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Through painting, sculpture, and photography, Rajni Perera expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects adapt to exist in dystopian realms through strength and resilience.
Afro-Colombian Dance Company explores how to transform city life into a space
of inclusion and collective belonging
Exhibition highlights the reawakening of the Pacific Central Northwest Coast Nation’s cultural practices and family belonging.
Artist Angela Fama (also SAD’s Sell Out Series) presents a special rendition of her project Death Conversation Game in collaboration with past Sell Out participant Aaniya Asrani.
City Opera Vancouver (COV) shines a spotlight on the profound contributions of Black composers to the world of classical music in Voices from the African Diaspora, November 28, 2024, at the Annex (833 Seymour) at 7:30pm.
re:Naissance presents IndieFest, now in its fifth year, from Nov. 15–23, 2024 at various locations around Vancouver. IndieFest celebrates local creatives, amplifying IBPOC and LGBTQ2S+ artists, while pushing for innovation in live performance with genre-defying projects. This year’s theme, “Transformation and Transcendence,” invites audiences to engage with the world in new ways and encourages authentic personal growth.
Eastside Arts Society presents the 28th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design & Craft Festival from November 14-17, 2024.
The highly-anticipated event will feature over 50 designers throughout 6 days during the SS25 season, setting the runway alight with an immersive fashion experience that will highlight inclusivity, empowerment, and diversity.
The annual VNM Festival returns this year with PROPULSION (Oct 17-19), a co-presentation with VIVO Media Arts Centre. Exploring themes of futurism, the artists move forward towards developing and advancing their art forms and the contexts they work in: How do we build our future and propel ourselves as an artistic community and a general society to build something new?
Presented by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival (VOAF) returns for its eighth edition at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre from Oct. 11-13, 2024.
Raven Mother is the Dancers of Damelahamid’s newly choreographed dance work in honour of late Elder Margaret Harris (1931 – 2020). It illustrates the vast impact Elder Harris had on the revitalization of Indigenous dance along the Northwest Coast, and the integral role of women in holding cultural knowledge.
Word Vancouver’s Reading & Writing Festival, Western Canada’s largest free literary festival, is celebrating its 30th year. Our guest Indigenous curator is Michelle Cyca and our guest 2SLGBTQIA+ curator is Jen Currin. The main event is taking place September 28 at UBC Robson Square.
Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) presents its 43rd edition from September 26–October 6, 2024. This year’s lineup features more than 350 screenings, dozens of filmmaker Q&A’s, Talks with top creatives, live performances, artist and industry development programs, parties, and celebrations of film culture.
the kʷәcstәxʷ exhibit showcases 10 Indigenous artists based in British Columbia who honour their ancestral cultures through traditional and contemporary art forms and media.
Backyard studio sale for East Van potter Jesse Cowan whose hand-thrown work celebrates the intersection between tradition and play.
The Cultch’s Historic Theatre is proud to present Barbu, produced by Cirque Alfonse, as part of their 50th anniversary season.
A retro circus rave, Barbu delves into the birth of the circus in Montréal at the turn of the 20th century.
Wild Tales was born out of Annie’s love for nature and animals, especially our four-legged furry companions. This intricate relationship between humans and their furry friends serves as a constant source of inspiration for Annie’s work.
BIPOC performance collective Diasporic Dynasty is back to shine a light on the Asian and Pacific Islander community! Join them at the Fox Cabaret for a stunning evening featuring live music, burlesque, drag, traditional dance, and comedy, with a brilliant and diverse list of API performers.
The Firehall Arts Centre wraps its 2023-2024 season by welcoming back Cheri Maracle in Paddle Song. Running from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, June 2, this energetic and humorous one-woman musical reflects on the proud legacy of trailblazing Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson.
Vancouver BC—In two weeks, Upintheair Theatre’s 12th annual rEvolver Festival will showcase contemporary and cutting-edge new works and re-interpretations of live performances, presented at The Cultch (1895 Venables Street, Vancouver), from Wednesday, May 22 to Sunday, June 2.
Join Voirelia Dance Hub & Draw Around Vancouver at The Dance Centre for a special workshop: an immersive experience combining live dance and life-drawing. Draw as two contemporary dance artists will improvise, providing the room with a range of still, moving, solo, & duet poses as prompts for drawing. No drawing experience needed! Everyone welcome!
Griffin Art Projects pays tribute to a disappearing film industry bastion in The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects. Exhibition features the monumental collection of Mount Pleasant Furniture
Pack your bags and your zaniest suggestions because The Improv Centre is embracing the great outdoors in their newest show, Camp What’s-It-Called. Summer is a special time in every person’s life: that awkward season where regular hygiene practices get thrown out the window, and we leave the homes we work so hard to afford to go to sleep in a tent in the forest to get bitten by an assortment of bugs. Camp What’s-It-Called – a show so good you’ll be begging for s’more!
IGNITE! is an eclectic festival that celebrates excellence in emerging arts and that is curated entirely by members of the Youth Panel at The Cultch, a group of up-and-coming arts administrators, curators, and artists. IGNITE! is an interdisciplinary celebration of local rising stars that aims to center diverse artists and underrepresented communities.
Realwheels Theatre unleashes three bold and original scripts-in-development as part of their play reading series, Zombies, Mannequins, and Talking Heads. Created by playwrights who identify with disability, the scripts include Vascular Necrosis by Jordyn Wood, Faye’s Room by Alex Masse, and Saturday Nights at Axles by Adam Grant Warren.
The Cultch’s Historic Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of Homecoming, produced by Urban Ink, as part of their 50th anniversary season and the Femme Festival.
In Homecoming, three generations of Filipina women hop between an ocean and time, memory and dreams.
Dust Cwaine and The Established Shanda Leer are excited to welcome y'all to the first production of their one person shows! Presented in a double feature, you wont want to miss these two give you everything from their bag of drag tricks.
Vancouver’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival (May 2–12) will feature extraordinary stories from across Canada with a selection of five deeply personal National Film Board of Canada (NFB) produced and co-produced documentaries.
The Cultch is proud to present Fat Joke, an unfiltered, hilarious interrogation of fatphobia, as part of their 50th anniversary season and the Femme Festival.
Drawing upon personal experience and research, comedian, actor, and writer Cheyenne Rouleau dissects this often-untalked-about topic with eviscerating wit.
The Cultch’s York Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of You Used to Call Me Marie…, produced by the Savage Society, as part of their 50th anniversary season.
We follow Iskwewo, Napew, and Mistatim through eight intertwined stories of love, loss, and the fight of the Métis people as the Métis nations emerge across the plains amidst the fur trade’s robust colonization.
Upstart & Crow accepting applications for the 2024 Writers Residency
The Firehall is proud to produce and present Keith Barker’s This Is How We Got Here from Saturday, April 13 to Sunday, April 28.
Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This Is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family still dealing with the lingering trauma of an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move forward after their shared grief as they re-learn how to interact with one another through humour, forgiveness, and love.
Little Mountain Gallery is reopening with a 24-hour comedy marathon hosted by award winning and 2024 Juno-nominated comedian Graham Clark.
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