This weekend Miss604 is proud to sponsor Surrey Doors Open, where you can explore 27 venues, connected by trolley stops or on a self-guided tour, and experience Surrey’s rich culture, history, art and architecture – for free! This event and more things to do in Vancouver this weekend listed below:
A total of 50 theatrical productions comprise the nominations for the 37th Annual Jessie Awards (the “Jessies“) representing excellence on stage in Vancouver’s large and small performance venues.
Jessie Award Nominations 2019
The nominations exemplify a wide variety of diversity, creativity, imagination, and skill brought to life on the stage. The cultural richness of the talented artists continue to grow each year, stretching boundaries and insights and enriching the cultural landscape of our city and beyond.
The Jessie Awards are divided into three categories: Large Theatre, Small Theatre, and Theatre for Young Audiences along with other special awards. Here are some of the highlights of the nominations.
A total of eighteen innovative and varied productions were nominated
in the Large Theatre Category with Théâtre la Seizième at the top of the
list garnering 8 nominations for their boundary stretching production of Le Soulier. The show received a nod for Outstanding
Production and Original Script, along with Outstanding Performance by lead
actors France Perras and Félix Beauchamp, Esther
Duquette and Gilles Poulin-Denis
for Outstanding Direction, Itai Erdal
for Lighting Design and Malcolm Dow
for Sound Design.
The Dancing on the Edge Festival is Canada’s longest running festival of contemporary dance and is an eagerly anticipated highlight of the Lower Mainland’s Dance Season. This year’s DOTE presents extraordinary dance productions from Canada, Brazil and Korea and takes place from July 4 -13, 2019 at various venues in Vancouver, including DOTE’s home venue, the Firehall Arts Centre.
Dancing on the Edge Festival
This year’s performances offer high calibre, challenging and gorgeous dance delivering innovative and spell-binding work featuring World Premieres, North American and Western Canadian debuts, and works-in-progress from some of the most sought-after contemporary choreographers.
Festival Founder and Producer Donna Spencer is excited to announce that this year’s DOTE showcases over thirty performances involving more than 20 innovative choreographers and companies. Artists from across Canada, and around the globe will dance on stages and in the streets during the ten-day festival, in full length and mixed bill programs, as well as site-specific works.
This year’s lineup includes:
Vancouver’s Ziyian Kwan
Jennifer McLeish-Lewis
Tara Cheyenne Performance
Dab Dance Project (Korea)
Rachel Meyer
Danse Carpe Diem (Montreal)
MascallDance
Linnea Swan (Calgary)
Kirsten Wicklund
Pamela Tzang (Calgary)
Alejandra Miranda Caballero
Isabelle Kirouac & Nayana Fielkov
Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien
Soleful Dance/Alexandra Clancy
Meredith Kalaman
Shelley Cox and Raven Spirit Dance
Helen Walkley
Nasim Lootij/Vâtchik Danse (Montreal)
WAREHAUS dance collective
Paulo Lima/Experimentus Cia. De Danca-Ceara (Brazil)
Sujit Vaidya
Jolene Bailie/Gearshifting Performance Works (Winnipeg)
Tomoyo Yamada
Win Tickets
Rachel Meyer, Transverse Orientation. Photo James O’Mara
I’m giving away a pair of tickets to Rachel Meyer’s Transverse Orientation on July 4th at Warehouse Space 1490 E Georgia St (Corner of E Georgia and McLean Dr). Dancers include: Stéphanie Cyr, Eowynn Enquist, Livona Ellis, Josh Martin, Rachel Meyer, along with Janna Sailor (on violin).
Transverse Orientation unfolds in the space between two allegories taken from the Moth. On the one hand the idea of radical transformation: Moths undergo metamorphosis, becoming beings that don’t remotely resemble their previous incarnation. On the other hand, the idea of a mysterious source of distant guidance (or distraction); In travel, Moths find their orientation by keeping a fixed angle on a distant source of light.
Here’s how you can enter to win tickets:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Follow Dancing on the Edge on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more festival info.
In the heart of Downtown Surrey, you can pull up a chair and have a seat at The Long Long Table for a special event this summer. This unique dining experience invites you to dine with family, friends, your community, and perhaps some new faces that you can share a story with or two while you enjoy a cosmopolitan culinary journey.
The Long Long Table at Surrey Civic Plaza
When: Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 5:00pm reception, 6:15pm dinner Where: Surrey Civic Plaza (13450 104 Ave) Tickets: $40 each and available online now.
The Long Long Table is a unique event that invites people of all ages who live, work, volunteer, and study in Surrey to sit at the same dinner table and share a delicious 5-course meal together. Here citizens who would not normally interact with one another find themselves sharing experiences and getting to know one another, while enjoying live entertainment and exciting games making this a “friend-raiser” rather than a fundraiser.
The Long Long Table Menu
Take part in trivia and fun games for a chance to win prizes and get to know your Surrey. Consisting of 5 carefully crafted dishes by the catering sta ff at the Civic Hotel, the theme of this year’s meal is West Coast Fusion. The feast begins at 6:15pm, and will consist of a family style appetizer, followed by a salad, a palate cleanser, a family-style entree, and then dessert.
1st Course: West Coast charcuterie boards, served with Okanagan apple jam, flaky grissini, and herb crostini
2nd Course: Summer frisée salad with local summer fruits and endive vinaigrette
3rd Course: Serrano and sweet lime panna cotta
4th Course: Vindaloo spiced beef hanger with cumin potatoes, pickled onion, and basmati rice pilaf
Vegetarian Option: Paneer, cauliflower, green beans in saffron coconut curry and garlic naan bread
Beginning at 5:00 pm, enjoy the musical stylings of the band Swing Patrol while socializing with more than 200 people who live, work, learn, and volunteer in Surrey. Each course is created using fresh local ingredients that celebrate the community’s diversity.
For more information, follow the Downtown Surrey BIA on Twitter and Facebook.
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland (“Big Sisters BCLM”) is celebrating the power of mentorship at their annual Spring Lunch fundraiser presented by Scotiabank. Held on Friday, June 7th at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, the event helps raise necessary funding for the Big Sisters mentoring programs.
It’s a tough world for kids. 1 in 10 children in the Lower Mainland don’t feel that they have an adult in their lives they can count on. “Mentorship is a proven and long lasting solution,” said Hanne Madsen, Executive Director for Big Sisters BCLM. “Research shows that adults who had a mentor as a child are two times less likely to be depressed and three times less likely to have social anxiety. Plus, children who have a positive mentor are less likely to engage in destructive behaviour such as bullying, fighting, binge drinking, drug use, and dropping out of school.”
Big Sisters mentoring programs reached 767 girls in the Lower Mainland last year.
This year, the Big Sisters BCLM Spring Lunch keynote address will be delivered by Susannah Pierce, External Relations Director of LNG Canada. Susannah will discuss the important role mentorship has played in her professional and personal life.
Join over 200 business and community leaders on June 7th from 11:00am to 2:00pm at the Fairmont Pacific Rim and help vulnerable youth in the Lower Mainland reach their full potential. Tickets are still available here »
