Posted on March 12th, 2009 by admin
Mad Hatter Tea Party
Saturday, March 21
Off with their heads and on with your hats!
Join us in the Wonderland of Edie Hats from 10am to 7pm for a Mad Hatter Tea Party.
Celebrate the arrival of spring with music, tea and treats.
Bring your best riddle and win a prize!
Tags: Edie Hats, Granville Island, Mad Hatter Tea Party, Net Loft, Spring, Wonderland
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by admin
Edie Hats invites you to step back into the past for a very special fashion experience. On April 11th, join two renowned fashion historians and collectors, Ivan Sayers and Klaus Jahnke, for an interactive, dramatic evening of fashion and history.
Ivan Sayers is well known for his eloquent, entertaining presentations illustrated with period examples modeled from his vast private collection. He will focus on what the passengers on the Titanic would have brought with them for the journey and how they would have dressed while aboard the great ship.
The famed, elegant venue, Edie Hats, will be magically transformed into an interactive performance space. Costumed staff and crew will take on the personalities of people who were on the ship, and each guest will receive a boarding pass that will give them an identity for the evening. Will you survive the voyage? Find out at the end of the event
Delicious food and drinks, inspired by the original first class menu on the Titanic, will be provided by Culinary Capers.
Come and be entertained, edified, and inspired!
Tickets are $45 and include food and drinks.
Posted on October 6th, 2007 by admin
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East Coast Days at Edie Hats was a three-day extravaganza of Thanksgiving fun, featuring oodles of door prizes, great music, and a fantastic spread of classic down-east treats. Piles of warm, homemade tea biscuits and all the hot cider and tea you needed to keep away the damp and cold. We even flew in goodies from Newfoundland – peppermint knobs, Baked apple and Partridgeberry jams, and Purity cream crackers.
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by admin
“A multicultural smash, Café de Chinitas is an unforgettable East-meets-West spectacle.” – Gail Johnson, Georgia Straight
Moving through the crowded candlelit street “Calle Chinitas” in front of the café, it was hard to ignore the
buzz of excitement and expectation. Already a highly acclaimed show in the theatre, Café de Chinitas was
coming home to the intimate ambiance of a café setting
where Flamenco belongs. Finally, this vibrant nuanced
work would be performed where it could really sizzle,
where audience could truly share the same space as the performers and feel the floor tremble. Flamenco at its
best is an interactive art form that involves both the performers and audience emotionally and physically, inviting participation in the form of “jaleos” or shouts of encouragement.
As the guests squeezed into the café, the sense of anticipation became even more palpable. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cafe de Chinitas, dance music, Edie Hats, Flamenco, fusion, Kasandra La China, Mozaico Flamenco, Orchid Ensemble, Oscar Nieto, Peter Mole
Posted on July 14th, 2006 by admin
Edie is pleased to invite you to an evening with one of Canada’s top blues musicians in the intimate setting of “Fedora’s Cafe”. Blues legend Jim Byrnes will be joined by Michael Kalanji on piano and vocals in an evening titled “Paris Blues” – in honour of the many blues and jazz musicians who made Paris their home from the early twenties until the sixties.
Here’s another chance to dress up and wear a hat inspired by the times and the music. Jim’s a hat man in that fine blues and jazz tradition. The extraordinary transformation of the retail hat shop into a setting with an atmosphere resembling a beautiful European cafe is part of what makes this such a unique and a special evening.
Tapas style snacks will be provided, and the first drink will be complimentary.
The event starts at 8:30 pm on Thursday the 14th of July (the day they stormed the Bastille in 1789).
Posted on June 7th, 2006 by admin
Edie Hats once again transformed itself into Fedora’s night club to celebrate “Kansas City- 1933”. It was indeed the ‘Paris of the Plains’ for the night of February 10. The setting was intimate, reminiscent of a vintage speakeasy. Jim Byrnes backed up by Michael Kalanj on piano delivered a masterful performance with some great anecdotes about life in one of the great cities of Jazz and Blues. The crowd loved the music and devoured the southern ‘Bah-be-que’ (ribs, chicken etc), catered by the Memphis Blues restaurant.
The vintage décor of the store was supplemented by donated props from the Arts Club Theatre (see their special offer to Edie Hats events fans at right) and created a true sense of being transported into another time and place. The audience completed the tableau in their array of cloches, fedoras, pork pies and feathered hair decorations.
Posted on June 4th, 2005 by admin
Join us on for Tapas, Sangria and Flamenco as Edie Hats transforms into a smoky, music-filled hangout for artists and bohemians…
Time: the 1930’s. Turmoil in Europe. Spain in the throes of civil war. You enter Café Fedora to the sound of laughter and clinking glasses. Jazz and cigar smoke drift through the room. In the dim light you spot Gertrude Stein, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, deep in conversation. The men sport fedoras and berets; the women, elegant sculpted creations.
A guitar is pulled from a canvas sack. Chairs are moved aside. The proprietor steps forward to eject them but a patron intervenes offering to buy them wine, bread and stew. The cacophony subsides at the first strains of the guitar and the mournful voice of the cantaor. Everyone gathers around; more come in from the street. Some can’t fit in and watch through the window .
Visit this world for an evening – dress inspired by the times and atmosphere. Enjoy the food , the music and some fantastic Flamenco performers. You may even encounter a famous poet like Anais Nin, Collette or…
Date: SATURDAY JUNE 4TH, 2005.
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