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Here’s what Vancouver’s free floral ‘Femme’ event dedicated to ‘significant women’ will look like

Say it with flowers: This free Vancouver event will celebrate fierce, famous females in floral form

There’ll be 15 mannequins along with other displays.

Fleur de Villes is returning to Vancouver for a female-focused floral function.

For 10 days starting June 3 public spaces in Vancouver’s downtown will be blooming brilliantly with 15 mannequins placed about the core with features familiar to many. The show, dubbed FEMMES, celebrates remarkable women with mannequins decorated like them.

That means famed locals like Sarah MacLachlan, Shaylan Stone Child, and Emily Carr will be featured. Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson will also be featured. For those looking to learn more about each of the women, a QR code and images will provide a profile on each woman.

Along with the 15 mannequins, the show will have several other components, like a “flower-bombed” 1957 MGA Roadster, a floral swing and a pop-up flower market. Some restaurants, like 1931 Gallery Bistro, will be serving related foods and drinks, as well.

“Each of our shows is an entirely different experience, celebrating the local community and made possible by local partners like the DVBIA which support Fleurs de Villes events being freely and most beautifully open to the public,” says co-founder Karen Marshall in a press release.

While Fleur de Villes is based in Vancouver, they’ve held shows around the world; versions of FEMME have popped up in Miami, Chicago and Toronto.

 

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Say it with flowers: This free Vancouver event will celebrate fierce, famous females in floral form

Say it with flowers: This free Vancouver event will celebrate fierce, famous females in floral form

Art made up of mannequins covered in real flowers will honour queens, artists, and activists

An international series of floral events celebrating influential women will be popping up in Vancouver this summer.

Visitors to the city core will be able to catch a number of pieces featuring mannequins covered in flowers in the fashion of each of the famous women. The series means queens, artists and activists will be installed around the city in gowns, dresses and other costumes made of brightly coloured petals.

The event series, titled FEMMES, is being organized by Vancouver’s Fleur de Villes. In a press release they say the series is dedicated to “culturally, politically, and historically significant women.” Along with the petal-bedecked mannequin, there will be QR codes linking to bios on each of the women. 

Each city will have a different series of women; the first in the series has launched in Miami with depictions of Audrey Hepburn, Cleopatra and Frida Kahlo, among others.

Who will be in the Vancouver event has yet to be announced, though in a press release announcing the series event organizers note west coast Canadian artist Emily Carr will be depicted at some point.

Vancouver is the sixth date in the series, with the plant-based artwork on display from June 3 to 12 (Toronto and Montreal are just before). Specific locations of pieces haven’t been announced, although it will take place in downtown Vancouver. Along with the flowery art a series of events will be coming as well, though specifics haven’t been released yet.

“We felt that this was the ideal time to launch Fleurs de Villes FEMMES as people are starved for in-real-life, tactile and inspirational experiences,” says Fleur de Vile co-founder Tina Barkley in a press release.