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<p><span style="font-size:23.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E9B00">MEDIA ADVISORY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color:black">April 30</span>, 2015</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Food Truck Festival event comes to Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC –
</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">It’s easy to build up an appetite as you discover our province’s past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">But don’t worry, the Royal BC Museum has you covered, as it rolls out its first ever Food Truck Festival, a tasty summer-long event taking place from May to October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Starting with a half-festival May 1, and full slate of food trucks May 8, the Royal BC Museum’s Newcombe Plaza will be transformed into an outdoor international food fair, featuring
some of the finest food trucks and most delicious food in Victoria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Pick up some of your favourite eats from favourite local vendors such as Pig, DeadBeetz, A Streetcar Named New Orleans, Puerto Vallarta Amigos, The Love Perogy and Wild West
BBQ Salmon, and stop by our Truffles Catering station for a local beer or wine. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Then think of the Royal BC Museum as Victoria’s living room as you stay to enjoy our warm and welcoming eating area, featuring recycled and reused furniture and décor, creating
a relaxed urban vibe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Food Truck Festival event is open to everyone. Newcombe Plaza is a courtyard located on the south side of the Royal BC Museum property behind the museum. The festival event runs Sunday to
Thursday from 11 am to 6 pm, and Friday to Saturday 11 am to 9 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding
of BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking to the future, by 2017 the Royal BC Museum
will be a refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Royal BC Museum Media Inquiries
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">250-387-3207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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