The cloud of COVID-19 hangs over the globe, with even more restrictions and closures, so we must find our own entertainment for this week’s picks. Art: Vancouver Art Gallery isn’t letting a COVID-19 closure stop it from offering a host of activities to help everyone be creative during its Digital Spring, each day the VAG…
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Picks of the Week – March 18, 2020
With the unprecedented closure of nearly everything due to COVID-19 prevention, the new reality means we’re on our own to find ways to entertain ourselves. Let’s see what we can find to help pass the time in these online picks of the week. Theatre: Although live performances are now cancelled The Frank Theatre and Zee Zee…
Cancelled or Postponed? COVID-19 Event Updates
By now we are all trying to make sense of how to manage our lives during these rapidly changing times as a result of COVID-19. While the BCCDC is advising social distancing and a halt on all events with over 250 people as a means to interrupt the spread of the virus, it is causing…
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Announces 2020/21 Season
While the current season is temporarily interrupted due to COVID-19 precautions, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) looks to the future and its 2020/21 season. The recently announced season will be Otto Tausk’s third as Music Director. From Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and MahlerFest, the…
Visit Paris! The Show
Capture the spirit of post-WWII Parisian cabarets, as Paris! The Show comes to Royal Theatre in Victoria and Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC. Following the success of Piaf! The Show starring the internationally acclaimed Anne Carrere – which wowed both Royal Theatre and Chan Centre audiences in March 2019 – producer / creator…
Picks of the Week – March 11, 2020
While the current virus conditions are causing a lot of hand wringing, caution and cancellations let’s see what entertainment finds we have in these picks of the week Pooh: Carousel Theatre for Young People invites you to visit The House on Pooh Corner to catch up with Winnie-the-Pooh and friends in the 100-Acre Wood, at Waterfront Theatre…
Picks of the Week – March 4, 2020
The leap day gave us one more day in February but March is here and spring it ticking towards us, but before it arrives let’s see what’s in the picks of the weeks. Rugby: Festivities for Canada Sevens Men’s Rugby Tournament kick-off Friday at Vancouver Art Gallery, before the two-day tournament continues the entertainment for…