The Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) is returning for its 21st season from March 4 to June 19, 2021. As the pandemic restrictions continue, this year will be a virtual festival with 18 livestreamed contemporary dance performances. This year, VIDF is providing residencies and technical support for artists to enhance their choreography with multiple cameras…
Category: Music
Shanties! A Musical Voyage with Chor Leoni
You may have noticed that Sea Shanties are sweeping the internet. Starting as an TikTok trend, the catchy folk songs have become entrenched in all corners of the web. Originally made to help get sailors through difficult times, they are now helping people get through the pandemic. Sea Shanties have a strong tradition in Atlantic…
Picks of the Week – February 24, 2021
We’re already wrapping up February, as we head closer to Spring, let’s see what’s coming up in this week’s picks Books: The annual JCC Jewish Book Festival is coming to the comfort of your home from February 20 – 25th featuring virtual events and conversations with an exciting roster of writers from across Canada, the US, Israel, Great…
20th Anniversary Talking Stick Festival, now playing online.
2021 marks the Talking Stick Festival’s 20th anniversary, inviting audiences to join in online to celebrate and keep communities connected throughout the 4 seasons of this year. Festival organizers call to all four directions and all relations to gather around four fires in each season: winter, spring, summer, and fall over the entire 2021 theatrical…
Picks of the Week – February 17, 2021
We move into the second half of February and let’s see what’s on to entertain us in these picks of the week Fairytales: Tonight, join MISCELLANEOUS Productions for a free Facebook Watch Event, Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales, with renowned folklore and fairy tale expert Jack Zipes examining the importance of little-known tales from the first half of…
VICO opens Montreal/New Musics Festival This Week
This week, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is proudly making its first-ever appearance in Québec…virtually. While live touring remains on hold, a new VICO filmed concert is slated to open the renowned Festival Montréal / Nouvelles musiques (Montreal/New Musics Festival) on Thursday February 18, 2021. The festival and concert are presented and produced by Société…
Picks of the Week – February 10, 2021
We’re already up to the first long weekend of the the year! Let’s see what’s happening in our picks this week. Shadows: Gateway Theatre is celebrating Lunar New Year with one of the oldest puppetry traditions in the world, Chinese shadow puppetry, in a series of workshops lead by artist Annie Katsura Rollins on February 15th…