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Expressions Festival 2013 Arts Umbrella Dance: Season Finale Type: Dance The Arts Umbrella Dance Company Season Finale. May 24 and two shows May 25, 2013. More details Date and time May 24 2013, 8:00 p.m. Location Vancouver Playhouse, 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver Contact Email contact 604.681.5268 The Arts Umbrella Dance Company present their Season Finale as part of the Expressions Festival. The Expressions Festival is a collection of inspired performances, showcases and exhibitions comes together to create Arts Umbrella's yearly festival of the arts. Expressions is an opportunity to celebrate young artists and their arts learning from the past year. Every discipline, every class, and virtually every Arts Umbrella student from Spring session has work represented, allowing them to take pride in their accomplishments, and share that pride with family, friends, and the broader public.. Event Details. Location: 601 Hamilton Street

Coexist The xx Type: Music See Northern Tickets The xx perform in support of their new album Coexist. More details Date and time May 24 2013, 8:00 p.m. Location Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 630 Hamilton Street at Georgia Vancouver Contact 604.569.1144 Northern Tickets From England, indie pop band The xx on tour to support their new release "Coexist". With special guest. "It all started in a bedroom in south west london, after school, drinking too much pepsi. We just keep on growing." http://thexx.info/. Event Details. Location: 630 Hamilton Street

Musical Zoo for Me and You! VSO: Tiny Tots Type: Concert 0-5, See VSO Fun musical programme for little ones by children's entertainers Lisa and Linda. More details Date and time May 24 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Add to my calendar Location Vancouver Playhouse, 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver Contact 604.876.3434 VSO Children's classics perfectly partnered with "Carnival of the Animals" and other move-along, sing-along favourites, with music performed live by a clarinet, a trombone and string bass. Presented by professional educators and musicians Let Your Music Shine! with Lisa and Linda in their own musical presentations for kids. Two 45-minute shows at 10:00am and 11:30am.  . Event Details. Location: 601 Hamilton Street

Redshift and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal The Four Elements Type: Concert $20.00 / $10.00 Redshift and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal collaborate on a new musical work The Four Elements, performing together at the Orpheum Annex. More details Date and time May 23 2013, 8:00 p.m. Location Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street near Robson Vancouver Contact Email contact In the wake of 2011's highly successful collaboration between Redshift and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Seven Deadly Sins/Sea to Sea, we were so enthused we got right to planning a second installment. On May 23rd, once more with the same line up of director Véronique Lacroix and cellist Mariève Bock of ECM+, and Vancouver's Tempest Flute Ensemble, we will present The Four Elements. This show will feature four new premieres: two by Vancouver composers Jocelyn Morlock and Edward Top, and works by Montréal composers Emily Hall and Éric Champagne (whose piece will include an additional fourteen flutists). The Four Elements continues an enthusiastic artistic discourse between two major Canadian artistic capitals, and is a rare occasion for Vancouver audiences and musicians alike to experience the artistry of Lacroix — one of the country's most respected interpreters of new music.  . Event Details. Location: 823 Seymour Street

Point Grey Road - Cornwall Avenue Corridor Active Transportation Project Open House Type: Community Drop in to one of three open houses to view design proposals for the corridor. City staff will be available during the times listed to discuss the project, answer questions and gather input. Date and time May 23 2013, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Add to my calendar Location Henry Hudson Elementary School (gym), 1551 Cypress Street Vancouver Contact Email contact. Event Details. Location: 1551 Cypress Street

Railtown Cultural Eclective brings the Bear A Short History of My Life as a Bear Type: Theatre $20.00 / $15:00 A Short History of My Life as a Bear, a play written by Kempton Dexter and staring Jacques Lalonde. Our friend the Grizzly is full of stories and songs in this transformative event. More details Date and time May 22 2013, 8:00 p.m. Location Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street near Robson Vancouver Contact Email contact 604-836-9943 Railtown Cultural Eclective brings the Bear – A Short History of My Life as a Bear, to their Trier Performance Series. Written by Kempton Dexter, the play centre's on an Uber Vancouver Ursus Arctos Horribilis, aka Grizzly bear, just waking from his winter snooze. Our friend the Grizzly is full of stories and songs about the age old relationship between Human and Bear. This transformative piece, directed by and starring Vancouver Fringe Festival veteran Jacques Lalonde, will make you laugh and sing as well as touch you with it's very different way of looking at things. The old Bear is well past his prime and full of sage advice he has learned from his friend the Old Bat. The story takes place in the woods of course, the natural "Church of the Bear", complete with a bear choir. Audience members are invited to sing along. "This play is more experimental than what I usually attempt," says Dexter. Dexter, aka Hi-rise Dex, is a singer, writer and sculptor. In 2012 he published a collection of his short stories, Mrs. Ceperley's Garden and Other Plots, which is receiving wide attention. He has written and produced a number of short plays. Jacques Lalonde, the Bear, has been amazingly busy since graduating from Studio 58 in 1988. He hosted two nationally broadcast TV shows, REEL TV and pilot 1 for the CBC, had a recurring role on Madison (as a gay French hair dresser) and was featured on The X-Files, the Addams Family, 21 Jump Street and Sesame Street. Over one million kids and grown ups have seen Jacques perform live onstage with the Carousel Theatre, Green Thumb, The Arts Club, The Vancouver Children's Festival and the Comedy Festival as well as hosting LIVE CITY VANCOUVER at the 2010 Olympic Games.. Event Details. Location: 823 Seymour Street

Modern music in an intimate new venue Symphony at the Annex: Stream of Consciousness Type: Concert See VSO Cutting edge new music in Vancouver's newest performance space. More details Date and time May 18 2013, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Add to my calendar Location Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street near Robson Vancouver Contact 604.876.3434 VSO Repertoire: Serge Garant: Amuya Gabriel Dharmoo: Moondraal Moondru Gordon Fitzell : Flux Wolfgang Rihm: Nach-Schrift. Event Details. Location: 823 Seymour Street

St. John Ambulance "What Every Babysitter Should Know" course "What Every Babysitter Should Know" course Type: Community 9-13 yrs, $60 This award-winning course teaches necessary skills when caring for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Safety, dealing with emergencies, and first aid basics are all emphasized. Designed to be both educational and entertaining, the hands-on practice provided in this course will help develop confidence. More details Date and time May 18 2013, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Add to my calendar Location Kensington Community Centre, 5175 Dumfries Street Vancouver Contact Vancouver park board Email contact 604-718-6201 Course materials include a student acitivty book, a frameable certificate, and a wallet certificate.. Event Details. Location: 5175 Dumfries Street

Wedding Shoes Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Canada and Korea Diplomatic Relations Type: Dance $20.00 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Canada and Korea Diplomatic Relations: The Wedding Shoes by the Ulsan Metropolitan City Dance Company. More details Date and time May 17 2013, 8:00 p.m. Location Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 630 Hamilton Street at Georgia Vancouver Contact 604.255.3739 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Canada and Korea Diplomatic Relations: The Wedding Shoes by the Ulsan Metropolitan City Dance Company. Sponsored by the Korean Society of BC. http://vancouverkoreans.ca/vkor/  Supervision by Korea-Canada Diplomatic Relation Cultural Art Society. Tickets also available at the door.. Event Details. Location: 630 Hamilton Street