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BC Buds Spring Arts Fair 2013
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
May 10 - 12
The 9th annual BC Buds Spring Arts Fair returns to the Firehall May 10 - 12th! The arts are a celebration of the senses and the 2013 BC BUDS Spring Arts Fair will celebrate all those senses as we toast to the end of the Firehall’s 30th season. This year we asked BC Buds participants to send us projects which celebrate and entertain the senses; Nonsense, Two sense, Commonsense, Absence, the Sixth sense, and those usual senses, sight, touch, hear, smell, and taste. Join us for some or ALL of this year's BC BUDS, celebrating all (or some) of the senses as we celebrate our 30th season.
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God and the Indian
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
April 7 to 20, 2013
Award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor explores the aftermath of a life lost to residential schools.
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Land-Research
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
April 24 to 27, 2013
Last seen in Vancouver at the 2011 Dancing on the Edge Festival with the sold out show Quiet, Israeli choreographer Arkadi Zaides and his company are back with Land-Research.
Zaides presents the individual voices of five performers from different backgrounds as they explore their inner relationship with the broad idea of land. Performed as five solos, the dancers approach their bodies as a private landscape, shaped and challenged by its surroundings.
A Firehall Arts Centre Presentation
Produced by Arkadi Zaides
maladjusted
Theatre for Living (formerly Headlines Theatre)
March 8 to 24, 2013
Theatre for Living, the company that brought you after homelessness… (2009) and Us and Them (2011) is proud to present their new forum theatre play, maladjusted, created and performed by mental health patients and caregivers. This innovative theatre project and two-day mini-conference will confront the barriers to patient centered care within our maladjusting mental health system.
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My Funny Valentine
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
February 19 to March 2, 2013
The critically acclaimed, Jessie-nominated My Funny Valentine enters the minds of six people on the fringes of a murder that will forever affect them, and invites the audience to search through the confusing and chaotic implications of this death to find their own humanity.
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Dancing with Rage
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
February 5 to 17, 2013
Canadian actress, comedienne and social activist Mary Walsh unleashes her rage brought on by pop culture, politics and capitalism to do battle on a grand scale in this one woman show.
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No Exit & Lost and Found
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
January 16 to 19, 2013
A double bill from Toronto's Fujiwara dance inventions; the ensemble piece No Exit based on the Jean-Paul Sartre play of the same name and Lost & Found, a solo choreographed and performed by company Artistic Director Denise Fujiwara.
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Medicine
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
January 23 to February 2
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January 23 to February 2
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In this one man show written and performed by TJ Dawe, the playwright shares his funny, at times heartbreaking and enlightening experience with Gabor Maté, the Amazonian psychotropic plant medicine ayahuasca, group therapy and his path to introspection.
Hotel Bethlehem
A Ruby Slippers Theatre Production
December 18 to 23, 2012
Have you ever wondered why The Inn was full? Who would turn away a very pregnant woman? What kind of characters and shenanigans were they up to that this could happen? Surprisingly, no one has asked these questions, until now. Award winning playwright Drew McCreadie takes an inside look at what was going on at the Inn that infamous silent night.
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Kid Gloves
A Firehall Arts Centre Production
November 10 to December 1, 2012
Playwright Sally Stubbs presents a fictionalized account of Canada's first two female police officers, hired by the Vancouver Police Department in 1912.
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Chelsea Hotel
A Firehall Arts Centre Production
September 28 to November 3, 2012
Back by popular demand, Leonard Cohen’s powerful and inspirational music and lyrics are the heartbeat for Chelsea Hotel, an illusory world full of enchantment, desire, passion and love.
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What I Imagined + no comment
A Firehall Arts Centre Presentation
September 21 & 22, 2012
An evening of two new dance works, What I Imagined, a duet choreographed by Anne Cooper and no comment, a solo for Anne Cooper choreographed by Chick Snipper.
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Vancouver Fringe Festival BYOV
Vancouver Fringe Festival BYOV
September 6 to 16, 2012
The 2012 Vancouver International Fringe Festival returns to the Firehall with "Bring Your Own Venue" performances!
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Summer Concerts in the Courtyard
A Firehall Arts Centre & Nightingale Productions presentation
August 26
What better way to spend a summer evening than on a patio listening to music? Join us for an evening of jazz in the summertime with our summer concert series. Grab a drink, take a seat and experience jazz, Firehall courtyard style.
