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Tiny (yorkies,maltese & chihuahua) pups on sale

By amyotte on October 11, 2007 - 8:37am

These puppies( chihuahua/maltese & yorkie) are super cute,and very very small.
shots,wormings,& guaranteed on genetics.
will weigh below 3bs full grown
ready for loving homes:

email: candy_amyotte@yahoo.com

Better Communication and Leadership Skills

By Spokenword on August 26, 2008 - 3:19pm

Spoken Word Toastmasters is a new and vibrant club that is dedicated in helping its members and guests improve communication and leadership skills while building confidence and self-esteem. We meet each Thursday evening at 7:00pm at Royal Oak Community Church, 7175 Royal Oak Avenue in Burnaby. Rear door. One block south of Royal Oak Skytrain Station. We warmly welcome guests and new members. For more info on Spoken Word, contact Bernie at 604-521-7240 or email thelonepostman@yahoo.ca

Fit Camp Functional Training Series!

By kinesiologists.ca on October 17, 2008 - 8:17pm

What: Come join us for our new high-intensity, motivating workouts designed to make you sweat while having fun in a group environment. Our trained kinesiologists, will take you through a series of exercises geared towards core training, muscular strength and endurance, power training, agility, and quickness.

Where: Kinesiologists.ca Kitsilano clinic @ 101-2025 West Broadway.

When: Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9:00am-10:00am. Rain or shine!

Why: Why not?!!!

Who: Our team of kinesiologists have the knowledge base from a four year university education.
Cost: Purchase 10 sessions for $175.00 or 20 ses sions for $300.00. We also welcome drop-ins for $20.00 per session.

"Fitness and Rehabilitation, the Smart Way!"
Kinesiologists.ca
O - 604-736-9858
F - 604-736-9118

PuSh presents That Night Follows Day

By zquinn on November 23, 2008 - 7:02pm

Feb 4 – 7, 7pm Feb 7 & 8, 2pm
Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre

You feed us. You wash us. You dress us. You sing to us. You watch us when
we are sleeping. You explain to us the different causes of illness and the
different causes of war. You whisper when you think we can’t hear. You explain
to us that night follows day.

Featuring a smart and bittersweet script for adult audiences by Tim Etchells, the director of the UK’s Forced Entertainment, That Night Follows Day follows a cast of 17 performers ages 8–14 as they catalogue the many ways that adults use parenthood, upbringing, discipline, control and care to craft the worlds of children. As so often in his work, Etchells turns the spotlight on the actual situation of performance: Adults listen to children and adolescents on stage as they talk about the way that they—the audience—project their sense of the world onto them. This poignant new play not only gives a fresh slant on the old ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate, but also allows us to rediscover the sense of wonder as well as some of the darker fears we experience growing up.

PuSh Festival presents Assembly (Radix Theatre)

By zquinn on November 24, 2008 - 9:32pm

Feb 4 - 7, 9pm; Feb 7 & 8, 4pm
Granville Island Hotel

Assembly confronts the desire for unity in an increasingly divided world. Presented in a hotel conference room, Assembly offers a wild and weird exploration of what it means to be human, with many laughs along the way. Four motivational speakers share their secrets for becoming whole in a seminar that gradually falls apart, then shatters altogether. With captivating staging and stirring original text, Assembly subverts expectations from beginning to end, as Radix remembers what getting together is all about.

Winner of the 2007 Vancouver Critics’ Choice Award for Innovation and a Jessie Richardson Award for Performance by an Ensemble. Selected as one of the top 12 performance events of 2007 by The Georgia Straight, Assembly will be featured at the National Arts Centre in April as part of BC Scene.

Based in Vancouver, Radix has been producing innovative and exciting performance events since 1988. Our mandate is to foster the creation and production of original, socially relevant interdisciplinary performance work with a focus on experimentation and collaborative creation. The company is currently steered by Andrew Laurenson, who works with a team of artistic associates in developing company direction and projects.
www.radixtheatre.org

Tickets $30.00/24.00, Tickets Tonight
www.ticketstonight.ca
604.631.2872

PuSh Festival presents The Invisible

By zquinn on November 24, 2008 - 10:02pm

Feb 3 - 7, 7:30pm
Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC

Marie Brassard returns to Vancouver with a theatrical exploration of appearance and disappearance, of the double and of otherness. The city of Berlin, ectoplasms (vaporous emanations of the body supposedly visible tomediums) and the literary hoax involving JT LeRoy, a writer dreamed up by a woman hoping to get published, provide Brassard with material to reflect on art and creation, on the porous boundary between the creator and the resultant creature.

In collaboration with Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen and composer and sound designer Alexander MacSween, the singular and yet very plural Marie Brassard bring minds and the bodies that live therein to life, making their ghostly voices resonate, rendering the invisible visible.

