Vancouver Opera presents Donizetti’s Gaetano Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) – one part love story, one part hilarious comedy, two parts music that will stir the soul – in two acts with a libretto by Felice Romani. This is the second production of the company’s exciting 2017–2018 Season and Festival, opening on January 21st, 2018 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
Vancouver Opera presents Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore
An evening of Love, Laughter & Magic Potion When: Janaury 25 & 27 @ 7:30pm & Sunday, January 21 @ 2:00pm Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton St) Tickets: Tickets from $49 are available at the Vancouver Opera Ticket Centre, by telephone (604) 683-0222, or online. Discounts for groups of ten or more, call 604-683-0222.
Photo credit: Michael Cooper
A love struck man, a village beauty, an army captain, and a travelling doctor with a magic potion – all set in a picturesque early 1900’s Canadian locale oozing with small town charm. L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) is without a doubt one of the most well-known operas of the bel canto era, the most performed of all Donizetti’s operas, and has not been seen by Vancouver audiences since 1999.
L’Elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) is a Cinderella-esque tale in which a poor and hapless young man wins the hand of a small Canadian town’s most beautiful young woman (with the help of a secret “elixir” from a travelling salesman). Spoiler alert: The elixir is Bordeaux.
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, January 16, 2018. This performance is sung in Italian with English SURTITLES™ projected above the stage.
Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre (630 Hamilton St, Vancouver) When: Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 8:00pm Tickets: On sale now from $39 via the PuSh Festival
Renowned choreographer LIN Lee-Chen draws on Taiwanese tribal tradition and ceremonial rite in this monumental contemporary dance work. Inspired by the ocean that encloses her native island of Taiwan, Lee-Chen pays respect to life-giving water in a visually-lush spectacle featuring 18 dancers accompanied by drummer and vocalist.
“We are proud to partner with the PuSh Festival in hosting Legend Lin Dance Theatre,” says Charlie Wu, Managing Director of TAIWANfest. “Not only will this mark the first-ever time these revered artists set foot on our coast, it also provides Vancouverites the opportunity to encounter more of the extraordinary talent to emerge from one of Asia’s most culturally vibrant hubs with an incredible storied history.”
Adorned in exquisite costumes with striking minimalist sets in the backdrop, the artists of Legend Lin Dance Theatre promise to mesmerize audiences in The Eternal Tides. On stage, a vivid tableau of fabric and silver grass, red-tinted figures and shocks of white, are composed with flair and delicacy. With subtle, hypnotic movement, the dancers create poetry in motion, evoking the ebb and flow of nature and its precariousness in modern life.
Taiwanese folk and Taoist ritual are weaved in The Eternal Tides, among which the mystic legends of the eagle and the ‘White Bird’. Further, Lee-Chen uses symbolism of the seed, which travels via the sea to new lands to take root. A variety of 20 seeds— flower, grain and fruit—are featured as elements of the sets and costumes.
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is Vancouver’s signature, mid-winter cultural event, taking place over three weeks each January in theatres and venues across the city. The PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking, contemporary works of theatre, dance, music, and multimedia by acclaimed local, national, and international artists.
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The 7th annual Street Food City, Dine Out Vancouver Festival’s cheap n’ cheerful ‘food truck pod’ returns to the Vancouver Art Gallery’s newly renovated plaza with more than 20 food trucks rotating throughout the week.
Street Food City
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza (Georgia Street) When: January 22 to 28, 11:00am to 3:00pm weekdays and until 5:00pm weekends
Whether your tastes run to Reef Runner’s famous jerk chicken, or Tacofino’s codfish taco with chipotle mayo and salsa fresco, or one of Mr. Arancino’s hearty Sicilian risotto balls, you’ll be smacking your lips over this experience. And if you crave a healthful sweet, in addition to its rib-sticking savoury pies, Aussie Pie Guy offers a traditional Anzac Cookie made with rolled oats, coconut and golden syrup.
Tents will be provided by sponsor EVO Car Share, and music will enliven the event on Wednesday, courtesy of JACK FM, and Saturday, courtesy of KISS FM.
Tourism Vancouver, StreetFood Vancouver Society and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) present this informal branch of Dine Out. Partial proceeds will help support the BC Hospitality Foundation.
