The Firehall Arts Centre and the Vancouver Independent Music Centre (VIM) are presenting another season of the 2021 Music in the Courtyard series this summer. Filling the outdoor courtyard at Firehall Arts Centre with live music, starting this Friday, July 30 and running until Sunday, September 5. Performances for the second edition of this series…
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Hear Music In The Courtyard at Firehall Arts Centre
The Firehall Arts Centre is bringing music to your summer weekends by presenting Music in the Courtyard. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout to the end of September 2020 will find performances in the Downtown East Side outdoor space. The lineup for Music in the Courtyard is: Friday, August 21 at 7:00pm – Zhambai Saturday, August…
PPE – Pride Performance Empowers! Firehall Arts Centre this weekend
Firehall Arts Centre brings Pride to the East Side this weekend with PPE – Pride Performance Empowers! PPE celebrates Pride weekend with empowering and entertaining theatre, drag and music performances taking place in the Firehall’s courtyard*. Curated by Artistic Producer Donna Spencer, PPE – Pride Performance Empowers! runs July 31 to August 2, 2020,…
Picks of the Week – November 16, 2016
The super moon is waxing and the picks of the week show that the holidays are ticking ever nearer Stage: The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Bakersfield Mist wrapsup November 20th at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage while the hilarious Avenue Q returns to the Granville Island Stage November 17 – December 31st. Ice: The Vancouver Canucks wrap up…
Nicli Antica Pizzeria helps bring music to DTES
In Vancouver’s DTES, there is an organization that understands music’s incredible power to improve lives – The Saint James Music Academy provides free classical music lessons to children living in Canada’s lowest income urban neighbourhood. This past December, Nicli Antica Pizzeria decided to do something to ensure that the music continued to flow for their…
Tasting Plates heads East!
The next edition of Tasting Plates, presented by Vancouver Foodster, heads to Vancouver’s East Village neighbourhood. Restaurants centered around the Nanaimo and Hastings Street area, will take part in the food event on November 27th from 6:30 to 9:30. Each of the eateries will offer up a tasting plate from their menu. While tasting their plates…
Rickshaw Theatre – reopening
Wednesday night saw the music industry media and insiders celebrating the grand reopening of the new and improved Rickshaw Theatre. Located near the corner of Main & Hastings Street, the 70’s era theatre was orginally built to show Chinese language kung-fu films but closed in the early 80’s and after sitting abandoned for over 2 decades it was brought…