Writer Sean Oliver pulls no punches in his play, Bright Blue Future, which recounts a wild, cocaine powdered night on Vancouver Island that handles humour and depravity with sure-handed grace and startling insight.
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“It’s taken quite some time and effort to really get things together. It’s like starting over again really. Now we are catering to a greater variety of photographers. A few years ago, it was more catered to film, but we now welcome all types."
Ramin also hopes to build hype for the product via an online yodeling competition. Participants can enter to win a variety of ski prizes by uploading a video of themselves yodeling to the YodelUp Facebook page.
On February 8, The Orpheum in Vancouver served as a venue for a new twist on a classic — an entwining of Rupert Julian's 1925 silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, and Vancouver Bach Choir's orchestra ensemble.
As a Tony award and multi-Grammy award winning singer, Dee Dee Bridgewater has performed with the big jazz greats such as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon and Max Roach. She has re-envisioned jazz classics for over four decades
“I treat everybody’s secret with respect. I use my home address, not a P.O. box, and I think all those things help me earn the trust of people that tell me the deepest stories, the funniest confessions and the deepest admissions.”
The short documentary, An Exploration of Light, consists of interweaving scientific interviews with philosophical quips. The short film explores the different ways humans perceive and interact with light.
The midlife crisis has never been delivered with more humour and lively music than in the Gateway Theatre production of Closer Than Ever. It will affect audience members of all ages, either serving as relatable or cautionary experience.
“Velocity Meadows” is similar, but a little more experimental as it utilized a digital sound mixer and was complemented by footage of abstract images. The end result of that was an experience that had a tinge of Radiohead in it.
On February 26, take a well-deserved break from midterms and join the UBC Choral Union, University Singers and Eric Hamber Secondary Chamber Choir at the Chan Centre for their annual Bach to Spring concert.
“I think it really stands for what we do. There are three speakers: a cardiac nurse, an official representative from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and a patient that suffered from a cardiovascular disease," said Yefet.
And although watching The Hobbit or Harry Potter may not feel like a particularly stimulating activity, he says that people may in fact work harder when watching a fantasy movie to develop a sophisticated interpretation.
After entering “For to do”, visitors are handed an exhibition plan providing a brief overview of each artwork, including the name of the artist, the title of the piece, the material, or medium, as well as the year it was created in.
Spring break in Vancouver is a time when things happen. Flowers bloom, the sun shines, rain ceases to fall — hopefully. Midterms, of course, still threaten to make students want to drop as well — straight onto our pillows.
Axis Theatre has recently begun their Wee Ones Series — plays intended for an audience ages 3-7. Shelby Bushell says that there was no quality market for very young children and Axis wanted to step in and fill this gap.