Circle the calendar on Sunday (June 9) for the biggest neighbourhood festival that Vancouver will see in 2019.
It's Italian Day on The Drive and it will atract more than 300,000 people to the 14 blocks north of Grandview Highway that extend through Vancouver's Little Italy.
This year's theme is communità, or community.
Below, you can read articles prepared by Georgia Straight staff in advance of the big day. Ci vediamo lì!
Mayor Kennedy Stewart (second from left) posed for a photo with East End Boys and Girls Club leaders Tanya Zambrano and Jim Crescenzo, and one of the club's mentors, Ali Choudhry.
One not to be missed, according to executive director Joan D’Angola Kluge, is Festa della Repubblica, the celebration of Italian National Day, on June 6.
The theme of comunità—or “community”—anchoring Sunday’s Italian Day on Commercial Drive is a fitting nod to the special bond that ties the area’s sons and daughters of Italy together.
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