Summer is in full swing, and Canada Day brings up our first long weekend of the season and plenty of activities and entertainment to pick from this week. O Canada: Celebrate Canada Day with one of the many community events or plan your own with family and friends. Jazz: The Vancouver and Victoria International Jazz Festivals continue through the…
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Five Canada Day 2018 Celebrations
Canada Day is upon us, after last year’s 150 celebrations it’s easy to think 2018 will be more subdued but there are still plenty of great ways to celebrate your Canadian Pride. Here’s a selection of celebrations from around Metro Vancouver: Canada Day at Canada Place : The hub of Metro Vancouver’s celebrations starts with…
Go back to the 60s with As You Like It at Bard On The Beach
FUN, is the best word to describe As You Like It, now playing at Bard on the Beach, alternating nights with Macbeth. While Macbeth is a brooding, dark, and classic production, As You Like It is the complete opposite; lively, bright and a mash-up Bard-Beatles musical production. That’s right, the music of The Beatles plays…
Arts Club Theatre Company : Once
Once is definitely not enough when it comes to seeing Arts Club Theatre Company’s Once, now playing at the Granville Island Stage. The final show of the season, and for Artist Director Bill Millerd’s 45 season reign as the guiding force of the Art Club, certainly makes a memorable impact. The heartwarming and heartbreaking story…
Dancing on the Edge 30th Anniversary opens July 5, 2018
Canada’s longest running festival of contemporary dance, Dancing on the Edge Festival is coming to Vancouver venues July 5 -14, 2018. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, Dancing on the Edge Festival’s longevity serves as a powerful reminder of the contributions of dance, to our past and future of the Arts in the community. Building on its 30 years of…
Picks of the Week – June 20, 2018
Summer 2018 is upon us and bringing with it a plethora of entertainment to keep your week moving along with these picks. Eat: Take a flavourful tour of Vancouver’s West End on Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates West End edition. Bard: Make your picks between a Beatles themed version of As You Like It or the Scottish…
Macbeth opens Bard on the Beach 2018
This week, the 2018 season of Bard on the Beach opened with Macbeth on the BMO Mainstage. The famed Scottish Play, starts with the General being forewarned by a trio of witches, who prophesy that he is destined to be the King of Scots, creating a tale of ambition, treachery and murder that turns to…