Curated by Barbara Chirinos in partnership with VIFF Vancity Theatre’s Tom Charity, the annual Black History Month film series is a significant contribution to Vancouver’s cultural diversity.
This year’s program includes a free all-ages screening of the animated classic Kirikou and the Sorceress (Saturday, February 2nd at noon); the ground-breaking queer love story Rafiki, a film which had a constitutional impact in its native Kenya (Monday, February 4th), the acclaimed Oscar short-listed documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening(Monday, February 4th); an African superhero movie you need to see, Supa Modo (Monday, February 11th).
The series will also include concert doc Jimi Hendrix – Electric Church(Monday, February 11th); a rousing slam poetry doc – followed by a poetry slam in our atrium! – Don’t Be Nice(Tuesday, February 12th); a film about the first African American woman to run for President of the United States, Chisholm ’72, Unbound and Unbossed(Monday, February 25); Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (Monday, February 25th); and Afro-futurist classic Sankofa (Tuesday, February 26th).
The 2019-2020 Season will captivate and energize Vancouver audiences with productions of DEAR EVAN HANSEN, RENT, WAITRESS, FINDING NEVERLAND and WICKED.
Jackie Burns as Elphaba in Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus.
Broadway Across Canada is proud to be Vancouver leading theatrical presenter of Broadway theatre since 1998. For the past 21 years, more than 1,550,000 theatergoers have experienced over 90 Broadway Across Canada productions in the stunning Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Kicking off the 2019-2020 Broadway Across Canada Season is the return of Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award®-winning masterpiece RENT 20THAnniversary Tour. Next in line, WAITRESS, an empowering and uplifting musical featuring original music and lyrics by 6-time Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles. Followed by DEAR EVAN HANSEN, winner of six 2017 TONY® Awards including Best Musical and the 2018 GRAMMY® Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. Next in line is FINDING NEVERLAND the enchanting Broadway musical set to soar into Vancouver. Finishing off the season with our season option, WICKED the untold true story of the Witches of Oz.
Coming in the 2020/2021 season, HAMILTON. Subscribers from the 2019/2020 season will have first access to HAMILTON when they renew their full subscription for the 2020/2021 season.
Four show Season packages start at $193 and are available today for existing 2018-2019 subscribers and on sale to the general public on January 28thonline or by calling the subscriber hotline at 1-866-542-7469.
It’s CandyGrams time again! You can send a fun, sweet treat to your favourite people while also supporting a very worthy local cause.
CandyGrams are a fun gift idea for anyone you care about from your grandma to your hubby, to your best friend or teacher. They are only $10 and include a Fuzzy Heart Carlton Card, a personalized message of your choice, 2 delicious Purdy’s Chocolates, postage, and exciting gifts.
CandyGrams for A Loving Spoonful
All you have to do is visit the CandyGrams website, select a message, and they’ll do the rest. Here are some important deadlines for sending your CandyGram:
On Sale: Monday January 14th, 2019 East Coast* Deadline: February 6th, 2019 West Coast** Deadline: February 7th, 2019 Metro Vancouver Deadline: February 10th, 2019
A Loving Spoonful is a volunteer-driven, non-partisan society that provides free, nutritious meals to people living with HIV/AIDS in Greater Vancouver. Every year, they sell CandyGrams to raise funds for meal programs that feed and offers services to approximately 100,000 individuals and families who suffer from HIV from the Lower Mainland. They are only 20% government funded so 80% of their donations and support are dependent directly from our fundraising efforts.
Every Candy Gram sold gives 2 or more meals to someone in need.
Follow A Loving Spoonful on Facebook and Twitter (tag: #candygram) for more information.
Tulips, lanterns, poetry, skating, hot chocolate and lights! The holiday season is melding with seasonal festivals and celebrations giving us a fun and eclectic event selection this weekend around Metro Vancouver:
It’s an exciting day for Vancouver’s arts and culture community. This morning the Vancouver Art Gallery celebrated a major milestone toward the realization of a transformational new building with the announcement of a $40 million lead gift from the Chan Family. This unprecedented act of generosity by the Chan Family brings the Gallery’s capital campaign to $85 million in private sector funding toward the new purpose-built facility. In recognition of this extraordinary gift, the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new building will be named Chan Centre for the Visual Arts.
Rendering of the new Chan Centre for the Visual Arts
“This is a historic time for the Vancouver Art Gallery in its 88th year! We are all inspired by the Chan Family’s extraordinary generosity, and their philanthropic passion for enriching our community,” said Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. “With this unprecedented gift to the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Chans are demonstrating a profound investment in the future of this city and country, and one that will impact many generations to come.”
The gift from the Chan Family —the largest-ever single private donation to an arts and culture organization in British Columbia—builds on the Family’s long-standing history of supporting education as well as arts and culture institutions and programs with the aim of enriching communities in Canada and beyond.
Celebrating Other Significant Donations
Along with the Chan Family’s lead gift to name the new building, the Vancouver Art Gallery is also celebrating $45 million in other private sector support that has been made over the last several years, including significant contributions driven by the Gallery’s Board of Trustees. In particular, the generosity of fourteen individuals, families, foundations, and corporate supporters, who have contributed $1 million or more each demonstrating a wide range of support for this important project and a recognition of the incredible benefits it will bring to the entire community including tourism and as a significant economic driver.
Final New Vancouver Art Gallery Building Designs Unveiled
Rendering of the new Chan Centre for the Visual Arts
The Vancouver Art Gallery is also thrilled to unveil the final designs for its 300,000-square-foot building by world-renowned, Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron.
Designed to serve the Gallery’s expanding collection and to present outstanding art and educational programs for its expanding audiences, the new Vancouver Art Gallery will provide a global platform for Vancouver’s and Canada’s thriving arts scene and play a vital role in establishing this city as one of the world’s foremost cities for arts and culture. Situated at Larwill Park, unifying the crossroads of Downtown, Yaletown, Gastown, east Vancouver and Chinatown, the new Gallery will fuel a hub of creative and cultural activity for local members, the public and international visitors of all ages.
Rendering of the new Chan Centre for the Visual Arts
Herzog & de Meuron have designed the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new museum as a sculptural, symmetrical, upright building combining opaque and transparent surfaces, with larger volumes concentrated at the top and minimal mass at the bottom. By lifting the bulk of the structure high above the street, the design allows light and air to filter down to an active, open-air courtyard below.
With a generous designation of the land at Larwill Park from the City of Vancouver in place and $135 million in total private and public sector funding secured, including an initial investment of $50 million from the Province of British Columbia, the next step for the Vancouver Art Gallery Capital Campaign will be to continue its work with senior levels of government and the private sector to secure the additional funding needed to begin construction.
