Hard to believe we are wrapping up January already, but starting off February with plenty of great activities in this week’s picks Performing: PuSh Performing Arts Festival continues until Febuary 4th with cutting edge performing arts from around the world to stages and venues around Vancouver. Features this week include; Returns at Scotiabank Dance Centre, The Shadow…
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Picks of the Week – January 24, 2024
January is speeding along with a host of activities and festivals keeping everyone’s week full of entertaining picks. Circus: For their annual collaboration DanceHouse and The Cultch once again bringing energizing contemporary circus to the Vancouver Playhouse presenting the North American premiere of Gravity & Other Myths’ acrobatic and athletically-charged work, The Mirror opening tonight through until January 27th Performing: PuSh…
Picks of the Week – January 17, 2024
Moving further into January we find Winter festivals filling our calendars with activities to pick from… Lights: Still glowing through the cold winter nights, the illuminations at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park’s Canyon Lights bring wonder to the woodland park trails and bridge, continuing until January 21st Dine: Once again Dine Out Festival Vancouver is back with more…
Picks of the Week – January 10, 2024
The second weekend of the year already let’s see what January is adding to our picks of the week! Lights: Still glowing through the winter nights, the illuminations at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park’s Canyon Lights bringing wonder to the woodland park trails and bridge, continuing until January 21, 2024 Country: Metro Theatre starts the year off with…
Picks of the Week – January 3, 2024
A New Year, and we’ve got a (mostly) new list of great, entertaining picks of the week to start 2024! Beauty: This is your last few days to catch the hilarious antics of East Van Panto Beauty & the Beast at The Cultch York Theatre before it closes January 7th Canyon: Illuminations take new heights at Capilano…
Picks of the Week – December 20, 2023
’twas the week before Christmas and all through the city, entertainment was brewing with plenty to see Lights: Find some festive feels as you brighten up the longest nights of the year with any of the many Christmas and Holiday illuminations around Metro Vancouver like – Bright Nights, Van Dusen Festival of Lights, Heritage Christmas, Martini Town…
The Arts Umbrella Mixed Nuts Brings a Nutcracker Mash-up To Stage
This past weekend, Arts Umbrella School of Dance presented its annual student showcase, Mixed Nuts, at the Vancouver Playhouse. Adding a contemporary twist to Tchaikovsky’s timeless classic, The Nutcracker, the Mixed Nuts show gets an update each year, as past graduating classes make way for new Grad, Senior, Apprentice, Professional Training and Pre-Elementary Dance Companies. With local choreographers and the…