The Firehall Arts Centre 2023-2024 season comes to a close with Cheri Maracle’s Paddle Song, from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, June 2. Last performed at Firehall in 2021, Paddle Song is an energetic and humorous one-woman musical reflecting on the proud life and legacy of trailblazing Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson. Paddle Song captures…
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Picks of the Week – May 1, 2024
Happy May Day! Whether you’re dancing around the Maypole or celebrating worker and labour movements to celebrate the start of the month, there’s plenty to do to keep you entertained this week. Youth: Some Assembly Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of I Know Your Secret written & directed by Valerie Methot in collaboration with…
Vancouver Opera’s Carmen Closes The Season
Vancouver Opera (VO) closed out its successful 2023-2024 season with an opulent production of Georges Bizet’s most beloved opera, Carmen. From the familiar opening strains of the overture, conducted by Leslie Dala and curtain rising on the beautifully atmospheric set its easy to see why Bizet’s Carmen has become the fasted selling production in Vancouver…
ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) Offers a Month of Intimate Events
Asian Heritage Month runs May 1-31, bringing a host of activities around the city. Odd Meridian Arts’ 2nd ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) festival makes its mark with a series of intimate events at Odd Meridian’s cultural space, Morrow, 910 Richards Street. ahmm invites rupture, nurture, defiance and bows in deep reverence, to all…
Picks of the Week – April 24, 2024
Moving into to the final weekend of April, the entertainment keeps springing up throughout the picks of the week… Sexy: Vancouver playwright Michele Riml’s Sexy Laundry returns, 20 years after its debut, to the Arts Club Theatre Granville Island stage until May 12th Writer: Tonight, Vancouver Public Library-Central Branch hosts a Vancouver Writer’s Festival event Incite: A…
The Cultch Announces Its 2024/25 Season
Yesterday, The Cultch announced its 2024/2025 season, full of must-see theatre, dance, circus, puppetry, and comedy. For its 51st season of programming, The Cultch continues its legacy of bringing Vancouver the best and most cutting-edge works from local, national, and international artists. Groundbreaking spectacles, shows that tackle big questions, and plays that spark the full…
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival Welcomes Extraordinary Music Artists for 2024
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival today announced the lineup of extraordinary performers coming to Jericho Beach Park for its 47th annual festival, July 19-21. The lineup will bring something for everyone to the stages, from beloved folk and roots songwriters to dance-inducing rhythm makers, heart-searing harmonizers, to global instrumental aces and much more! After a…