All Events in June

Island Events

8 – 13
New Play Festival
Presented by Playwrights Theatre Centre, this festival features a range of exciting new scripts from local and national playwrights whose styles and subject matter are all over the map. The plays will be presented in intimate staged readings offering audience members a front row seat to watch the process of making new Canadian theatre. For a list of shows and ticket information, visit www.playwrightstheatre.com or call 604-685-6228.
PTC

10 – 14
7th Annual Walking Fish Festival
Upintheair Theatre Society presents the 7th Annual Walking Fish Festival, an emerging artists’ festival bringing together playwrights, performers, and directors to create original theatre. Upintheair produces nine to twelve short one-act plays written, directed, and performed by artists covering the full spectrum of emerging talent. For show times and ticket information, visit www.ticketstonight.ca or call 604-684-2787.
Performance Works

13
10th Annual Plywood Cup
This event may expose Canada’s worst handyman (or woman); then again, it might just expose Canada’s best! 16 teams have four members each and are given limited resources: two large sheets of plywood, one 8 ft  2x2, a hammer, 125 nails, 30 ft of Duct Tape a saw, a ruler and a pencil and 90 minutes in which to build a vessel of unique design that one team member will paddle across False Creek and then back. Come on out to cheer on your favourite team, or to watch how many vessels stay afloat and how many navigators end up taking a plunge in False Creek! For more information, visit www.progressbc.org.
Public Market Courtyard

Granville Island Farmers Market
The Granville Island Farmers Market is back and better than ever! Come get a taste of some of the best produce BC has to offer, every Thursday throughout the summer starting on June 18. All local, all fresh, and so much to choose from! Tomatoes, potatoes, apples, cherries – well, the list could go all the way down the page, but it’s best to stop by and find out for yourself what this annual outdoor market has to offer. For more information, contact one of the Market Coordinators at 604-666-6477.
Parking lot in front of Arts Club Theatre

Vancouver International Jazz Festival
June 26 to July 5
A not-to-be-missed opportunity to hear a variety of emerging Canadian artists while enjoying delectable market offerings in a great outdoor setting. Free and ticketed performances take place at various venues around Granville Island including the Taproom at the Granville Island Brewing Company, Performance Works, the Public Market Courtyard, Railspur Alley Park, Ron Basford Park, and the Dockside Brewing Company. For complete schedules including show times, performers, and ticket prices, visit www.coastaljazz.ca.
Granville Island, various locations

July 1
Annual Canada Day Celebration
Come on down to Granville Island and wave a flag for your country! Granville Island has been leading the pack in Canada Day celebrations for over two decades, and this year will be no different! With free jazz performances courtesy of the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, roving performers, face painting, tattoos, and tons of activities for visitors of all ages, Granville Island is the place to be to celebrate the birthday of our glorious nation! The 10th Annual Canada Day Parade promises to delight and entertain as it overflows with Canadians eager to show their patriotism. National and international activities and performers will be here to celebrate the cultural diversity our nation is famous for, and of course, a smorgasbord of artists and artisans will be on site as always, showcasing the artistic culture our province is overflowing with. So bring the family, friends, significant others and the kitchen sink to experience an unforgettable, multicultural, fun-filled day, where we’ll show you why our country is worth celebrating!

1 – 14
Hard Candy
Hard Candy is an exhibition of the newest works by emerging artist Jade Yumang.  Comprised of nine portraits, Hard Candy is a series of work that articulate a carnality that is at once bawdy and delicately sensual. For more information, visit www.malaspinaprintmakers.com or call 604-688-1724.
Malaspina Printmakers

1 – 14
Flower Drum Song
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre presents Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song. Set in San Francisco’s Chinatown of the late 50s, Flower Drum Song takes a "colourful" approach to the age-old conflict that affects even the traditional immigrant family – the Generation Gap. For show times and ticket information, visit www.ticketstonight.ca or call 604-684-2787. Tickets are also available online at www.vact.ca.
Waterfront Theatre

