The Heart of the City Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary with the 2023 Downtown Eastside Festival running October 25th – November 5th. Co-produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre, which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, the Heart of the City Festival is focused on listening and learning from the cultural practices of the Downtown Eastside community….
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Firehall Arts Centre Announces An All-Canadian 2023-2024 Season
The Firehall Arts Centre has announced its 2023-24 programming, carrying on from its successful 40th anniversary season, with another stellar line-up. “One of the greatest joys of choosing work for a season is imagining audiences sitting in the theatre waiting expectantly for the lights to go down and for the fun to begin,” says Artistic…
19th Heart of the City Festival brings 100+ events to the Eastside
The 19th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival returns October 26 to November 6, 2022. The twelve day festival features a line-up of free and ticketed, live and online events filling the Eastside neighbourhood, indoors and out, with music, stories, poetry, theatre, ceremony, films, dance, readings, forums, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibits, art talks,…
In The Beginning: A Cultural Sharing, is part of Heart of the City Festival
As part of the 2020 Downtown Eastside, Heart of the City Festival, now on until November 8th, The Firehall Arts Centre and Vancouver Moving Theatre are presenting – In the Beginning: A Cultural Sharing – from Wednesday, November 4th to Saturday, November 7th. Five cultural sharing events will take place over four days including; Over…
Heart of the City Festival, is back for a 17th year.
The 17th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival is returning October 28 – November 8, 2020. With more than 50 events scheduled over 12 days throughout the Downtown Eastside and online, the Festival plenty of cultural events and artistic activities for everyone to enjoy in whatever way they feel comfortable. This year, more than ever,…
Missing from City Opera Vancouver Honours the Missing
Opening this Friday, City Opera Vancouver with Pacific Opera Victoria presents the world premiere of Missing, a profoundly moving and pivotal opera ripped from the headlines. Focusing on the national crisis of missing and murdered, Missing is written by distinguished Canadian Métis playwright Marie Clements, with a gripping score by JUNO Award-winning composer Brian Current. The work confronts the tragedy…
The Union Bar
A bright spot in a sometimes unwelcoming neighbourhood, The Union Bar heralds a rejuvenation of Vancouver’s downtown eastside. The lastest offering from The Cascade Companybrings another great location into the restaurant family that includes The Cascade Room, Habit and Latitude. Tucked in behind the Jimi Hendrix Shrine on Union Street, in the ground floor of…