Looking for a great way to extend your weekend? Music on Main is presenting five days of great music and conversation through its Listening. Together. online festival, running May 14-18. Music on Main’s mission has always been music that brings us together. Over the past year, shared music experiences have been a beacon of light…
Author: Jay Minter
DOXA releases its full 20th Anniversary Program.
As mentioned earlier this week, DOXA Documentary Film Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Looking back to its beginnings no one would have imagined that two decades later the festival would be streaming directly into people’s homes, buy just like the documentaries show this is a reflection of real life. DOXA has now…
Vancouver Opera Closes its Season with Carmen
The Vancouver Opera 2020–2021 digital season is coming to a close with the premiere of Carmen: Up Close And Personal on Saturday, May 1. This film adaptation of Bizet’s original masterpiece provides an intimate and unique view into Carmen’s world. Inspired by French arthouse film, stage director Brenna Corner plays with the conflicting ideas of fate and choice. Focusing on…
Picks of the Week – April 14, 2021
The weather is heating up, let’s see how the City’s entertainment temperature is rising too. Dance: Digidance and partner DanceHouse are presenting the Canadian premiere of More Than Dance, We Are A Movement, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Indigenous innovators, Red Sky Performance, streaming in Canada only from April 14-20. Festival: The Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) continues with its 21st season online…
VIDF is BRIMMING with excitement for Company 605
Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) continues streaming performances online until June 4th. Next up, VIDF presents Company 605’s Brimming from April 29 – May 1. With a multi-camera approach this stream takes viewers inside the dance, created and performed by Company 605 co-director Josh Martin. Brimmingis a new solo investigating the body as a container: a…
Don’t Miss DOXA Special Presentations
Celebrating it’s 20th Anniversary, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, returns, online, May 6 through May 16, 2021. The festival’s full program will be released later this week, but DOXA recently announced its line-up of Special Presentations, featuring both Canadian and international selections. Films will be available streaming online, for audiences…
Main St. Brewing debut getaway-themed beers for your virtual vacay.
The weather forecast is starting to heat up, but summer in the sand or by the pool still a ways away. To help combat our wanderlust the folks at Main St. Brewing has added some getaway-themed libations for your virtual vacay. The first of the final two beers in the Mount Pleasant brewery’s vacation-themed series,…