From 5pm to 8pm, join us for an evening of jazz under the lights at Performance Works on Granville Island. Sip, sup and visit with your friends. Enjoy the music while you browse through hundreds of silent auction items, and there will be special performance of scenes from “Dirty White”- Theatre Terrific’s spring professional production. Just by enjoying wine and delectable snacks and bidding on silent auction items, you are contributing to the arts: all proceeds benefit Theatre Terrific. For show times and ticket information visit www.theatreterrific.ca.
Theatre and performing arts
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A Dirty White Wine and Cheese Fundraiser and Silent Auction
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A Night on the Nile
Canadian Network for International Surgery's NIGHT ON THE NILE is an annual African fundraiser - set in a vintage movie theme. (This year, Agatha Christie's 'Death on the Nile') The magical dinner and silent auction fundraiser aims to raise enough funds to build AND equip a surgical skills teaching lab in Moshi, Tanzania. Supported by the local film industry and local businesses, A Night on the Nile is an event you should not miss. When do you otherwise have a chance to outdo Betty Davies hats or eat and drink without guilt? The event is not only a good cause, but also Carbon Neutral! For more information visit www.cnis.ca or call 604-739-4708.
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A Year With Frog and Toad
In this amazing Broadway musical, Arnold Lobel's well-loved characters hop, sing and dance their way from the page to the stage! Conceived by Mr. Lobel's daughter, Adrianne Lobel, A Year With Frog and Toad follows the cheerful and popular Frog, and the rather grumpy Toad through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, these two great friends proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding, and learn life lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that make each of us different and special. For show times and ticket information, visit www.carouseltheatre.ca or call 604-685-6217.
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All Over the Map
New Works is proud to announce the line up for All Over the Map. Now in its seventh year, this series of six free world dance and music performances takes place on Granville Island in July and August. All over the Map is a treat for dance and music fans, and fun for the whole family. This year’s line-up has All Over the Map’s characteristic blend of music and dance from all over the world. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes, as All Over the Map performances have been known to get audiences moving! All shows start at 2pm in Ron Basford Park and are moved inside to Performance Works in case of rain.
July 11
Vancouver Korean Dance Society: Korean
An intricate, rich performance complete with stunning costumes and fans featuring the traditional elegance and exquisite beauty of Korean dance.
July 18
TomoeArts and Otowa-ryû Japanese Dance Group: Japanese
This collaboration of two distinct Japanese dance companies in Vancouver will bring a strong repertoire of kabuki theatre, contemporary Japanese dance, as well as folk dance.
July 25
African Stages Association: African
We are stories and stories are us. Through dance, theatre, storytelling, and music, this fun-filled performance will combine drums and movement deeply embedded in African ritual and expressive folklore.
August 15
Aché Brasil - Capoeira
Combining stunning acrobatics and the energetic rhythms of Afro-Brazilian dance, this acclaimed company will merge dance, martial-art, music and spectacle to one explosive, awe-inspiring show.
August 22
Joe Ink – Move it! Show
Move It! is everybody’s chance to groove! This fully interactive performance will invite, empower, and motivate the audience back into their bodies through movement and dance making. All ages and abilities, all shapes and sizes, shake a leg, get down and funky.
August 29
Compaigni V'ni Dansi - Métis Dance
“V’ni Dansi”, Come and Dance…
Showcasing a unique aesthetic all its own, this performance will offer audiences a fusion of contemporary dance, European reels and waltzes tied with the dances of Native American cultures into one original performance experience. -
Art for Impact IV
Come and enjoy an evening of live music, dance and theatre for social change at Performance Works. Featuring work by: Amy Meyers, Billy Marchenski, Ndidi Cascade, Mike Averill, Claire French, Justine Chambers, SOULdiers Company, The End Tree, Bekka Rose, Megan Johnson, and Meredith Kalaman. It promises to be a fabulous evening of entertainment, food, and drink. All proceeds will go to Jugamos/Let's Play, an organization that promotes well being for children in Honduras through health education and the power of play. For more information visit www.art-for-impact.blogspot.com.
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Becky's New Car
Becky is married. Check. With one son, in college. Check, check. Living a perfectly ordinary life. Check. But she wants more. When an unexpected offer for just that—from a dashing millionaire, no less—falls into her lap, Becky embarks on a comic and poignant joyride that may change everything forever. Starring Deborah Williams (Mom’s the Word), Jackson Davies (The Beachcombers, The Producers), and Cavan Cunningham (Fitzy Fitzgerald from TV’s Corner Gas), the Canadian premiere of this wacky and wistful adventure brings together some of Vancouver’s best talents. For more information visit www.artsclub.ca or call 604-687-1644. Presented by the Arts Club Theatre Company at the Granville Island Stage.
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Billy Bishop Goes to War
This tour de force—featuring a pianist and one actor playing 18 characters—follows the trajectory of Billy Bishop’s career from ne’er-do-well cavalry officer to the nation’s most-decorated soldier. Both comic and dramatic, the myth of the daring WWI flying ace is told through story and song in one of the most popular musicals in the Canadian canon. For show times and ticket information visit www.artsclub.com.
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Brief Encounters
Twelve artists from a startling range of mediums will collide in whirlwind creative collaborations in this popular multidisciplinary mash-up. Each night features all six duets as well as live painting, a v-jay and d-jay, two bars and a warm cabaret atmosphere. For show times and ticket information visit www.ticketstonight.ca or call 604-684-2787. Presented by The Tomorrow Collective.
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Cold Read
The Fraser Academy Senior School presents Cold Read: a comedic look at life with learning differences at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. A group of students who met at a school for dyslexics made a promise that when they graduated they would support each other in their pursuits of creative fulfillment. The road to appreciating who they are, as a result of how they learn, is a bumpy one. The one message that everyone ends up getting loud and clear though, is that life isn't scripted for any of us. We all have our stuff we have to deal with, so it's not about the part you get, but how well you play that part. In life, we get the parts we create; we show up everyday for the next audition. It's all one big cold read. Enjoy this real and humorous look at what it's like to have a learning difference. Watch as the actors, all with their own unique differences, have fun shedding some light on the myths and mythunderstandings of dyslexia. For more information visit www.fraseracademy.ca or call 604-736-5575.
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Expressions
Arts Umbrella presents Expressions at the Waterfront Theatre. Come and see what their talented students have been up to all year long; they’ll be strutting their stuff by singing, dancing, and acting in three performances. For show times and ticket information visit www.artsumbrella.com.
Into the Woods
May 26th: 10:30am & 1:30pm, Junior Theatre Troupe
The Brothers Grimm "go Broadway" as Sondheim and Lapine offer up a cockeyed fairy tale where all of your favourite characters — Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk) and the Witch — meet and interact on their journeys.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
May 27th & 28th: 10:30am, Junior Theatre Troupe
Who wouldn’t want to join Charlie Bucket in his adventurous tour of Willie Wonka’s world-famous chocolate factory? This is your chance to learn the secrets behind Willie’s mysteriously delectable confections.
Much Ado about Nothing
May 27th & 28th: 1:30pm, Senior Theatre Troupe
Young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make a match of verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Beatrice and Benedict in this much loved romantic comedy by William Shakespeare.
