Rich Chigga Theatre of the Living Arts 4 Novembre
This is a good weekend to accept the family out; the Children's Festival is going strong on Granville Island, and even Fred Penner is joining in! There'due south likewise a fake ghost tour, a theatre festival and lots of music and dance to fill your time in between walks, bike rides and picnics in the lovely leap weather.
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Friday May 31
Vancouver International Children'due south Festival
Where: Granville Island
What: When the Vancouver International Children'due south Festival arrives, Granville Island comes to life! With six fantastic indoor theatre venues and a bustling arts activity hamlet, our Festival site becomes your family'south playground! From toddlers to tweens, we accept shows and activities for everyone.
Runs until: Sunday June 2, 2019
Vancouver TheatreSports presents Colin Mochrie
Where: The Improv Centre
What: Colin Mochrie, Vancouver TheatreSports (VTS) alumnus and star of Whose Line Is Information technology Anyway, returns to Vancouver TheatreSports for iii benefit performances that will fill your laugh tank.
Runs Until: Sat June 1, 2019
4inXchange
Where: Vancity Culture Lab
What: An interactive, site-specific game with 4 players and $1,000 cash—4inXchange is a pop fine art business meeting that guides y'all through a series of dialogues, chances, competitions, and meditations. Utilise the cash on the table to become to know your fellow participants, while xLq asks provocative questions most value, intimacy, love, and truth. Returns and exchanges guaranteed.
Runs until: Sun June 2, 2019
Fake Ghost tours
Where: The Cultch
What: Amateur ghost hunters Abdul Aziz and Shawn O'Hara take you on a 100% accurate and legitimate walking bout of Vancouver's most definitely haunted locations. Their knowledge will thrill you! Their stories will arctic you lot! Their credentials will confuse you! From the site of the Jon Bon Jovi Massacre to Vancouver's first ghost-operated business concern, no stone will exist left united nations-toured.
Runs Until: Sunday June ii, 2019
VSO: Kerson Leong
Where: Orpheum Theatre
What: Winner of Inferior Outset Prize at the prestigious 2010 Menuhin Contest, rising star Canadian violinist Kerson Leong makes his VSO debut.
Bridge Festival
Where: Ambleside Park
What: Community Twenty-four hours is transforming into Bridge Festival, a two-day multicultural issue taking place on May 31 and June one. We are inviting everyone to observe and share the tastes, sights and sounds of Westward Vancouver's diverse culture. This new festival will include interactive cultural pavilions, performances, a parade, great nutrient and much more than!
Runs Until: Saturday June i, 2019
Bob Saget
Where: River Rock Casino
What: Yes, Bob Saget has starred in many successful television shows, including two of the almost family-friendly shows network TV has e'er produced (Full House and America'south Funniest Home Videos) but he's also an out of his mind, Grammy-nominated standup comedian for over thirty years. From his HBO special That Ain't Right to his scene-stealing cameos in Entourage, and The Aristocrats, it'south e'er effective as Saget embraces his dark side.
Larry
Where: The Greenhouse Studios
What: Run into Larry, from Moose Creek, BC. He's "no idiom", and he'll exist the first to tell you that he's handier than a pocket on the back of a shirt! He wants to prove to yous that he'due south worthy of a adept woman, that he can quit cussin' and even take up meditation. Bold, daring and uproariously funny, Larry's internal turmoil turns out to be more terrifying than he ever thought possible.
Runs Until: Dominicus June one, 2019
Louis-José Houde
Where: The York Theatre
What: With Préfère novembre Louis-José is taking a decisive opinion: yes, he admits it, he describes himself every bit "wearisome", out of sync with the times in which immediate gratification is what everybody wants. If this testify sings the praises of all things slow, it also brings us a more than engaged comedian who nevertheless delivers the same fascinating free energy and vivacious intelligence
The Dance Middle presents 12 Minutes Max
Where: Scotiabank Dance Centre
What: 12 Minutes Max showcases six eclectic gimmicky trip the light fantastic works by some of Vancouver'south most exciting and innovative up-and-coming choreographers: Alexa Mardon, Avery Smith, Eowynn Enquist & Isak Enquist, Sapiens Sapiens , Ted Littlemore, and Zahra Shahab.
