The weather is making us think summer is just around the corner, so too is the 11th Indian Summer Festival (ISF2021), opening June 17th 2021. Vancouver’s ‘festival for the curious mind’ continues its mission to offer daring, multi-arts events bringing together diverse artists and audiences through five weeks of curated events, streaming most Thursdays and Saturdays…
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Picks of the Week – June 2, 2021
The year is moving swiftly on to the midway point as we start June cautiously optimistic that our summer may find more easing of pandemic restrictions, allowing even more entertaining picks to add to our calendar. Concert: Tonight, after 18 virtual concerts, Early Music Vancouver (EMV) brings its Digital Concert Hall to a close with Concerti Virtuosi…
Dance Centre wraps Discover Dance! Series with Goh Ballet
The Dance Centre’s 2020-2021 Discover Dance! Series comes to a close this week with the internationally-renowned Goh Ballet. Streaming from June 3rd to 17th, the digital June edition of the Discover Dance! Series features members of the Goh Ballet Youth Company and Goh Ballet Academy’s Senior Professional Division. The repertoire features a selection of award-winning…
Picks of the Week – May 26, 2021
We’re in the middle of Tourism Week in Canada, encouraging people to take the pledge to travel local this year to help community economies. As usual, our picks of the week all help support arts and tourism industries. Garden: To celebrate Asian Heritage Month, Dr Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden is hosting Spells for Chinatown, a series…
Picks of the Week – May 19, 2021
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…
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:…