It’s the long weekend! While restrictions remain in place it won’t be the usual kick-off to summer but there’s still plenty of picks to pick a peck of entertainment this week. Art: Just a few days left to view the world premiere of yellow objects, an exhibition created by Derek Chan, before it closes on Saturday, May…
Category: Theatre
WANTED…a VIDF Livestream
This year’s Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) livestream festival continues May 27-29 with WANTED by Vancouver’s new dance collective, CAMP. WANTED is a fantastical exploration of the light and dark extremes of humanity, told through the lens of the cowboy. In a performance rich with artifice, aesthetic, exaggeration and comedy, CAMP takes a campy dive into themes of systemic evil. Panic,…
Picks of the Week – May 12, 2021
May ticks onward, as does our need for entertainment, let’s see what the picks have to offer this week. Docs: DOXA Documentary Film Festival 20th anniversary festival continues until Sunday, with 49 features, dozens of shorts, plus live Q&As and Industry events, online, and this weekend with special DOXA Drive-In presentations at the PNE Amphitheatre Music:…
Picks of the Week – May 5, 2021
We didn’t have many April showers, but let’s hope May flowers are blooming with some entertainment to get us through the week. Docs: DOXA Documentary Film Festival begins its 20th anniversary festival tomorrow with 49 features, dozens of shorts, plus live Q&As and Industry events, online from May 6 through 16, 2021 Concert: Tonight, Early Music…
Get to know Carmen: Up Close and Personal with Vancouver Opera
Is fate written in the card for Carmen? We will have to see as, Vancouver Opera wraps its digital season with a unique production of Bizet’s timeless classic, Carmen: Up Close and Personal. Director Brenna Corner has crafted a production that lives up to the title Up Close and Personal. Mounting an opera as grand…
Picks of the Week – April 28, 2021
Can you believe we’re already wrapping up the fourth month of the year? Before you start swing around the Maypole, let’s see what there is to entertain you. Masterpiece: Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition continues at Vancouver Convention Centre, until August 29, 2021 so you have the whole summer to see this amazing spectacle of…
Talking Stick invites audiences to the Spring Awakening
As the 20th Anniversary of the Talking Stick Festival continues for 2021, Full Circle: First Nations Performance invites audiences to join in online to celebrate and keep communities connected throughout the 4 seasons of this year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Following on from The Winter Lodge: Sitting with our Ancestors, Talking Stick invites audiences to the…