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Portraits of Sweden

In an art crawl organized by the Swedish group Brudarna, over 100 female photographers will be exhibiting their work throughout Sweden, London, and New York City. What does that have to do with Vancouver? Well, former Swedish resident Laura Leyshon has decided to join her colleagues by presenting a Portraits of Sweden show at Aurum-Argentum Goldsmiths on Granville Island’s Railspur Alley.
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North Vancouver’s Party-at-the-Pier

With precious few days left before it’s back to school, North Vancouver’s Party-at-the-Pier celebration this Sunday (August 31) provides the opportunity for one last blast of freedom. Taking place at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue, the marine-themed event will feature a variety of local performers, including Uzume Taiko (pictured above), family entertainers Beverley Elliott and the Billionaires, the Sweetpea Swing Band, and Jay Knutson & the Draycott Swamp Devils, among others.
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The Dancers of Damelahamid

On Sundays all summer long, New Works’ All Over the Map has brought troupes from the far corners of the world to Granville Island’s atmospheric Ron Basford Park. But for its closing show, it’s bringing in artists from a little closer to home-ones that hail from B.C.’s northwest coast.
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Bard on the Beach presents Opera & Arias

Oversized chandeliers, gilded balconies, muralled rotundas: these are just some of the fixings you picture when you think of the world’s great opera houses. But here’s a setting to rival any La Scala or Paris opera house: an open-air stage whose backdrop is the sea and mountains. That’ll be the milieu for the magical songs of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when Bard on the Beach presents Opera & Arias this Monday (August 25) as well as September 1 and 8 in Vanier Park.
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Chris Rock rocks Vancouver

Everybody may have hated the preteen Chris Rock (if you believe the title of the semi-autobiographical hit sitcom he executive-produces and narrates), but it’s been a long time since anyone’s uttered a negative word about the man’s comedic abilities. Long considered one of the top stand-up comics of all time, Rock makes a return visit to Vancouver a scant four months after performing at the River Rock Show Theatre in April.
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The art of healing

For 15 years, the Downtown Eastside’s Gallery Gachet (88 Cordova Street) has been a cultural home to artists facing challenges rooted in trauma, abuse, and mental-health issues.
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Catholic Carnatic music

While the Roman Catholic Church is generally associated with European liturgical styles such as Gregorian chant, Rev. Paul Poovathingal is both an ordained cleric and a vocal virtuoso specializing in the South Indian style known as Carnatic music. Beyond that, the priest is also an apostle of religious tolerance, working with Christian, Muslim, and Hindu themes in his performances.
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Pygmalion

Centuries before Julia Roberts’s make-over from hooker to socialite in the 1990 box-office wonder Pretty Woman, before Kim Cattrall’s turn as a doll come to life in 1987’s critically panned Mannequin, before Audrey Hepburn’s transformation from cockney flower girl to high-society lady in 1964’s My Fair Lady, there was Jean-Philippe Rameau’s 1748 one-act opera Pygmalion.
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Pride in Art Festival pays tribute to Rodney Sharman

Some people get cake on their birthday, and, if they’re lucky, some nice presents. Local composer Rodney Sharman, on the other hand, is getting a retrospective of his life’s work in celebration of his big five-O. Thursday (August 7) at 7:30 p.m., at the Roundhouse Community Centre, the Pride in Art Festival pays tribute to Sharman, whose recent work includes collaborations with Atom Egoyan and the San Francisco Ballet.
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Granville Island celebrates B.C. Day

Granville Island celebrates B.C. Day on Monday (August 4) with a salute to the province’s artists. In its first-ever Art on the Street Festival, Chinese traditional dance (at Ron Basford Park) and hip-hop performances (at Kids Market) mix with kelp-weaving workshops (at Craft House) and glass-blowing demonstrations (at New-Small & Sterling).
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iProv: Vancouver TheatreSports League’s newest late-night laugh fest

Techno-geeks beware: the city’s best-known improv troupe is wiring into technology trends with its latest show, and promises to leave no blogger or YouTube addict unscathed. The Vancouver TheatreSports League’s newest late-night laugh fest, iProv, begins on Friday (August 1) at 11:45 p.m. at the New Revue Stage on Granville Island. Early birds can still catch the troupe’s other summer hit, TheatreSports—The Summer Games, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, and 8 and 10 p.m.
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Harmony Arts Festival

Sometimes it’s all about the setting. The Harmony Arts Festival, which runs Friday (August 1) to August 10, features one of the most innovative venues of the summer: its Fountain Concerts series at Ambleside Landing floats acts like singer-songwriters Babe Gurr and Tom Landa on a platform over water, while audiences enjoy the sea breezes from stands overlooking the stage. At sunset, head to the main outdoor stage at John Lawson Park for acts like the Latin-dance band Tanga.
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Sketch comedy with Morgan Brayton & Friends

