Vancouver’s Sound of Dragon Society brings the 6th annual Sound of Dragon Music Festival to The Annex and Roundhouse Exhibition Hall from May 23rd to 26th. The festival redefines Chinese music with ground-breaking cross-cultural collaboration through three concerts and free community events. “This is the 6th annual Sound of Dragon Festival in Vancouver where we…
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Picks of the Week – May 15, 2024
Mid-May with a long weekend ahead, and summer is just a month away, with the picks of the week heating up too Pucks: Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs returns to Rogers Arena as Vancouver Canucks play host to Edmonton Oilers for Game 5 tomorrow evening. Heritage: Odd Meridian Arts’ 2nd ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) festival, running until May…
Firehall Arts Centre Wraps The Season With Paddle Song
The Firehall Arts Centre 2023-2024 season comes to a close with Cheri Maracle’s Paddle Song, from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, June 2. Last performed at Firehall in 2021, Paddle Song is an energetic and humorous one-woman musical reflecting on the proud life and legacy of trailblazing Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson. Paddle Song captures…
Picks of the Week – May 1, 2024
Happy May Day! Whether you’re dancing around the Maypole or celebrating worker and labour movements to celebrate the start of the month, there’s plenty to do to keep you entertained this week. Youth: Some Assembly Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of I Know Your Secret written & directed by Valerie Methot in collaboration with…
Vancouver Opera’s Carmen Closes The Season
Vancouver Opera (VO) closed out its successful 2023-2024 season with an opulent production of Georges Bizet’s most beloved opera, Carmen. From the familiar opening strains of the overture, conducted by Leslie Dala and curtain rising on the beautifully atmospheric set its easy to see why Bizet’s Carmen has become the fasted selling production in Vancouver…
ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) Offers a Month of Intimate Events
Asian Heritage Month runs May 1-31, bringing a host of activities around the city. Odd Meridian Arts’ 2nd ahmm (Asian Heritage Month at Morrow) festival makes its mark with a series of intimate events at Odd Meridian’s cultural space, Morrow, 910 Richards Street. ahmm invites rupture, nurture, defiance and bows in deep reverence, to all…
Picks of the Week – April 24, 2024
Moving into to the final weekend of April, the entertainment keeps springing up throughout the picks of the week… Sexy: Vancouver playwright Michele Riml’s Sexy Laundry returns, 20 years after its debut, to the Arts Club Theatre Granville Island stage until May 12th Writer: Tonight, Vancouver Public Library-Central Branch hosts a Vancouver Writer’s Festival event Incite: A…