Hillsong United
Where: Pacific Coliseum
What: Formed in 1998, Hillsong United is led by Brian and Bobbie'due south son, Joel Houston. Hillsong United has created 17 albums. Their vocal Oceans (Where Feet May Neglect) from their anthology Zion reached platinum condition in the U.S. The group has toured for many years, packing out large venues like the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. In 2016, Hillsong United was named Top Christian Artist at the Billboard Music Awards.
Steven Folio
Where: Commodore Ballroom
What: Hot on the heels of his induction in to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame alongside his ex-bandmates in Barenaked Ladies, vocaliser-songwriter Steven Page has announced the forthcoming release of the almost forceful musical statement of his solo music career: Subject: Heal Thyself, Pt. 2. Musically, the album tips its lid to many of Page's influences including the same punk rock movement and David Byrne as well as a nod to the Bee Gees and the Zombies.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC vs. Toronto FC
Where: BC Identify Stadium
What: Take role in the roaring atmosphere at this Major League Soccer game.
House of Vans Pop-Upwards
Where: Harbour Convention Centre
What: It'southward a identify where imagination lets loose over concrete bowls, art installations, workshops and concert stages, inspiring every person who runs, rolls, or stomps through its door.
Runs Until: Sunday June 2, 2019
Mr. Truth
Where: Vancity Culture Lab
What: In this series of tragicomic nightmare vignettes, a masked demon-similar entity follows people who repress their "erotic truths" and forces them to face up their desires in spectacularly painful ways. Like watching a parody that blooms into a revolting orgasmic hallucination, information technology's off the beaten sketch comedy path, with a satisfying dose of the key, the lurid, and the baroque.
Runs Until: June one, 2019
Saturday June 1
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Magnetic Due north Theatre Festival
Where: The Cultch
What: Canada'due south Magnetic Northward Theatre Festival is Canada's only national theatre festival. We showcase the very best of contemporary Canadian theatre – theatre that moves usa, shares our stories, and explores how nosotros see the earth as Canadians today.
Runs until: Sunday June 9, 2019
Vancouver International Children's Festival: Variety Prove with Fred Penner
Where: Granville Island
What: Sentry Festival performers cut loose at our annual Variety Show! This year'due south tour de force, hosted by none other than Fred Penner, features the zany circus antics of Jamie Adkins, the uplifting songs and joyous energy of Élage Diouf, a high energy dance extravaganza from Immigrant Lessons, and the captivating storytelling from ane of Scotland'due south finest storytellers, Andy Cannon. For a special care for you'll besides take the opportunity to sing forth with one of Canada's best-loved children's singers, as host Fred Penner will be performing! This fun-filled evening is ever a highlight for kids and adults alike.
Wheel to Shop Days
Where: Metro Vancouver
What: Cycle to Store is a gratis, public event that encourages people to support local businesses by bike. It'south and so much more fun, affordable and faster by wheel. Ride on June 1st and 2nd you'll get gratis snacks, bike melody-ups and prizes if you stop by our celebration stations! Throughout the weekend, you tin can too join guided rides across Metro Van that will show you the best routes and provide tips on going by bike.
Runs until: Dominicus June 2, 2019
In Plain Sight
Where: Celebrated Theatre
What: Let'south unravel old stories, unwind old preconceptions, and uncover the possibility lying in wait. In Plain Sight was created over the final eleven weeks by a grouping of everyday people, nine-5ers, students, friends, strangers, movers and shakers. People from all walks of life with one common desire, to see what happens when yous peel back a layer of yourself and dive into the earth of creativity, AcroYoga and performance. Similar a glimpse of a vision, In Plain Sight will be performed twice on June 1st and then information technology volition deliquesce dorsum into the hidden world but beneath the surface, never to exist once again.
Tim Bakery
Where: The Majestic
What: At the terminate of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-honor-winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five good day shows. For the band's principal songwriter and lead singer Tim Baker, this was the starting time of a new affiliate.
