When you’re shopping online this Cyber Monday, there’s a great way to find unique gifts, many of them from local artisans, and support your local Museum or Art Gallery while you’re doing it. With restrictions limiting visitors, the local Arts institutions are not welcoming the admissions that they usually see coming through the doors. Many…
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Picks of the Week – November 25, 2020
While COVID-19 restrictions have us sticking close to home, let’s see what virtual picks are still available to entertain us at home or in-person in our household bubbles. Origins: Tonight, Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC and Early Music Vancouver present Origins-Music of the Tang Dynasty, a free (donations encouraged) online performance by Silk…
BC’s Margaret Grenier wins 2020 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
For just the second time in its 19 year history, the Canada Council for the Arts has announced a BC winner of the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Margaret Grenier, choreographer, dance artist, Executive and Artistic Director of Dancers of Damelahamid, and Producer and Director of the annual Coastal Dance Festival,…
do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata – streams at The Cultch
An audience favourite, do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata is back at The Cultch Historic Theatre, in a brand new virtual performance. The personal ads may no longer exist on Craigslist but voyeuristic delight of reading them lives on in this musical revue by Bill Richardson, Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone. A quirky cast…
Watch the 2020 Webster Awards December 8th
No one can say that the last year has not been newsworthy, from blockades, to the pandemic, to the economy and ongoing opioid crisis, there has been plenty to report on for BC’s journalists. The annual Webster Awards are presented by the Jack Webster Foundation, which fosters and celebrates excellence in journalism to protect the…
In Flanders Fields
 “In Flanders Fields“    In Flanders fields the poppies blow          Between the crosses, row on row,       That mark our place; and in the sky       The larks, still bravely singing, fly    Scarce heard amid the guns below.         We are the dead, short days ago      We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,       Loved and were loved, and now we lie             In Flanders fields.     Take up our…
Picks of the Week – November 10, 2020
To honour Remembrance Day we will take a moment of silence on November 11th, and post the Picks of the Week a day early. Choir: Tonight, Chor Leoni’s 29th annual Remembrance Day concert takes place live in your home as the singing Lions transition their tradition of Remembrance to digital. RVSP and watch online at chorleoni.org…