OCT 9 - OCT 11
Yuk Yuk's presents Sam Easton
Paul Myrehaug is a unique blend of small town party and hip urban style, a combination that has launched him into the national spotlight. His laid back brand of comedy is a hit from the Yukon to the Dominican Republic.
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OCT 10 - OCT 11
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Bach and Beyond
I Musici de Montréal is one of Canada’s top chamber orchestras. The VSO is proud to present them, with their founding director, Yuli Turovsky, for the opening concert of the Bach & Beyond series in a perfect baroque concert: the music of Bach and Handel.
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OCT 11 - OCT 11
Carousel Theatre presents The Very Hungry Caterpillar
An amazing stage production featuring The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and The Mixed-up Chameleon
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OCT 9 - OCT 11
battery opera in association with The Dance Centre presents The Whole Beast
The Whole Beast is a new solo work created and performed by Lee Su-Feh, in which the dancer is butcher, meat, cook and the cooked. With fine precision and startling intimacy, Lee carves the spaces inside and outside the body, uncovering recipes and stories along the way, offering up a view of a life shaped and affected by food, love and loss. One of the most innovative dance theatre companies in Canada. The Globe and Mail
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OCT 8 - OCT 11
Vancouver International Improv Festival 2008
The 9th annual offering from the Vancouver International Improv Festival will feature groups from around North America including some outstanding ones from our own city! Come and see a wide variety of companies and performers explore the wildly popular and highly entertaining form of theatre!
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OCT 11 - OCT 11
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society Fall '08: Ravish Momin “Trio Tarana”
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents Ravish Momin “Trio Tarana” at The Ironworks. Led by Indian-born, New York-based percussionist Ravish Momin, this trio synthesizes North African, South and East Asian motifs with classical organization and the immediacy of free improvisation. With Sam Bardfeld violin, and Brandon Terzic oud/saz.
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SEP 11 - OCT 12
Arts Club Theatre Company presents Doubt
A clash of wills and generations have unexpected, life-changing outcomes in this riveting play about the blurred line between gossip and truth.
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OCT 12 - OCT 12
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society Fall '08: John Stetch Trio
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents John Stetch Trio at The Cellar Restaurant/Jazz Club Edmonton-born, New-York-based John Stetch (Rufus Reid, Billy Hart, Seamus Blake) is the latest in a long line of Canadian pianists — from Oscar Peterson to Paul Bley to Renee Rosnes — to impact the Canadian jazz scene. Billboard magazine calls him “exceptional.” With Nicholas Walker bass, Greg Ritchie drums.
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OCT 14 - OCT 14
Friends of Chamber Music presents TOKYO STRING QUARTET
Since her celebrated departure from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983 Sabine Meyer has established herself as an eminent soloist with the world’s leading orchestras. She is also a committed chamber musician and has performed extensively with such notable colleagues as the Hagen and Alban Berg Quartets, Heinrich Schiff and Gidon Kremer. The Tokyo Quartet first played for us in 1973 and continues to be one of the leading international quartets playing today in Europe, North America and the Far East. They perform on the “Paganini Quartet”, a group of Stradivarius instruments on loan to them by the Nippon Music Foundation since 1995.
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OCT 7 - OCT 16
Blackbird Theatre Company presents Pinter's Briefs
Blackbird Theatre launches its 2008-2009 season with Pinter’s Briefs, a collection of quirky, superbly entertaining short plays by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, directed by John Wright and starring Simon Webb and Anthony F. Ingram. These rarely-performed comic gems – six short pieces and the iconic one-act play The Dumb Waiter – have been collected from the master’s oeuvre and polished to perfection by Vancouver’s award-winning Blackbird Theatre. Pinter’s Briefs will be presented in intimate venues over the next several months.
