The 26th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival, returns November 17 to 20, welcoming thousands of visitors back through the open doors of more than 425 artists. After the last years’ hybrid festival, the 26th Culture Crawl invites art lovers, Vancouverites, and tourists to rediscover its classic, in-person festival experience. For…
Author: Jay Minter
Get Your BC Beer Con On November 8-9 at Anvil Centre.
Craft Beer is big business, and a many people’s thirsty hobby. Your chance to learn more about local Craft Beer is coming at BC Beer Con, November 8-9. Otherwise known as The BC Craft Brewers Conference, the annual networking and educational event hosted by the BC Craft Brewers Guild and presented by Great Little Box…
2nd Annual STAND Festival returns to Presentation House Theatre November 2-8
From November 2 to 8, Presentation House Theatre (PHT) and Blackout Art Society co-present the 2nd annual STAND Festival, a celebration by and for immigrant and refugee artists at PHT. Featuring a diverse line up of 19 performances and free workshops, STAND showcases and amplifies the voices of newcomers to Canada in a global line-up…
Picks of the Week – October 26
Wrapping up October, Halloween weekend is upon us, but amongst all the ghostly fun, there’s plenty of other entertainment to keep us busy in these picks of the week. Frights: The fan-fave Halloween event, Fright Nights at Playland, continues on select nights until October 31st, transforming the park into a terrifying Halloween-themed experience with seven haunted houses,…
5 Last-Minute Halloween Treats and Tricks
We have just a week left before the ghosts and ghouls rise for Halloween hauntings, let’s have a look at some spots to scare up some fun in these last few days. Eerie Illusions: Burnaby Village Museum is getting a little spooky for a family-friendly event, with a murder of talking crows, photo-bombing ghouls, ghost…
Vancouver Opera opens with Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers
Vancouver Opera opened its 2022-2023 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with a lush, full-scale production of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. In spite of the fact that the French writers and composer never set foot on the island, as we are told in the opening prologue, The Pearl Fishers transports the audience to the…
Theatre Replacement brings Best Life to The ‘Bolt
Theatre Replacement, one of Vancouver’s most innovative experimental companies, is putting its Best Life on stage. Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts welcomes audiences to the World Premiere of Best Life November 2-5 at the Studio Theatre. The new work, Best Life is an immersive and relational work performed by an audience, for an audience….