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Pemberton Music Festival Dates and Venue 25, 26 & 27 July 2008, All day & evening | Pemberton Valley Festival Site The Pemberton Festival takes place at Pemberton Festival Campgrounds are the place to stay! Campers will wake up every morning with the picturesque Mount Currie at their feet in the heart of the Pemberton Valley and all its scenic wonder. Located directly adjacent to the festival site and its amenities, the campground will have 24-hour security, toilets, cooling stations, wash facilities, a general store, and a campground clubhouse. Headline acts include Tom Petty, Jay-Z, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay and Deathcab for Cutie. Admission For a limited time only, early bird camping tickets are $40 per person when purchased in conjunction with the three-day festival ticket. Charge 1.800.594.8499 or visit Pemberton Festival
Dates and Venue 31 July – 16 August 2008 @ Tues-Fri @ 8pm, Sat @ 7pm & 9:30pm | Pacific Theatre (1440 West 12th Avenue) The play Metamorphoses is based on Roman poet Ovid's narrative poem that describes the creation and history of the world, known to us as "Greek myth." In 2002, American-playwright Mary Zimmerman wrote the adaptation of the poem to the stage to great critical acclaim in New York. Tickets Preview 30 July @ 8pm (pay what you can) Tues-Thurs $20/$18 (Tues 2 for 1) Fri-Sat $25/$23. Call Tickets Tonight 604.684.2787 or Online at Pacific Theatre or e-mail Biz Books.
The festival, now in its 18th year, continues to strike a balance between the charming community feel of its roots and the exciting regional event it has become. The result is something for everyone. Festival goers can now come to the festival and decide between numerous events and exhibitions, both big and small, from morning until late evening. For information call 604.925.7268 or visit Harmony Arts Festival Tickets FREE
Dates and Venues 3 – 17 August 2008 | Various locations around Vancouver The popular annual event returns for an eighth season. Its 2008 schedule includes some of Canada’s and the world’s best classical, world music and jazz performers, who will fill nine city venues with glorious music over the Festival’s two-week run. For the full line-up of concerts and for information on dates, times, and prices, see Festival Vancouver. Tickets
on sale now available through
Date and Venue 9 August 2008, 9:30am to 1:30pm | 2345 Main Street, Vancouver (at 8th Avenue) Ballet fans of all
ages are invited to attend this Open House for a rare behind-the-scenes
glimpse inside the renowned training institute. Visitors will have the
opportunity to meet the Goh Ballet faculty, observe dance classes and
rehearsals, tour the facility, register for the new September school year,
while learning how the internationally recognized Academy is used in the
training of their world-class dancers.
Dates and Venues 14 – 24 August 2008 | Cinemark Tinseltown, Empire Granville 7, Vancity Theatre, Emily Carr The 20th Anniversary version of this Festival features 114 films on the diversity of the telling the unique stories of gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgendered people from different generations and cultures. See website below for information on films, events, locations and times. Tickets $10 general admission $7 students, seniors or underemployed from the online box office at Queer Film Festival and Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium from 17 July. A limited number of Early Bird passes go on sale at Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium on 16 July.
Dates and Venue 22 – 31 August 2008 @ 7.30 Tuesday-Sunday | Miniature Railway in Stanley Park Letters from Lithuania, mounted by Mortal Coil Performance Society, takes audiences on a journey by train, following two Jewish siblings separated by the horrors of the Second World War across two continents. Mortal Coil brings their story to life with a dazzling blend of stiltwalking, puppets, and live music. Tickets $26 for adults and $20 for students and seniors through Tickets Tonight at 604.631.2872 orTickets Tonight
Dates and Venue 25 August @ 8pm, 1 and 8 September 2008 @ 7pm and 1 September @ 1pm | Bard on the Beach Mainstage Tent, Vanier Park Fresh from performing Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Prague, the UBC Opera Ensemble, directed by Nancy Hermiston, will perform arias from this opera. Members of Vancouver Opera Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Leslie Dala, will accompany the talented cast of rising opera stars. Book early -- these concerts sell out fast. Tickets $31/34 through 604.739.0559 or toll free at 1.877.739.0559 or on-line through Bard on the Beach. 