In June 2001, Brassard created her first one-woman show, Jimmy créature de rêve, a black surrealistic comedy which was a huge success and has, since then, been presented in many cities in Europe, America and Australia. That same year, she founded the production company Infrarouge. She's also its artistic director. In 2003, she created a show hinging on the themes of real estate development, exploitation and friendship; entitled La Noirceur, it was followed by Peepshow, staged in English in Toronto in May 2005, and in French in Montréal in June of that year.

Tickets $30.00/24.00

PuSh Festival presents Nanay: a testimonial play

By zquinn on November 24, 2008 - 10:06pm

Feb 4 – 7, 7pm & 8:30pm Feb 7 & 8 2 & 3:30pm
Chapel Arts

Are you desperate for childcare? Need someone to look after your ailing parents? Have you left your children in the Philippines to find a better life in Canada? Nanay is a testimonial play that puts these different worlds of need and desire into collision. It uses the words of domestic workers, their children, nanny agents and Canadian employers to explore the complexity of live-in care giving in Canada. Realized as a multi-media event, Nanay takes the audience through a series of encounters in search of a deeper understanding of the human costs of Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program.

Based in Vancouver, Urban Crawl’s vision focuses on producing artistic work that opens up spaces for physical and social dialogue. The company is committed to an artistic practice that is socially engaged and enmeshed in the messy world of everyday life. It works to create art that crosses disciplinary boundaries, crisscrossing sites of aesthetic and political exploration. For Urban Crawl, Nanay represents an opportunity to further the potential of testimonial theatre, and to put theatre to work on an issue of civic importance.

Tickets $30.00/24.00
www.ticketstonight.ca
604.631.2872

Group sales available, contact groups@pushfestival.ca

PuSh Festival & Artsclub Theatre Company present Skydive

By zquinn on November 24, 2008 - 10:10pm

Jan 21 - Feb 7, 8pm
Arts Club Theatre - Granville Island Stage

Matinee performances Saturdays @ 2pm

NO SHOW SUNDAYS

What would you risk to live out your dreams? A clear blue sky. From far above, the distant sound of a receding airplane. Two men, a house-bound agoraphobe desperate for change and his brother, the lead singer for an '80s cover band desperate for recognition, tumble at terminal velocity in the midst of a skydiving adventure gone terribly wrong.

Written by Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Kevin Kerr, Skydive is an action-adventure-comedy that pushes our limits of perception to the breaking point. Defying gravity in theatre by using Sven Johansson's ES Dance Instruments, Skydive literally raises the bar and makes a quadriplegic fly. This PuSh Festival-commissioned production returns for an extended run, following success on tour and critical acclaim.

Realwheels is a professional theatre company whose goal is to create and produce world-class art that deepens the audience’s understanding of the disability experience.
www.realwheels.ca.

Tickets available at the Arts Club box office. Call 604.687.1644.
Tickets $31-$43.

For full festival line up: www.pushfestival.ca

Billy Twinkle, Requiem for a Golden Boy

By zquinn on December 2, 2008 - 10:04pm

Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and
The Cultch

Jan 20 - Feb 8, 8pm
Waterfront Theatre

Billy Twinkle is a theatrical piece intended and created solely for a mature audience. Children under 14 will not be admitted.

Billy Twinkle is a middle-aged cruise ship puppeteer who dazzles audiences with his Stars in Miniature marionette niteclub act. His saucy stripper Rusty titillates the tourists, octogenarian Bunny invokes sidesplitting laughter with the inflatable balloon in his pants, Bumblebear juggles, roller-skates and steals the hearts of every audience, and society dame Biddy Bantam Brewster brings a bit of highbrow hilarity to the high seas with her drunken aria. Billy is the best in the business and on top of the world as he floats along through life.

Until he is fired by the cruiseline. Standing at the edge of the ship contemplating a watery demise, Billy is abruptly called back to reality when his dead mentor Sid Diamond appears as a hand puppet. Sid literally will not leave his side, and forces Billy to re-enact his life as a puppet show in order to remember and rekindle the passion Billy once had for puppets, people and the dream of a life that sparkles.

PuSh Festival presents Live from a Bush of Ghosts

By zquinn on December 2, 2008 - 10:21pm

Feb 4–15, 7pm; Feb 8, 4pm
Studio 16

Live from a Bush of Ghosts is a ghost story for the digital age. Spirits arise from the toxic smoke of First World electronic trash dumped in the developing world. A boy lured by an internet predator, an elderly online gambling addict, a suicidal stockbroker, and a heavy metal televangelist— these are some of the ghosts haunting a woman who melts down computer components to retrieve precious metals for pennies a day. With music inspired by Brian Eno and David Byrne’s seminal recording My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Theatre Conspiracy delves into the fallout of our electronic culture. Electronic band No Luck Club performs along with live video mixes by Candelario Andrade as dancer/actor Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg creates multiple roles to bring alive a ghostworld that is a physical, visual, sonic feast for the senses.