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The New
Play Festival on Granville Island
www.playwrightstheatre.com
The New Play Festival on Granville
Island will take the newest, boldest
works of top Canadian playwrights
from the page to the stage in exciting
workshop-style presentations. Featuring
some of Vancouver's best actors
and directors, the New Play Festival
on Granville Island is a vivid,
week-long celebration of extraordinary
new Canadian plays and the playwrights
who pen them.
Vancouver International Children's
Festival
www.vancouverchildrensfestival.com
The Vancouver International Children's
Festival at Vanier Park features
the finest theatre, music, dance,
puppetry, storytelling, and comedy
from around the world. This annual
week long event is a favourite for
children, their families, school
groups, teachers and everyone who
loves the arts for young audiences.
In addition to the mainstage performances
in tent theatres, the Festival presents
open-air shows at the bandshell,
roving performers as well as a range
of hands-on creative and educational
workshops.
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare
Festival
www.bardonthebeach.org
Every summer from June through September,
Vancouver's professional Shakespeare
Festival presents three classic
productions of plays by the worlds
greatest Bard. Staged in open-ended
tents on the waterfront in Vanier
Park, the plays are performed against
a spectacular backdrop of mountains,
sea and sky. In 2003 the Festival
offers The Comedy of Errors and
The Merchant of Venice on the Main
stage, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre
on the Studio Stage. Tickets: 604-739-0559.
Vancouver International Jazz
Festival
www.jazzvancouver.com
Vancouver becomes "Jazz Heaven"
during the city's largest annual
festival. The Vancouver International
Jazz Festival is recognized internationally
as one of the finest and most adventurous
music festivals in the world, presenting
a huge range of jazz, world, improvised
music and blues. The Festival features
over 400 performances by famous,
infamous and emerging artists from
across Canada and around the world
at 40 venues. Enjoy both ticketed
shows and many free events including
the free extravaganzas "Gastown
Jazz", and "Jazz at the Roundhouse".
Vancouver Folk Music Festival
www.thefestival.bc.ca
The Vancouver Folk Music Festival
is a world-renowned event in a spectacular
venue, Jericho Beach Park, on English
Bay with mountains and the sea as
backdrop. Our Family Area provides
activities for children and their
adult companions. Food vendors and
artists and artisans sell their
wares. Over 1,200 volunteers join
with an expert production and artistic
staff to present over 100 performances
during the Festival weekend. Associated
events take place in the days before
and after the Festival weekend.
Vancouver Chamber Music Festival
www.vanrecital.com
Fun, informal, and absolute magic,
the annual Vancouver Chamber Music
Festival will captivate all your
senses. Hear electrifying performances
by some of the world's most scintillating
young musicians. Feast on gourmet
picnics while feasting your eyes
on one of the city's prettiest settings.
Come experience a haven of fragrant
gardens, and emerald lawns. The
mood? Most definitely casual. Think
shorts, sandals and pure enchantment.
The Vancouver Chamber Music Festival
takes the formality of classical
music and turns it on its ear!
The Caribbean
Days Festival
www.caribbeandaysfestival.com
The Caribbean Days Festival is an
annual Caribbean parade and live
music event at Waterfront Park in
North Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada. It is the largest annual
cultural festival in the province
of British Columbia Canada.
Browse
Caribbean
Days Festival Photo Gallery
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Vancouver
International Comedy Festival
www.comedyfest.com
The Vancouver International Comedy
Festival is an annual summer event,
enjoying its 16th season of bringing
laughter to Granville Island. The
festival is a multi-disciplinary
celebration of all forms of comedy.
From the international cast of characters
featured in more than 100 free outdoor
performances during the day, to
the celebrated stars that take to
the stage each evening, the Vancouver
International Comedy Festival has
something for every funny bone.
Vancouver Early Music Festival
www.earlymusic.bc.ca
One of North America's leading early
music festivals, featuring acclaimed
performers and ensembles from the
international scene, often in consort
with Vancouver's finest musicians.
This eclectic festival offers a
unique series of concerts devoted
to vocal and instrumental music
from the Mediæval, Renaissance,
Baroque and Classical eras, with
occasional forays into 'early music'
from other cultures as well as contemporary
music.
HSBC Powersmart Celebration
of Light
www.celebration-of-light.com
Vancouver's annual fireworks are
watched by 1.6 million people over
the four-night event. English Bay
is the setting as three competing
countries will try to amaze us all
with a spectacular display of fireworks
in this international competition.
Festival Vancouver
www.festivalvancouver.bc.ca
This summer Vancouver will host
the return of one of the largest
classical music festivals in North
America, Festival Vancouver. From
August 4-17, 2003, Vancouver¹s concert
halls will be filled with some of
the best music the world has to
offer. 13 music-filled days will
feature outstanding classical, jazz
and world music concerts in venues
across the city. From morning until
midnight, festival patrons will
experience glorious voices, exhilarating
rhythms and great chamber/ orchestral
works, performed by internationally
acclaimed artists from around the
corner and around the world
The Vancouver Fringe Festival
www.vancouverfringe.com
The Vancouver Fringe Festival is
Vancouver's premier theatre festival,
dedicated to its mission of providing
"Theatre for Everyone". The 11-day
Fringe Festival draws crowds of
over 35,000 each year and brings
together performers from local,
national and international theatre
companies in traditional and non-traditional
venues. Come join the festival on
and around Granville Island.
Vancouver New Music Festival
www.newmusic.org
The Vancouver New Music Festival
focuses this year on contemporary
music and performance from, and
inspired by, Asian and South Asian
artists, music and practices. Balancing
local, Canadian and international
artists, the festival includes concerts,
electronic music, installations,
interactive multimedia, lectures
and other special events. Playing
at the points of intersection between
diverse musical and artistic practices,
instruments and histories, and fusing
all these elements with new performance
possibilities, this year's festival
artists promise to offer a tour
through fascinating sonic territories.
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