Visionary artist Jasmine Chen will inspire you to rediscover and reclaim your mother tongue as she premieres her multidisciplinary performance, Jade Circle, to Richmond’s Gateway Theatre, Studio B, from March 6 to 17. Experience culture and familial legacy through powerful music, captivating movement, and a narrative that seamlessly weaves between Mandarin and English. Directed by…
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Picks of the Week – February 7, 2024
As February moves along we find Lunar New Year festivities filling out the picks of the week. Chocolate: Keep sipping until February 14th, the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival continues with over 100 locations offering 160 flavours spanning 10+ neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver. Comedy: Best known for its classic 1964 adaptation starring Rock Hudson and Doris…
10 Ways To Celebrate The Lunar New Year Of The Dragon
This Saturday February 10, marks the start of year 4722 on a Chinese Calendar and the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, those born in 2024, 2012, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964, 1952, are celebrating ‘their birth sign year’. The fifth of the 12 zodiac animals, the dragons are majestic, ambitious and powerful. Their confidence and…
Sing the Praises of Choir Boy at The Arts Club
Feel the music and emotions swell as the Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage welcomes Choir Boy, by Tarell Alvin McCraney until February 25, 2024. The brilliant coming-of-age play is filled with beautifully sung gospel music, sung a cappella by the incredibly talented cast. Written by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Academy-award winning screenwriter for…
Picks of the Week – January 31, 2024
Hard to believe we are wrapping up January already, but starting off February with plenty of great activities in this week’s picks Performing: PuSh Performing Arts Festival continues until Febuary 4th with cutting edge performing arts from around the world to stages and venues around Vancouver. Features this week include; Returns at Scotiabank Dance Centre, The Shadow…
Picks of the Week – January 24, 2024
January is speeding along with a host of activities and festivals keeping everyone’s week full of entertaining picks. Circus: For their annual collaboration DanceHouse and The Cultch once again bringing energizing contemporary circus to the Vancouver Playhouse presenting the North American premiere of Gravity & Other Myths’ acrobatic and athletically-charged work, The Mirror opening tonight through until January 27th Performing: PuSh…
Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre presents EBONY ROOTS: CONCERT (Part 2)
On February 9th, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre (STA) presents EBONY ROOTS: Concert, Part 2.The second presentation of the two-part concert project (following the December 2nd Part 1) will take place in the Performance Centre at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre in Yaletown. EBONY ROOTS: Concert (Part 2) is a powerful and intimate music…