This Friday, December 15, 2017, the PNE debuts the Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival, the largest of its kind in Canada. One of the most beautiful and culturally significant festivals will light up the skies of Vancouver with dozens of spectacular gossamer lanterns, some reaching nearly 200 feet in length. Bin Zhu, Director of Sichuan Tianyu Culture…
Author: Jay Minter
A Christmas Carol at Gateway Theatre
This year, the Gateway Theatre holiday season takes a slightly darker tone as A Christmas Carol finds the Christmas spirit, or in this case four spirits. It’s hard to tinker with a tale as familiar as Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, but this adaptation by Michael Shamata, directed by Rachel Peake, trims the play into…
Vancouver Foodster Holiday Market Recap
This week, Vancouver Foodster presented the first edition of Holiday Market, a great evening of browsing, shopping and tasting. The event brought together two dozen vendors at 4 locations around South Granville, Kitsilano and Mount Pleasant. The evening’s vendors included a mix of food products, artisans, and gift ideas just in time for Holiday shopping. …
East Van Panto – Snow White & the Seven Dwarves
Through the enchanted viaduct and over to the York Theatre in East Vancouver, we find this year’s East Van Panto, Snow White & The Seven Dwarves. For the fifth year, Theatre Replacement and The Cultch have teamed up to present a holiday treat for the whole family. Sticking to the traditional structure of a pantomime;…
Picks of the Week – December 6, 2017
Just 20 more sleeps until Christmas and 6 until Hanukkah ! If you’re not already in the Holiday spirit, the picks of the week have plenty to get you feeling festive. Shop: Tonight, browse, taste and shop your way around the Vancouver Foodster Holiday Market, at merchants in South Granville, False Creek and Kitsilano Symphony: Tonight,…
Handel’s Messiah from Early Music Vancouver
This weekend, Early Music Vancouver (EMV) presented Handel’s Messiah for the first time in their repertoire. EMV welcomes music lovers to four performances over the weekend, at the White Rock Baptist Church, Vancouver Playhouse and Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver. Virtually sold out for the whole run, there was definitely an appetite for the…
Donate to Donnelly Fund Toy Drive – December 5th
Since its beginnings as a few employees enjoying festive drinks and donating a few toys, the Donnelly Fund Toy Drive has raised over $350,000 in monetary donations, given over 12,000 toys to children and hosted more than 5,000 Donnelly Group staff for an annual holiday party. Donnelly Group also invites the Vancouver community to participate by bringing unwrapped toy donations…