The Vancouver International Writers Festival (VIWF) opens in one week, celebrating the written word for the 31st year. The VIWF mission is to bring readers and writers together to reimagine our lives and our world, through story and vibrant dialogue. After three decades the Writers Festival is proving the written word is still relevant and holding its own…
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Fright Nights 2018 is scaring up excitement
It’s the most wonderful time of the fear! Vancouver’s favourite heartstopping Halloween event, Fright Nights is back to haunt Playland On select nights from October 5th through October 31st, visitors can creep their way around the amusement park’s haunted houses, rides and shows. Eight haunted houses, including the newest The Bloodshed, are guaranteed to brings a chill to…
Bubble Trouble is brewing for Halloween
Just in time for Halloween Trick or Treating, artists Helen Reed & Hannah Jickling are launching a new public artwork commissioned by the City of Vancouver, QA CHEW’S BUBBLE TROUBLE chewing gum. The chewing gum is named for Queen Alexandra Elementary School, the home of the artists’ ongoing residency, Big Rock Candy Mountain. The gum…
Diwali in BC spreads the light until November 17
Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, celebrated every autumn in the northern hemisphere. Diwali in BC, founded in 2017 by Rohit Chokhani, has a goal to spread Diwali celebrations throughout the province over the coming years. The theme for the 2018 celebrations, running now until November 17, is ‘New Horizons’ and features programming in Vancouver,…
Picks of the Week – October 3, 2018
How can it be Thanksgiving weekend already? Wasn’t it just summer? Let see what kinds of entertainment this week has harvested! Domino: British belter Jesse J brings her powerful voice and pop tunes to the Vogue Theatre tonight. Pucks: The Vancouver Canucks 49th Season opens tonight as they host Calgary Flames at Rogers Arena Beer:…
Catch Krapp’s Last Tape at Tyrant Studios
Seven Tyrants Theatre, opens its first season of work in their new performance venue with Samuel Beckett’s absurdist one-man masterpiece: Krapp’s Last Tape. Opening October 5th, the Jessie Award winning independent theatre company’s production stars Jessie Award nominated actor Linden Banks as “Krapp,” and is directed by David Thomas Newham. Rarely produced professionally in Vancouver, Krapp’s Last Tape is a portrait…
Les Belles-soeurs at Gateway Theatre until October 6th
Now onstage at Richmond’s Gateway Theatre, Les Belles-soeurs (The Sisters-in-law) presents 15 women in the English language version of the gritty romp. The Ruby Slippers Theatre Production, directed by Diane Brown, was Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay’s first professionally produced play. Les Belles-soeurs was risque and vulgar when it premiered 50 years ago, and is just…