As the Pride Week proclamation and flag raising has taken place at City Hall for another year Vancouver Pride is ready to celebrate. Congratulations to those who also celebrated their nuptials at City Hall yesterday! This year’s Pride festivities take on a different look due to Covid-19 but pride can’t be cannot be cancelled. A…
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music, concerts, theatre, arts and performance
Vines Art Festival continues to celebrate The Arts & Lands, for Free.
The 6th annual Vines Art Festival, is just days away. The free, all-ages multidisciplinary arts festival returns Wednesday August 5 – 15, 2020. However, like most Arts organizations in the COVID-ear, Vines is helping keep patrons and artists safe by offering mainly online programming, with a few limited in-person outdoor gatherings. The Vines Art Festival…
QAF 2020 Closes With A Pajama Party
While the digitally re-imagined, Queer Arts Festival (QAF) continues through this weekend, the WICKED–ness must come to a close on Sunday July 26th Glitter Is Forever: Pajama Party, a final marathon binge of the performances featured throughout the 2020 Queer Arts Festival! Don your poshest pajamas, grab a cocktail (or two) and get gala-ready as you binge…
Picks of the Week – July 22, 2020
Can you believe it’s the last weekend of July already?! Before the month comes to a close let’s see what picks this week has to offer. Auction: Tonight, register for Fighting COVID Together II and help 7 local charities raise much needed funds in a special online auction Mars: Tonight, Cosmic Nights returns to H.R….
Bring Caraval del Sol into your home
Every summer, Carnaval del Sol brings the sounds, flavours and dances of Latin America to the people of Metro Vancouver. This year’s 12 annual summer celebrations are a little different, taking place at home, at a local restaurants, or at smaller in-person events in Vancouver and the North Shore, from July 15 to August 9. Carnaval del…
Picks of the Week – July 15, 2020
How is it half way through July already?! While it’s a different summer than we thought we’d get, there’s still plenty to entertain you with these picks of the week… Summer: The 10th anniversary digital season of Vancouver’s Indian Summer Festival comes to its closing weekend with a concert featuring gifted musicians specially curated by Jarrett Martineau,…
VQFF Returns For 2020 – Virtually
Vancouver’s second largest film festival is readying its return to screens, at-home. Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) presented by Out On Screen is returning in a virtual format this summer from Thursday, August 13 to Sunday, August 23, 2020. Recently announced new VQFF and Out On Screen Interim Executive Director, Brandon Yan says, “I am…