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OCT 17 - OCT 17
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society Fall '08: Jerry Granelli – The V-16 Project
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents Jerry Granelli – The V-16 Project at The Ironworks. San Francisco-raised, Halifax-based percussionist Jerry Granelli (Ornette Coleman, Mose Allison, Sly Stone) leads the V-16 Project, a killer group with a two-guitar frontline and diverse approach—jazz improvisation, blues-rock-funk fusion, freeform jamming, sampled soundscapes, and more. With David Tronzo and Christian Kogel guitars/samplers, J.A. Granelli electric bass, Jerry Granelli drums.
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OCT 17 - OCT 18
VSO POPS presents: Tiempo Libre
Tiempo Libre is one of the world's top Latin bands. Their sound is fresh, fun, exciting, and rife with the glorious rhythms of their Latin heritage.
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OCT 18 - OCT 18
The Vancouver Chamber Choir presents Baroqueworks: The Glorious Sound of an Era
The Vancouver Chamber Choir invites all music fans to another vivacious evening of Baroque music in the lively acoustic of the Chan Centre, with Jon Washburn conducting choir, soloists and orchestra
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OCT 3 - OCT 18
Presentation House Theatre presents Cover
Cover, produced by Sea Theatre, is a new dark Comedy by David King about urban desperation.
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OCT 9 - OCT 18
TigerMilk Collective presents Exit Commander Kitty
Commander Kitty is at home making preparations for her own retirement dinner party. A veteran of a post-apocalyptic army, she is forced into retirement at the old age of 25. Now that everything she was has been stripped away, who will she be?
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OCT 18 - OCT 18
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society Fall '08: Billy Bang Quartet
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents Billy Bang Quartet at The Ironworks. Billy Bang (Bootsy Colliins, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sun Ra) is one of the greatest violinist in the history of jazz. His stellar quartet featuring Andrew Barnkey piano, Todd Nicholson bass, Newman Taylor Baker drums is a tour de force.
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OCT 18 - OCT 19
CollabArt Creations presents Coming Out of the Cold
"Coming Out of the Cold" is a contemporary dance performance that takes a historical look at Canadian Women in Sport. It's a celebration of our female athletes' accomplishments and perserverance, from the Edmonton Grads to Rowing icon Silken Laumann.
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SEP 25 - OCT 25
Arts Club Theatre Company presents The History Boys
Alan Bennett’s exuberant study of education, sex, and the anarchy of adolescence crackles with humour and life.
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OCT 9 - OCT 25
Gateway Theatre presents Leading Ladies
What do Leading Ladies, Tootsie, and Mrs. Doubtfire have in common? They’re laugh-out-loud comedies full of love, deceit, cheating, and, oh yeah, men in pantyhose trying to walk in heels.
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OCT 14 - OCT 26
4th Annual Taste of Yaletown
The 4th annual Taste of Yaletown event will run October 14 – 26th, 2008. The event invites Vancouver’s food and wine enthusiasts to discover and enjoy the fantastic offerings of Yaletown’s premier restaurants, who will offer guests a special three-course menu at set prices of $25, $35 or $45. A portion of the proceeds raised will be donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
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OCT 11 - OCT 26
Harvest Festival and Hallowe'en Celebration at Capilano Suspension Bridge
Enjoy games, the Rainforest Explorers Program, wildlife series, musicial entertainament, and crafts for the kids on Thanksgiving weekend from October 11th through the 13th. Come celebrate Hallowe'en weekend October 25th and 26th! Enjoy a grand Jack-O-Lantern display along with fortune telling, musical entertainment, wildlife series, tours with ghost stories, crafts, and trick-or-treating! Fun for the whole family!
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OCT 1 - OCT 31
Metropolis at Metrotown: October 2008 Events
Metropolis at Metrotown: October 2008 Calendar of Events
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OCT 18 - NOV 1
Here Be Monsters Collective presents Carnival of the Arts
Established in 2006, Here Be Monsters Collective ventures into uncharted territory to rouse the creatures that lurk in the depths. This third and largest CARNIVAL OF THE ARTS features JESUS CHRIST: The Lost Years, SHOWOFF Festival, visual art, roving and installation performances, DJ's, dancing & more (October 18 - November 1).
