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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.
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?
The Aubreys (Finn Wolfhard, Malcolm Craig), Slightest Clue, and Punching Knives Local will gather with local music fans on December 18th to support Girls Rock Camp Vancouver.
Powell Street Festival Society announces the 47th Annual Powell Street Festival this August 5-6, 2023, 11:30 am to 7:00 pm. This free two-day celebration of Japanese Canadian art and culture in Oppenheimer Park and the surrounding Paueru Gai area presents a spectrum of events and entertainment for all: from live performances to a Japanese food and craft marketplace to traditional elements and exciting Powell Street Festival touchstones.
The 2023 Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival (previously named Vancouver Bach Festival) will take place July 27 to August 5. The theme of the 2023 Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival is WOMENinSIGHT – celebrating women composers, librettists, and performers of the past and present.
Eastside Arts Society (EAS) presents the return of its highly anticipated two-day summer art-making event, CREATE! Arts Festival. A community initiative designed to welcome guests to explore, learn, and create art together with local artists, CREATE! Arts Festival features a wide variety of accessible visual and performing arts workshops for adults and youth.
Presented in partnership with the City of Burnaby, join Vancouver Opera as Opera In The Park returns to beautiful Deer Lake Park. On Sunday July 16 this free, family-friendly event features some of the incredible arias and duets from Vancouver Opera’s upcoming 2023-2024 season productions: The Magic Flute, Don Pasquale and Carmen.
The 5X Fest is back this year, and it's acting as a portal back to our collective selves. The multi-day, multi-venue festival explores themes in music, visual art, fashion, and South Asian youth culture.
Sexier than Cirque du Soleil, racier than RuPaul, and more of a manful than Magic Mike, the international party cabaret sensation Briefs are coming to air their Dirty Laundry at The Cultch's York Theatre!
Vines Art Festival Artist Care Fundraiser on May 11. Come together with us for a night of delicious food, an enticing silent auction, and featuring live performances from Kimmortal, Missy D, ebonEmpress, and Jreme. All proceeds supports the artistic communities that need it most.
Music on Main presents Gabriel Kahane’s deeply insightful albums Book of Travelers (BC premiere) and Magnificent Bird (Canadian premiere), on stage in consecutive performances on May 10 and 11, 2023 at 7:30pm at the ANNEX (823 Seymour Street). Both distinct yet complementary song cycles were conceived and created three years apart during the artist’s self-imposed isolations from the internet and social media in 2016 and 2019.
Music BC is pleased to announce that applications for the latest round of its flagship artist development program, ARC are set to open on April 24. Designed to provide emerging artists with the tools they need to succeed in the music industry, ARC is an accelerator program that is funded by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia, Stingray and FACTOR (the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings). Applications are open from April 24, 2023 - to May 24, 2023.
Music on Main presents Vicky Chow Plays Philip Glass on stage March 28, 2023, at 7:30pm at Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street). In this highly anticipated homecoming, Vancouver-raised new music superstar Vicky Chow returns from New York to perform legendary composer Philip Glass’ Piano Études, Book 1 in an otherworldly, powerful joining of two immense musical talents.
Produced by Black Space Media/Afro Van Connect, Black Space Jam (BSJ) is a live performance showcase that provides local and international artists of African descent a platform to share and promote their artwork. This showcase intentionally amplifies, celebrates, and centers Black creatives and the Black Experience. BSJ was created to enhance the visibility of youth of African descent within the local arts and culture community.
DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music present the Canadian premiere of choreographer and performer Gregory Maqoma and Musical Director Thuthuka Sibisi’s Broken Chord, February 23 to 25, 2023 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Four vocal soloists, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and Maqoma himself share the stage in a musical and movement-filled exploration of the life and legacy of The African Native Choir. A South African ensemble that toured the globe in the late 1800s, their history is brought to vibrant life through rhythmic, high-energy contemporary dance intertwined with song, sound, and storytelling.
Lovely Company is a local Vancouver band that has been playing shows around the city for a little while now. They’re performing at their upcoming show March 17th at the Red Gate with support from Hoodie Browns and the Neighbourhood Strangers, Grimm, and Matt Young. This show will also feature an art showcase in the gallery space next door featuring works from three amazing local artists which will include clothing and paintings. Come for a really special evening orienting around community and art!
As spring is just around the corner, and change is in the air, Vancouver New Music looks forward to returning to in-person gatherings and events with a line-up full of musical creativity and imagination.
IronFest: A Fall Jazz Concert Series features six performances over a period of three nights. These concerts mark the return to live performances that began with the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival this past summer.
Don’t miss an annual Vancouver classic: the Mint Records Ridiculously Early Xmas Party!
Katayoon is The Lido’s September artist-in-residence. Through video and music, Katayoon’s residency seeks to evoke the nostalgia and aesthetic of the bootleg VHS market in Iran during the late ‘90s-mid ‘00s, which resulted from a network of low budget studios in Los Angeles operated by members of the Iranian diaspora broadcasting music videos, live talk shows, news and special programming back to Iran.
s.M.i.L.e. is excited to announce another deadly double-header of Philadelphia's DJ HARAM (Hyperdub/Discwoman) and Vancouver's own DEBBY FRIDAY (Deathbomb Arc) This'll be a late-summer all-nighter, beginning at 12:30 a.m. and going until the early morning.
The show of your midsummer nights' dreams, mosh yrself into a sweaty mess with three great local(ish!) bands.
From June 6-9, 2019, Music Waste will take over the city’s DIY venues with a focus on local bands and artists.
The sophomore album release of Elisa Thorn’s HUE.
Vancouver New Music presents
Pantayo (Toronto)
+ Gamelan Bike Bike (Vancouver)
Show at 8:00PM
Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM
Single Tickets
Advance: $29 general / $21 senior / $12 student (Tickets)
At the door: $35 general / $25 senior / $15 student
VANCOUVER NOISE FEST IX
The 9th Edition of Vancouver Noise Fest: CONTROL
DOORS & FIRST ACT AT 6:00PM SHARP
FULL LINEUP TBA
$30 Passes at the door of after pre-sales are sold out. Tickets
Porteau presents their Water's Gate Album Release Show with special guests Harley Small and ursidae.
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm
$10 advance tickets: https://bit.ly/2MYiT4u
$15 at the door
19+
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Tickets: $12 advanced
tickets at door: $15
19+
Taking place on unceded Coast Salish territory – Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, & Musqueam.
Established in January 2010, Quiet City is a series of concerts in Vancouver focused on live performances of experimental, electronic and improvised music in a comfortable and intimate setting.
The fifty-ninth edition of this series will be featuring performances by:
⊚ Alex Zhang Hungtai (Los Angeles)
⊚ Dolphin Midwives (Portland)
⊚ Military Genius
⊚ Sandy Ewen (New York)
Presented by Soundscape, Panospria, CiTR FM & Discorder Magazine. Tickets
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