Current Picks
Indian Summer Festival
Saturdays: May 16 – July 18, 2020
For their 10 Anniversary, Indian Summer Festival has moved their 10-day July festival online with 10 specially curated-for-screen digital events happening over 10 weeks! Including everything from Grammy Award-winning musicians to emerging poets, razor sharp economists to visionary environmental warriors, as well as literary dialogues, intellectual debates, musical performances, and interactive culinary experiences.
Ongoing
BIG Sister
BIG news for anyone who missed the sold out run of BIG Sister this season – you can now rent it and stream it from home! BIG Sister explores a world of evil siblings, fat shaming, and unlikely collaboration. This video is from the sold-out run at the Vancity Culture Lab in February 2020.
The 7 Fingers: Sequence 8
This rare archival release is a chance to watch The 7 Fingers sensational 2012 circus work from your own home. The 7 Fingers are groundbreaking leaders in contemporary circus who brought us last season’s unforgettable Unikkaaqtuat.
The Darlings
Last year’s TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival favourites are sharing ongoing quarantine-friendly broadcasts live from their homes—challenging the boundaries of conventional drag with their unique brand of provocative and imaginative drag theatre!
Soho Theatre Live: Pajama Men—Pterodactyl Nights
Bringing together highlights from the kinetic duo’s huge catalogue of classic bits and brand new material, all sewn in with bizarre improvised tangents. Featuring past East Van Panto playwright Mark Chavez!
Dakha Brakha
Ukrainian avant-folk quartet are streaming an archival live set from Pickathon in 2018. We loved them at the York Theatre in 2016 and can’t wait to re-live their musical magic.
Betroffenheit
Marquee.tv is offering free trials to experience their archive of dance, opera, and theatre productions—including the critically-acclaimed, award-winning, smash-hit, dance/theatre hybrid Betroffenheit. Created by the incomparable Jonathon Young (who you may remember from Infinity in the 19/20 Season), based on his own experience with personal tragedy, alongside internationally acclaimed Vancouver choreographer Crystal Pite.
Goodness in Rwanda
A compelling documentary about Volcano Theatre’s tour of Goodness, the award winning play about genocide, in Rwanda. We have been proud to present incredible works from Volcano on our stages, including Infinity, Century Song, and The Four Horsemen Project. You may also remember Goodness from the 2008 Vancouver at Magnetic North Theatre Festival.
Blind Date
The hilarious Colin Mochrie recently went on a blind date with the one and only Mimi. Who could forget Mimi, aka the saucy French clown, from the unforgettable show Blind Date — it’s a staff favourite around here! Now you have a chance to eavesdrop on Mimi’s latest dates from your own home.
Take d Milk, Nah Podcast
If you missed our sold out run of Jivesh Parasram’s “identity play” Take d Milk, Nah in the fall, you can now catch it as part of CBC Podcasts’ PlayMe series!
WITH ME
Local filmmaker and theatre artist Josh Epstein’s recent Instagram short film festival featured three short films matched with three charities—and we were so grateful to be one of them. His short film ‘With Me’ is inspired by the musical “Are we Cool Now” (which you may remember from our 2015/16 Season) and is a must-see for all Dan Mangan fans!
Ali McGregor’s Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night
Songs, stories, and lots of laughs. This is the first online version of the cult Melbourne Comedy Festival Variety Show that has been running for 14 years. Beloved Aussie Cabaret performer and opera singer Ali McGregor is bringing some of Australia’s most incredible cabaret performers into your living rooms.
Vertical by Le Patin Libre
Relive the ice dancing magic of Le Patin Libre! Remember how sensational Vertical Influences was at Britannia Ice Rink a few seasons ago? This 20 minute film might be just as thrilling but you’ll be a lot warmer watching from your couch.
Frank Turner
Accessible folk-punk artist Frank Turner, formerly from punk band Million Dead, is doing streamed solo shows weekly to raise money for independent live music venues, choosing a different venue for each show. Recommended songs: Recovery, Get Better, and Be More Kind.
Opera Philadelphia’s Sky on Swings
Hannah Moscovitch, who you’ll know as the playwright from last season’s Infinity, wrote the Libretto for Sky On Swings—which you can now watch as part of Opera Philadelphia’s Digital Festival O. She is one of our greatest Canadian playwrights and it’s exciting to see different varieties of her work.
#CanadaPerforms
Check out National Arts Centre’s (NAC) Canada Performs live-stream series for even more online content from amazing artists across the country.