For 30 years, the Water Street Café has been a staple of the Gastown landscape, attracting visitors and locals alike with great food and a sun-drenched view of Vancouver’s most iconic neighbourhood.
This year, they’re thrilled to be celebrating this 30 year milestone, as well as another – their first birthday under new and exciting ownership.
Celebrating 30 Years of the Water Street Café
Eli Brennan and Alan Tse came together by way of Vancouver’s iconic Teahouse Restaurant. For the past year, they have brought their unique vision and expertise to the Water Street Café, breathing new life into a beloved institution. Eli and Alan aim to offer their guests an experience elegant in its simplicity, and unforgettable in its authenticity. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
In 1968, Boeing introduced the first 747 “jumbo jet,” Star Trek aired North American television’s first interracial kiss and Capilano University, then a college, opened its doors.
To mark its 50th anniversary, Capilano University invites the public to help celebrate this momentous occasion with CapFest, a massive campus-wide party on Saturday, September 22, 2018. There will be five stages, live acts, food trucks, a family-friendly beer garden and activities for children. Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
City Opera Vancouver presents the astonishing and macabre operatic thriller, Nigredo Hotel, September 20 to 22, 2018 at The Cultch Historic Theatre.
This one-act chamber opera directed by Alan Corbishley, with music by Nic Gotham and libretto by distinguished Canadian author and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald, tells the tale of an encounter between a beautiful but crazed hotelier and a brain surgeon who seeks refuge after a traumatic car accident. Internationally renowned opera stars Tyler Duncan and Sarah Vardy will perform a brilliant Jungian-inspired combat between two of the most unusual characters in 20th century opera, backed by a four-player jazz combo.
Tyler Duncan & Sarah Vardy. Photo: Michelle Koebke, Diamond’s Edge Photography.
City Opera’s Nigredo Hotel
When: September 20 to 22, 2018
Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St, Vancouver)
Tickets: Available online now from $22.25
“Part psychological thriller and mystery, both sarcastic and sweet, witty and strange, Nigredo Hotel is nothing like City Opera Vancouver has ever presented before.”
The story follows Raymond who escapes to a decrepit hotel after his car crash. He fears he may have harmed a child. Stressed and confused, Raymond is further disoriented by Sophie’s strange and combative nature and the fact that she seems to know a great deal about him.
Raymond’s descent into crisis is depicted through MacDonald’s brilliant libretto full of riddles and half-remembered stories. She draws on Carl Jung’s “nigredo,” a theory that souls are led to suffer through a dark night to reach enlightenment, and revelations of the dream state.
Gotham’s haunting score bridges the continent between jazz and classical music, combining traditional operatic components of overture, recitatives, and arias with improvisational jazz rhythms and harmonies.
The unsettling nature of Raymond’s madness is punctuated with an extensive use of bass instruments and percussion, which evoke the brooding quality of film noir. Although categorized as an opera, Nigredo Hotel is often described as a dramatic jazz piece that will appeal to lovers of both genres alike. This balance crescendos to lyrical heights in Raymond and Sophie’s beautiful duet For Love is strong as Death.
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Win a Date Night
I have an awesome prize pack to give away so you can enjoy City Opera’s Nigredo Hotel in style. The lucky winner will receive two tickets to the performance on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 8:00pm at The Cultch, a $75 gift certificate for dinner for two at Sopra Sotto Restaurant (1510 Commercial Drive), and a $50 gift certificate for a bouquet of flowers from The Flowerbox (1319 Commercial Drive).
Here’s how you can enter to win:
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Update The winner is Tabby72!
Get out and enjoy activities and events during Tri-Cities Culture Days Weekend, September 28-30, 2018. Culture Days represents the largest-ever collective public participation campaign undertaken by the arts and cultural community in Canada with thousands of free, hands-on, interactive activities that invite the public to create, participate and share.
Culture Days OnBeat
The theme this year is OnBeat. OnBeat is a collective drumming and rhythm-inspired theme bringing together thousands of Canadians from coast-to-coast both in-person and online to celebrate making the arts accessible, inclusive and fun!
Inspiring greater public participation in arts, culture and heritage, Port Moody, Coquitlam, and Port Coquitlam will host over 20 free events.
Download the online brochure/schedule here »
Tri-Cities Culture Days Weekend
Enter the behind-the-scenes world of artists, creators and historians in the Tri-Cities during Culture Days. The events are fun, creative, family-friendly and free!
Coquitlam‘s three days of culture include a drawing workshop, open houses, public art scavenger hunt, micro-home tour, painting to music, drumming performance, dance battle, graffiti art, dance lesson, and lots of hands-on and interactive activities.
In Port Coquitlam, you can check out a couple of exhibits, taking a walk tour, participate in a collage workshop, watch a ceramics demo, paint to music, and celebrate national Breast Feeding week.
Port Moody’s activities include a scavenger hunt, hatchery events, painting demo, social media talk, a music makerspace, and live performance.
The ultimate goal of Culture Days is to make arts, culture and heritage a part of every Canadian’s life, whether by creating, enjoying, supporting or sharing.
Miss604 is proud to be a media partner of the Tri-Cities Culture Days weekend. Stay tuned for more event listings in the coming days.
Follow Culture Days on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram #OnBeat #CultureDays #Culture365 for more information.
