For the first time since 2019, Vancouver Art Book Fair (VABF) returns for an in-person event at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre from July 26–27, 2024, plus new this year, is a day-long symposium on July 28 at Emily Carr University about art publishing. “Attending VABF in-person is a unique experience, as you…
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…
School’s Out For Summer, but ‘School of Rock’ is In Session at TUTS 2024
Theatre Under The Stars 2024 season opens another Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical School of Rock, playing in repertoire at Malkin Bowl until August 24th. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), and based on the Mike White (White Lotus) penned 2003 film of the…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS Creates Memories at TUTS 2024
Theatre Under The Stars opens its 2024 season with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical Cats, playing in repertoire until August 23rd. Appropriately climaxing with perhaps one of the most well-known works of musical theatre, Memory, this dazzling sung-through musical leaves you with lasting memories. Based on T.S. Eliot’s book of poetry “Old Possum’s Book of…
Picks of the Week – July 10, 2024
As this heatwave continues, entertainment also heats up across the region leaving too much to choose from in these picks of the week Rock: Ring of Fire, lets the music of Johnny Cash to take us on a captivating journey of trials and triumphs, love and redemption at The Arts Club Theater Company Granville Island…