Sunday June two
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RBC Race for the Kids
Where: Queen Elizabeth Park
What: Runners and walkers of all ages and abilities will participate in a scenic 5K route or a 2K fun run, followed past a carnival celebration with salubrious snacks and activities for the whole family. Everyone can join the fun – whether on your ain or on a team with your family, colleagues or classmates.
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Burqa Boutique (part of the Killjoy Series)
Where: The Greenhouse Studios
What: This ensemble drama follows five multigenerational women who seek refuge in a burqa boutique when defenseless in the eye of a battle between the Brother's Republic Party and the Sons of Jihad. Throughout the nighttime, their conflicting perspectives on faith, politics and a adult female's role in gild come to a head.
Runs until:Saturday June ane, 2019
Bridge Festival
Where: Ambleside Park
What: Community 24-hour interval is transforming into Bridge Festival, a two-day multicultural event taking identify on May 31 and June 1. We are inviting anybody to notice and share the tastes, sights and sounds of West Vancouver's various culture. This new festival will include interactive cultural pavilions, performances, a parade, keen nutrient and much more!
Runs Until: Saturday June 1, 2019
How-do-you-do
Where: Firehall Arts Centre
What: In the 1960s, celebrated American playwright Arthur Miller had a son, Daniel, who was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Merely you won't detect any mention of Daniel in Miller'south memoir, speeches or fifty-fifty in the obituary of his female parent, famous photojournalist, Inge Morath (Mutti). The family never publicly acknowledged Daniel's existence. this play follows the story of Daniel, who grew up in an isolated institution, never attended his sister'southward birthday parties, never learned to read and was never a part of his birth families international portrait.
Runs until: Sabbatum June ane, 2019
Fireflies (Part of the Killjoy Series)
Where: The Greenhouse Studios
What: A multimedia exploration of body autonomy and non-binary identity in a dystopian Japan. Amika, a mixed-race non binary youth, escapes a government run fertility centre to avoid execution for being "mixed-claret", and then must salvage their imprisoned mother while hiding from the government. When non-conformity is fatal, how practise y'all nurture what makes you lot unlike?
Runs until:Saturday June 1, 2019
Larry
Where: The Greenhouse Studios
What: Run across Larry, from Moose Creek, BC. He'due south "no idiom", and he'll be the get-go to tell you that he'due south handier than a pocket on the back of a shirt! He wants to evidence to you that he'south worthy of a skillful woman, that he can quit cussin' and fifty-fifty accept up meditation. Assuming, daring and uproariously funny, Larry'due south internal turmoil turns out to be more terrifying than he ever thought possible.
Runs Until: Sunday June 1, 2019
404
Where: Havana Theatre
What: What would you go to war for? On the outskirts of Damascus, iii men drive a tank into battle against the regime. They've only met each other, and they're here for contradictory reasons. Dakham is an Islamist. Maharajah is a leftist. And Abu-Moddar is the son of an regular army officer. As their surround become increasingly deadly, the trio must resolve their differences if they hope to prevail—or simply survive—in the oncoming boxing.
Runs until:Sabbatum June one, 2019
Mr. Truth
Where: Vancity Culture Lab
What: In this serial of tragicomic nightmare vignettes, a masked demon-like entity follows people who repress their "erotic truths" and forces them to confront their desires in spectacularly painful ways. Like watching a parody that blooms into a revolting orgasmic hallucination, it's off the beaten sketch one-act path, with a satisfying dose of the central, the lurid, and the bizarre.
Runs Until: June 1, 2019
Vancouver TheatreSports presents Colin Mochrie
Where: The Improv Centre
What: Colin Mochrie, Vancouver TheatreSports (VTS) alumnus and star of Whose Line Is It Anyway, returns to Vancouver TheatreSports for iii benefit performances that will fill your express mirth tank.
Runs Until: Sat June i, 2019
Bike to Shop Days
Where: Metro Vancouver
What: Bike to Shop is a costless, public event that encourages people to support local businesses past bike. It'south so much more than fun, affordable and faster by bicycle. Ride on June 1st and 2nd you'll become free snacks, bike tune-ups and prizes if you terminate past our celebration stations! Throughout the weekend, you lot can also bring together guided rides across Metro Van that volition show you the best routes and provide tips on going by bike.
