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…
Gateway Theatre brings Hey Viola!
A slice of Canadian heritage is coming to Gateway Theatre with the presentation of the critically-acclaimed musical Hey Viola! April 13 to 22. If you’ve missed the 2022 presentation at Anvil Centre, do not miss this tour-de-force performance by Canadian jazz and blues singer Krystle Dos Santos, as she takes the audience on a musical…
TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival Returns Online, Free.
Opening next week, Urban Ink and The Cultch welcome new works and past favourites to a free, all-digital TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival, March 28 – May 28, 2023. TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival focuses on empowering Indigenous artists and encouraging collaboration with non-Indigenous artists to build relationships and bring communities together to create lasting social change and ground-breaking…
Get Tickets for Vancouver Foodster’s Asian Eats Tasting Tour
Vancouver Foodster and Tasting Plates YVR are preparing another exploration of flavours around Vancouver on the Asian Eats Tasting Tour. On Wednesday April 19th, experience a curated selection of restaurants and tastes that may take your taste buds on a trip around the world. An array of Asian flavours could be on the menu; Chinese,…
Picks of the Week – March 22, 2023
Spring has sprung! Let’s see what the new season brings to this weekend entertaining picks. Dash: The Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage breathes new life into the world of the Dashwood Sisters with its creative staging of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, onstage until April 2nd Mystery: Until Sunday April 2nd, the Firehall Arts Centre is…
Our Ghosts stirs up a family mystery decades in the making.
The Firehall Arts Centre is presenting the Vancouver premiere of Our Ghosts by Sally Stubbs, until Sunday, April 2nd. Telling a haunting mystery nearly 70 years in the making, Our Ghosts is written by Sally Stubbs and directed by Sarah Rodgers and produced by Our Ghosts Collective in association with Western Gold Theatre. Inspired by…
The 34th Annual Festival du Bois packs Maillardville with music & fun this weekend!
The 34th annual Festival du Bois is returning to Maillardville in Coquitlam this weekend, March 24-26, with a brilliant line-up of artists and performers under the tents at Mackin Park. Rooted in the French-Canadian community and heritage of the Maillardville area in Coquitlam, Festival du Bois is the largest and most popular celebration of francophone…