Announcing its 2024-2024 season, The Dance Centre is planning a program of exciting performances, accessible community programs, residencies, and projects, featuring a diverse roster of artists working in a wide variety of dance genres. Highlights include the 14th edition of Dance In Vancouver, two new Associate Artist positions, two performance series, and national choreographic exchanges….
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Picks of the Week – July 24, 2024
Hard to believe we’re already at the last week of July, but the entertainment and activities in these picks are certainly not last. Fireworks: The 2024 Honda Celebration of Light continues tonight with Team Malaysia and Saturday with the United Kingdom’s pyrotechnic teams lighting up the skies over English Bay. Get in place earlier to witness the…
UBC Opera 2024-25 Season Sets Sail With Gilbert & Sullivan’s beloved H.M.S. Pinafore
The 29th season of UBC Opera is bringing three varied operas to the stage that highlight and challenge the talents of the UBC Opera Ensemble. Audiences are invited to experience a 2024-25 season that offers the full spectrum of opera with the jubilant humour in H.M.S. Pinafore, the realist tragedy of Street Scene, and the…
The Improv Centre Welcomes The Kids In The Hall’s Kevin McDonald
Love to Laugh?The Improv Centre (TIC) on Granville Island is presenting The Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald for a weekend of hilarity this August. “Unhinged with Kevin McDonald” on August 24th is a night of improv and stand-up with the Canadian actor, voice actor, comedian, and co-founding member of The Kids in the Hall. …
Picks of the Week – July 17, 2024
Midway through July, the entertainment, activities and the weather keep heating up. Folk: The 47th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival returns to Jericho Beach Park, July 19-21 with a lineup featuring beloved folk and roots songwriters to dance-inducing rhythm makers, heart-searing harmonizers, to global instrumental aces and much more! Rock: Ring of Fire, lets the…
Measure For Measure Brings Beats To Bard on the Beach.
The Bard on the Beach production of Measure for Measure is now playing at The Howard Family Stage in The Douglas Campbell Theatre until September 20, 2024. Adapted and directed by Jivesh Parasram, this high energy production works modern pop-culture music, references and innuendo into a 400 year-old story featuring themes of politics, money, consent…
Leaky Heaven Performance collaborates with local youth on the slapstick comedy Slip Slap Trip Wack
A unique community artistic collaboration is coming to the Russian Hall as Leaky Heaven Performance presents the world premiere of Slip Slap Trip Wack from July 26th to 28th. The family-friendly work brings to life the imaginative worlds of 8–12-year-olds, in a creative collaboration between the artists of Leaky Heaven and youth who live near…