Stir Pairing: Stride Burnaby Arts Festival calls for Dageraad beer and Cioffi’s antipasti
With so much community pride behind the cultural event, we’re sticking to the ’hood for our food and drink
ECUAD graduate and mixed-media artist Tami Murray, whose works from the Shakespearean Fish series are pictured above, is teaching neurographic art at the Stride Burnaby Arts Festival.
In between exploring public art works in Burnaby and taking in virtual Stride fest events, we’re making our own antipasti platter with goods from Cioffi’s to go with our Dageraad Lekkers.
Every week, Stir Wine Pairing suggests BC wine and food to go with a local arts event. This week, it’s beer.
The event
Stride Burnaby Arts Festival, January 16 to 30, online and IRL
The drink
Dageraad Brewing’s Lekkers
The food
Homemade antipasti platter with items from Cioffi’s Meat Market and Deli
The lowdown
Burnaby is the place to be starting this weekend. Running from January 16 to 30 online and in person, Stride Burnaby Arts Festival is all about showing off the borough’s creative side and connecting community. We love that there are so many different happenings to choose from—from workshops on photographic printing processes to drive-in screenings of “NB24” (a 24-minute film spanning 24 hours in North Burnaby) to outdoor art installations.
One of the ongoing highlights is the Heights Murals Soundtrack Tour. The interactive, self-guided experience takes you to three of 10 permanent murals in the Heights neighbourhood. At each stop, you scan a QR code then get to listen to an original score inspired by the wall art composed by young musicians with strong ties to North Burnaby: Haleluya Hailu, Kalyan Rath, and Joshua Yang.
We thought we’d also check out two events on January 19: Neurographic Art For Beginners, an online late-afternoon workshop with Burnaby-based mixed-media artist Tami Murray; and, that evening, a virtual chat with landscape painter Jane Appleby and experimental photographer Grant Withers called Making Art & Living Artfully.
The pairing
Typically, Stir Pairing suggests a B.C. wine to go with local arts goings-on, but since this is a hyperlocal happening and there isn’t an actual winery in Burnaby to our knowledge, we’re going full beer with a stop at Dageraad Brewing, which crafts various types of ale in the Belgian tradition. It takes its title from the Flemish word for daybreak or dawn, which is also the name of one of brewery owner Ben Coli’s favourite squares in Antwerp. Beer culture is huge in Belgium, and Dageraad is a key player in B.C.’s flourishing craft-beer scene. We’re opting for the Lekkers, a dark beer made with orange peel and caramelized sugar. It’s big and chocolate-y and it seems like just the thing for BC’s monsoon season.
The menu
Cioffi’s is a local landmark, the old-school Italian deli and grocery store having opened in 1990. Its aisles are jam-packed with every possible Italian ingredient you can think of, while its selection of cheeses, cured meats, olives, and the like is unbeatable. Pick up whatever suits your fancy for a home-made antipasti platter: prosciutto, smoked provolone, bocconcini, asiago, feta-stuffed peppers, smoked eggplant, olives, parmesan bread sticks, focaccia… Done like dinner.
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