Hard to believe we’re already at the last week of July, but the entertainment and activities in these picks are certainly not last. Fireworks: The 2024 Honda Celebration of Light continues tonight with Team Malaysia and Saturday with the United Kingdom’s pyrotechnic teams lighting up the skies over English Bay. Get in place earlier to witness the…
Author: Jay Minter
UBC Opera 2024-25 Season Sets Sail With Gilbert & Sullivan’s beloved H.M.S. Pinafore
The 29th season of UBC Opera is bringing three varied operas to the stage that highlight and challenge the talents of the UBC Opera Ensemble. Audiences are invited to experience a 2024-25 season that offers the full spectrum of opera with the jubilant humour in H.M.S. Pinafore, the realist tragedy of Street Scene, and the…
The Improv Centre Welcomes The Kids In The Hall’s Kevin McDonald
Love to Laugh?The Improv Centre (TIC) on Granville Island is presenting The Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald for a weekend of hilarity this August. “Unhinged with Kevin McDonald” on August 24th is a night of improv and stand-up with the Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian, and co-founding member of The Kids in the Hall. …
Vancouver Foodster Celebrates 15 Years with Vancouver Culinary Fest!
Since July 2009, Vancouver Foodster, by writer, editor, creator Richard Wolak, has been an online food guide bringing readers reviews, news and insider tips to the culinary and hospitality scene in greater Vancouver, across Canada and around the world. Celebrating its 15th Anniversary Vancouver Foodster has a host of tasty events happening over the rest…
Vancouver Art Book Fair Returns In-Person July 26-27
For the first time since 2019, Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) returns for an in-person event at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre from July 26–27, 2024, plus new this year, is a day-long symposium on July 28 at Emily Carr University about art publishing. “Attending VABF in-person is a unique experience, as you…
Picks of the Week – July 17, 2024
Midway through July, the entertainment, activities and the weather keep heating up. Folk: The 47th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival returns to Jericho Beach Park, July 19-21 with a lineup featuring beloved folk and roots songwriters to dance-inducing rhythm makers, heart-searing harmonizers, to global instrumental aces and much more! Rock: Ring of Fire, lets the…
Measure For Measure Brings Beats To Bard on the Beach.
The Bard on the Beach production of Measure for Measure is now playing at The Howard Family Stage in The Douglas Campbell Theatre until September 20, 2024. Adapted and directed by Jivesh Parasram, this high energy production works modern pop-culture music, references and innuendo into a 400 year-old story featuring themes of politics, money, consent…