This weekend, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia and Musqueam present the third annual Indigenous festival, (Come Toward the Fire). Saturday September 14th from 12pm – 7pm, the free family-friendly festival fills The Chan Centre and its surrounding area with activities culminating in finale performances inside the Chan Shun Concert Hall at…
Dance Centre Global Dance Connections Series Opens With Agrimony
The Dance Centre opens its 2024/25 Global Dance Connections Series with the West Coast premiere of Agrimony, September 20 & 21 at Scotiabank Dance Centre. Vancouver-based choreographer Sophie Dow and UK-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Laura Reznek’s striking multidisciplinary collaboration walks the edge between evocative live concert and embodied contemporary dance, and examines our desperate search for authenticity within a society…
As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement Opens The Cultch Season
The Cultch opens its 2024/2025 season by presenting Cliff Cardinal’s As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement, a production from Crow’s Theatre (Toronto), September 25-29 at the York Theatre, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Taking its title from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, offering a double meaning…
Picks of the Week – September 4, 2024
Hard to believe we’re already at the start of September, students are back to school, and a feeling of autumn is approaching, and a bounty of entertainment approaches as well. Bard: Before coming to a close September 21st, there’s still plenty of time to catch 2024 season of Bard on the Beach, with the hilarious Twelfth…
Fall For The Funny with Betrayers at The Improv Centre
The Improv Centre (TIC) on Granville Island will have you falling over with laughter this Fall with its new feature show, Betrayers. Showing, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm from Friday, September 27 to Saturday, November 2, Betrayers begins with a special opening night performance on Thursday, September 26 at 7:30pm. Inspired by the hit reality…
Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society Takes First Steps with a Cultural Precinct Feasibility Study
The Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society (VCHTS) has made an important step in its goal to create a cultural precinct for Vancouver. Recently announcing that it has retained Diamond Schmitt, a Toronto-based national architectural firm, to undertake a feasibility study relating to its plan for a proposed new performing arts facility in Vancouver. Planned…
Griffin Art Projects presents Future Worldings
From September 28th to December 15th, Griffin Art Projects presents Future Worldings, a group exhibition of six artists whose practices have an emphasis on decolonial practices: Wezile Harmans, Lebogang Mogul Mabusela, and Pebofatso Mokoena from South Africa, and Nura Ali, Sun Forest, and Xwalacktun from Canada. Co-curated by Lisa Baldissera, Usha Seejarim, and Karen Tam….