On June 22, 2017, the Downtown Eastside’s Firehall Arts Centre celebrates its neighbourhood with EAT.DRINK.PLAY. Toasting the incredible food and drink happening in the Firehall’s backyard, the annual event brings together the area’s finest restaurateurs, craft brewers, small-batch distillers, and performers for an eclectic summer evening of sampling and sharing. “For 35 years, the Firehall has…
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“Monsters” Free Open Rehearsal April 28th.
Miscellaneous Productions invites the public to a free open rehearsal of their new musical theatre work, MONSTERS. The free open rehearsal and community forum takes place on Friday, April 28 at the Dance Centre’s Faris Family Studio. Based loosely on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the show is designed for children and played by young actors to help…
Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty at the Arts Club Theatre
The hilarious team of Mom’s The Word returns to The Arts Club Theatre for the threequel – Mom’s The Word 3 – Nest Half Empty. Through the years, we’ve followed the moms, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nicol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams, as they experienced the trials and tribulations of becoming new parents, suffered through…
Refuge – a powerful play at Firehall Arts Centre
Balancing a fair refugee system and public safety are especially topical subjects with the current global debate on immigration. Halagonian Mary Vingoe’s play, Refuge, reminds us that even a country as diverse as Canada has been touched by class, culture and sectarian violence as well as blemishes in our treatment of refugee claimants. A powerful and…
4th Annual Capture Photography Festival Returns
The Capture Photography Festival returns to Metro Vancouver April 1 – 28, 2017 for the fourth year. Celebrating photography and lens-based art Capture Festival features over 100 free exhibitions, public art projects and events throughout the lower mainland. All events are open to the public with an aim of increasing awareness of the cultural importance…
Picks of the Week – March 8, 2017
Let’s hope the snow finally behind us and we can get on with our regular spring entertainment in the picks of the week Plates: Tonight, help celebrate Vancouver Foodster’s 5th Anniversary Tasting Plates – Downtown Vancouver Blues: Canadian Blues-Rocker Colin James plays the Orpheum Theatre Wednesday night Last chance: It’s your final chance to catch…
Arts Club’s Bill Millerd announces his final season
This week The Arts Club Theatre Company‘s Artistic Managing Director Bill Millerd announced that the 2017-2018 season would be his last with the company. As he’s done for the past 45 years, Millerd has created a season that’s sure to have something for everyone. From new works by local playwrights like Jill Daum’s Forget About…