Honouring Indigenous stories, song, and dance from across Canada and around the world, the 17th annual Coastal Dance Festival presented by Dancers of Damelahamid comes to the Anvil Centre, March 1st – 3rd This year’s festival will feature an exclusive excerpt from Dancers of Damelahamid’s upcoming full-length work, Raven Mother, created in honour of the…
Catch Vox.Infold II, part of MOTHER CLOUD, Spatial Sound Festival
From February 21 to 25, Performance Works on Granville Island is home of MOTHER CLOUD Spatial Sound Festival, the only music festival powered by 4DSOUND special sound technology in North America. Part of the Festival’s events on Friday, February 23, include a mesmerizing sensory experience with Ruby Singh, PIQSIQ’s Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Moses, Dawn…
The 6th Matriarchs Uprising Festival Opens February 19
The sixth edition of Matriarchs Uprising Festival, presented by O.Dela Arts, in partnership with The Dance Centre, is a celebration of contemporary dance by Indigenous women artists. Offering live performances, conversations, masterclasses, workshops and an online dance film series at The Dance Centre, Morrow and online February 19th to 25th. Curated by Olivia C. Davies,…
Take Note of Every Brilliant Thing at The Arts Club
How often do we stop to take note of the joys of everyday life? Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing is a brilliant exercise in reminding us to find the happiness in life’s little moments. On stage at The Arts Club Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre until March 8th, star Naomi Wright may be…
Picks of the Week – February 14, 2024
Happy Valentine’s Day, as the occasion fills restaurants and florists with customers we still find plenty to choose from in the picks of the week Chocolate: It’s the final day to sample sweet sips of the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival at 100 locations with in neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver. Opera: The Vancouver Opera season continues with…
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Brings Hijinx To Vancouver Opera.
Vancouver Opera’s season continues with two more performances of Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera, Don Pasquale February 15 and 18. Opening last Saturday at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Don Pasquale is another opulent production, with whimsical sets, comic turns, and soaring vocals – and laundry! Before the curtain raises a full-height Fotoromanzo (romantic-comic photo novel) teases audiences with…
Hop To See Bunny at Anvil Theatre, until February 18
Don’t wait, leap to New Westminster as the Anvil Theatre presents the Search Party production of Bunny by Hannah Moscovitch until February 18th Emma Slipp embodies ‘Sorrel’, who tells us her tale in a biographical look at her life and loves. Raised in a family of intellectual Bohemians, with only Victorian literature to guide her…