Many count on the Christmas Craft Fairs and Markets for hand-made holiday treats and shopping, but the COVID-19 pandemic has likely closed most of those venues. A popular vendor at many of these markets, Sweet Thea Bakery is making sure its customers won’t have to go without their baked goods this season. Get your…
Author: Jay Minter
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…
Global Soundscapes Festival Adapts for 2020
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra’s annual Global Soundscapes Festival is returning with an online line-up being released throughout November. The Festival features the sounds and rhythms that celebrate the intersection of Canadian cultures with musical traditions from all over the world. This virtual 2020 edition of Global Soundscapes Festival has been re-imagined as a series of 16…
Picks of the Week – October 28, 2020
Halloween is upon us, with the pending Vancouver ban on personal fireworks we can expect this year to go out with a bang, even without being able to gather in groups for the festivities. There’s plenty of picks to find frights and delights for your Trick or Treating, and other entertainment. Slay: Slayland at PNE is a…
Veda Hille erupted with the intimate Little Volcano at The Cultch
The Clutch Fall Season is underway with this weekend’s presentation of Veda Hille’s LIttle Volcano, at the Historic Theatre. Already at home performing in The Cultch Historic Theatre, a season of virtual Side Door concerts at The Cultch, Veda Hille has perfected her online presentation skills. As The Cultch opens again, with limited in-person audiences,…
2020 Halloween Week Haunts
Halloween 2020, like most occasions this year, is going to be a little different than normal as we adapt festivities to COVID-19 safety protocols. However, there are still many ways for you to get some Halloween Haunts and Howls in this week, here’s a few: Scare: Slayland at PNE is a newly adapted walk-thru experience sure to…
SUM gallery Welcomes Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective
SUM gallery, Vancouver’s queer mandated visual art gallery is welcoming its newest exhibition – Time-Lapse: Posthumous Conversations — A Geoff McMurchy Retrospective – opening October 29th. Running until December 1, 2020, Time Lapse: Posthumous Conversations is a memorial retrospective of visual art by Geoff McMurchy. The founding Artistic Director of Kickstart Disability Arts, McMurchy was a…