enter VanCougar Dance Cabaret. “As a 50-year-old woman who has been a dancer my whole life, and is still fit and feeling beautiful
As a shy child, Jessica Wampler discovered the power and magic of music. “I found through music I was able to express myself in ways I was too shy to do in my daily life,” says Wampler. “I felt the magic that music can bring, whether singing alone at home or finding the courage to somehow perform in front of a live audience.” Today, the West Side Music Together teacher helps babies and children up to
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He has a master’s degree in computer science, and he’s worked as an Apple software engineer and UBC quality assurance team lead. Yet Nikhil Naidu’s career highlight stems from one small but moving moment while he was teaching. As director of Wize Computing Academy (Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby), Naidu fondly recalls when one of his students created their very first game from scratch. “It was a simple project, but the pride they felt and the excitement they
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You could say that Gloria Yu’s skill set strikes a rather complex chord. Indeed, the music teacher and active performer knows how to play at least 10 types of instruments – from the harp, baroque recorder and classic guitar to Chinese string pieces like the guzheng, pipa, erhu and liuqin. But when it comes to introducing children to the art of playing music, it’s the piano and ukulele that are her instruments of choice. “I hope
Our Find a Program & Register webpage will look a bit different starting with spring 2025 registration. Programs will be grouped under general category links, which will take you directly to the City of Vancouver program registration page. There, you will be able to filter Kerrisdale Community Centre programs according to your preferences (specific age, day, time) before registering for your program(s) of choice. This improved process will provide a more efficient and accurate registration process. We look
Faye Hung brings a wealth of experience and accolades to the danceroom floor. Specializing in standard and Latin ballroom dances, she and her former dance partner were not only finalists in top-level dance sport competitions around the world (think World Championships, World Cups, Asia Cups and Grand Slams), they were also the Hong Kong national standard champions for 10 years straight. “Then in 2014 we won the bronze medal at the WDSF World Championship in Italy,” says Hung,
It’s not every gymnastics coach who can say they helped a Canadian athlete make it to the Olympics. For Kerrisdale Community Centre instructor Bing Zhao, one of her career highlights was seeing student Kate Richardson successfully compete in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The then-20-year-old athlete made history by becoming the first Canadian woman to qualify for an Olympic final in women’s gymnastics. “I was so happy to have had a chance to coach Kate Richardson, who had been at the top of the Canadian
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