Runs until: Sunday June 2, 2019
Counternarratives: Paintings past Archibald Fairbairn Where: Bill Reid Gallery What: The watercolour paintings of Archibald Fairbairn (1888 – 1979) certificate the dazzler of totem poles and communities during the early 20th century. This exhibition juxtaposes an idealistic painter's postcolonial gaze with critical discourse from contemporary Indigenous voices.
Runs until: Sunday June two, 2019
Fake Ghost tours
Where: The Cultch
What: Amateur ghost hunters Abdul Aziz and Shawn O'Hara accept y'all on a 100% accurate and legitimate walking tour of Vancouver'south virtually definitely haunted locations. Their knowledge volition thrill you! Their stories will chill y'all! Their credentials will confuse y'all! From the site of the Jon Bon Jovi Massacre to Vancouver's get-go ghost-operated business organisation, no stone volition exist left un-toured.
Runs Until: Sunday June 2, 2019
rEvolver Festival
Where: Diverse Locations
What: A full range of contemporary theatrical practice, from script-based theatre to devised and site-specific works, staged readings of work-in-progress, and in-depth discussions with artists.
Runs until:Sunday June ii, 2019
Contemporary Dance Solo
Where: Culture Lab
What: Azevedo replicates trip the light fantastic toe solos by tween and teen dancers drawn from YouTube trip the light fantastic competitions, while the audience watches the original videos projected alongside his dancing body. The grab? These dances were created as brusk powerhouse showcases for young flexible girls. And Azevedo is performing 18 of them in a row. In performing these solos in succession, Azevedo pays homage to the skill and ability of these young dancers, while reframing their dances to satisfy his own parameters of contemporary trip the light fantastic toe.
Runs until:Dominicus June 2, 2019
My Dear Lewis
Where: Culture Lab
What: Lewis is at the terminate of his journey, met with the task of looking back over a life lived. What unfolds is a pilgrimage made by his mind and body into the dark and dusty corners of memory. Puppetry, objects, video, and music unexpectedly combine in this one-human testify.
Runs until:Sunday June two, 2019
Vancouver International Children's Festival
Where: Granville Isle
What: When the Vancouver International Children'south Festival arrives, Granville Island comes to life! With six fantastic indoor theatre venues and a bustling arts activity village, our Festival site becomes your family'southward playground! From toddlers to tweens, we have shows and activities for everyone.
Runs until: Sunday June two, 2019
4inXchange
Where: Vancity Culture Lab
What: An interactive, site-specific game with iv players and $1,000 greenbacks—4inXchange is a pop art concern coming together that guides yous through a serial of dialogues, chances, competitions, and meditations. Utilize the cash on the table to become to know your swain participants, while xLq asks provocative questions about value, intimacy, love, and truth. Returns and exchanges guaranteed.
Runs until: Sun June ii, 2019
Magnetic North Theatre Festival
Where: The Cultch
What: Canada's Magnetic Northward Theatre Festival is Canada's only national theatre festival. We showcase the very all-time of gimmicky Canadian theatre – theatre that moves united states of america, shares our stories, and explores how we encounter the world equally Canadians today.
Runs until: Dominicus June nine, 2019
Deportation
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery
What: This exhibition comprises internationally acclaimed Victoria-based artist Mowry Baden'southward work from the late 1960s to the present. Baden is known for producing intricate, sometimes humorous sculptural works and installations that infringe from the fields of perceptual psychology, science and architecture, and oftentimes solicit the audience's participation. Runs until: Sunday June 9, 2019
Throne and Games – The Concluding Laugh Where: The Improv Eye What: Loosely based on HBO'due south popular Television set series, this improv express mirth-letting features myriad unexpected plot twists – all suggested by the audience. No two performances tin can e'er be the aforementioned because of this key chemical element. Like its TV inspiration, the audience has no idea what to expect next, and, neither do the cast. VTS improvisers are chief actors – creating the plot line, developing characters and dialogue all on the spot based on audience interest and suggestions. Warning–at that place may be spoilers!