1 – 30
The Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) is a community of artists and art lovers.  Its mission is to share and promote the passion and pleasure of the visual arts through exhibition, education and communication. Gallery shows in June include Open Print Show, a vast collection of original prints ranging from etchings, intaglio, relief and serigraphs to hand-pulled lithographs, Canvas Unbound, fresh, open unframed works of every depiction and description, and Summer Gallery. For more information, visit www.artists.ca or call 604-681-2744.
Federation of Canadian Artists Gallery

3 – 27
Vancouver TheatreSports League
Vancouver TheatreSports League performs cutting-edge improvisational comedy Wednesdays through Saturdays at the New Review Stage. As always, classics like Improv Extreme and Ultimate Improv Championships run throughout the week, and make sure to check out their newer shows including NONstop Wednesdays, Improvivor, and Ignition Series: always hilarious, always a blast, but never the same. For show times and ticket information, visit www.vtsl.com or call 604-738-7013.
New Revue Stage

4, 6, & 7
Connections
Together with the voices of GLASS Youth Choir, the Vancouver Men’s Chorus presents a climactic program that crosses generations and continents, linking all voices with our community's growing legacy of awareness and compassion—past, present, and future. For show times and ticket information, visit www.vancouvermenschorus.ca or call 604-669-7464.
Performance Works

4 – 30
Buttons, Buckles, and Beads
Buttons, Buckles and Beads is a show featuring both the innovative use of buttons, buckles and beads, and artistry in the creation of these items. Colleen Miller of Button Button will be speaking about the history, mystery and appeal of the humble button on June 11 at 7:30. For more information, visit www.silkweavingstudio.com or call 604-687-6455.
Silk Weaving Studio

5 – 30
Off the Grid
In June 2009, the Surface Design Association will be holding their international conference in Kansas City, MO. To continue with this celebration and education of this medium, this group curated show promotes the work of BC artists who are members of Circle Craft and of the Surface Design Association. Artists include Angelika Werth, Yvonnne Wakabayashi, Ulrieke Brenner, Leslie Richmond, Jessica De Haas and Katherine Soucie. For more information, visit www.circlecraft.net or call 604-669-8021.
Circle Craft Gallery

16 – 21
A New Brain
Pipedream Theatre Project is proud to present the western Canadian premiere of the critically acclaimed new musical A New Brain! Written by William Finn and James Lapine, A New Brain is loosely autobiographical and deals directly with Finn’s own harrowing personal experience with arteriovenous malformation (a congenital defect of the brain). Finn wrote many of the songs soon after his release from the hospital. For more information, visit www.pipedream.com. Tickets are available at the door.
Performance Works

17 – 20
The Supermusical
The Supermusical presented by Once Upon a Theatre and the Broadway Chorus hilariously spoofs the superhero genre, as gamma-ray-irradiated fashion icon Lance LeCroix discovers he has the power to control static electricity. He joins forces with Mama Nature, Without-a-Tracy, Aquatica, and the Incredible Herc in an attempt to stop supervillains from taking over the city. But when aliens from another planet (that's the best kind) intend to destroy the world, our superheroes get a new, more dangerous priority. For show times and ticket information, email ashley@oldadm.ubc.ca or call 778-322-7182.
Waterfront Theatre

18 – 30
Altar Boyz
Watch out 'N Sync, the Altar Boyz are coming to town! Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan, and Abraham-the gefilte fish out of water can sing and dance with the best of them, and these heartthrobs want to praise the Lord with funk and rhyme. With lyrics like "Girl, you make me wanna wait" and "Jesus called me on my cell phone" this irreverent (but never mean-spirited) musical-comedy will wash your soul clean with laughter. For show times and ticket information, visit www.artsclub.com or call 604-687-1644.
Arts Club Theatre

18 – 30
Small Excursions into Colour and Form
Eleanor Hannan’s pieces are not so much imitations of as translations from painting; works began as watercolour studies on paper and are embroidered to give brilliance, texture and momentum. For more information, visit www.cabc.net or call 604-687-7270.
Crafthouse Gallery

Island News

Public Market Shopping Bags are Back!
Three new designs for summer: Blackberry, Watermelon, and Purple Peony! These bags are limited edition, so when they are gone, they are gone. Check with your favourite Public Market vendors to see how you can get yours!