Calendar of Events

The BC Home & Garden Show offers new ideas, expert advice and a total selection of home-related products for renovating, decorating, entertaining and gardening. Ignite your sense of 'refresh - renew - revive'! Feb 20th 4PM-9PM Feb 21st 12PM-9PM Feb 22nd 12PM-9PM Feb 23rd 10AM-9PM Feb 24th 10AM-6PM For more information and to buy tickets visit http://www.bchomeandgardenshow.com/

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! Presents : Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company - If at All Barak Marshall duet opening - Zion   Back after highly successful shows at 2011 Chutzpah! in their North American premiere of If at All The Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (KCDC), one of Israel's most prominent dance companies, is widely identified with the works of Artistic Director Rami Be'er who...

Music in Internment Co-presented with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre This live musical performance connects audiences to the internment of "enemy aliens" in England and Canada during the Second World War. In May 1940, the British government began to intern all male Germans and Austrians between the ages of 16 and 60, including Jewish refugees from Nazism. Behind barbe...

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...

Full Circle First Nations Performance presents The 12th Annual Talking Stick Festival February 19- March 3, 2013 This vibrant citywide festival provides a stage for extraordinary Aboriginal artists; established and emerging, national and international, performing live music, dance, theatre, multi-media, storytelling and performance art. Since its inception, the festival has become a place t...

Join us Saturday February 23 + Sunday February 24th for our annual Pop Up Dances on Granville Island! 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 4:00PM   This year's Pop Up Dances is hosted by the aging chorus girl turned relationship councilor, Gloria, of the famed show about town Gloria's Happy Hour Revue. The indulgent and exhuberant hostess will be joined by her oldest friend (who she has also known...

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...

River District is re-screening the animated film, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn! The unquenchably curious young reporter, Tintin, and his fiercely loyal dog, Snowy, discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret.  Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin finds himself in the sightlines of a diabolical villain who believes that Tintin has stolen a priceless treasur...

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.

Love, laughter, drama, passion, hope, inspiration, joy, excitement, mystery. No matter what the occasion, you can give it all. Tickets Tonight Gift Certificates make a great gift for friends, family and colleagues - perfect for that special someone on Valentine's Day, as a staff gift and more. Gift Certificates can be purchased in person at the Tickets Tonight booth or online. Certificates p...

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...

Celebrate VHF’s Places that Matter’s Places That Matter plaque #50 to commemorate the history of Hogan’s Alley and Vancouver’s original black community during Black History month and BC Heritage Week. Hogan's Alley Cafe at Gore Street and Union Street Sunday, February 24, 2013; 2:00PM-3:30PM Followed by a procession down Union to the plaque nearby.  Listen to...

Consistently cited in the press for his "gorgeous tone" (The New York Times), "poetic communication" (The Washington Post), and "fast-fingered brilliance" (The New Yorker), Augustin Hadelich is well placed in the top echelon of young violinists. He is joined by pianist Joyce Yang, "a wonderful player with the accuracy of a surgeon and the heart of an artist"...

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...