Penguins Peaches and Izzy are the Zoo’s main attraction: two male penguins who put on daily shows to visitors’ delight. But when other penguin couples lay eggs and go on to have a chick, these two pine for parenting life. With the help from the Zoo Keeper, dreams do come true. The Papa Penguin Play […]
Head down to Granville Island for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 27 to June 2 and enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages! The 2024 Festival features circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, and music shows plus lots of arts activities created just for children. Each show ticket […]
Lights Up Theatre Schools students aged 4 to 16 perform their end of year shows on Granville Island for parents and friends. 9 schools perform 'The Future is NOW' written especially for Lights Up Theatre in 9 separate shows this June.
Come see some of the funniest performers from around Vancouver bring Cards Against Humanity to life! Using the hit party game as inspiration, the comedians will create twisted and hilarious scenes for your comedy pleasure just in time for summer vacation.
Bring your dad to The Improv Centre on Father’s Day for a special afternoon that’s all about him! Treat him to a brew on our waterfront patio, and then sit back and enjoy this hilarious improvised laugh fest that’s going to be fun not only for dads, but for the whole family!
Have you ever thought you could write a movie better than the actual writer could? Get your chance with Summer Blockbuster! In this show, our improvisers recreate some of your all-time favourite movies, explore genres, plotlines, cinematic tropes and bring all sorts of characters to life in hilarious ways! Hans Gruber, but a cake decorator? […]
In partnership with CMHC Granville Island, New Works is thrilled to announce the return of All Over the Map, a vibrant series of free outdoor dance performances on Granville Island. […]
Vancouver Community Gamelan in association with Vancouver Independent Music Centre Society (VIM) and Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia, presents: Show on Earth: Wallace Line and Deep Time An intercultural shadowplay, featuring Ali and Alfred Russel Wallace's Journey into Deep Time. Inspired by Balinese wayang (shadow puppetry). Based on a true story. Gamelan gendèr […]
New Works proudly presents All Over the Map 2024, a free series of outdoor dance and music performances taking place on Granville Island this summer! This season we are proud to feature eight artists and groups over four performances which will take over the Granville Island Picnic Pavilion on Sunday, July 21, and Sunday, August […]
Join us as we welcome Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald for an evening where improv and stand-up fuse together in a one-of-a-kind laugh fest! Kevin will be performing stand-up sets that will inspire our improvisors’ scenes as well as joining the TIC ensemble in the second half of the show!
The piece unfolds around a choir of five accordion-robots with choreography anchored in flamenco to explore the communicational dimension of breath. Èbe offers a contemplative and sensorial experience shared through different rhythms that live in us and around us.
La Forastera (The Outsider) is a new multidisciplinary flamenco dance production by award-winning flamenco choreographer and dancer Lia Grainger and Flamencolia Dance Company. Through narration, documentary footage shot in Spain, projections, soundscapes, and live music and dance, “La Forastera” (The Outsider) tells a love story, about the love between a woman and an art form […]
Guitarist Melon Jimenez and flutist and bansurist Lara Wong come together in this project to form a flamenco repertoire in which they create a wide range of sounds with diverse influences and roots. Discovering new sounds in the world of electronica with their new project CONFLUENCIAS, they are expanding their development at new musical frontiers […]
CMHC-Granville Island would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.
