Happy New Year! We’ve made it to 2025! Many of the festive season’s events wrap up this weekend before we begin a new year of new entertaining picks Trees: Wrapping up today, January 1st, stroll the Canadian Trail West Promenade and North Point of Canada Place beneath the Sails of Light, take in the heritage Woodward’s Windows…
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Start the year with Circa’s Duck Pond, an acrobatic take on Swan Lake
The new year begins with the BC premiere of Circa’s Duck Pond presented by DanceHouse and The Cultch, at the Vancouver Playhouse. A vibrant full-length performance re-imagining the world’s most romantic ballet, Swan Lake, as a cheeky, acrobatic spectacle is directed by Yaron Lifschitz Artistic Director and CEO of Circa. Accompanied by Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward’s soundtrack, Duck Pond merges Tchaikovsky’s timeless…
Laugh in the New Year with RCTC’s Knotted: Rapunzel’s Story
The festive season continues when The Royal Canadian Theatre Company’s annual holiday pantomime, Knotted: Rapunzel’s Story, comes to Massey Theatre January 3-5, 2025 Rapunzel (Jodie Aguinaldo) has been locked away in her tower for 18 years… until now. Princeton and Herr Brusch are happy to keep her at Barber Academy but the bad guys are…
Free Family-Friendly Activities to Check Out This New Year’s Eve
After the indulgences and spending of the holidays we all could look for ways to economize, here’s a few ways to have some fun with your families for free this New Year’s Eve. Robson Square Skating: The Ice Rink at Robson Square is open until February 28th, 2025. Bring your family and friends to for…
Griffin Art Project’s New Group Exhibition Looks at Comedy & Satire in Canadian Art
To begin the year, Griffin Art Projects presents a new group exhibition, Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s–Now. On display from Jan. 25–May 18, 2025, the exhibition is guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman, the groundbreaking show challenges traditional perceptions of Canadian contemporary art and its standard associations with conceptualism and postmodernist critique, instead highlighting a rich…
Picks of the Week – Christmas Day, December 25, 2024
Merry Christmas and to all, we wish you great entertainment and fun filled activities to come through this week and into the New Year! While much is closed today, there’s still plenty of festive fun to partake in during this week. Cirque: Cirque du Soleil ECHO the new and unique production, continues until January 5, 2025 under…
12 Days of Christmas Price Index Rises Again for 2024
Now in its 41st year, PNC Bank’s Annual Christmas Price Index (PNC CPI) rose a whopping 5.4% — doubling last year’s 2.7% increase. The PNC CPI measures the change in prices consumers could expect to pay for True Love’s gifts from the classic holiday carol, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Data is compiled by PNC’s…