Vancouver Pride is hosting Canada Pride 2024 with a line up of events taking place around the city until August 4th. Parties, performances, dances, festivals and the centrepiece Pride Parade are joined by a Queer Rights Summit taking place August 1-3. Find some of the week’s activities around town at the following hot spots; Bubly…
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The Dance Centre Announces 2024-2025 Season
Announcing its 2024-2024 season, The Dance Centre is planning a program of exciting performances, accessible community programs, residencies, and projects, featuring a diverse roster of artists working in a wide variety of dance genres. Highlights include the 14th edition of Dance In Vancouver, two new Associate Artist positions, two performance series, and national choreographic exchanges….
Picks of the Week – July 24, 2024
Hard to believe we’re already at the last week of July, but the entertainment and activities in these picks are certainly not last. Fireworks: The 2024 Honda Celebration of Light continues tonight with Team Malaysia and Saturday with the United Kingdom’s pyrotechnic teams lighting up the skies over English Bay. Get in place earlier to witness the…
UBC Opera 2024-25 Season Sets Sail With Gilbert & Sullivan’s beloved H.M.S. Pinafore
The 29th season of UBC Opera is bringing three varied operas to the stage that highlight and challenge the talents of the UBC Opera Ensemble. Audiences are invited to experience a 2024-25 season that offers the full spectrum of opera with the jubilant humour in H.M.S. Pinafore, the realist tragedy of Street Scene, and the…
Picks of the Week – July 17, 2024
Midway through July, the entertainment, activities and the weather keep heating up. Folk: The 47th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival returns to Jericho Beach Park, July 19-21 with a lineup featuring beloved folk and roots songwriters to dance-inducing rhythm makers, heart-searing harmonizers, to global instrumental aces and much more! Rock: Ring of Fire, lets the…
Measure For Measure Brings Beats To Bard on the Beach.
The Bard on the Beach production of Measure for Measure is now playing at The Howard Family Stage in The Douglas Campbell Theatre until September 20, 2024. Adapted and directed by Jivesh Parasram, this high energy production works modern pop-culture music, references and innuendo into a 400 year-old story featuring themes of politics, money, consent…
School’s Out For Summer, but ‘School of Rock’ is In Session at TUTS 2024
Theatre Under The Stars 2024 season opens another Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical School of Rock, playing in repertoire at Malkin Bowl until August 24th. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), and based on the Mike White (White Lotus) penned 2003 film of the…