April Showers are here…bringing blossoming entertainment around the city for you to pick.
Italy: There’s still time to see the hilarious Made In Italy, Farren Timoteo’s one-man show running at The Arts Club Granville Island Stage until April 17th
Alice: Gateway Theatre presents the BC premiere of In Wonderland from April 7-16th, an imaginative and contemporary retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Puppets: Presentation House Theatre and Mexico’s famed Marionetas de la Esquina present the Canadian premiere of Amaranta Leyva’s Learning & Forgetting, a story about a real Grandpa who has started to forget, and his young granddaughter who is learning, and teaching, new things, at Presentation House Theatre, until April 10th.
Youth: The west coast premiere production of the circus-themed Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, charms families at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island until April 23.
Classical: Early Music Vancouver continues its live concert series April 8th with Beethoven and Liszt: A Musical Affinity with Olga Pashchenko, at Christ Church Cathedral Vancouver
Cirque: The fan favourite Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría In a New Light returns with show reimagined for its 25th anniversary, until June 5, 2022 under the Big Top at Concord Pacific Place.
Dance: The Dance Centre presents an Artist-in-Residence Online Studio Showing of Ne. Sans Opera & Dance: Orfeo ed Euridice, streaming on demand, with registration, from April 6 at 5pm until April 13 at 5pm
Folio: Held Over until April 10th, Vancouver Art Gallery’s For All Time: The Shakespeare FIRST FOLIO celebrates the University of British Columbia Library’s recent acquisition of a complete first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies.
Photos: Wrapping up April 10th, fine art photographer Michelle Leone Huisman’s Global Pandemic exhibition makes a statement on the two pandemics we are currently facing: COVID-19 and a second more insidious accumulation of waste produced in response on view at Dal Schindell Gallery
Sea: “Washed Ashore”, Art to Save the Sea exhibit is a sustainable art sculpture exhibit made entirely from waste washed up on the ocean shorelines. The Exhibit is on display in the Grand Court of Metropolis at Metrotown until April 30, 2022
Clouds: Look up to celebrate the breadth and beauty of clouds with , The Polygon Gallery’s new exhibition Cloud Album on view until May 1, 2022.
Collection: Until May 8th, Griffin Art Projects is presenting Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection (below), an intimate look at one of Vancouver’s most quietly influential collectors
Canoe: In the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s featured exhibition, on until July 3, 2022, Canoe Cultures :: Ho’-ku-melh War Canoes and the Gifts They Carry Forward, Indigenous artists and knowledge holders share their gifts through the war canoe in this multi-sensory journey.
Cloth: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art continues to feature the Canadian premiere exhibition of Sho Sho Esquiro: Doctrine of Discovery, by award-winning designer, artist, and activist Sho Sho Esquiro on show until June 5, 2022