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Whether you’re looking for date ideas, free activities, or just something fun to do with the kids, you can’t go wrong with our listing of events happening in Metro Vancouver from 21 to October 27. Heading this week’s picks is Montreal dance company Rubberband’s Ever So Slightly’s DanceHouse presentation, postponed from 2020.
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Here are 5 things to do in Metro Vancouver this week:
Elastic band: never so lightly
When: 21-23 Oct at 8 p.m.
Or: Vancouver Theater House, 600 Hamilton Street
Tickets: $ 35 to dancehouse.ca and 604-801-6225
This hip-hop-influenced dance piece from Montreal-based company Rubberband “explores the instinctive behavioral reflexes of humanity developed in response to the daily assaults of life, coupled with our urgent desire to resist these stresses,” the statement said. Press. An electronic soundtrack, performed live, accompanies the choreography of the 10-member company and artistic director Victor Quijada. Ever So Slightly premiered in 2018 at Théâtre Maisonneuve in Montreal, where it was hailed by Le Devoir as “brilliantly rendered” and was recognized as a finalist for the prestigious Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal in 2019. Ever So Slightly was originally scheduled for a performance in March 2020 with DanceHouse.
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18th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
When: October 27-Nov. 7
Or: Downtown Eastside and Online
Tickets: heartofthecityfestival.com
This year’s festival features over 100 events, live and online, including music, stories, poetry, theater, ceremonies, films, readings, forums, workshops, discussions, art lectures, history lectures and visual art exhibitions. Some highlights include a community music showcase honoring Carnegie Community Center volunteer and pianist Joyce Morgan, a symposium on the decolonization of settler cultural policy in Vancouver and Canada, and videos from the collection of Archives of DTES resident Sid Chow Tan highlighting Chinese-Canadian social movements and direct action in Chinatown. .
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Vancouver Bach Choir: Mozart Requiem in D minor
When: October 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Or: Orpheum Theater, 601 Smithe St.
Tickets: $ 20 to $ 70 at vancouverbachchoir.com
The Vancouver Bach Choir is celebrating its 91st season with a performance of one of its favorites, Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. Under the musical direction of Leslie Dala, the choir will perform the composition with local soloists Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano, Katie Fernandez, mezzo-soprano, Scott Rumble, tenor, and Neil Craighead, bass. “Mozart’s Requiem is a work of such power and transcendent beauty that, considering all of the events of the past 18 months across the world and here at home, we felt it was the piece perfect to kick off this season, â€Dala said in a press release.
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Jasper Sloan Yip, Strange Calm / Blushing Autumn
When: October 26
Or: In line
Info: jaspersloanyip.com
Jasper Sloan Yip is releasing two EPs, each recorded at different times in the life of the Vancouver singer-songwriter. The first, Strange Calm, consisting of six songs, was made as the world began to grapple with the uncertainty of the pandemic. The other, Blushing Autumn, is a collection of four songs recorded after finding out he was going to be a father. Both are sweet, unpretentious versions that showcase the musician’s melancholy ruminations. To accompany Strange Calm, Yip also recorded Strange Commentary, a six-episode podcast of notes on the first batch of songs.
Vancouver Horror Film Festival
When: October 26-Nov. 7
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Or: Scotiabank Theater (900 Burrard Street) and online
Tickets: vancouverhorrorshow.ticketspice.com
Vancouver filmmakers get the chance to show off their scary skills at this year’s Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival. The contributing short films are locals Gigi Saul Guererro, the director of Lucagore’s Mistress of the Bones, about two grave robbers who unleash an ancient Aztec force; Lisa Ovies, whose Witches Midnight stars Beverly Elliot (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants); and producer / director duo Victoria Burkhart and N’Cee Van Heerden, who contribute to Hunter’s Cabin, a monster movie. Feature films include Dark Stories, a French horror anthology starring Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3); The Columnist, a Dutch enthusiast of a columnist who continually has to deal with nasty messages and death threats on her social media pages; and Night at The Eagle Inn, an American film about fraternal twins on a pilgrimage to investigate their father’s last known place.
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