The 12th annual Queer Arts Festival (QAF), Vancouver’s artist-run, professional, multi-disciplinary roister of queer arts, culture and history, takes place July 16 – 26, 2020 with this year’s theme: Wicked. Art keeps us connected, especially during the age of physical distancing. The QAF and SUM Gallery are committed to artists amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with…
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Picks of the Week – June 24, 2020
Another month is coming to a close, but not before there’s another selection of entertaining summer picks BBQ: Due to popular demand, the Pacific National Exhibition has added another weekend to its drive-thru event, A Taste of the PNE – Car-B-Q – June 27 -28, 2020. Docs: Curl up with a good documentary as DOXA Documentary Film Festival, returns…
The 32nd Annual Dancing on the Edge Festival moves in a new direction
The show must go on! Canada’s longest running contemporary dance festival, Dancing on the Edge, is gearing up its 32nd year. For 2020, a reimagined Dancing on the Edge is coming to stage and screens, July 2nd to 11th. In this COVID-era, the festival has had to adapt to the new reality of physical distancing, health…
Register Now for Gateway Theatre Summer Camps for Kids.
Gateway Theatre, like all Arts institutions during the COVID era, has had to revamp or cancel most of its programming. Thankfully restrictions have eased enough to allow Gateway Theatre Camps for Kids to return. Registration is now open for Gateway Theatre in-person and online camps this summer. To ensure everyone’s safety and well-being, summer camps…
Picks of the Week – June 17, 2020
Summer begins! Somehow it feels like we lost a whole season but we are slowing emerging from our Covid-19 spring to kick off the season with Father’s Day weekend and much more entertainment in these picks Solstice: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Celebrates the Solstice with renowned indigenous storytellers Dallas Yellowfly and Alysha Collie presenting “How the…
DOXA Online Film Festival 2020 Line-Up, Ready To Stream
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, is returning screens, very near you, next week June 18 to June 26, 2020. Originally scheduled to hit theatres May 7-17, DOXA, like many cultural events of the COVID-19 era, the festival has been relaunched as an online edition. The online DOXA festival will feature over…
Picks of the Week – June 10, 2020
Another week into BC’s reopening as we find more of a mix of virtual and real world entertainment and activities in these picks of the week. Choir: Chor Leoni Inside, continues tonight at 7pm, with the choir’s livestream featuring new and previously unreleased videos from Chor Leoni’s past concerts and tours, with live commentary from Artistic…