Aussie Pie
Reef Runner
Cannoli King
Reel Mac and Cheese
Disco Cheetah
Roaming Dragon
Fat Duck
Rolling Cashew
Feastro
Slavic Rolls
Kaboom Box
Super Thai
Kafka’s Coffee
Tacofino
Le Tigre
Taste Of Malaysia
Melt City
Taters
Moms Grilled Cheese
Via Tevere
Mr Arancino
Vij’s Railway Express
Old Country Pierogi
Follow Street Food City on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook and #streetfoodcity #DOVF during Dine Out Vancouver.
It’s the most delicious time of year in the city with the return of Dine Out Vancouver, which brings with it pairing menus, tasting events, and tantalizing pop-up experiences. Back by popular demand, the Vancouver Aquarium is once again hosting the Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café during the 3 week culinary festival.
Ocean Wise Pop-Up at the Vancouver Aquarium
Photo by: Meighan Makarchuk
This year, diners can enjoy one of two seatings (6:00pm or 8:00pm) in the transformed bistro-esque Aquarium Café on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings throughout the Festival, which runs from Friday, January 19th to Sunday, February 4th.
Acclaimed Ocean Wise Executive Chef Ned Bell has crafted a three-course menu featuring dishes from his inaugural cookbook Lure and showcasing the best in sustainable, locally-sourced ingredients.
Unique to Dine Out Vancouver, guests at the Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café can explore the Aquarium’s many galleries, either following the early seating or before the late seating. Guests can chill out in Canada’s Arctic, transport themselves to a west coast fishing village at Steller’s Bay, and enjoy an exotic-albeit-brief staycation in the Tropic Zone while witnessing the nocturnal habits of the more than 50,000 animals that call Vancouver Aquarium home. For some guests, this may be the last chance to get hands on with cownose and southern stingrays as the Discover Rays Gallery closes spring 2018.
Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café Menu
First Course
Torched Albacore Tuna Tataki Salad
honey, lemon, sesame, radishes
or
Fanny Bay Clam Chowder
Chilliwack corn foam, maple brown butter
Upgrade your small plate with Chef Ned’s Famous Dungeness Crab Tacos for $15
Main Course
Icy Waters Arctic Char
laird lentils, parsnips two ways, vanilla, hazelnuts
or
Organic Ocean Northern Coho Wild BC Salmon
cauliflower, cashews, cranberries, black pepper vinaigrette
or
Two Rivers Rossdown Farms Chicken
celery root, caramelized cabbage, watercress, B.C. birch syrup dressing
Enhance your entrée with Selva Shrimp for $10
Dessert
Sea ‘Weed’ Brownies
kelp, almond praline
or
Roasted Apple Tart
whipped cream, caramel
Dinner service will take place at the Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café at Vancouver Aquarium on January 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, and 28 as well as February 2, 3, and 4. There are two seatings per night at 6:00pm. and 8:00pm. Each seating lasts 1.5 hours.
Tickets (available online now) are limited and cost $62.35 per person (inclusive of tax and service charges). For guests wishing to dive further into Chef Ned’s epicurean experience, wine pairings will be available for an additional cost. Copies of Lure will also be available for purchase.
Ocean Wise® is a not-for-profit organization whose vision is a world in which oceans are healthy and flourishing.
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In 2008 I wrote a blog post about cyberbullying. My blog was 4 years old at the time, and at least once a week I would get an anonymous comment saying that I, or something I wrote about, was stupid. I never knew who wrote the comments, nevertheless I had a weekly reminder from someone, somewhere, that what I was doing wasn’t worth anything. My husband would say: “Do you know this person? Do you really care what they have to say?” I would wipe away some tears, nod, and agree that I shouldn’t let this bother me.
Then it got worse. I could see people on social media actually talking about me.
In my 2008 post I wrote: “Unfortunately these malicious acts don’t stop after childhood and the practice of seeking joy by belittling and intimidating someone has changed since I was in school. The new forms of communicating these ill-willed attacks are through blogs, Facebook pages, MySpace, text messages, and forum posts. Probably one of the worst parts is that you might not even know who the aggressor may be.”
