The 11th Annual European Festival BC
When: May 31, 2008 – all day family fun!
Where: Scandinavian Community Centre,
6540 Thomas St, Burnaby, BC
Website: www.eurofestbc.ca
A truly unique Canadian celebration of European cultures thriving in British Columbia. With over 30 countries showcased, the European Festival offers 15 hours of continuous family fun and entertainment!
Highlights include: Folk dancers, singers & musicians in authentic costume performing non-stop throughout the day; children’s tent with face-painting & balloon-twisting and crafts; cultural displays, European marketplace, European food tent, beer garden and a finalé with live dance band, The S-Bahn!
Admission is $7, and children under 12-FREE! Tickets available at gate. Gates open at 10 a.m.
General Inquiries – Phone: 1-866-749-9208 or email: info@eurofestbc.ca
Presented by the Eurofest B.C. Society – a not-for-profit volunteer organization
VIVO Media Arts Centre Presents its signature interdisciplinary arts festival - Signal & Noise - this April 17, 18 and 19, 2008. Currently in it’s ninth-year, Signal and Noise is a blast of sonic dissidence and video trickery: three days of provocative, innovative and challenging interdisciplinary art. Showcasing a spectrum of audio, live action performances and immersive art, Signal and Noise is Vancouver’s alternative multi-disciplinary art event. We welcome artistry from across the gamut, slashing through tradition and highlighting the truly daring and original. Presented at VIVO Media Arts Centre (Video In/Video Out), Vancouver’s thirty-five year old backbone for media art production and support, Signal and Noise is the foremost celebration of its kind in the city.
Vancouver celebrates International Dance Day with a series of vibrant performances, events and displays presented by The Dance Centre at venues around town. The events – many of them free – will showcase the diversity of BC’s dance scene. Highlights include Jennifer Clarke’s new work and a group dance and music improvisation at Scotiabank Dance Centre; Pop Up Dances at various locations around Granville Island; site specific work by Raven Spirit Dance Company in and around Coal Harbour Community Centre; classical East Indian dance performances with Mandala Arts and Culture at the Vancouver Public Library; and One Enchanted Evening, a South Pacific-themed fundraising event at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Full details with the event schedule, locations and times can be viewed at www.thedancecentre.ca.
The innovative Vancouver trio The Tomorrow Collective presents an eclectic and entertaining evening of dance for the fifth edition of the Pulse series. Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, Katy Harris-McLeod and Mara Branscombe perform a new version of the audience favourite You Are Here, a trio choreographed by one of Canada’s finest dance artists, Susan Elliott; and each will also perform a dynamic new solo. The evening is an opportunity to catch three of Vancouver’s busiest dance artists on stage together, and to enjoy the contrasting performance styles and fresh energy the Collective has become known for.
UK-based Canadian director Carolyn Deby returns to Vancouver with her unique brand of ground-breaking site specific performance. Imbolc {in the belly} will lead audiences on a traveling urban performance experience around a sequence of downtown Vancouver locations hosting events and installations, in an investigation of the human relationship to nature within the urban environment. Also featuring video by Clancy Dennehy and performers from Vancouver and London, the work will reveal a series of thought-provoking images – a visual poetry examining the journey from death to new life, from darkness into light.
The work follows the massive critical and popular success of city:skinned which took audiences at the 2006 Dancing on the Edge Festival around the Downtown Eastside. So dress appropriately, and get ready for what promises to be an extraordinary experience!
The Dance Centre's popular noon hour series presents Metis dance companies Compaigni V'ni Dansi and the Louis Riel Metis Dancers, led by champion jigger Yvonne Chartrand. Info 604 606 6400 www.thedancecentre.ca; tickets from www.ticketstonight.ca.
Massey Theatre
735 Eighth Avenue
New Westminster, BC V3M 2R2 www.masseytheatre.com
604-521-5050
Shiamak's Indo Jazz Dance Movement is a ‘one of a kind program’ training students in Jazz, Rap, Rock ‘n Roll, Afro Jazz and Salsa styles of exercise and dance. During this Workshop, students ages 4 to 64 are taught a complete dance routine and trained in the various disciplines of stage performance. As a finale to the workshop each and every participating student performs at the Winter Funk Shows.
Tickets are being sold for $20 & $15 only through Massey Theatre Ticketing Service, 604-521-5050.
The Dance Centre's 6th biennial Dance In Vancouver is a showcase of some of the city's most exciting companies, including battery opera, Kokoro Dance, Co. Vision Selective/The Holy Body Tattoo, Tara Cheyenne Performance and Wen Wei Dance. Performances, studio presentations, talks and events run November 14-18. For a full schedule visit www.thedancecentre.ca; performance tickets available from www.ticketstonight.ca.
Written and directed by Brock Jellison, choreographed by and starring Amber Funk Barton, and featuring the young phenom Sasha Kozak
One Week, Two Weeks, Three Weeks…Oh God
Following the overwhelming success of 77 minutes, which sold over capacity in North Vancouver’s 700 seating Centennial Theatre in 2006, and Ricochet, which sold out at the Shadbolt Centre twice this past March, this time Brock Jellison has joined forces with contemporary dance prodigy Amber Funk Barton to create Blue. Clementine (Amber) finds herself in a turbulent tornado of emotions following her very first one night stand. A new career, a strict religious upbringing and a stereotypical “single life”, leaves Clementine in a paradox of fear, embarrassment, and above all, regret, when she realizes she is two and a half weeks late.
One of the most thrilling, daring and moving musicals ever!
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine.
Inspired by a Georges Seurat painting, this winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is a moving portrait of an artist struggling to reconcile the perfect, imaginary world of his painting with the imperfect, flawed world of real life.
