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All Olympic Games feature a "Cultural Olympiad" in the host city. In Vancouver, it's a 60-day festival of performing and visual arts that started today. For example, the art gallery has been wrapped in huge bright flowers to break up the grey columns. There is also a modern dance spectacle set to the music of Joni Mitchell. Take your pick of daily concerts, theatre, and whimsical exhibitions.
"Lunarfest" is 2010 (get it?) lanterns decorated by children from Canada and Taiwan. They are lit by LED bulbs and hang from 40 three-metre tall steel trees. The lanterns illuminate the significant Asian population in Vancouver, and the fact that the Lunar ("Chinese") New Year starts the day after the Opening Ceremonies Feb. 12.
Also on display are 5 "totem lanterns" that incorporate both nations' indigenous designs --- such as a killer whale from Canada and flying fish from Taiwan. If you can't find a lantern you like, you can make your own to hang, or see all the thousands of submissions at lunarfest.org!
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