Runs until: Sabbatum June xv, 2019
Deanna Bowen: A Harlem Nocturne
Where: Gimmicky Art Gallery
What: Deanna Bowen's artistic practice concerns itself with overlooked histories of Black experience, frequently connected to her ain family in Canada and the Usa. Mining archives and forgotten documents, she makes apply of a repertoire of artistic gestures to bring traces of a complex, securely personal and often violent by into public visibility. Bowen'southward solo exhibition A Harlem Nocturne comprises two separate trajectories of new research that follow the artist's maternal lineage in Canada.
Runs until: Sunday June sixteen, 2019
The Tardily Show – Adult Only Improv One-act Where: The Improv Centre What: Are you a grown-up? If you are, bring together us! This prove takes the furry hand-cuffs off our improvisers to present edgy, uncensored improv comedy. With the assist of audience suggestions, our quick-witted improvisers create scenarios that explore mature themes, content and language. Y'all never know how far this show will go and the audience are willing accomplices. Runs until: June 29, 2019 (Saturdays)
Wild Things: The Power of Nature in Our Lives Where: Museum of Vancouver What: This exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city. Scenic design, videos, taxidermy, oversupply-sourcing technologies, and the display of natural specimens exhale life into these tales of co-habitation. The immersive nature of the exhibition, including hands-on activities, encourages visitors to examine their human relationship with nature, recollect about momentarily disconnecting from their devices, and find equilibrium with the natural world around them.
Runs until: July 2019
Matilda The Musical
Where: Stanley Alliance Industrial Stage
What: Sometimes you take to be a picayune bit naughty to find your happy ending! Armed with an outsize wit and a brilliant imagination, precocious Matilda takes a stand to change her destiny. Even cruel parents and a hardened headmistress tin't go far her manner. From the wonderfully subversive imagination of Roald Dahl, this fun family musical will bring out the child in everyone.
Runs until: Lord's day July xiv, 2019
Butterflies at the Vancouver Aquarium
Where: The Vancouver Aquarium
What: Footstep out of British Columbia's temperate rainforest and into the Amazon's tropical rainforest when you enter the Graham Amazon Gallery. Find a wide variety of butterflies, including blueish morphos, behemothic owls and heliconians, equally you stroll along the boardwalk. Keen eyes will spy them feeding on nectar, fruit and flowers, camouflaging on tree trunks, courting a mate and hitchhiking on lucky visitors.
Runs until: September 2019
Moving Still: Performative Photography from Republic of india
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery & Addendum Theatre
What: A major exhibition of works by thirteen artists based in India whose photographic practices focus on amalgam and reconstructing realities. The exhibition and will showcase more than i hundred works, dating from the 1800s to the present, and examines themes of gender, organized religion and sexual identity using photography, an important medium in India since the mid-nineteenth century.
Runs until: Sunday September 2, 2019
Making Waves: The Story and Legacy of Greenpeace Where: Vancouver Maritime Museum What: With humble beginnings in Vancouver, Greenpeace has grown into a large organization with offices in 40 countries. The NGO has protested numerous causes: whaling, deforestation, mining, genetic testing, and nuclear testing. Explore this exhibit that goes from their get-go voyage from Vancouver to Amchitka to protest Nuclear testing on an quondam fishing vessel to how cities, government, and manufacture today are developing new policies, technologies, and sustainable practices to ensure the preservation of our environment.
Runs until: Mon September 9, 2019
Rolande Souliere: Frequent Stopping IV and V
Where: Contemporary Art Gallery
What: The multi-media practice of Commonwealth of australia-based Anishinaabe artist Rolande Souliere entangles the visual language of hard-edged geometric brainchild with that of gimmicky traffic signage to consider how colonial infrastructures marker both spaces and the people inhabiting them. Her solo exhibition Frequent Stopping IV and V presents new large-scale, site-specific work at the Gimmicky Art Gallery's two public sites: its street level façade and the nearby Yaletown-Roundhouse Station. This exhibition draws from Souliere's ongoing torso of piece of work that creates interventions using caution tape and street barrier patterns in immersive, muscular installations.
