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Secret Lantern Society Solstice Celebration 2021

The Winter Solstice Lantern Festival is now in its 28th year and celebrates Vancouver’s diverse multicultural heritage, bringing together people from neighbourhoods around Vancouver. This year’s festival will consist of virtual, live-stream, and in-person events. Video and Live-stream Festival Components Throughout December lantern making and other instructional videos will be available on the Secret Lantern […]

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PuSh Festival for Performing Arts 2022

The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced each January, the Festival expands the horizons of Vancouver artists and audiences with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original. The Festival showcases acclaimed international, Canadian and local artists and mixes them together with an alchemy that inspires audiences, rejuvenates […]

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Lantern City on Granville Island

Ocean Artworks - Covered outdoor public space & pavillion Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This Lunar New Year, The Lantern City is lighting up Granville Island for the first time! CMHC, with the Asian Canadian Special Events Association, brings The Lantern City to Granville Island! In 2019, a group of Indigenous artists embraced the idea of celebrating the Lunar New Year tradition in the form of Coastal Lunar Lanterns, […]

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Aalaapi

Waterfront Theatre Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This collectively created work takes us to Nunavik, and into the lives of two women who live their lives against the sonic backdrop of radio. Collectif Aalaapi combines the aesthetics of vision with those of sound; their aim is to interrogate language itself, and their invitation to the audience is to join them in that […]

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I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron

Waterfront Theatre Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

In this haunting song cycle, composer and performer Njo Kong Kie sets the poetry of factory worker Xu Lizhi to song and delivers a lamentation for our digital age. Kong Kie’s score for solo voice and piano is performed in Mandarin with English surtitles and combined with imagery, ambient sound, and more; it is an […]

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Family Day Lunar Craft Workshop

Ocean Artworks - Covered outdoor public space & pavillion Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Create a Treasure Box Lantern while supplies last!

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Capture Photography Festival

The Capture Photography Festival returns for the month of April with Metro Vancouver’s high-profile, not-for-profit celebration of local and international contemporary photography and lens-based art. Capture will once again celebrate and promote photography through a convergence of exhibitions by preeminent cultural institutions and commercial galleries, innovative public installations, and a variety of forums, community events, […]

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Whisky and Words

Performance Works Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Each year the Vancouver Writers Fest hosts a whisky tasting event called Whisky & Words—previously A Dram Come True. Please join us at the 2022 Whisky & Words in support of the Vancouver Writers Fest’s youth education outreach programs. Enjoy unlimited drams of whisky from distilleries around the world, including Scotland, Canada, and Japan, as […]

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Vancouver International Children’s Festival 2022

Ignite your child’s playful joy at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival! Enjoy spectacular shows from around the world for kids and families of all ages from May 31 to June 12. The 2022 Festival will offer a mix of In-person on Granville Island and Online performances featuring circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, music and lots […]

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Ensemble Theatre Company’s 8th Annual Repertory Festival

Waterfront Theatre Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

MARJORIE PRIME Five seconds into the future. It's the age of artificial intelligence, and eighty-five-year-old Marjorie - a jumble of disparate, fading memories - has a handsome new companion who's programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What will we remember, and what will we forget, given the chance? In this […]

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TD International Jazz Festival – Performance Works

The Performance Works Series features an eclectic mix of nine ticketed 7:30pm performances. Tickets are priced between $37 and $45, including service charges. One of the exciting things about our Performance Works lineup this year are our double bill shows, of which there are four to choose from. There is something for everyone at Performance […]

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TD International Jazz Festival – Ocean Artworks

The 2022 TD International Jazz Festival is thrilled to be offering many ticketed and free events at Ocean Artworks Pavilion this year. These shows will cover a wide variety of genres, and will include late night DJs. The festival is working in collaboration with Full Circle: First Nations Performance to bring many wonderful Indigenous acts […]

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