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Good Timber
The Other Guys Theatre
August 7 to 19
Based on the logger poetry of Robert E. Swanson, the Bard of the Woods, this amazingly talented ensemble has created a show of songs and stories played against a multi-media backdrop of rarely seen archival imagery.
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Dancing on the Edge Festival
Dancing on the Edge Festival
July 5 to 14, 2012
The Dancing on the Edge Festival is Canada's longest running festival of contemporary dance, taking place July 5 - 14, 2012. This year's festival features nearly 50 performances from more than 20 companies and choreographers from across Canada including performances from Vancouver's 605 Collective, Toronto choreographer Heidi Strauss' adelheid dance projects and Paul-André Fortier of Montreal's Fortier Danse-Création, among many others. With full and mixed programs as well as site-specific works the 24th annual Dancing on the Edge Festival is bringing dance in all shapes and forms to Vancouver audiences.
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Shelter From The Storm
Produced by Touchstone Theatre in Association with Playwrights Theatre Centre and the Firehall Arts Centre
May 31 to June 9, 2012
Our notions of courage and cowardice come into question in this story of a Vietnam draft dodger who takes in a traumatized young American soldier after he deserts his post in Iraq.
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BC Buds Spring Arts Fair
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
May 11 to 13, 2012
The Firehall will fling open its doors for audiences of all ages to experience theatre, dance, film, music and inter-disciplinary pieces in unorthodox settings, including the hallways, courtyard and dressing rooms!
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Kudos & Cocktails
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
May 9
Join us Wednesday, May 9th for Kudos & Cocktails, a celebration to pay tribute to five individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Firehall and the artistic community in Vancouver.
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Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project)
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
April 12 to 21, 2012
In South Africa, “ubuntu” refers to the spirit of community; the belief that humanity is tied together.
Weaving storytelling, music and dance and featuring actors from Canada and South Africa, Ubuntu tells the tale of two people, separated by oceans, who are brought together by ghosts to discover the secrets of their pasts.
A staged reading of the play Empress of Asia
A Firehall Arts Centre Production
March 23 & 24, 2012
Join us for a free staged reading of Larry Wong’s new play, Empress of Asia.
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Fragments – Volume I
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
March 14 to 17, 2012
Montreal’s Sylvain Émard places the dancers at the very heart of this creation, crafting for them made-to-measure roles inspired by their most pressing needs. In three solos and a duet, he establishes four contrasting worlds where the depth and authenticity of gesture convey the complexity and vulnerability of the individual and create a striking patchwork of insistent urgency.
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Goodness
A Firehall Arts Centre, Chutzpah! Festival and Touchstone Theatre Co-Presentation of the Volcano Theatre Production
March 6 to 11, 2012
The story of a Jewish-Canadian writer, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, who after a heartbreak, goes on a journey to uncover his past. By chance, he meets a woman who has lived through a much more recent genocide. Together they explore individual responsibility, prejudice and revenge as the stage fills with music from around the world- from Ukraine to Croatia to Zimbabwe.
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Chelsea Hotel
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
February 3 to March 3
Leonard Cohen’s powerful and inspirational music and lyrics are the heartbeat for Chelsea Hotel, an illusory world full of enchantment, desire, passion and love.
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The TCP Show
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
January 11 to 14
Known for strong performances, impressive technique and a penchant for the world of dance-theatre, The Contingency Plan, winners of the 2010 BC Buds Silver Development Award, bring The TCP Show, a mixed program of two new choreographies, to the Firehall stage.
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Portraits and Scenes of Female Creatures
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
December 7 to 10
Four mysterious female creatures create a world of loss and grief at sea in this highly anticipated full-length work from the response.’s Amber Funk Barton
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Vimy
A Firehall Arts Centre Production/Presentation
November 2 to 19, 2011
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a turning point in Canadian self-determination. In this play by Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen, a nurse looks over four young soldiers as they recover from the battle in a military hospital in France. All five are drawn into the past as memories of their time on and off the front occupy their thoughts. Thiessen creates characters with extreme depth and feeling in this exploration of friendship, responsibility and nationalism.
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