The entertainment keeps coming as summer steadily creeps closer. This weeks picks finds heaps of arts & culture to keep you out and about. New Wave: Former Talking Heads frontman, David Byrne takes the stage at Queen Elizabeth Theatre tonight Comedy: Get a full course of comedy when improv legend Colin Mochrie comes to the…
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Out On Screen Celebrates VQFF’s 30th Birthday
This summer, Out On Screen presents the 30th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), Thursday, August 9th to Sunday, August 19th. This year’s Festival, presented by RBC, will take place at various theatres around Vancouver. The 2018 Festival theme is “To the moon and back, 30 years of uplifting queer stories” To kick off the…
Pacific Northwest Music Festivals 2018
This week, Rifflandia Festival revealed its 2018 lineup featuring Hey Ocean!, Current Swell, Blitzen Trapper, and others, but before that September fest happens, many more acts will take to festival stages around the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a list of some of the multi-artist festivals and outdoor shows in Oregon, Washington, Alberta and BC. (Note: not all…
Say I Do to Mamma Mia at Arts Club
From the opening notes of the overture to the final sing-along curtain call, Mamma Mia now play at The Arts Club Theatre Company Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, will have you dancing in your seat. The feel-good jukebox musical inspired by the hit music of Abba is composed by Abba’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and…
2018 DOXA Festival Closes With Awards Presentation
As the 2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival came to a close last Sunday night, the annual DOXA Awards were announced in advance of the Festival’s closing night screening. Four juried awards were presented to the following; The Feature Documentary Award : Mercedes Dominioni’s The Creator of Universes. Of the winning film, jury members Tom Charity, Steffanie Ling…
Picks of the Week – May 16, 2018
The Victoria Day, May long weekend marks the unofficial start of the summer season for many of us, bringing with it a bounty of entertainment to fill our picks of the week. Abba: You’ll say thank you for the music as the Arts Club opens the Abba musical Mamma Mia! at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre Stage tonight,…
Babelle Theatre reveals 2018 Season.
East Vancouver based Babelle Theatre has revealed its 2018 season of new works aimed for millennial and young audiences. Co-directed by Marie Farsi and James Gordon King Babelle Theatre has a mandate is to produce experimental and ambitious theatrical works; inspired by multiple cultural traditions, the company aims to push borders of space and language and to…