In recognition of Black History Month, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts is bringing No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks to the Chan Shun Concert Hall on February 24th. As part of the Beyond Words series, this multimedia work from innovative art-collective Manual Cinema in collaboration with Chicago-based poets Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall, featuring a live six-piece band and original score…
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Never Still opens the Firehall Arts Centre season.
Next week, The Firehall Arts Centre kicks off its 2018/2019 season with the world premiere of Never Still. Running from from September 26 to 29, 2018, Never Still, is the newest work from Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance Dance Society), created in collaboration with dancers Shion Skye Carter, Stéphanie Cyr, Bynh Ho, Alexa Mardon, Lexi Vajda, and Sound/Projection Designer Loscil…
“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…
Odysseo by Cavalia in Vancouver
Odysseo by Cavalia is now on under the White Big Top in Vancouver. It’s hard to miss the largest travelling big top in the world as the massive white structure dominates the southern shores of False Creek. Whilst the White Big Top is impressive to look at, what’s inside is even more of a spectacle. Sixty-five…
PuSh Festival 2017 – Program Launch
It’s looking like it’s going to be a long, wet winter, thankfully PuSh Festival comes along each year to brighten the long dreary days. Last night at the Fox Cabaret, the home of Club PuSh, Artistic and Executive Director Norman Armour and Associate Curator Joyce Rosario announced the line-up for the 2017 PuSh Festival. The…
James & Jamesy In The Dark at Waterfront Theatre
For a unique evening of theatre, catch James & Jamesy In The Dark at Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island until October 16th. In The Dark is a performance that literally begins in the dark with the only lighting coming from the players’ custom created illuminated costumes. Start with the whimsy of Pixar’s earliest work, add surreal philosophical questions of…
Vancouver Fringe Festival 2016
We are just a week away from 11 days of creative theatre performances of Vancouver Fringe Festival 2016. Vancouver Fringe Festival has a mission of “cultivating artists and audiences to create an open and vibrant independent theatre community”. For three decades, the Vancouver Fringe Festival has been bringing one of a kind theatre to the stage, this…