After more than a year of keeping apart, 5X Fest invites audiences to #ComeTogether this September as one family – to connect, to celebrate, to create magic … together! 5X’s 2021 festival is preparing a pandemic-friendly line up with 60 performers and 30 artists over 14 days, at multiple festival venues, covering music, visual art,…
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PNE Fair 2021 Supports Local Talent
The end of summer tradition PNE Fair is ready to bring back the FUNdamentals people have enjoyed for over a century. Farm Country, Lumberjack Shows, SuperDogs, Mini-Donuts, the Prize Home, and more are coming back for the 111th Fair. Entertainment is a long-standing staple of the PNE Fair and this year is no different as…
Picks of the Week – August 18, 2021
August moves past the half-way mark with a break in the heatwave, but the city’s activities keep heating up in this week’s picks. Music: The Firehall Arts Centre’s Music In The Courtyard series is back for the summer, with more music this week including performances by; woodwind quartet Ad Mare with guest artist Julia Nolan, blues-inspired The History…
Bard on the Beach screens Done/Undone on-demand.
The 32nd season of Bard on the Beach, “Press Play”, is underway, with the release of its first feature film Done/Undone. Originally commissions as a stage play for the 2021 Bard season, Done/Undone, written by Kate Besworth, switched to a filmed production once the season was cancelled due to ongoing pandemic restrictions. Directed by Arthi Chandra,…
Go Beneath Springhill with the Arts Club
A Canadian Heritage Minute comes to life on-stage, in The Arts Club’s Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story. Playing until August 29th, Beau Dixon’s musical drama tells the story of Maurice Ruddick, a survivor of the 1958 Springhill, NS Mining Disaster. Known as The Singing Miner, Ruddick was one of the six ‘miracle miners’ who…
Carnaval del Sol gets underway for 2021
This weekend marks kick off of Carnaval del Sol, the biggest Latin American hybrid festival in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2008 Latincouver has built Carnaval del Sol into one of the most important festivals showcasing Latinx artists, food vendors, creators, and businesses in the Vancouver area. The organizers understood their responsibility to help the community by adapting to the current times, working…
Stream, Pageant: A Musical Comedy Beauty Contest
“Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.” said The Kinks – those words aptly apply to Pageant: A Musical Comedy Beauty Contest, in which that odd and somewhat tarnish artefact of the recent past, the All-American Beauty Contest, gets a re-gendered 21st century makeover—leaving laughter in its wake. After 2018’s successful (but too short) run…