Celebrating the best in independent queer cinema, the 30th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival is Vancouver’s second largest film festival and the largest queer arts event in Western Canada.
More than just film, the Festival also hosts performances, workshops, panel discussions, parties and more, creating a unique community space for eleven days each August. With over 70 films from 15 countries, this year’s Festival Spotlights include: decolonizing discipline(s): a two-spirit showcase; RISE: Youth Spotlight; Trans Women On Screen Spotlight; and a Spotlight on The Artist.
VQFF Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Where: Thursday, August 9 to Sunday, August 19, 2018
Tickets: Available online now
When: Various venues: Vancouver Playhouse, Cineplex Odeon International Village, SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, VIFF Vancity Theatre, and the York Theatre.
VQFF is proud to welcome Thirza Cuthand (Plains Cree & Scot) as this year’s Visiting Artist In Residence. For over 20 years, Cuthand has been producing videos that tackle issues of sexuality, madness, youth, love, and race. Her short film 2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99 screened to acclaim at the 2017 Festival. She is this year’s winner of the Anniversary Media Art Award at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
View the full VIFF film lineup here »
VQFF 2018 opens at the Vancouver Playhouse with the Canadian premiere of Yen Tan’s 1985, a critically-observed period piece brought to life by an acclaimed cast including Cory Michael Smith, Michael Chiklis, Virginia Madsen, and Jamie Chung.
The Festival’s Centrepiece Gala Film is the dramatic comedy White Rabbit co-written by and starring comedian Vivian Bang, who takes us on the often awkward and hilarious journey of a queer Korean American performance artist struggling to be heard and seen in modern Los Angeles.
Win Passes
I have 3 x pairs of tickets to give away for VQFF, here’s how you can enter to win:
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Follow the VQFF on Facebook and Twitter #VQFF2018 for more info. The tickets are good for any film but are subject to availability. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Friday, August 3, 2018.
Update The winner is Leanne S!
Early Music Vancouver (“EMV”) proudly presents the return of the Vancouver Bach Festival, July 30 – August 10, 2018 at Christ Church Cathedral in the heart of downtown and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC.
Since its inaugural iteration in 2016, the festival has grown to offer a remarkable 15 concerts ranging from intimate chamber music programmes to concerts featuring full orchestra, soloists, and a choir. This year’s festival includes performances by many of the top west coast artists specializing in period performance, as well as by gifted artists from all over Europe.
Early Music Vancouver Presents:
Vancouver Bach Festival
When: July 30 to August 10, 2018
Where: Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard St)
& The Chan Centre at UBC (6265 Crescent Rd)
Tickets: $10 to $68 available online or by calling (604) 822-2697. Enjoy any four concerts at the Vancouver Bach Festival for the price of three. Purchases of more than four concert packages will also receive a 25% discount.
View the full schedule of performances online here »
Win Passes
I have a pair of tickets to give away to the following shows:
Musica Transalpina: Vivaldi to Bach with Reginald Mobley, Pacific MusicWorks
Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Praised for his “crystalline diction and pure, evenly produced tone” (Miami Herald), countertenor Reginald L. Mobley makes his highly-anticipated Vancouver return, performing with musicians of Pacific Musicworks and led by revered GRAMMY Award-winning lutenist and conductor Stephen Stubbs. Featuring a rarely-performed dramatic cantata by Antonio Vivaldi – Cessate Omai Cessate, as well as one of J.S. Bach’s most beloved solo cantatas – BWV 82 / Ich Habe Genug, audiences will be spellbound by the beauty of Mobley’s voice and charmed by the warmth of his personality.
Bach Cantatas – Actus Tragicus
Friday, August 3, 2018 at 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
EMV is delighted to welcome Switzerland’s celebrated ensemble Gli Angeli Genève back to Vancouver to perform a selection of Early Cantatas by J.S. Bach (BWV 4, 131 and 106), as well as G.P. Teleman’s masterpiece Du Aber Daniel. Led by renowned baritone Stephan MacLeod, Gli Angeli Genève is an ensemble of soloists that performs vocal and instrumental repertoire of the renaissance, baroque and classical periods on stages the world over. They are widely considered one of Europe’s top ensembles specializing in Bach’s sacred music.
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms have been considered the backbone of the Classical canon since the late nineteenth century. Baroque violinist Monica Huggett and fortepianist Byron Schenkman explore some of those composers’ most beloved works, using instruments and playing styles appropriate to the time when that canon was being established, including Early Music Vancouver’s magnificent 1870 Broadwood piano. The programme includes Bach’s great Chaconne in D minor for solo violin.
Francois Couperin – Leçons de Ténèbres
Thursday, August 9 at 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
In celebration of Francois Couperin’s 350th anniversary, this programme includes his sumptuous trio sonata L’Impériale and a complete performance of one of the masterpieces of French baroque music, his surviving three Leçons des Ténèbres, for two sopranos, viola da gamba and basso continuo.
Bach – Trauer Ode (BWV 198) and BWV 146 at the Chan Centre
Friday, August 10 at 7:30pm at the Chan Centre (Pre-concert talk 6:45pm)
Vancouver’s own Alexander Weimann leads the PBO and the soloists of Gli Angeli Genève in a dramatic reading of one of Bach’s greatest works of mourning, the Trauer Ode. Bach composed this large-scale secular cantata for orchestra and soloists in 1727 to commemorate the death of Christiane Eberhardine, the wife of Augustus, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. It is unusually richly scored, even for Bach, and includes not only pairs of flutes and oboes d’amore, but also of violas da gamba and lutes in addition to a full string orchestra. This great work will be performed alongside another masterpiece by Bach, his cantata BWV 146 – Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal.
Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Update The winner is Angela M!
The Vancouver Mural Festival returns August 6-11, 2018 with 28 brand new artists that have been chosen by curators to create new works this summer.
Last year more than 125,000 people strolled the streets of Mount Pleasant to view an eclectic range of local and regional artists from backgrounds in gallery-centric fine art, tattoo, street art, graffiti, traditional and contemporary Indigenous design, and more.
Vancouver Mural Festival
Where: East Vancouver, Mount Pleasant (Main Street) and Strathcona
When: August 6-11, 2018
Vancouver standouts like Danielle Krysa (The Jealous Curator) and Musqueam designer and weaver Debra Sparrow top the list in addition to an all-star all-female roster of international guest muralists: FaithXLVII (South Africa), Bunnie Reiss (L.A.), and BK Foxx (New York). Continue reading this post ⟩⟩
Tangible Interaction are teaming up with Science World again this summer to bring OH! back to Olympic Village every Friday night in August (except the 31st). This free interactive art installation allows participants to control Vancouver’s night skyline by changing the lights on Science World.
Control the Lights at Science World with OH!
When: August 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018 from 9:30pm to 11:30pm
Where: 1 Athletes Way (across from Tap & Barrel in Olympic Village)
Cost to Participate: FREE!
The scale model of the geodesic dome is covered with 240 sensors and LEDs and can sense the movement of people’s hands, altering the lights on the iconic building in real time. There are six different animations that have variations in colours and patterns, including sparkles, bands, waves and more.
Follow Science World on Twitter #ScienceWorld #OHYVR and Facebook for the latest event information.
