Arts & Culture

Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)

Perched at the top of a hill that slopes down to the heart of the City, The Cultch has always been a gathering place. This once-abandoned church has developed into a national treasure and BC's most diverse performance space.


For 37 years in East Vancouver, The Cultch has offered programming in theatre, dance & music by local, national & international artists. For more information about The Cultch, please visit their website.

The Cultch present Whose Life is it Anyway?

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

"If I can't be a man, I do not wish to be a medical achievement."  The producers of Skydive bring you this new production of the Ton... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents An East Van Panto

  • Location: York Theatre
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Get ready for a wild ride! Theatre Replacement (Dress me up in your live) returns to blow the roof off the brand new York Thatre with An East Van Pant... www.theculturelab.comView Details

The Cultch presents Bulletins from Immortality...freeing Emily Dickinson

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

American acting icon Elizabeth Parrish and Canadian dance icon Margie Gillis combine forces to reveal the revolutionary, innovative, and modern in Emi... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Cabaret Brise-Jour (Shattered Cabaret)

  • Location: York Theatre
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

After a sold-out run of its 2012 creation L'Orchestre d'Hommes-Orchestres Performs Tom Waits, the Quebec music-theatre collective returns, this time d... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Inside the Seed

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Foster Bryant is a great scientist who makes a startling discovery when he genetically modifies a new kind of rice. Now Foster has the key to saving a... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Me So You So Me

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Fueled by Japanese historical and pop culture, classical Indian tabla rhythms, and cartoons, this new work reveals projections of the self: through th... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Mies Julie

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Internationally acclaimed director Yael Farber sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of So... View Details

The Cultch presents Mump & Smoot

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday

The famed Canadian clown duo Mump and Smoot return to The Cultch with a new work that will take Vancouver audiences yet again into the giddy, scary wo... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Music from the New Wilderness

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Using music, sound, and voice, Music from the New Wilderness explores the geopolitical and environmental-from economic transformation, to the early hi... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents One

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

A man, almost alone on stage, searches, finds, loses, forgets, rejects and ignores what he thought he always wanted to be. In this acclaimed autobiogr... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Penelope

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

It's 11:30 am and already 35 degrees. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculout men face their inevitable deaths. They are the last s... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Shifting Geography

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Shifting-the body in motion. Geography-the body's reality and story in space.  A dazzling tans-continental dance creation, Shifting Geography ... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents The Best of Now

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Don't miss one of the hottest dance companies in America when Northwest Dance Project makes its highly anticipated Candian debut. In this limited enga... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents The Daisy Theatre

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Inspired by the illegal underground "daisy" puppet shows of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and the beginnings of cabaret in Paris, The Daisy T... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents The God That Comes

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Hawksley Workman stars in this contemporary take on the Greek tragedy, The Bacchae. In a world governed by greed, rules, and order, the people take to... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents The Rap Guide to Evolution

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Combining the wit, poetry, and charisma of a great rapper with the accuracy and rigor of a scientist, Baba Brinkman takes us on a hip-hop tour of mode... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Uncle Vanya

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Vancouver's finest presenter of classic theatre is back with Anton Chekhov's heart-wrenching Uncle Vanya-a timeless 19th century masterwork rich in im... www.thecultch.comView Details

The Cultch presents Underbelly

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Based on the myth and impact of burroughs and The Beats, Jayson McDonald's tour de force performance and poetic virtuosity take us on a hallucinatory ... www.theculturelab.comView Details

The Cultch presents Watching Glory Die

  • Location: Cultch, The (Vancouver East Cultural Centre)
  • Address: 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Deliberately fictionalized, Watching Glory Die takes a bold leap from recent headlines to forget the visceral lyricism that is the hallmark of Judith ... www.thecultch.comView Details