{"id":800513,"date":"2026-07-14T03:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800513\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:49:08","slug":"vancouver-festival-on-east-hastings-returns-for-fifth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800513\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver festival on East Hastings returns for fifth year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Strathcona Blocks party is back.<\/p>\n<p>Strathcona&#8217;s street party is returning this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Strathcona Blocks Party is back for its fifth year. It&#8217;ll be taking over a few blocks on East Hastings, from the 600 to 900 block, on Saturday, July 25. Activities will be focused at 840 E\u00a0Hastings\u00a0St. (which is normally a parking lot).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visitors can enjoy a full lineup of entertainment, including live music and dance performances on the main stage, food trucks such as Japadog, Nami Vietnamese and Reel\u00a0Mac &amp; Cheese, and free family-friendly activities including face painting, balloon art and sidewalk chalk,&#8221; reads a release about the event.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a beer garden for adults. Along with the\u00a0beer, it&#8217;ll include barbecue bites and &#8220;throwback games,&#8221; including a giant Twister.<\/p>\n<p>Local businesses will be participating in different ways, including Gallery 881 and Prototype Coffee. Those who collect stickers at the different businesses can get a free ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>The festival stage will feature live music until 5 p.m., when headliner The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DWHjFgXgT8C\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pinebarren Band<\/a> wraps up their set.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Strathcona Blocks party is back. Strathcona&#8217;s street party is returning this year. The Strathcona Blocks Party is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-800513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}