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What's on this weekend? Who knows? Simone Whetton does!

Whether it's an indoors event you're looking for, or something with a bit of fresh air attached, there's always something for you to do.

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SATURDAY 13 August

ART

The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910-37. This is a fantastic exhibition curated by Jacqueline Strecker which is on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It looks at the period of art in Germany covering Expressionism, Dada, Bauhaus, Constructivism and New Objectivity. There are over 200 works sourced from an amazing number of galleries throughout the world and the artists represented in that exhibition include Otto Dix, George Grosz, Hanna Hoech, Max Beckmann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. There is a series of events at the Art Gallery in connection with this exhibition and there will be an exhibition talk on Wednesday 17 August at 5.30pm as part of the Art After Hours event. Pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky will give the celebrity talk at 6.30pm and there is a great selection of speakers coming up throughout August and September. The Art After Hours film programme will have a focus on German films and the film Weimar and Hollywood will screen on 17 August. When and where: The exhibition is on now continues to November at the Art Gallery of NSW, The Domain.

Tri cycle art exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery: Take a look at the works of 3 artists Ochre Lawson (sculpture), Kassandra Bossell and Philippa Hagon (paintings) at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery from 12 till 21 August. It opens on Friday 12 August 6 till 9 pm. When and where: Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Pidcock Street, Camperdown, 12 till 21 August Wednesday to Sunday 11 till 6.

how the city changes

Back in the 1860s, if you wanted to travel from Gastown to New Westminster by land, there were only two options. You could walk or ride a horse along the narrow trail that had been cut through the forest in 1860 by Colonel Richard Moody and the Royal Engineers, or you could take a boat to the hotel at New Brighton (north of the modern PNE) and travel by horse-drawn stage coach southeast along Douglas Road. The fare was $1 each way, and the trip took two hours. Inns sprang up along Westminster Road to cater to travellers. Junction Inn was at the spot where the North Arm Wagon Road (Fraser Street) branched off to the south. Gladstone Inn (at modern Gladstone Street) was, for a time, operated by the brother of Gastown's "Gassy Jack" Deighton. Collingwood Inn (at modern Stamford Street) was also known as the Pig and Whistle, and was in use as a private residence in the 1960s. Although most of the settlement in Collingwood took place after South Vancouver was incorporated in 1892, the area remained a distinct community for many years-something that's still reflected in the landscape today. Take a look at a map of modern Vancouver, and Collingwood stands out. Its streets are skewed at an angle to the city's usual grid pattern, running northeast and southwest from Vanness. These angled streets stop abruptly at 29th Avenue, which divided the Municipality of South Vancouver from Hastings Townsite to the north, and run as far south as Kingsway. When he came to Vancouver from Toronto with his wife and her parents in 1887, Oben brought with him more than $20,000. He used the money to purchase lots on Howe Street-then still a rough slash through logged-over forest-and started building houses. He also contracted with the Canadian Pacific Railway to clear its vast holdings in the West End in the late 1880s, overseeing a crew of about 150 Chinese workers who felled and burned the forest with axes and ox teams.

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