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SEP 23 - NOV 8
Theatresports League presents Iprov
IProv at New Revue Stage, August 1st to August 30th 2008: taking the internet offline and putting it on stage.
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OCT 17 - NOV 9
Firehall Arts Centre presents Stuff Happens
Describing the events leading up to the 2003 invasion on Iraq, Stuff Happens provides a biting analysis of what happened and asks the audience to examine the power of dissent.
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OCT 17 - NOV 15
Pacific Theatre presents Mourning Dove
Inspired by the Robert Latimer story, this challenging work explores the dilemma faced by a Saskatchewan farm couple whose teenage daughter is wracked by severe and unremitting pain. Can the doctors’ best efforts relieve her suffering? Or should her father pursue another, final alternative? Who gets to play God? A complex play that confounds easy sentimentality with bracing humour, even in the face of great suffering.
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SEP 15 - NOV 15
Erato Ensemble 2008/2009 4 Concert Season Subscription
Erato Ensemble is an art-song chamber collective formed in 2006 by tenor and composer William George and soprano Catherine Laub. Dedicated to music of our time, with an emphasis on Canadian works, Erato’s mission is to preserve the art song tradition while creating new works in the genre. The ensemble includes some of the top musicians in the Vancouver area, and fills a necessary role in the local artistic life of the city.
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OCT 3 - NOV 16
Circle Craft Shop & Gallery presents 35th Annual Circle Craft Christmas Market Preview & Show
The Circle Craft Christmas Market Preview runs October 3 thru November 4, 2008 at the Circle Craft Shop & Gallery on Granville Island. Admission is free! Discover the work of a selection of craftspeople booked to be part of the 35th Annual Circle Craft Christmas Market at the Vancouver Exhibition and Convention Centre November 11–16, 2008. In other words, don’t miss this opportunity for Market fans to start your shopping lists early!
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SEP 25 - NOV 25
Yuk Yuk's presents CRASH AND BURN
Come join us Tuesday nights for Crash and Burn! Every week five new comics will burn up the stage followed by some pros just aching to try out their new material on you.
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OCT 7 - MAR 31
Music on Main presents A Month of Tuesdays
In October of 2008 A Month of Tuesdays returns to the Cellar Restaurant & Jazz Club for evenings of great music in one of the city’s most intimate venues.
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SEP 5 - APR 4
See Seven Regular Pass 2008/2009
Artist-driven and collaborative in spirit, See Seven was inaugurated in 1997 as a joint initiative for Vancouver's independent theatre community to raise awareness, build audiences and share resources. See Seven is known for provocative, relevant and challenging work, reaching out to the performing arts community at large for productions in which art and risk are at the forefront. The governing members of the See Seven Performing Arts Society are: Felix Culpa, Pi Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Rumble Productions, Solo Collective and Western Theatre Conspiracy.
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APR 15 - APR 15
Tickets Tonight Gift Certificates
Love, laughter, drama, passion, hope, inspiration, joy, excitement, mystery. No matter what the occasion, you can give it all.
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FEB 23 - OCT 11
Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Ultimate Improv Championship
Get ready for the biggest fight in improv history as Vancouver TheatreSports League counts down to the Ultimate Improv Championship at the New Revue Stage on Granville Island..
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DEC 13 - OCT 11
Vancouver Theatresports Leagues presents Theatresports
Relying on razor-sharp wit and lightning-fast reflexes, two teams of performers are pit against each other in competitive improv matches. Using audience suggestions to fuel scenes, teams must create totally improvised situations on the spot.
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DEC 13 - OCT 11
Vancouver Theatresports League presents Improv Extreme
Using audience suggestions, our performers challenge themselves and the "rules" of the game. These multi-talented improvisers take familiar styles and games and push them to the "extreme". This is a night of improv where anything can happen…and usually does!
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SEP 3 - OCT 11
Vancouver TheatreSports League presents Improv Cabaret
Come see the IMPROV CABARET! Individual improvisers will perform short improv-inspired music, sketches, monologues and much more. Show is 75 minutes.
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