Thank you for all the excellent entries in the 2012 Illuminate Yaletown Photo contest group! With hundreds of entries, it was hard to choose just one winner.

This year’s photo contest winner is Ann Hung for her photo “MINI @ 2012 Illuminate Yaletown”

Photo Credit: Ann Hung

Runners up:

Photo Credit: TOTORORO.RORO

Photo Credit: Ann Hung

Check out the rest of the entries online at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1854272@N24/

February 10 and 11, 2012 – Illuminate Yaletown returns!

Additionally, the third Illuminate Yaletown Photo Contest is back on Flickr.

Bring out your cameras and upload your photos to our Flickr Group here. Follow the rules on the Flickr Group to be eligible for a prize. This year the prize will be a single Grand prize that will be judged based on the quality of the photo and the interactions with the photo.

Judging will happen on the following Monday, February 20, 2012. We’ll announce what the grand prize is shortly!

Check out the fabulous submissions from the winners of 2011′s photo contest:

 
Charm –  Rob.Masefield

Edgewater – Ande_Han

Mini - fsurjadi

Epic – Dannychan_ca

Viridian - rjmigz

Earls – box of lettuce

YBC – box of lettuce

24Hrs – FYEOFarrell

Bond – b4ushoot

Clubzone – Doug Batchelor

Thanks to Illuminate Yaletown’s partner, City and Slope, we have a pair of tickets to the Benny Benassi concert to give away!

The concert details:
Benny Benassi, Sander van Doorn, and Arty will perform Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 at 7pm at Vancouver Convention Center

To enter the contest, Tweet the following:

Win a pair of tix to Benny Benassi during @Cityandslope via @iyaletown http://ow.ly/8Ql4b RT to Enter!

Tweet

Contest ends February 7th, 2012. One winner will be drawn at random.

Good luck to everyone who enters!!

Illuminate Yaletown returns this February 10th and 11th 2012, as part of the City and Slope Winter festival.

Photo Credit: Richard Quan

This Vancouver event starts as soon as the sun sets on February 10th and 11th. Once dark, artists will light up their exhibits! Illuminate Yaletown is a free Vancouver event & winter festival, bringing contemporary light art installations throughout the streets of Yaletown. Come enjoy beautiful lights used in innovative ways, interact with exhibits, and capture Illuminations in photos.

Photo Credit: Kama Guezalova

2012 brings City and Slope to unite Vancouver’s easily accessible ski areas with Yaletown’s vibrant night life.

Illuminate Yaletown is a free public outdoor exhibition. Please dress for the weather.

Photo Credit: David Theduy Nguyen

Photo Credit: Bill Kwok

Take this opportunity to visit Yaletown and dine out at one of Vancouver’s top restaurants.

Photo Credit: Evan Leeson

With its many restaurants and venues, Yaletown brings you great places to celebrate the end of 2011, and the beginning of 2012.

The following is a list of the events in Yaletown that have been submitted online.

LIGHT UP 2012 Cento Notti NYE Gala

The OPUS Hotel Yaletown’s restaurant, Cento Notti hosts an exclusive New Year’s Eve celebration!
$150 ticket includes a VIP Hosted bar, canapés, candy, & dessert stations. DJ will be spinning in Cento Notti.

Email jackscott@rocksglass.ca for tickets or more information.

Section (3) 80’s New Year

Join Section (3) for 80’s tunes, movies, and appetizers! There will be a dance floor, drink specials, and $100 prize for best costume. Additionally, your ticket gets you bubbles at midnight.

Call (604) 684-2777 for info and tickets

NYE 2012 Party for a Cure at V Lounge, above Earl’s Yaletown

The V Lounge Yaletown New Year’s Eve party benefits the BC Cancer Foundation! In addition to raising funds for a great cause, you will be treated to a red carpet entrance, live DJ, glass of bubbly, light canapés, and midnight party favours.

Tickets online at NYE2012.ca

New Year’s Eve at Yaletown Brewing Company

They’re offering two different New Years Eve experiences in the Restaurant and the Pub!

Restaurant tickets get you a live band, reserved seating, party favours, champagne at midnight, and access to the pub side! Pub side tickets will get you into the party with a DJ, party favours, and champagne at midnight.
Their full menu is available until 10pm.

Call (604) 681-2739 for more info.

Christmas Day is quickly approaching, and many Yaletown businesses have given back to the community this year through registered charities and charitable activities!

We’d like to recognize some of the Yaletown businesses that have taken on recent charitable activities this Holiday season:

• MINI Yaletown : Toy Drive
• Fine Finds Boutique : Support a Family at BC Children’s Hospital
• New Oxford : Toy Drive for Salvation Army
• Taste of Yaletown Restaurants : Over $4000 to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank
• 6S Marketing : $20,000 for Movember
• Earl’s V Lounge : New Year’s Eve supporting BC Cancer Foundation

We owe a big thank you to the volunteers that came and helped us during the Free Santa photos in Yaletown.

Yaletown Photography took great photos of Santa and nearly 100 families. This event brought in $332.35 for the Food Bank and 6 cases of food!

The Yaletown Naughty or Nice Girls Night Out on December 2nd was a hit!

Great gift shopping from Yaletown businesses and naughty Santa Photos with members of the Vancouver Fire Department! The photos taken at the event raised money for the Vancouver Fire Department Charitable Society. Be sure to check out the Fire Department website to order a copy of their calendar in time for Christmas

If you attended the Naughty or Nice party, please find a copy of your photo online here: www.flickr.com/photos/ybia/

Yaletown Shopping Weekend @ 1012 Mainland Street

With over 100 stores to choose from, all of Santa’s elves shop in Yaletown!

Dec 2, 6 – 9pm
The Naughty or Nice Girls Night Out shopping party

 Gift shopping and services from Yaletown merchants, cocktails and munchies supplied by New Oxford, VIP passes to Bar None for ladies to get free cover before midnight, great music, “naughty” Santa photos with members of the Vancouver Fire Department by donation. Shop opens at 12 noon.

Dec 3, noon – 6pm
Season’s Hottest Gifts Sale

Premiere of the season’s hottest gifts from the gift stores and beauty businesses of Yaletown. Free gift wrapping. Free gingerbread cookies for kids and elves. Donations accepted for the Food Bank.

Dec 4, noon – 4pm
Free Santa Photos in Yaletown

Vancouver’s only free Santa Photos from Yaletown Photography. Santa loves kids and puppies! Please bring a donation for the Food Bank. Free gift wrapping for all of your Yaletown purchases. Free gingerbread cookie decorating. Shop until 6pm.

 

View Yaletown Christmas Shopping in a larger map

Thanks to Johanna Ward for hosting “The Express” in Yaletown for this neighbourhood special:

Johanna Ward looks at how Opus Vancouver is a trendsetter www.opushotel.com

Bianca Solterbeck goes glam with makeover help from Noir and Blo in Yaletown www.noirlashlounge.com
www.blomedry.com

Check part 2 of “The Express” Yaletown special below

Check out “The Express” at www.shawtv.com