Can it already be the end of March? No fooling, it’s already April filled with entertainment
Men: Hit the locker room, as two hockey dads face off in the Vancouver premiere of Zee Zee Theatre’s production of Men Express Their Feelings, wrapping up April 3 at Firehall Arts Centre.
Singer: Acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter, Ndidi Onukwulu, known as Ndidi O, brings her phenomenal voice and show to the Shadbolt Studio Theatre Thursday March 31st
Italy: Until April 17th, Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy fills The Arts Club Granville Island Stage with laughs and fast-paces entertainment that come with the hilarious one-man show.
Dance: DanceHouse presents a return engagement of Kidd Pivot’s internationally-acclaimed dance/theatre hybrid Revisor, at the Vancouver Playhouse, on stage until April 2.
Balls: Whitecaps FC takes to the pitch at BC Place to host Kansas city on April 2 at 5pm
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, April 2 to 10, 2022.
Concert: The last of Early Music Vancouver’s The City of Ladies Digital Festival series of online concerts, broadcasts tonight with Cozzolani Reunited. Then on April 1st join EMV for an in-person concert Castille to Samarkand celebrating the music of the Spanish renaissance at Kay Meek Arts Centre
Stage: April 3rd, Open Stage #2, The Dance Centre‘s program offering dance artists to present short works in an uncurated, shared performance, features a program of exciting and varied dance works by Anya Saugstad and Artists, Lamondance, Linda Hayes, Rachel Maddock, and Tomoyo Yamada.
Francophone: The 33rd edition of Festival du Bois returns April 1-3, live and in-person, bringing folk, roots, global and Québécois music to Mackin Park in Coquitlam.
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.
Youth: The west coast premiere production of the circus-themed Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, comes to the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island from March 31 to April 23.
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
Photos: 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, until April 10th
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
Designer: 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