Issues to do Dec. 8-14
This week’s occasions round Metro Vancouver embody Music on Most important’s Music for the Winter Solstice.
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Whether or not you’re on the lookout for date-night concepts, free issues to do or simply one thing enjoyable to do with the youngsters, you possibly can’t go improper with our checklist of occasions occurring round Metro Vancouver between Dec. 8-14. Headlining this week’s picks is Music on Most important’s Winter Solstice live shows.
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Listed here are 5 issues to do in Metro Vancouver this week:
Music for the Winter Solstice
When: Dec. 14 & 15
The place: Heritage Corridor, 3102 Most important St., Vancouver
Tickets: $49/18 (college students & arts staff) at musiconmain.ca
Music on Most important’s in style annual festive live performance options pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, keyboardist Robyn Jacob, tenor Asitha Tennekoon, and cellist Jonathan Lo. They’ll carry out Solstice favourites akin to Caroline Shaw’s Winter Carol and the Wyrd Sisters’ Solstice Carole in addition to songs from Jacob’s art-pop quintet Solely a Customer and Alfredo Santa Ana’s A Quick Track for the Longest Evening of the 12 months. The candlelit occasion normally sells out.
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Mae Martin: Sap
When: Dec. 8 at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
The place: Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St., Vancouver
Tickets: $37-90 at admitone.com
The most effective issues in regards to the Prime comedy present LOL: Final One Laughing Canada, Mae Martin is the co-writer, creator and star of the semi-autobiographical comedy collection Really feel Good and star of a standup particular, Mae Martin: Dope, each on Netflix. In Martin’s newest dwell endeavour, the Canadian comedian covers sloths, moose, hotdogs, love, tree sap, and attempting to do the proper factor. In keeping with a reviewer at pastemagazine.com, “The present represents a maturation in Martin’s work, much less about curbing addictive behaviours than recasting one’s gaze solely.” Martin has additionally launched two radio collection for the BBC, and wrote the YA e-book Can Everybody Please Calm Down? A Information to twenty first Century Sexuality.
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Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson: You Contact Me
When: Dec. 8-10
The place: Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St., Vancouver
Tickets: $34/25 at thedancecentre.ca
Vancouver-based choreographers/dancers Arash Khakpour and Emmalena Fredriksson current the world premiere of a collection of duets with an ensemble of individuals raised outdoors of B.C. Utilizing dance and textual content, the duets are stated to “examine notions of ‘self’ and ‘different,’ cultural identification, race and gender.” Performers embody Luciana Freire D’Anunciação, Isabelle Kirouac, Juolin Lee, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, in addition to Khakpour and Fredrisksson. The creators are initially from Iran and Sweden, respectively.
Vancouver Bach Choir & Vancouver Opera Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah and Christmas with the Bach Choir
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When and the place: Dec. 10 at Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe St., Vancouver, and Dec 11 at ACT Arts Centre, 11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge
Tickets: $20-70 at vancouverbachchoir.com for the Orpheum live performance; $29-49 at theactmapleridge.org for the ACT live performance
The Vancouver Bach Choir presents has two live shows left of conventional seasonal choral music. On Dec. 10, the VBC is joined by members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra on the Orpheum for Handel’s Messiah. The choir and orchestra, beneath the baton of conductor Leslie Dala, are joined by Canadian soloists Melody Braveness, Marion Newman, Asitha Tennekoon and Clarence Frazer. New this season, the VBC performs for the primary time in Maple Ridge Dec. 11. A Christmas with the Bach Choir options soloists, the Contact of Brass quintet and organist Michael Dirk performing seasonal favourites, together with excerpts from The Messiah, and new and conventional carols, together with sing-along viewers perennials.
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Residing Hour
When: Dec. 9
The place: Crimson Gate, 1965 Most important St., Vancouver
Tickets: $15 at redgate.television
Followers of the American band Seaside Home will take pleasure in Residing Hour’s languid beats and gauzy melodies, which have acquired accolades from Pitchfork to The Manitoban. The Winnipeg quartet is touring in assist of Sometime is In the present day, the Winnipeg quartet’s third album. In a media launch, bassist/keyboardist/vocalist Sam Sarty says the report’s single Center Title is about “getting caught with your self, ceaselessly, like an assigned center identify, or DNA. A few of it’s already in-built, however principally you’ll be strolling round as you, doing dishes, assembly individuals, untangling what it means, being busy being busy… You, all the time it’s you!” Portland’s Expensive Nora, that includes singer/songwriter Katy Davidson, and Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts open.
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