This year’s Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) livestream festival continues May 27-29 with WANTED by Vancouver’s new dance collective, CAMP. WANTED is a fantastical exploration of the light and dark extremes of humanity, told through the lens of the cowboy. In a performance rich with artifice, aesthetic, exaggeration and comedy, CAMP takes a campy dive into themes of systemic evil. Panic,…
Category: Music
Celebrate the Day of Music with the VSO
Tomorrow, Saturday May 15th, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) is hosting its second annual Day of Music, celebrating the joy of music and diversity of voices in British Columbia. The official free livestream will launch at 10am on dayofmusic.ca, the hub for all of the day’s performances, spreading music from across the province to the entire…
Picks of the Week – May 12, 2021
May ticks onward, as does our need for entertainment, let’s see what the picks have to offer this week. Docs: DOXA Documentary Film Festival 20th anniversary festival continues until Sunday, with 49 features, dozens of shorts, plus live Q&As and Industry events, online, and this weekend with special DOXA Drive-In presentations at the PNE Amphitheatre Music:…
VIDF is LONGING… for you to join this week’s livestream
Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) continues bringing the world of dance to audiences, online. Livestreaming tonight, May 6th until Saturday May 8th, the Festival presents Vidya Kotamraju’s Longing. Using a multi-camera video stream, the up close and personal online performance lets the audience get inside the dance. Kotamraju is a Vancouver-based Bharata Natyam dance artist and…
Picks of the Week – May 5, 2021
We didn’t have many April showers, but let’s hope May flowers are blooming with some entertainment to get us through the week. Docs: DOXA Documentary Film Festival begins its 20th anniversary festival tomorrow with 49 features, dozens of shorts, plus live Q&As and Industry events, online from May 6 through 16, 2021 Concert: Tonight, Early Music…
Get to know Carmen: Up Close and Personal with Vancouver Opera
Is fate written in the card for Carmen? We will have to see as, Vancouver Opera wraps its digital season with a unique production of Bizet’s timeless classic, Carmen: Up Close and Personal. Director Brenna Corner has crafted a production that lives up to the title Up Close and Personal. Mounting an opera as grand…
Picks of the Week – April 28, 2021
Can you believe we’re already wrapping up the fourth month of the year? Before you start swing around the Maypole, let’s see what there is to entertain you. Masterpiece: Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition continues at Vancouver Convention Centre, until August 29, 2021 so you have the whole summer to see this amazing spectacle of…