IGNITE! Youth Arts Festival turns 21 in 2023, while the festival may have left its youth behind, the eclectic festival is still programmed and curated entirely by members of The Cultch’s Youth Panel. When the Femme Festival comes to a close on May 14th, it makes way for IGNITE!, Western Canada’s largest youth-run arts…
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Burrard Arts Foundation announces 2023 Artists Residency program recipients
The Burrard Arts Foundation (BAF) has recently announced the latest six recipients of their Artist Residency program, a cornerstone of their annual programming. This year, BAF has selected Jake Kimble, Aileen Bahmanipour, Manual Axel Strain, Jessie Sohpaul, Karice Mitchell, and Johnathan H Alfaro. Throughout 2023, the Artist Residency program continues to honour BAF’s mission to…
PuSh Festival Reveals Its 2023 Program
Tuesday evening at Granville Island Brewing Co. PuSh International Performing Arts Festival gathered Board members, its team, performers and supporters for the debut of its upcoming line-up. Once again PuSh Festival will bring the city a line up of hot entertainment to the cold winter nights of January 19 – February 5, 2023. Gabrielle Martin,…
22nd Annual Chutzpah! Festival returns November 3-24,2022
From November 3-24, The Chutzpah! Festival returns with another exciting and dynamic lineup of music, theatre, comedy, dance and multimedia arts. An eagerly anticipated, annual highlight of Vancouver’s arts season, for over two decades the Chutzpah! Festival has been connecting communities and celebrating the vibrancy of its stories. Sharing their work in person and…
A vibrant line-up of artists are coming to PuSh 2020
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (PuSh) revealed the line-up for 2020 in historic Central Studios, the new home of Club PuSh. The 16th annual edition PuSh runs from January 21 to February 9, 2020 at venues across the Lower Mainland. Featuring 27 works from 24 companies from nine countries — including six world premieres — the festival line-up…
No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks comes to Chan Centre
In recognition of Black History Month, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts is bringing No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks to the Chan Shun Concert Hall on February 24th. As part of the Beyond Words series, this multimedia work from innovative art-collective Manual Cinema in collaboration with Chicago-based poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall, featuring a live six-piece band and original score…
2018 PuSh Festival Program Launches
This week, 2018 PuSh Festival debuted its program guide with a party at The Fox Cabaret, home of Club PuSh during the festival. Since 2003, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has become one of Vancouver’s premier events, bringing life to our stages and venue through three dreary weeks each winter. From January 16 to February 4,…