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Summer Fun, Tours and Festivals Antique Autos Invade Gastown Display of 75 to 100 Classic and heritage cars .At last, the Pacific Northwest has a concours to rank with the best. Steamworks Concours d'Elégance in Vancouver BC's historic Gastown district. Similar to New York's prestigious Louis Vuitton concours, this is an "invitation only" event with up to 100 rare and beautiful classics on display, competing for the title of "most elegant car." The Steamworks is a brew pub adjacent to the famous steam clock, a 9-foot tall, antique sidewalk-mounted clock that announces the hour by a whistle and huge puff of steam. Gastown's streets are paved with bricks, its buildings dating back to Vancouver's wilder days when it was first established as a major west coast port. A wonderful locale for what will surely become a prime stop on the vintage car calendar.. Web site:http://vintagecars.about.com/b/a/2003_08_26.htm. Summer Festivals: Bard On Beach Artistic Director Christopher Gaze is pleased to announce the playbill for Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival's 16th season which runs June 2 through September 25, 2005. Playing in repertory in the 520-seat Mainstage tent will be the classic romantic comedy As You Like It directed by Robert McQueen and the witty romance Love's Labour's Lost directed by Michael Shamata. In the 240-seat Douglas Campbell Studio Stage tent, Bard will go to repertory for the first time presenting an intimate staging of Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy, Hamlet, paired with the Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning, 20th century comic look at theHamlet tale, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Both Studioproductions will be staged by Dean Paul Gibson. Theatre Under the Stars. Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, July -August. Theatre Under the Stars, also known as TUTS, started in 1934 as an outdoor band shell in Stanley Park for summer afternoon concerts of choral or orchestra music. In 1940, a group of local theatre people formed a "not for profit society" called Theatre Under the Stars to produce quality musicals during the summer. Since then, TUTS has been delighting audiences from around the world with summer musical theatre productions in the pastoral outdoor setting of historic Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park.  Vancouver Folk Music Festival Musicians, singers and songwriters from around the world and across the street will gather at beautiful Jericho Beach Park July 15 - 17, 2005 for Vancouver's 28th annual celebration of traditional and contemporary folk and roots music. The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has established itself as a major event on the world folk and roots music circuit.  This summer celebration challenges audiences to expand their understanding and appreciation of what 'folk' can mean in a global context, brings attention to exciting young artists who are pushing the boundaries, honours the elders of the tradition, and creates new forums for experimentation, improvisation and education.