We move into the second half of February and let’s see what’s on to entertain us in these picks of the week Fairytales: Tonight, join MISCELLANEOUS Productions for a free Facebook Watch Event, Resurrecting Dead Fairy Tales, with renowned folklore and fairy tale expert Jack Zipes examining the importance of little-known tales from the first half of…
Category: Sounds
music, concerts, theatre, arts and performance
VICO opens Montreal/New Musics Festival This Week
This week, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra (VICO) is proudly making its first-ever appearance in Québec…virtually. While live touring remains on hold, a new VICO filmed concert is slated to open the renowned Festival Montréal / Nouvelles musiques (Montreal/New Musics Festival) on Thursday February 18, 2021. The festival and concert are presented and produced by Société…
The Arts Club say Listen to This…
Arts Club Theatre Company has launched its latest theatrical projects featuring a series of four world premiere audio plays from Western Canadian playwrights. The Arts Club will release four audio plays, forming a series titled Listen to This, written by artists affiliated with the company’s Emerging Playwrights’ Unit and Silver Commissions Project. Each of the…
Picks of the Week – February 10, 2021
We’re already up to the first long weekend of the the year! Let’s see what’s happening in our picks this week. Shadows: Gateway Theatre is celebrating Lunar New Year with one of the oldest puppetry traditions in the world, Chinese shadow puppetry, in a series of workshops lead by artist Annie Katsura Rollins on February 15th…
Wagner for Valentine’s with Vancouver Opera
This weekend, share a little love with Wagner for Valentine. Vancouver Opera is presenting a special Wagner double bill performance on February 13th at 7:30 p.m. featuring two chamber music works by Richard Wagner. Filmed in Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral, Leslie Dala conducts members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano Krisztina Szabó. “In this…
Dance Centre Resident Artist Joshua Beamish performs PROXIMITY – a collection of short works
This month, The Dance Centre in Vancouver is featuring renowned choreographer and performer, Joshua Beamish – MOVETHECOMPANY PROXIMITY as part of its Global Connections Series. BC artist and current resident artist of The Dance Centre, Joshua Beamish founded MOVETHECOMPANY in Vancouver in 2005 and since then has performed and choreographed, to much acclaim around the globe….
Discover Shadow Puppetry with Gateway Theatre
Lunar New Year is coming soon, with pandemic restrictions keep us at home, many will be looking for family activities to keep them entertained. Gateway Theatre is using the occasion to celebrate one of the oldest puppetry traditions in the world, Chinese shadow puppetry! With its origins in the Han Dynasty, shadow puppetry remains one of the…