Tickets General admission $31. For information on special pricing, visit Tuts Pricing
Dates and Venue 3 – 27July 2008 Tues–Sat evenings @ 8pm, Sun evening @ 7.30pm. Sat and Sun @ 2pm matinees | Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts Monty Python's Spamalot, created by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin is based on the screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Spamalot features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight. Tickets
$60.50– 90.50 plus applicable charges. Available through
HELD OVER TILL 9 AUGUST Dates and Venue 19 June – 9 August 2008 @ 8pm | Granville Island Stage “It’s just good clean East Coast table thumpin’ music.” Stomp along, shed a tear, and laugh yourself silly as The Back Kitchen gigs its way across Canada with wit and fiddle. A once-popular Newfoundland party staple, the band reunites for a final performance in Vancouver in honour of a founding member. Join The Back Kitchen for a big-hearted musical journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tickets $33
(discounts for students, seniors, and groups). Call the Arts Club Box
Office 604.687.1644 or Arts
Club.
Twelfth Night Dates and Venue 27 May – 27 September 2008 @ 8pm | Bard on the Beach Mainstage Tent, Vanier Park When twins Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked, disguise, mistaken identities and misplaced affections result in a delightful tangle of romance. Set in the 1920s in a stylized, romanticized homage to old Hollywood films, Shakespeare's light-hearted romance Twelfth Night is staged by long-time Bard on the Beach actor and director, David Mackay King Lear Dates and Venue 11 June – 26 September 2008 @ 8pm | Bard on the Beach Mainstage Tent, Vanier Park Set in the near future when relations between England and France have faltered and international policy is as fragile as the mind of the ageing monarch, this great tragedy of mistaken judgements unfolds as greed and the lust for power result in cruelty, madness, and death. Starring the great Shakespearean actor Christopher Gaze in the title-role, this is a sure-fire evening of splendid theatre. The Tempest Dates and Venue 26 June – 20 September 2008 @ 8pm | Bard on the Beach Studio Stage Tent, Vanier Park Set in the 17th century with a classical, Jacobean setting and original music performed live by a string quartet, The Tempest features magic and intrigue at its heart. As Ariel and Prospero weave their magic, new alliances form, plots of murder brew, and romance blossoms between Miranda and Ferdinand, King Alonso's son. This will be a knock-you-out evening, in typical Bard style. Titus Andronicus Dates and Venue 9 July – 19 September 2008 @ 8pm | Bard on the Beach Studio Stage Tent, Vanier Park With themes as current today as when Shakespeare wrote the play, this bloody revenge drama, is set in a contemporary world. Titus returns victorious from battle with Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her lover Aaron, and her three children as prisoners. Ritual sacrifice, hatred and a chain of brutal plots and counterplots follow as Titus reaps his revenge in a clever, but horrific, twist of fortunes.
Tickets $33 (evenings) and $18-27.50 (previews and matinees) through 604.739.0559 or toll free at 1.877.739.0559 or on-line through Bard on the Beach |
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Metamorphoses
by Ovid adapted
by Mary Zimmerman and directed by Christine Willes 
Dates
and Venue 1 – 10 August 2008 | Various:
West Vancouver 
Festival
Goh
Ballet Academy Open House
Vancouver
Queer Film Festival 
Letters
from Lithuania by Nicola
Harwood 
A
Merrie Evening of Opera
Jesus
Christ Superstar
& Annie Get Your
Gun
Monty
Python’s Spamalot
Back
Kitchen Release Party: A Trans-Canada Musical Adventure By
Trevor Devall | Original music by Alison Jenkins, Don Noble, Tracey Power,
and The Back Kitchen