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COMPOSERS & COFFEE SERIES: The Songs (Lieder)

By Kara Gibbs on January 7, 2008 - 3:30pm

COMPOSERS & COFFEE SERIES: The Songs (Lieder)
January 16, 2008, Coffee 10am | Concert 10:30am
Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut Street)
$24 for adults / $22 for seniors / $15 for students at 604.873.4612

This informative series presents an in-depth look at the music of Robert Schumann, his wife Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. The second installment of this four-part lecture series with music takes place on January 16, 2008, with a look at The Songs (Lieder) of these beloved composers. Pianist Rena Sharon (founder and artistic director of the Vancouver International Song Institute) is joined by mezzo-soprano Susan Platts for a memorable morning of performance and discussion around this important repertoire.
www.musicinthemorning.org

The Art of Food

By Amanda Nicole on January 8, 2008 - 4:29pm

The Art of Food, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute, is a curated exhibition of food-related artworks shown in conjunction with a panel discussion, lecture and films.

The show features artists who are ECI alumni, graduate and undergraduate students, whose work deals with food in its imagery or as its medium. As varied in approach as they are in subject matter, the works explore the intricate and diverse nature of the impact of food on our lives, revealing ways in which it influences our relationships with environment, health, politics, science, beauty, safety and security.

Please find exhibit and event information at www.artoffood.ca

Enjoy!

Asian Studies Day

By Langara on January 9, 2008 - 4:38pm

Celebrate Asian Studies Day, Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Langara College invites the community to attend and participate in Asian Studies Day on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, from 10am - 4:30 pm.

Events include:
• demonstrations and sampling from the cuisines of Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand;
• a roundtable discussion on the Crisis in Burma (Myanmar).

All events held on campus, in the main foyer. The Crisis in Burma roundtable will be in lecture theatre A130, from 3:00-4:30 pm. A detailed event schedule is available at www.langara.bc.ca

Registration Now Open :: Women's Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp

By RCFAdmin on January 12, 2008 - 5:01pm

WOMEN'S CARDIO KICKBOXING BOOTCAMP
Presented by Raz Chan Fitness and Mobile Personal Training

Get fit and stay healthy in 2008 by registering for our popular Women’s Cardio Kickboxing Bootcamp for January 2008!

Join us three times a week for 4 weeks and experience a total body work out with boxing drills, core ab exercises, interval training, and more! Never the same workout twice with our programming and lots of variety to keep all fitness levels challenged.

View video clips and photos of previous Bootcamp classes at http://www.razchanfitness.com.

LOCATIONS & SCHEDULE
All Bootcamps are 3x/week (12 sessions). Due to the format of our Bootcamp, we do not offer drop-in rates or switching of class sessions - please review our registration policy under our FAQs section online. Participants are required to come to class with handwraps and cardio boxing gloves.

*Note: All Saturday classes take place at 2875 St. Georges St. (near Fraser & Kingsway).

VANCOUVER-WEST SIDE – select from two time slots
4588 Clancy Loranger Way

Mon/Wed/Fri - 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Class runs from Feb. 1 - 27/08

or

Mon/Wed – 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm + Saturday – 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Class runs from Jan. 30 - Feb. 25/08

BURNABY – CENTRAL – select from three time slots
6050 Sussex Avenue (by Metropolis, corner of Grange St.)

PuSh Festival presents Old Goriot

By ZoeQ on January 15, 2008 - 11:21pm

January 17–26, 2008, 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre, The Chan Centre

Preview
January 16, 2008, 7:30pm

Post-show Talkback
January 22, 2008

No show Sunday

Tickets $25/$20/$15
Theatre at UBC Box Office
604.822.2678

Western Gold Theatre and Theatre at UBC present the premiere of James Fagan Tait’s adaptation of the novel Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac.

This theatrical adaptation of Balzac’s utterly gripping masterpiece builds on the success of Tait and composer Joelysa Pankanea’s unforgettable adaptations of Crime and Punishment and A Christmas Carol. The world premiere of this innovative co-production christens UBC’s 100th Anniversary year.

Balzac has been called the Shakespeare of the novel and with Old Goriot he sets the stage for a modern counterpart to King Lear, a father so blindly devoted to his undeserving daughters that his tragic realization—'I loved them too much for them to love me at all'—comes too late. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine, Old Goriot is a witty and profound treatment of two consuming obsessions: money and love. Original music by Joelysa Pankanea deftly illuminates this timeless tale, from the depths of sorrow and despair to moments of great beauty and transcendence.