This Saturday February 10, marks the start of year 4722 on a Chinese Calendar and the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, those born in 2024, 2012, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964, 1952, are celebrating ‘their birth sign year’. The fifth of the 12 zodiac animals, the dragons are majestic, ambitious and powerful. Their confidence and…
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City Opera Vancouver presents CHINATOWN, A New Opera September 13 to 17
Next week, City Opera Vancouver presents CHINATOWN, A New Opera written by Madeleine Thien and composed by Alice Ping Yee Ho with translator Paul Yee. The company’s fifth commission in ten years, will be stages September 13 to 17 at the Vancouver Playhouse, chosen due to its proximity to Chinatown. The ground-breaking new work, like…
Light Up Chinatown! A Free Celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival
Celebrate the Mid-Autum Festival with Light Up Chinatown! a free two-day outdoor community events, September 10-11, 2022. As we welcome the Harvest Moon, Chinatown brings together the community for a free celebration weekend featuring live entertainment, food trucks, lights, lanterns, colourful decorations, dragons and dancing. Co-hosts the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, Vancouver Chinatown Business Improvement Area…
SUM gallery Welcomes Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective
SUM gallery, Vancouver’s queer mandated visual art gallery is welcoming its newest exhibition – Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective – opening October 29th. Running until December 1, 2020, Time Lapse: Posthumous Conversations is a memorial retrospective of visual art by Geoff McMurchy. The founding Artistic Director of Kickstart Disability Arts, McMurchy was a…
Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements, Comes to SUM Gallery
SUM Gallery, is welcoming a new exhibition, “Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements”, opening February 1, 2020. Curated by the queer arts collective, Love Intersections, “Yellow Peril” is a visual art exhibit inspired by the Chinese Five Elemental forces, seized by the urgent tensions between Queer Chinese diasporic identities. The exhibition features a collection of multichannel…
Tasting Plates Gastown & Chinatown – recap
A pleasant Vancouver evening, was filled with pleasant company and great food as Tasting Plates visited Gastown & Chinatown on Wednesday October 23rd. Tasting Plates patrons found something sweet and savoury as they walked between the evening’s eateries in the two downtown neighbourhoods. Four of the more recently opened eateries were new to many of…
Tasting Plates visits Gastown and Chinatown
Tasting Plates Gastown and Chinatown invites you to find out what’s new in the oldest neighbourhoods. October 23, at 6pm, join other food fans to explore the restaurants and cafés in the downtown Vancouver food scene. As with all Tasting Plates, participants will get to explore the neighbourhood with their friends, and family meet fellow…