Thanksgiving has come and gone, and the next occasion, Halloween, brings us plenty of picks to entertain us over the next week. Alpen: #DasOriginal Oktoberfest wraps up another year of fun, this weekend, at Vancouver Alpen Club Spooks: The most frightful time of the year, Fright Nights at PNE, fills the fair with haunted houses, thrilling rides and ghoulish…
Category: Music
Victoria Prepares for Beautiful: The Carol King Musical
Presented by Broadway In Victoria Beautiful—The Carole King Musical is the Tony & Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical about the early life and career of the legendary and groundbreaking singer/songwriter, premieres at the Royal Theatre, Victoria for 5 performances, January 31 – February 2, 2020. “Carole King might be a native New Yorker, but her story…
Picks of the Week – October 9, 2019
Thanksgiving Weekend is upon us, time for us to give thanks to friends and family (and you readers), along with the plethora of entertainment and activities in the picks of the week. Alpen: #DasOriginal Oktoberfest continues the fun this weekend, and the the next at Vancouver Alpen Club Spooks: The most frightful time of the year, Fright…
Spooky Action comes to Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford brings Spooky Action, her interdisciplinary dance project, to Firehall Arts Centre October 16th to 19th. Though appropriately titled for Halloween season, Spooky Action is actually inspired by Einstein’s theory referring to particles that are so closely linked, they share the same existence, yet they could be an entire universe apart. He called the…
Picks of the Week – October 2, 2019
We move into the first week of October there’s a fest of activities in the picks. Indie: Aussie act Boy & Bear play the Commodore Ballroom, supported by Stu Larson on Wednesday October 2 Alpen: #DasOriginal Oktoberfest gets underway this weekend, and the following three weekend’s of October at Vancouver Alpen Club Race: Challenge your…
Prepare for Vancouver Opera 2019-2020 Season
The Vancouver Opera 2019/2020 season gets underway with Verdi’s La Traviata opening October 17th at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The remainder of the season consists of two more full-scale opera productions plus the 4th annual Vancouver Opera Festival. In addition to La Traviata, Vancouver Opera also presents Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and the West Coast premiere of Another Brick…
Transform: A Cabaret Festival Takes Over The Cultch
The Cultch 2019/2020 season will kick off next week with a revolutionary new festival co-curated by Corey Payette (Artistic Director of Urban Ink) and Heather Redfern (Executive Director of The Cultch). Transform: A Cabaret Festival will contain performance in a multitude of disciplines—dance, music, comedy, burlesque, theatre, etc.—and include a wide variety of Indigenous, local,…