Friday May 28th is Loud Shirt Day in Vancouver benefiting The Children’s Hearing and Speech Centre in BC.

Photo by: Loud Shirt Day on Flickr

The idea is to register yourself, your workplace or your friends and raise funds while wearing your loudest, wackiest, craziest shirt possible. Think Jeans Day but for another cause and with crazy prints.

Participants are encouraged to send in their loud photos for a chance to win 2 tickets to see Michael Bublé live in concert, dinner for 2 at The Shore Club, plus other prizes that include dinner at The Keg, Hy’s and Gotham’s.

There will also be a Loud Shirt fashion show at The Bay on Friday at 6:00pm. Follow them on Twitter @loudshirtday_ca for news and updates.

The Jessie Awards (for theatre achievements in Vancouver) will take place June 21st, 2010. Tonight in a special ceremony the nominees for the 28th annual event were announced.

Photo credit: dmealiffe on Flickr

Ryan Beil has been nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role (Large Theatre) for his performances in Billy Bishop (Arts Club) and The Comedy of Errors (Bard on the Beach). He is also nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role (Small Theatre) for American Buffalo (Main Street Theatre Equity Co-op).

Outstanding Production (Large Theatre) nominees:

Outstanding Production (Small Theatre) nominees:

In the Large Theatre category, the Vancouver Playhouse leads the pack with 20 nominations in total thanks to Beyond Eden with 8 alone. The Arts club as 18 total nominations with Les Miserables with 7 of those. Bard on the Beach has 15 total nominations with Comedy of Errors bringing in 5 of those. For Small Theatre, Blackbird Theatre has 6 nominations for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Tickets for theJessies ceremony are available for $26.75 from Ticketmaster and will be held at the Commodore Ballroom.

I’m in New York this week to hang out, explore, work, wander, and do a whole lot of walking. Since Keira and I are already half-way through our journey, I thought it was time for a photo post so that I can share some of our adventures so far.

Brunch in the West Village

Carrie’s front door (from Sex and the City, actual location in the West Village)

Photo walk through the West Village

Street scenes in Midtown

Union Square

Photo by: Keira on Flickr

Meat Packing District

Dinner in the West Village (at The Place)

PBR at a dive bar in Tribeca

Midtown and Theatre District

Central Park

Frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity 3 in Lenox Hill

Top of the Rock

Photo by: Keira on Flickr

You can view my entire set on Flickr or follow me on Twitter for travel updates.

This week’s Theatre Profile and ticket giveaway features Stripes: The Mystery Circus – a “radically unique one woman show celebrating the comic circus of life.”

Stripes: The Mystery Circus is a play about an audition that humorously and touchingly goes awry. Stripes is a delightful theatrical spectacle that invites you to “map your imagination, chart your emotional life, sculpt your fears, paint your dreams…locate yourself.”

The performance is by Sarah Hayward who has actually been invited to the International New York Fringe Festival this summer. This is a great opportunity to see her in Mystery Circus before she goes.

Engagement: Friday May 28th & Saturday May 29th at 8pm, Sunday May 30th at 2pm
Location: Moberly Arts & Culture Centre (7646 Prince Albert Street, Vancouver)
Information: Words and Music by: Sarah Hayward
Tickets: $15 (adults) and $10 (students)

You can read Sarah’s blog for more information about her and the performance as well.

Here’s how to enter to win tickets:

I have three pairs of tickets to give away so that means I’ll draw three names tomorrow afternoon. The winners will get tickets to the performance of their choice.

Update The winners are Nicole, Tracy, and Jeff – have fun at the show!

Music Waste is an annual art, comedy, and music festival taking place this year June 2nd until the 6th.

There will be over 100 bands at dozens of venues including three comedy revues, eight art exhibitions, a bowling party, and a park BBQ with a basketball tournament. All venues are within walking distance and full festival passes are only $15. This is one of Vancouver’s top home-grown cultural festivals.

A full schedule of events is available on the website and you can purchase passes from any of the following establishments:

Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street), Neptoon Records (3561 Main Street), Audiopile (2016 Commercial Drive), Zulu Records (1972 W 4th Ave), Scratch Records (726 Richards Street), and Redcat Records (4332 Main Street).

If you attend the festival and take photos you can use the tag “musicwaste” on Flickr and you can follow @MusicWaste on Twitter for updates.