Performance Works welcomed a live PuSh Festival audience for two nights of performances of How to Fail as a Popstar. Vivek Shraya’s one-person live memoir shares the trials and tribulations of an aspiring popstar who reaches for, but fails to get hold of stardom. How to Fail as a Popstar, opening with Vivek appearing in…
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Picks of the Week – February 2, 2022
Happy Lunar New Year to those celebrating! Let’s see what’s happening to keep us entertained this week Lanterns: Until February 21, Lunar Fest 2022 returns for another year with celebrations taking place around the city as well as virtual programs, featuring lanterns, entertainment, exhibits, crafts, markets, and many other event spread around the lower mainland….
The Advance Theatre Festival advances on The Shadbolt Centre
The Advance Theatre Festival produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, comes to the stage for 5 days, February 7-11. An utterly unique experience that seeks to “advance the radically inclusive stage”, the festival presents dramatic readings of five new plays over five days that are written and directed…
Noises Off, brings the noise of laughs to Massey Theatre
Laughter is coming to the Massey Theatre! From February 15 to 27, the Massey Theatre brings the Arts Club Theatre Company’s hit production of Noises Off to its stage. The fan favourite farce by Michael Frayn is a dizzying play-within-a-play classic sure to be a good time for all, even behind a mask. Written in 1982, …
DanceHouse & Digidance debut Via Kanana on digital.
Just in time for Black History Month, DanceHouse, in partnership with Digidance, welcomes audiences to view the North American premiere of the digital broadcast of South African dance company Via Katlehong and contemporary choreographer Gregory Maqoma’s Via Kanana, online February 16th to March 6th. Pulsing with rhythmic vibrancy, eight warrior-like dancers combine the traditional,…
Picks of the Week – January 26, 2022
Can you believe the first month of 2022 is already coming to an end?! What used to be the doldrums of winter, has gradually become a season with activities and events to be packed in this week’s picks Chapel: Held over until February 20th! Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition with its 34 larger than life frescoes, continues to…
Dance Victoria’s Virtual Dance Days Starts Today
Virtual Dance Days 2022 is Dance Victoria’s annual city-wide celebration of dance. The 10-day event brings a host of workshops, performances, talks and even free dance classes. Starting today, January 20th, until January 30th, local studios will offer a variety of free livestreamed dance classes in many styles including; afrobeat, seated dance, flamenco, ballet, efunk…