Calendar of Events

February 7-March 3 2013 Chutzpah! The Lisa Nemetz International Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts Music-Dance-Theatre--Comedy Tickets: chutzpahfestival.com-604-257-5145 Breath-taking dance, hilarious comedy, a silent film screening with live music, prize-winning theatre and international music highlight the 13th Annual Chutzpah! Festival, the Lisa Nemetz International Showcase of Jewish P...

2013 Chutzpah! Festival presents exciting dance from Lesley Telford and Itzik Galil and 605 Collective February 7, 9, 10, 2013 Thursday at 8:00 pm, Saturday at 9:00 pm, Sunday at 7:00 pm The Festival opens with an extraordinary evening of exciting new dance, featuring two Canadian premieres: Brittle Failure by Vancouver-born Lesley Telford with Japanese scenographer Yoko Seyama and When You See...

Bernard, a successful architect in swinging sixties Paris, is even more successful with the ladies. In fact, he juggles the hearts of three air hostesses who jet in and out of his groovy bachelor pad: Gloria, Gabriella, and Gretchen-aka "America," "Italy," and "Germany." But when Boeing introduces a faster jet, Bernard's precise romantic timetable goes hysterically of...

Spend BC’s very first Family Day weekend at Fort Langley NHS and receive free entry for youth (age 6 – 16)! Join in for a guided intro to the Fort at 11AM, Historic Weapons presentation at 12:30PM, stories by the fire at 2PM and a blacksmith demonstration at 3PM. Watch as muskets are fired live from the wall at 12:30PM! Stay for a traditional snack at 2PM and learn to roast ba...

The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC explores compelling new pairings of timeless treasures in Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott from November 3, 2012 to March 24, 2013. The internationally acclaimed potter has combed MOA's collection of artefacts and created groupings based solely on colour, form, shape, and pattern, imbuing new aesthetic perspectives by removing histor...

On February 10th, keyboard virtuoso Rachel Iwaasa will offer a concert featuring Mozart and Beethoven, together with De Profundis, a piano and spoken word piece by American composer, Frederic Rzewski. A highly acclaimed recording artist and champion of new works, Ms. Iwaasa joins Roedde House's Second Sunday concert series between engagements in Vancouver and Toronto. Known for bold and innovati...

For 15 years, Rogers Arena has been thrilling and entertaining fans. For 15 years, our Vancouver Canucks have battled on the ice in the race to capture the title of Stanley Cup Champions. For 15 years, we have staged the best entertainment the music industry has to offer. We have opened our doors and welcomed over 21 million people. We have even reveled in Olympic gold when the Canadian women's a...

Truffles Café at VanDusen Botanical Garden is now serving a ‘proper' Afternoon Tea complete with three-tier tray of goodies, ceramic tea pots and cups, organic and private label teas.

Enjoy the New Orleans style venue, newly-renovated, for some blues by some of the finest musicians in this vintage show lounge every Sunday night for Sunday Blues Revue. Date: Every Sunday evening starting February 3, 2013 Time: 5:00PM - 9:00PM Location: The Columbia, 530 Columbia Street, New Westminster Visit the website at http://www.thecolumbia.ca for more information.

Tim Crouch re-imagines Twelfth Night through the eyes of Shakespeare's most pent-up steward. I, Malvolio is a wild, hilarious, and unsettling rant from a man ‘notoriously wronged'. A story of lost dignity, prudery, practical jokes and bullying, this one-man act of storytelling alchemy draws us deep into the madness of Shakespeare's classic comedy. Suitable for audiences age 11+.

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A brilliantly moving and tragic French opera, Dialogues des Carmélites is based on historical events that took place at a monastery of Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution. Filled with lush harmonies characteristic of Poulenc’s style, the opera shows the resolute determination and emotional plight of the Carmelite nuns whose faith is put to the ultimate test. UBC Opera welcom...

Damian Moppett's artistic practice uses a wide variety of media to question ideas of mastery, craftsmanship and value. Drawing on broad references from the history of modern art, Moppett uses the mediums of sculpture, painting, photography, drawing and video, often in relationship to each other, as a meditation on the activity of making art. At the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite location West Geo...

The medium of watercolour is one of the most challenging used by artists. After the pigment has been placed on paper, change is not possible and the artist must possess considerable skill to achieve his or her artistic goal. Two major artists working in British Columbia in the first half of the twentieth century used watercolour extensively: Emily Carr and Charles John Collings. At the Vancouve...

Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography is a major survey exhibition of the work of one of Canada's most significant contemporary artists. Based in Vancouver, Wallace has played a critical role in the development of contemporary art since the late 1960s. His early experiments with monochromatic painting, his production of large-scale photographic tableaux and his juxtapositio...

Award-winning children’s entertainers Magic Circle Mime perform their most popular show, The Listener, a fun and educational show about the art of listening that sees the conductor interrupted by a tap dancing ballerina and a trumpet-playing mime...! This event also features the VSO Instrument Fair where children have the chance to touch and play real orchestral instruments. Visit www.vancou...

Vancouver TheatreSports® League’s Rookie Night puts our up and coming Improvisers to the test in front of a hungry crowd. Don't let the name fool you, these are the future stars of tomorrow. Vancouver TheatreSports® League has a history of fostering some of the funniest minds of our time. Many of our rookies have moved on to be the next big thing in the North American entertainment s...