2021 marks the Talking Stick Festival’s 20th anniversary, inviting audiences to join in online to celebrate and keep communities connected throughout the 4 seasons of this year. Festival organizers call to all four directions and all relations to gather around four fires in each season: winter, spring, summer, and fall over the entire 2021 theatrical…
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Picks of the Week – February 17, 2021
We move into the second half of February and let’s see what’s on to entertain us in these picks of the week Fairytales: Tonight, join MISCELLANEOUS Productions for a free Facebook Watch Event, Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales, with renowned folklore and fairy tale expert Jack Zipes examining the importance of little-known tales from the first half of…
VICO opens Montreal/New Musics Festival This Week
This week, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is proudly making its first-ever appearance in Québec…virtually. While live touring remains on hold, a new VICO filmed concert is slated to open the renowned Festival Montréal / Nouvelles musiques (Montreal/New Musics Festival) on Thursday February 18, 2021. The festival and concert are presented and produced by Société…
A Future for Memory opens at MOA
Today is one month from the 10th anniversary of Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster. A magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake hit the eastern region of Japan on the afternoon of March 11, 2011 with a resulting tsunami and nuclear following in the aftermath. Opening today, February 11, The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC host the powerful group…
Picks of the Week – February 10, 2021
We’re already up to the first long weekend of the the year! Let’s see what’s happening in our picks this week. Shadows: Gateway Theatre is celebrating Lunar New Year with one of the oldest puppetry traditions in the world, Chinese shadow puppetry, in a series of workshops lead by artist Annie Katsura Rollins on February 15th…
Welcome Chinese New Year of the Ox with Social Distance
This Friday February 12th, the Chinese New Year festival gets underway as we welcome the Year of the Ox. Celebrating the start of the new year in the traditional Chinese – Lunar Calendars. Beginning with the new moon, the Spring Festival starts with New Year’s Eve and concludes with the Lantern Festival on the 15th…
Picks of the Week – February 3, 2021
It’s already February, the majority of Groundhogs didn’t see their shadow yesterday so looks like we’re in for an early spring…here on the west coast that means it’s right around the corner! Let’s see what will entertain us until it arrives. PuSh: PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) is in the midst of PuSh Rally, a free online series…