As we move further into February, big events abound in these picks of the week Celebration: Tonight, at long last, the postponed Madonna’s Celebration Tour brings her greatest hits to Rogers Arena Seven: Get out your fancy dress costumes and head to BC Place for the three day spectacle that is HSBC Vancouver SVNS –…
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Picks of the Week – February 14, 2024
Happy Valentine’s Day, as the occasion fills restaurants and florists with customers we still find plenty to choose from in the picks of the week Chocolate: It’s the final day to sample sweet sips of the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival at 100 locations with in neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver. Opera: The Vancouver Opera season continues with…
Picks of the Week – February 7, 2024
As February moves along we find Lunar New Year festivities filling out the picks of the week. Chocolate: Keep sipping until February 14th, the 14th Annual Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival continues with over 100 locations offering 160 flavours spanning 10+ neighbourhoods across Greater Vancouver. Comedy: Best known for its classic 1964 adaptation starring Rock Hudson and Doris…
Picks of the Week – January 31, 2024
Hard to believe we are wrapping up January already, but starting off February with plenty of great activities in this week’s picks Performing: PuSh Performing Arts Festival continues until Febuary 4th with cutting edge performing arts from around the world to stages and venues around Vancouver. Features this week include; Returns at Scotiabank Dance Centre, The Shadow…
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…
BC Culture Days Celebrates 10 Years
From September 27 to 29, 2019 take part in Canada’s largest public celebration the nation’s arts & culture, BC Culture Days. BC Culture Days has helped facilitate a host of free engaging activities and events taking place throughout the region over the three day event. The weekend of artistic expression explores the intersection of creativity, the…
PuSh Festival Debuts Its 15th Anniversary Program
This week, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival launched its 2019 Festival Program, at a party at John Fluevog Shoes in Gastown. The 2019 Push Festival, January 17 to February 3 will mark the milestone 15th annual festival, bringing international performing arts to venues around Vancouver. Featuring 26 works from 24 companies from 13 countries — including six…