LOWER LONSDALE CAFÉ RANKED AMONG THE BEST IN THE LOWER MAINLAND
Congratulations North Van! Your Café for Contemporary Art has been selected as one of the top ten cafés in the Vancouver Area! Everyone is urged to vote for further selection at: vote.krups.ca Story below:
Every year for the past six years, KRUPS, a home coffee brewing equipment company, has been holding KRUPS KUP OF EXCELLENCE, a competition among a professionally selected list of the top ten cafés in all major cities across Canada. This year, among all of Vancouver's top ten, is Lower Lonsdale's Café for Contemporary Art. Having opened just over a year ago, the Café for Contemporary Art (known by regulars as CAFCA), is a low-key space hidden amongst the new developments down the eastern arm of Esplanade Avenue. In addition to serving exceptional coffee, the café's 700 square foot gallery has been host to exhibitions of art by rising local stars and internationally exhibiting artists of the global art cannon, poetry readings organized by North Vancouver's Governor General's Award Winning Poet, David Zieroth, and an intimate concerto by VSO cellist and Lower Lonsdale resident, Ariel Barnes.
On the coffee side, it is quite a feat for this young business to join the ranks of all-star cafés like West Vancouver's Café Crema and Kitsilano's 49th Parallel Café. Originally trained by 2007 Canadian Barista Champion, Mike Yung, and serving coffee from Vancouver's and Canada's premiere roaster, 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters, this North Shore café also has periodic guest appearances from some of the world's other premiere roasters. The only ones on the North Shore to use a Clover, a coffee machine that brews one cup at a time ensuring legitimate freshness, CAFCA specializes in single-origin coffee and is excited about sourcing and preparing all sorts of great things to share.
Known for their tasty paninis and fresh home-made vegetarian soups, the café has an evolving selection of treats both baked in-house and sourced from the likes of the local Artisan Bake Shoppe. With an eye to seeing how a café can function as a means by which a community expresses itself, CAFCA is proud to source its eggs from a neighbour, whose parents organically raise free-range chickens in Fort Langley, and to serve soups both from in-house recipes and from Casimir Loeber's mom's cookbook Wise Woman's Cookery. Cas, a regular at CAFCA, is co-owner of nearby web design firm Base-10, makers of RealtyNinja.com. Finally, the café delights in serving brownies from the signature recipe of another neighbour and long-time regular, Matthew Craig, Whole Foods - Park Royal's grocery team leader.
The KRUPS KUP OF EXCELLENCE competition takes place in three stages. The first stage was the professional selection of each city's top ten cafés, in the second stage customers and supporters are invited to vote online (http://vote.krups.ca) for their favourite café with the resulting top five entering the third and final stage. In the third stage, a selection of Canada's top food critics, journalists, and media personalities will tour the finalist cafés and discern which café is the best in each city.
Voting for the Krups Kup of Excellence finalists runs from now until August 6th at http://vote.krups.ca
Current and Upcoming exhibitions and events at the Café for Contemporary Art include:
Exhibitions
Now through July 11: The Sinixt Don't Make Totem Poles and Other Ways of Me in the 21st Century featuring work by Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul in collaboration with Tyler Russell, Korean artists Seung Young Kim and Soo Yeon Lim, BC artists Scott August and Steve Hubert and the Appointed Spokesperson of the Sinixt First Nation, Marilyn James.
July 15 to August 7: The Machines of Liminal Grace, an exhibition by Grant Mercs. Opening reception is to be held on July 17th from 5:30-7:30 just before the kick-off of Party at the Pier.
August 10 to 17: Video Screening of Highway 99 by local film-maker, Adrian
Buitenhuis.
August 19 to 26: Video Screening of Final Word, a final interview with Persian poet Ahmad Shamlou, directed by the father of Iranian underground cinema, Moslem Mansouri.
September 4 to October 3: ID in NV an exhibition featuring contemporary industrial design of North Vancouver curated by Adrian Boston, a design theorist and Lower Lonsdale resident.
Events
June 26: Solo Sessions, featuring up-and-coming singers organized by Warren Dean of Cloud Studio.
July 3: a concert by Treebeard, a local up-and-coming singer/songwriter doing ambient folk.
July 21: Cello concerto featuring a rising star of the Lower Lonsdale cello scene, Evan Lamberton.
In the fall, in conjunction with Roger Farr from Capilano University's Creative Writing and Culture & Technology programs the cafe will host a series of readings and literary events.
