This year’s Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) livestream festival continues May 27-29 with WANTED by Vancouver’s new dance collective, CAMP. WANTED is a fantastical exploration of the light and dark extremes of humanity, told through the lens of the cowboy. In a performance rich with artifice, aesthetic, exaggeration and comedy, CAMP takes a campy dive into themes of systemic evil. Panic,…
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VAG Art Connects, Vancouver & Manila Together.
This Thursday, May 13, the Vancouver Art Gallery continues its Art Connects, series of online gatherings encouraging dialogue and connection in these times of physical distancing. Streamed on the the Vancouver Art Gallery Zoom channel, this next special talk features artist Ralph Escamillan, fashion historian Gino Gonzales and textile designer Carlo Reporen Eliserio sharing the history and everlasting significance of piña…
Get to know Carmen: Up Close and Personal with Vancouver Opera
Is fate written in the card for Carmen? We will have to see as, Vancouver Opera wraps its digital season with a unique production of Bizet’s timeless classic, Carmen: Up Close and Personal. Director Brenna Corner has crafted a production that lives up to the title Up Close and Personal. Mounting an opera as grand…
Annual Wine Auction goes online to support VIWF & Bard on the Beach
Vancouver International Wine Festival (VIWF) the much loved annual event is adapting for 2021. Due to ongoing pandemic restrictions preventing the full scale festival from taking place, VIWF and Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival are partnering to present a unique new online event, the Bacchanalia Online Auction. The Online Auction replaces the long-running Bacchanalia Gala Dinner + Auction,…
Port Theatre introduces The Discovery Series
The Port Theatre Society in Nanaimo is introduction The Discovery Series a new presentation series that features emerging local artists from the community. From Nanaimo to Gabriola and other parts of Vancouver Island, Port Theatre Society is supporting and growing local talent in the region by welcoming locals and those of us further afield to…
Music on Main will have us Listening. Together.
Looking for a great way to extend your weekend? Music on Main is presenting five days of great music and conversation through its Listening. Together. online festival, running May 14-18. Music on Main’s mission has always been music that brings us together. Over the past year, shared music experiences have been a beacon of light…
DOXA releases its full 20th Anniversary Program.
As mentioned earlier this week, DOXA Documentary Film Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Looking back to its beginnings no one would have imagined that two decades later the festival would be streaming directly into people’s homes, buy just like the documentaries show this is a reflection of real life. DOXA has now…