BC PLACE MARKS DAFFODIL DAY
April 20th, 2012
April 20, 2012
BC Place marks Canadian Cancer Society's "Daffodil Day" by shining yellow on Friday, April 27.
Vancouver, BC: BC Place is “joining the fight” and helping create awareness for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day on Friday, April 27th by lighting the 36-foot tall Northern Lights Display “yellow”.
BC PLACE - NORTHERN LIGHTS DISPLAY LIT “YELLOW” FOR CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY’S “DAFFODIL DAY”
Date: Friday, April 27th, 2012
Times:
MORNING 5:30AM to Sunrise
EVENING Sunset to 11:00PM
April is Daffodil Month across Canada, a national fundraising campaign of the Canadian Cancer Society. Activities include distributing fresh daffodils; asking people to make a donation and wear a daffodil pin, and canvassing door to door. In addition, the City of Vancouver and the Province of BC has designated April 27th as Daffodil Day - a special day when Canadians can show their support for those living with cancer, and remember those who have died.
For more information on the Canadian Cancer Society’s “Join the Fight” campaign, please visit www.fightback.ca and follow @cancersocietybc on Twitter.
About the “Northern Lights Display” at BC Place
The stadium roof façade – known as the Northern Lights Display - utilizes 1700 ‘ETFE’ panels, stacked four rows high, and 6,800 linear feet of energy-efficient LED lights to create customizable lighting displays. ETFE is a semi-transparent material that allows sunlight into the stadium during the day, but it also contains metal dots called “frits” that reflect the LED light displays at night. Together with the new 38,000 square metre roof at BC Place roof, the Northern Lights Display enables a wide range of both static and dynamic programming, with a total of more than 26,000 addressable lighting elements. BC Place has utilised the entire roof to promote events (orange for BC Lions, blue for Vancouver Whitecaps), seasonal and holiday displays (red and green at Christmas), and for community and charitable organizations, such as illuminating pink on ‘Pink Shirt’ day to create awareness for anti-bullying, red for AIDS awareness, purple for Epilepsy Awareness Day, and more. Visit www.bcplace.com/roof-lights for more information.
About BC Place
BC Place is the largest sports, exhibition and entertainment venue of its kind in British Columbia, hosting the province’s most notable events including the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. An all-new BC Place reopened in September 2011 after completing a major revitalization that included the installation of the largest cable-supported retractable roof of its kind in the world. Today, BC Place is home to Vancouver Whitecaps FC, the BC Lions Football Club and the BC Sports Hall of Fame. BC Place is an important generator of economic activity in British Columbia, hosting world-class entertainment events, professional and amateur sport, community gatherings and exhibitions. For more information, please visit www.bcplace.com