Vancouver arts
Vancouver: The Magnificent Madrigal Canzonas for Choir
By The Canadian Music Centre of British Columbia, www.bccreativehub.com, January 31, 2011 VANCOUVER, CANADA – Celebrating their 40th anniversary season, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Artistic Director Jon Washburn are pleased to present the 31st annual National Conductors’ Symposium concert. THE MAGNIFICENT MADRIGAL Canzonas for Choir will be at 8pm Saturday, February 12 at Ryerson [...]
Vancouver: Celebrating 10 Years of Aboriginal Performance – Talking Stick Festival 2011
Tickets on sale January 4, 2011 Prices range from$12 – $25 (plus HST and service charges). Group prices available. Full Circle: First Nations Performance presents the 10th annual Talking Stick Festival: a 13 day, citywide celebration of Aboriginal performance and art. In celebration of our 10th year, the 2011 festival will play its opening week [...]
Vancouver: Free admission: a look at Vancouver’s public art
By Kate Barron and Merete Kristiansen, The Vancouver Observer, January 20, 2011 This week Vancouver has been celebrating the developments of upcoming public art projects, like the new Terry Fox sculptures designed by Douglas Coupland that will be installed at BC Place. So we felt it was a great time to talk about the amazing [...]
Vancouver: Storytelling in the Performing Arts
Explore your creativity in music, theatre and dance in a fun & supportive group on a weekly basis. Guest professional actors, singers and dancers with disabilities will lead the group through fun improv exercises, musical jams and dances. People of all abilities are welcome to join in this unique & free opportunity. No experience or [...]
Vancouver: Charles H. Scott Gallery presents Tacita Dean and Rodney Graham
Emily Carr University The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part I January 19 – February 20, 2011 Opening: Tuesday January 18 at 7:30pm Charles H. Scott Gallery Emily Carr University 1399 Johnston Street Vancouver, BC Tel: 604.844.3809 http://chscott.ecuad.ca The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea [...]
Vancouver: Giant fleece jacket on display in (where else?) Vancouver
By Marsha Lederman, Globe and Mail, January 12, 2011 Vancouverites love their fleece, to be sure, and this was the playful observation behind SweaterLodge, created by Vancouver-based artists Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robb for the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture. “We really loved the fact that … you could go to the opera and run [...]
VSO pulls out of arts alliance lobby after disagreement over advocacy
By Kevin Griffin, Vancouver Sun, December 2, 2010 The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has resigned from the province’s biggest arts lobby group over a petition regarding a rezoning application for an expanded Edgewater Casino. Amir Ali Alibhai, executive director of the Alliance for Arts and Culture, confirmed Wednesday that the VSO had pulled out of the [...]
Vancouver Opera to kick off season with opera version of West Side Story
When you’re an opera you’re not necessarily an opera all the way. Such is the case with West Side Story – best known as a Broadway musical and subsequent movie musical. But there’s an operatic version of the Leonard Bernstein classic, and such a production will open Vancouver Opera’s 2011-2012 season. The story of a white [...]
A tale of two cities: Seattle and Vancouver share a lot of similarities when it comes to scenery, weather and public interest. So why do their music scenes look so different?
British Columbia is blessed with towering evergreens, long, stretching beaches and natural mountain ranges—a veritable goldmine for outdoors-y types. Our lush natural scenery and temperate weather is the key ingredient in the active lifestyle of many Vancouverites, and while we can boast of being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the face [...]
Vancouver: Mayor’s Art Awards recipients make personal connection, Established and emerging artists honoured at annual arts bash
Evelyn Lau doesn’t have an email address. So when the Governor General Award-nominated writer mentored Kaitlin Fontana through the University of B.C.’s Booming Ground creative writing program, Lau sent Fontana feedback in old-fashioned letters. But two years later, when Lau read Fontana’s short memoir “The Flight Album” in the Canadian magazine The Walrus, about interning [...]
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance’s Making a Scene takes a new turn
For 10 years, the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance’s annual Making a Scene conference brought together members of the professional theatre community to discuss and learn about issues such as arts creation, management, and technical innovation. The 11th annual edition, to be held next Friday and Saturday (November 26 and 27) at W2 Storyeum, is going to [...]
Mayor announces 2010 Arts Awards
Vancouver poet and novelist Evelyn Lau and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival executive director Norman Armour are among the recipients of this year’s Mayor’s Arts Awards. Lau (Living Under Plastic) was named the winner in the literary arts category and Armour, whose edgy PuSh Festival has become one of the most anticipated events on the [...]
Vancouver: Circle Craft Market opens downtown
More than 270 B.C. artisans will be selling their Christmas crafts this year at the Circle Craft Christmas Market in a brand new building. From tonight, Nov. 17, until Sunday, Nov. 21, the market will feature local artists and artisans from the North Shore along with crafters from across the country, including wood-turners, glassblowers, sculptors, [...]
Vancouver designated Cultural Capital of Canada for 2011
Vancouver’s cultural scene received a financial and marketing boost today, with the announcement that the city has been designated a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2011, alongside Charlottetown, PEI and Lévis, Quebec. In a news release, Federal Heritage Minister James Moore praised Vancouver’s “cosmopolitan charm, vibrant cultural scene, and wide range of activities.” The designation [...]
Vancouver: Boing Boing for the fun of it, Exercise class also considered ‘art’
Call it an endorphin rush or an exercise high. Call it joy. It’s the moment Jane Ellison sees the face of one of her students break into a smile, the cheeks beginning their apple expression and the lips slowly parting to a grin. “The face just changes and they light it up,” she said. “It’s [...]
