Love Your City Tag

Find Love in your favourite Vancouver neighbourhoods

Love Your City

This February we invite you to Find Love and rediscover everything that Vancouver neighbourhoods have to offer.

16 neighbourhoods across Vancouver are bringing you the Love Your City Contest – a call to get out, explore, and find LOVE in our city.

How it works.

1. Visit any (or all!) of the participating hoods of the Love Your City contest during the month of February.
2. Look out for the Love Your City installations (giant sweetheart candies, wooden hearts, murals, love banners, umbrella installations and more.) Take a photo of the special spots, share to your instagram account feed.
3. Tag @loveyourcitycontest and the neighbourhood you are visiting (ex. #FindLoveStrathcona).
4. You’ll be entered to win incredible prizes plus the participating districts have come together to create one epic grand prize, valued at approx. $4000!

Plus, during the month of February we’ll be hiding gift cards throughout Strathcona connected to our Sweethearts, that will be placed in various Strathcona locations. We’ll be dropping clues weekly on our TikTok channel – follow along! @MadeInStrathcona. 

We invite you to find our custom Sweethearts (created by MakerLabs) hung up around Strathcona with messages of love and compliments. 

We will have 10+ hearts displayed throughout Strathcona and during February we’ll be hiding gift cards taped behind a select few. Hints will be dropped on our TikTok account. We encourage you to go out in the daytime, bring a buddy and be aware of your surroundings on your hunt. Remember to tag @loveyourcitycontest and #FindLoveStrathcona to be entered to win the grand prize, or if you find the gift card, stitch us and show us your findings!

Find Love and happy hunting!

Love You City Contest – Grand prize

Vancouver BIA neighbourhoods are coming together to offer a chance for one lucky winner to take home a grand prize valued at approximately $4,000! All you have to do is follow the steps above to enter.

Strathcona prize portion

Each neighbourhood will contribute a unique offering to the Love You City grand prize. From Strathcona, you have a chance to win the following items in the grand prize:

$100 to VV Tapas Lounge

$75 to Settlement Building / Vancouver Urban Winery

$85 to MakerLabs to take a class of your choice

More Experiences from Strathcona

Beyond the prizes, if you are looking for fun ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, look no further than these ideas.

Valentine’s Day at VV Tapas Lounge

On Friday February 11 and Saturday the 12, VV Tapas Lounge will be offering a delightful 5 course menu for only $55 a person, with optional wine pairings for an additional $40. On the menu you’ll find Oysters 3 Ways, Panzanella Salad, Duck Breast and more. Call ahead to make a reservation, or reserve here.

Valentine’s Day Virtual Cooking Class with Cocktails and Canapes

Share in an evening of cooking with your loved one with a virtual cooking class for two with Chef Jason Harper. Your ticket includes a 1 hour cooking class, with the ingredients delivered right to your door. Inside your box will be ready to enjoy charcuterie and a bottle of Poplar Grove 2018 Merlot to open up right away. Cook the perfect risotto, learning cooking techniques from the Chef. Finish off the night by making a Strawberry ganache! Two evening dates available here.

Perfect Pairings Cheese Tasting with Les Amis DU FROMAGE

Join host Allison Spurrell on February 13 for a live-streamed guided cheese tasting, and learn about her favourite pairings and why they work so well. You’ll be set up with a tasting package for two people that includes 8 types of cheese, crackers, accompaniments, and a tasting menu to pick up ahead of event at their East Van store. Pick up the suggested wine pairings in advance on your own. Tickets can be purchased here.

It’s been a minute, and it’s time we connected with our favourite hoods.

Love Your City

This February let’s rediscover all there is to love right in our own backyards. 16 neighbourhoods across Vancouver are bringing you the Love Your City Contest – a call to get out, explore our city, and find LOVE in our neighbourhoods. 

How it works.

1. Visit any (or all!) of the participating hoods of the Love Your City contest during the month of February.
2. Look out for giant sweetheart candies, wooden hearts, murals, love banners, umbrella installations and more. Take a photo of the special spots, share to your instagram account feed.
3. Tag @loveyourcitycontest and the neighbourhood you are visiting (ex. #FindLoveStrathcona).
4. You’ll be entered to win incredible prizes. The participating districts have come together to create an epic grand prize valued at $5000.

Plus, in the week leading up to Valentine’s day, here in Strathcona we’ll be doing an additional daily prize giveaway over on our instagram page @MadeInStrathcona. 

Together, let’s show some love to our City.  

We invite you to find this mural in Strathcona at 875 E Hastings by artist iHeart, part of Vancouver Mural Festival in 2019. 

In these pandemic days, this mural really tugs on the heart strings. It will be coming up on a year that we haven’t been able to hug and embrace so many of the people that are near and dear to us – but the moment we can, you know we won’t be taking it for granted any time soon. So find this mural and tag a friend that you can’t wait to hug when the pandemic is over. Remember to tag @loveyourcitycontest and #FindLoveStrathcona to be entered to win.

The best part of the mural? You have to stumble upon love to get the best vantage point. Vist Strathcona to see what we mean!

Awesome Strathcona Prizes

During February 8 to 14 make sure to follow along @MadeInStrathcona to enter to win daily giveaways. There will be bonus entries for in-person visits to the business of the giveaway. Of course, we ask that you follow all COVID-19 health and safety precautions when visiting in person. Plus don’t forget to enter the city-wide @loveyourcitycontest while you’re here. 

We’re pretty pumped on the prizes from Strathcona for this celebration of love. And we think you’ll be too.

Win a ‘Just the Two of Us’ meal from The Mackenzie Room.

Our daily prizes are inspired by the love of…many things!

Experiences in Strathcona

Beyond the prizes, if you are looking for fun ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year look no further than these unique ideas.