DanceHouse is the latest Arts company to announce an adapted Fall 2020 Season. Continuing its mission of bringing the world of dance to Vancouver audiences, DanceHouse is presenting three streaming performances: Dancing at Dusk – A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (Oct 21-27), NDT2: Dare to Say (Nov 6-8), and Jack of…
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Firehall Arts Centre Debuts A Reimagined 2020-2021 Season
As Firehall Arts Centre prepares to wrap up its Music in the Courtyard series on September 27, the Centre is moving forward with a reimagined Fall/Winter 2020-21 program. In announcing the Firehall Arts Centre’s programming, Artistic Producer Donna Spencer said, “Audiences are loving the Music in the Courtyard series! We have a fantastic lineup, and many of the performances are selling out. In…
TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival Digitally Returns
The 2nd Annual TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival presented by Urban Ink and The Cultch is coming digitally from September 24 to October 3, 2020. Following the success of 2019’s inaugural festival, festival co-curators Corey Payette (Artistic Director, Urban Ink) and Heather Redfern (Executive Director, The Cultch) present another groundbreaking festival to revitalize 2020. “This year’s festival…
PPE – Pride Performance Empowers! Firehall Arts Centre this weekend
Firehall Arts Centre brings Pride to the East Side this weekend with PPE – Pride Performance Empowers! PPE celebrates Pride weekend with empowering and entertaining theatre, drag and music performances taking place in the Firehall’s courtyard*. Curated by Artistic Producer Donna Spencer, PPE – Pride Performance Empowers! runs July 31 to August 2, 2020,…
Presentation House Theatre Creates PHT Creative Hub Co-op
Like all Arts and Theatre institutions across the country, Presentation House Theatre (PHT) has had to think of ways to recreate themselves while dealing with COVID era restrictions and closures. After much organizational soul searching, research, and preparation in response to COVID-19, today, Presentation House Theatre launches the PHT Creative Hub Co-operative, transforming how the…
The 19th Annual Talking Stick Festival Opens.
The 19th Annual Talking Stick Festival is taking the stage from today February 18 through February 29 bringing a vibrant celebration of Indigenous artistry to various venues around Vancouver. Produced by Full Circle: First Nations Performance, Talking Stick Festival gathers Indigenous artists, and experts from around the world to share their talent and knowledge, presented through…
Spooky Action comes to Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver-based choreographer Lesley Telford brings Spooky Action, her interdisciplinary dance project, to Firehall Arts Centre October 16th to 19th. Though appropriately titled for Halloween season, Spooky Action is actually inspired by Einstein’s theory referring to particles that are so closely linked, they share the same existence, yet they could be an entire universe apart. He called the…