The 16th annual Coastal Dance Festival, hosted by Dancers of Damelahamid, returns March 2-5 at the Anvil Centre. The festival honours Indigenous stories, song, and dance from the Northwest Coast, Canada and around the world. In celebration of reciprocity between global Indigenous communities, this year’s festival will support a cultural exchange with New Zealand, featuring…
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Vancouver Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream awakes
Vancouver Opera continues its season with Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at Queen Elizabeth Theatre for two more performances February 16 and 19. One of Shakespeare’s wildest plays, as adapted by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in 1960 comes to the the stage in a wild opera, directed by Aria Umezawa. After Puck/Robin Goodfellow,…
Carousel Theatre for Young People wizzes to Oz
Carousel Theatre for Young People (CYTP) is partnering with Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People to present the Canadian premiere of Oz, at Granville Island’s Waterfront Theatre from March 1-26, 2023. Set in 1899 Chicago, Oz takes a whimsical look at an imagined backstory for how L. Frank Baum might have written his best selling children’s…
VMF Winter Arts brings Land and Light to the City February 16-26
The dark and dreary winter days are about to get brighter as VMF Winter Arts returns February 16-26, 2023. Transforming downtown Vancouver into an interactive open-air gallery and celebration of public art and entertainment. Produced by VMF (the team behind Vancouver Mural Festival), the free, 3rd annual festival brings together local and international public art…
Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience Brings The Dutch Master to Surrey
Venturing beyond Vancouver, we found Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience in the heart of the Fraser Valley. Until March 5, 2023 Beyond Van Gogh at the Cloverdale Agriplex in Surrey puts visitors inside 300 of the Dutch painter’s artworks. The 30,000 square foot Agriplex has been transformed into a living, breathing gallery with the…
Picks of the Week – February 1, 2023
We roll into February, with Valentine’s Day coming soon and plenty of activity in the picks of the week… Arts: There’s just a few more days to take in the creative line up PuSh International Festival of Performing Arts brings to the city – it’s timely, honest, politically active works of dance, music, theatre and multimedia programming…
Ruby Slippers Theatre’s Advance Theatre Festival gets underway today.
Starting tonight, January 30th, Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts welcomes Ruby Slippers Theatre’s Advance Theatre Festival. A showcase of new plays written and directed by female identifying and gender non-conforming artists who also identify as BIPOC (Indigenous, Black or Person of Colour). In addition to the first week’s five staged readings, this year’s Advance…