Runs until: Friday September xx, 2019
Shipyards Nighttime Market place
Where: The Shipyards, North Vancouver
What: Fresh food, locally made products, musicians, art and entertainment. The festivities in the Square kick off at 5pm on Friday nights where yous will find 100+ vendors selling fresh food and locally made products. The Fri Night Market also includes a beer garden serving local craft beer and cider as well as Betty'southward Vodka Iced Tea. You lot must me 19+ to enter the beer garden. On the Shipbuilders' Phase there is alive music until 10pm, showcasing talent from all over BC. Runs until: Friday September 27, 2019
Womxn and Waterways Where: Bill Reid Gallery What: Explore the unique connexion between womxn and water in the matriarchal societies of the Northwest Coast, with special attention to the roles of kid-bearers, healers, and doulas. Artists Richelle Conduct Chapeau (Blackfoot/Cree), Krystle Coughlin (Selkirk), Lindsay Katsitsakataste Delaronde (Mohawk), Alison Marks (Tlingit), Dionne Paul (Nuxalk/Sechelt), Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena), Marika Echachis Swan (Nuu-chah-nulth), Carrielynn Victor (Sto:lo), Veronica Rose Waechter (Gitxsan) and Water Keeper, Audrey Siegl (Musqueam) volition explore h2o as a crucial element of cosmos, its historical uses for survival, and gimmicky over-consumption as a threat to sensitive coastal ecosystems.
Runs until: Wednesday Oct 2, 2019
Shake Up: Preserving What We Value
Where: Museum of Anthropology
What: The exhibition will bring to light the convergence of earthquake science and technology with the rich Indigenous knowledge and oral history of the living cultures represented in MOA's Northwest Coast collection. Beyond scientific discoveries, knowledge of earthquakes and natural disasters has been passed downwards through generations throughout many cultures, including those of the Northwest Coast First Nations. Also as office of the exhibition, visitors volition take the opportunity to meet the majestic poles of the Great Hall undergo conservation, many for the first fourth dimension in 40 years.
Runs until: Fall 2019
Richmond Night Market
Where: Richmond, BC
What: Finish by for authentically Asian snacks, street food and retailers selling unique accessories and knick-knacks at street-side prices. Some merchants are willing to bargain, so channel your inner negotiator and y'all'll leave with a haul. There'due south a diverse array of nightly live amusement ranging from music and trip the light fantastic toe performances to carnival games and rides.
Runs until: Fri Oct 4, 2019
Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets
Where: Museum of Anthropology
What: This enchanting exhibition illustrates the role puppets have played around the world in the transmission of cultural noesis, stories, and values from generation to generation. Shadows, Strings and Other Things features a wide array of puppets, erstwhile and new, from 15 countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Visitors volition have the opportunity to view more than 250 handcrafted puppets from MOA's collection — the largest in Western Canada — plus, new acquisitions from China, Brazil, Italian republic, Coffee, the United kingdom, and France revealed to the public for the first time. Enter into an immersive and theatrical world for visitors of all ages.
Runs until: Monday October fourteen, 2019
How Far Exercise You Travel
Where: Select B-Line TransLink busses
What: Five Canadian artists — Diyan Achjadi, Patrick Cruz, Rolande Souliere, Erdem Tasdelen and Anna Torma — are existence commissioned to graphically wrap the outside of a series of articulated buses traveling on major routes in Metro Vancouver.
Runs until: Tuesday December 31, 2019
Teatro Intimo Del Flamenco
Where: The Improv Centre, Granville Island
What: Karen Flamenco brings the glamour and extravagance of a big flamenco dance product onto a pocket-sized theatrical stage. The one-hour product welcomes audiences of all ages with live traditional flamenco music, dance, storylines, puppetry and magic. With theatre style seating and bistro-style table seats, every audition fellow member volition get a shut-up and personal experience that is very typical of a traditional Castilian Tablao.
Runs until: Saturday May 1, 2020
What are you up to this weekend? Tell me and the rest of Vancouver in the comments.
Source: https://www.insidevancouver.ca/2019/05/31/things-to-do-this-weekend-in-vancouver-5/