On the eve of Pride weekend, Morgan Brayton and her pals are promising to serve up sketch comedy that will “make you laugh no matter who you’re going home with after the show”. In other words, the comedian and 30 Helens alumnus has cornered the kind of laughs that appeals to players on both teams—gay and straight—and everyone in between. Tuesday, Wednesday, and next Thursday nights (July 29 to 31), they take to the colourful confines of the Biltmore Cabaret.
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Which shows to catch at Bard on the Beach

Wondering which show to catch at Bard on the Beach this year? The answer depends on who you are. The easiest one to recommend to absolutely anyone is director Meg Roe’s vibrant take on The Tempest. Roe’s storytelling is crystal clear. Alessandro Juliani’s original score deftly modernizes baroque sensibilities and, thanks largely to Christine Reimer’s costumes, the show is oh-so-pretty. There’s excellent acting, too, especially from Allan Morgan as Prospero and Jennifer Lines as Ariel.
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Malaspina Printmakers members exhibition and summer fundraiser

If the term art print makes you think of mass-produced posters, get down to the Malaspina Printmakers members exhibition and summer fundraiser. The Granville Island studio-gallery’s annual sale offers affordable, hand-printed originals that run the gamut from abstract landscapes to the avant garde, by local, national, and international artists. (The work above is by Tracy Hetherington.) As the show proceeds over the summer, new work will constantly be rotated.
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Male: Work From the Collection of Vince Aletti

Can’t you just feel the testosterone radiating from over on the North Shore? The Presentation House Gallery has devoted its big summer show to men, with “Male”: Work From the Collection of Vince Aletti running concurrently with Attila Richard Lukacs/Polaroids/Michael Morris. What’s most fascinating about Aletti’s mostly photographic finds is the way portraits by celebrated shutterbugs stand side-by-side with flea-market discoveries and anonymous offerings from the past century.
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Jesus Christ, Annie, Get Your Gun

Theatre Under the Stars opens this week with two very different musicals. Jesus Christ Superstar, which is now running in rep at Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl, aims for a hip humanization of the Messiah. The songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice—including “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”—feel like pop music, and director Gillian Barber promises to appeal to today’s youth.
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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s annual free Symphony in the Park

Now here’s a way to picnic in style: pack up a wedge of Brie and some crusty bread, roll up your best blanket, and head to Deer Lake Park Sunday evening (July 13) for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s annual free Symphony in the Park! concert.
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Dancing on the Edge festival

The heart of the Dancing on the Edge festival, which continues only until Saturday (July 12), is its mixed programs. Think of them as the choreographic world’s version of tapas: mini-servings of dance, dished out like artfully presented tasters. Not only do the Edge programs offer the chance to scope out the city’s talent in a one-stop format, they hold the promise that, if one piece doesn’t please you, the next one will.
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Spatial Poetics VII

Amid a summer landscape of blockbuster movies and big-budget musicals, Spatial Poetics VII offers one of the most artistically innovative happenings on the calendar. Partnering emerging and established Asian Canadian artists from different disciplines, it takes place starting Saturday (July 12) around Gastown.
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Chinatown Arts and Cultural Festival

On a summer’s day, there are few places as atmospheric for a concert or show than the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park courtyard. It’s fitting, then, that the Chinatown Arts and Cultural Festival should use it as an outdoor stage every Saturday this month. For the event on Saturday (July 5) from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the theme is Asia Day, with crafts, visual art, dancers, and music.
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Big-City Dance

True to its latest show’s title, Concrete and Glass, The Source Dance Company draws on styles straight out of its urban environment. Hip-hop, stomp, tap, street jazz, and more find their way into a production that plays out like a series of short stories about some big-city characters. Choreography is by a range of local and visiting urban-dance names, including Joanne Pesusich, Alex Pesusich, Chris Dupre, Heather Laura Gray, Shay Kuebler, Brock Jellison, and Kim Sato.
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Kokoro Dance

Kokoro Dance is not a group that limits itself to the darkened confines of a theatre, and that’s never been as obvious as this week. The veteran Vancouver troupe will transform very different outdoor locales with two separate shows. In the first, tonight through Saturday (July 3 to 5), at 7 p.m., 12 of its butoh-inspired dancers will perform at the Sunshine Market in an ambitious ode to the Powell Street neighbourhood and its history.
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Ayden Gallery’s ultrahip BRAVE Art show

The story of Portland artist Jesse Reno is almost as fascinating as his paintings, which buzz with intricacy, colour, and graffitilike impulse. As an infant, he had a near-fatal fever that left him with impaired vision. But he sees the world in new ways, inspired by primitive art and filling his busy canvases with symbols and emotion: wobbly crowned characters, amorphous fields of light, and eyes abound.
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Surrey's Young Peoples Opera Society of B.C. presents Spirit Moon

Children will be seen, heard, and treated as equals in the latest offering from Surrey’s Young Peoples Opera Society of B.C., Spirit Moon, written by librettist Patricia Dahlquist and music director-composer George Austin.
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