From November 2 to 8, Presentation House Theatre (PHT) and Blackout Art Society co-present the 2nd annual STAND Festival, a celebration by and for immigrant and refugee artists at PHT. Featuring a diverse line up of 19 performances and free workshops, STAND showcases and amplifies the voices of newcomers to Canada in a global line-up…
Category: Music
Picks of the Week – October 26
Wrapping up October, Halloween weekend is upon us, but amongst all the ghostly fun, there’s plenty of other entertainment to keep us busy in these picks of the week. Frights: The fan-fave Halloween event, Fright Nights at Playland, continues on select nights until October 31st, transforming the park into a terrifying Halloween-themed experience with seven haunted houses,…
Vancouver Opera opens with Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers
Vancouver Opera opened its 2022-2023 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with a lush, full-scale production of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. In spite of the fact that the French writers and composer never set foot on the island, as we are told in the opening prologue, The Pearl Fishers transports the audience to the…
Theatre Replacement brings Best Life to The ‘Bolt
Theatre Replacement, one of Vancouver’s most innovative experimental companies, is putting its Best Life on stage. Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts welcomes audiences to the World Premiere of Best Life November 2-5 at the Studio Theatre. The new work, Best Life is an immersive and relational work performed by an audience, for an audience….
Picks of the Week – October 19, 2022
Although the autumnal equinox was a month ago, it feels like the weather’s clock is running late as we finally see some precipitation, let’s hope it clears up the smoke but not the hot entertainment this week’s picks have to offer. Latin: Continuing to November 2nd, the fourth annual Latin American Heritage Month celebrates with Latin American Arts…
The Cultch brings the RE/PLAY: Digital Playground 2022 Fall Season to a screen near you
With its Fall Season of in-person productions in full swing at the Historic and York Theatres, The Cultch gets its Fall 2022 RE/PLAY: Digital Season, underway today with the first of three feature performances, as well as an ongoing collection of RE/PLAY Shorts coming this autumn. Over the past couple of years, The Cultch has…
19th Heart of the City Festival brings 100+ events to the Eastside
The 19th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival returns October 26 to November 6, 2022. The twelve day festival features a line-up of free and ticketed, live and online events filling the Eastside neighbourhood, indoors and out, with music, stories, poetry, theatre, ceremony, films, dance, readings, forums, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibits, art talks,…