After weeks of smoky haze, the skies have cleared making it a pleasure to get out and enjoy the picks of the week Spectacle: The tall ship Amara Zee docks along the shores of False Creek until Sept 3rd and becomes the backdrop & stage for a free, unique, acrobatic aerial musical Climatopian Spectacle –…
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Picks of the Week – August 9, 2017
The buzz of the BC Day long weekend, Vancouver Pride, Celebration of Light and so much more has come and gone but there’s still plenty in the picks of the week to keep you entertained all week. Arts: The 27th Harmony Arts Festival is underway now. Tonight, Best Of The West showcases local restaurants and wineries, then…
Eternal Theatre Collective presents 13 the Musical
Do you remember what it was like to be 13? Fitting in, the braces, the relationship troubles, the bar mitzvahs? All this comes to the stage as Eternal Theatre Collective (ETC) presents their first musical ever: 13, Jason Robert Brown’s acclaimed Broadway musical 13, which explores the life of an adolescent boy thrust from the…
Vancouver Queer Film Festival starts August 10, 2017
Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), the city’s second largest film fest gets under way in one week. Running August 10 to 20, 2017, VQFF brings 11 days of award winning films, talkbacks, performances and parties. The Festival opens at the Vancouver Playhouse with the 2017 Sundance Award-winning film, I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en Otro…
Vancouver Bach Festival welcomes Cinquecento
The Vancouver Bach Festival presented by Early Music Vancouver is now underway with shows at Christ Church Cathedral and The Chan Centre. Wednesday night’s program, Songs of Religious Upheaval featured the European quintet Cinquecento. For their first performance in Vancouver the group performed a selection of music from Reformation England by composers Thomas Tallis, Christopher…
Picks of the Week – Aug 2, 2017
The August long weekend in Vancouver is always packed with so much entertainment; Pride, Fireworks, Festivals, Concerts and more make it hard to choose the picks of the week… Lights: Look up, way up and witness the explosive entertainment of Celebration of Lights as United Kingdom lights the night tonight and Canada wows the crowds…
Harmony Arts Festival kicks off Friday
As other festivals come and go, Harmony Arts Festival in West Vancouver is still going strong after more than a quarter century. Centred on the Ambleside Waterfront from Ambleside Pier to John Lawson Park, the festival packs August 4th to 13th with music, arts, film and food, much of it free! Highlights of the…