Follow us on Twitter: @cafca140
Become a Fan on Facebook: Café for Contemporary Art
Check our website: http://www.cafeforcontemporaryart.com
For more information about the Café for Contemporary Art contact:
Robyn Yager
Email: robyn.yager@cafeforcontemporaryart.com
For more information regarding the Krups Kup of Excellence contact:
Marie-Claude Filion
Email: mc@natapr.com
Phone:+1-514-524-1471
Every year for the past six years, KRUPS, a home coffee brewing equipment company, has been holding KRUPS KUP OF EXCELLENCE, a competition among a professionally selected list of the top ten cafés in all major cities across Canada. This year, among all of Vancouver's top ten, is Lower Lonsdale's Café for Contemporary Art. Having opened just over a year ago, the Café for Contemporary Art (known by regulars as CAFCA), is a low-key space hidden amongst the new developments down the eastern arm of Esplanade Avenue. In addition to serving exceptional coffee, the café's 700 square foot gallery has been host to exhibitions of art by rising local stars and internationally exhibiting artists of the global art cannon, poetry readings organized by North Vancouver's Governor General's Award Winning Poet, David Zieroth, and an intimate concerto by VSO cellist and Lower Lonsdale resident, Ariel Barnes.
On the coffee side, it is quite a feat for this young business to join the ranks of all-star cafés like West Vancouver's Café Crema and Kitsilano's 49th Parallel Café. Originally trained by 2007 Canadian Barista Champion, Mike Yung, and serving coffee from Vancouver's and Canada's premiere roaster, 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters, this North Shore café also has periodic guest appearances from some of the world's other premiere roasters. The only ones on the North Shore to use a Clover, a coffee machine that brews one cup at a time ensuring legitimate freshness, CAFCA specializes in single-origin coffee and is excited about sourcing and preparing all sorts of great things to share.
Known for their tasty paninis and fresh home-made vegetarian soups, the café has an evolving selection of treats both baked in-house and sourced from the likes of the local Artisan Bake Shoppe. With an eye to seeing how a café can function as a means by which a community expresses itself, CAFCA is proud to source its eggs from a neighbour, whose parents organically raise free-range chickens in Fort Langley, and to serve soups both from in-house recipes and from Casimir Loeber's mom's cookbook Wise Woman's Cookery. Cas, a regular at CAFCA, is co-owner of nearby web design firm Base-10, makers of RealtyNinja.com. Finally, the café delights in serving brownies from the signature recipe of another neighbour and long-time regular, Matthew Craig, Whole Foods - Park Royal's grocery team leader.
The KRUPS KUP OF EXCELLENCE competition takes place in three stages. The first stage was the professional selection of each city's top ten cafés, in the second stage customers and supporters are invited to vote online (http://vote.krups.ca) for their favourite café with the resulting top five entering the third and final stage. In the third stage, a selection of Canada's top food critics, journalists, and media personalities will tour the finalist cafés and discern which café is the best in each city.
Voting for the Krups Kup of Excellence finalists runs from now until August 6th at http://vote.krups.ca
Current and Upcoming exhibitions and events at the Café for Contemporary Art include:
Exhibitions
Now through July 11: The Sinixt Don't Make Totem Poles and Other Ways of Me in the 21st Century featuring work by Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul in collaboration with Tyler Russell, Korean artists Seung Young Kim and Soo Yeon Lim, BC artists Scott August and Steve Hubert and the Appointed Spokesperson of the Sinixt First Nation, Marilyn James.
July 15 to August 7: The Machines of Liminal Grace, an exhibition by Grant Mercs. Opening reception is to be held on July 17th from 5:30-7:30 just before the kick-off of Party at the Pier.
August 10 to 17: Video Screening of Highway 99 by local film-maker, Adrian
Buitenhuis.
August 19 to 26: Video Screening of Final Word, a final interview with Persian poet Ahmad Shamlou, directed by the father of Iranian underground cinema, Moslem Mansouri.
September 4 to October 3: ID in NV an exhibition featuring contemporary industrial design of North Vancouver curated by Adrian Boston, a design theorist and Lower Lonsdale resident.
Events
June 26: Solo Sessions, featuring up-and-coming singers organized by Warren Dean of Cloud Studio.
July 3: a concert by Treebeard, a local up-and-coming singer/songwriter doing ambient folk.
July 21: Cello concerto featuring a rising star of the Lower Lonsdale cello scene, Evan Lamberton.
In the fall, in conjunction with Roger Farr from Capilano University's Creative Writing and Culture & Technology programs the cafe will host a series of readings and literary events.
Follow us on Twitter: @cafca140
Become a Fan on Facebook: Café for Contemporary Art
Check our website: http://www.cafeforcontemporaryart.com
For more information about the Café for Contemporary Art contact:
Robyn Yager
Email: robyn.yager@cafeforcontemporaryart.com
For more information regarding the Krups Kup of Excellence contact:
Marie-Claude Filion
Email: mc@natapr.com
Phone:+1-514-524-1471
