Returning for a second year of sips and suppers, Harrison Uncorked Wine Festival pops the cork April 21 – 23, 2017 throughout Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. Harrison Uncorked brings together the village’s eateries with the region’s local wineries and farm fresh fare for three days of wine-makers dinners and tastings. Uncorked by Day offers afternoons…
Author: Jay Minter
PACIFIC NORTHWEST MUSIC FESTIVALS 2017
The Coachella Music and Arts Festival is underway, ushering in the 2017 Music Festivals season. Sasquatch! Festival is coming up on the US Memorial Day weekend, starting off the festival season in our corner of the continent. Here’s a list of some of the multi-artist festivals in Oregon, Washington, Alberta and BC. (Note: not all the…
Hardline Productions presents REDPATCH
Vancouver’s Hardline Productions latest work, Redpatch, is a celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the contribution and sacrifice made by Canada’s First Nations, Metis and aboriginal people. With an all Aboriginal cast, Redpatch follows the a young Métis, Woodrow or Halfblood, played by co-writer Raes Calvert, who longs to be…
Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty at the Arts Club Theatre
The hilarious team of Mom’s The Word returns to The Arts Club Theatre for the threequel – Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty. Through the years, we’ve followed the moms, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nicol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams, as they experienced the trials and tribulations of becoming new parents, suffered through…
Picks of the Week – April 12, 2017
Let’s hop to it and celebrate the Easter Long Weekend with these picks of the week; Improv: Laugh your chaps off at Western World, the new show at Vancouver Theatresports League, their take on HBO’s Westworld Glass Slipper: Broadway across Canada brings Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until Sunday Live: Thursday,…
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra – Harry Potter Live Film Series
This weekend, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) played the second edition of the Harry Potter Film Series; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets live. A full house at the Orpheum Theatre was filled with fans of the Potterverse. Plenty of little wizards in robes roamed tried hard to contain their excitement as prepared to watch…
Documenting The Watershed at Gateway Theatre
Now on stage at the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, The Watershed is an interesting and topical piece of documentary theatre. Originally commissioned for the Arts and Culture program of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Annabel Soutar’s The Watershed followers her and her family on an exploration of the Nation’s precarious fresh water supply. Although…