Saturday February 26 | 7:30pm From child prodigy in his native Germany to unparalleled pianist and virtuosic songwriter, Michael Kaeshammer has spent decades developing a musical style that weaves threads of classical, jazz, blues, boogie-woogie, stride, and pop into a signature and sought-after sonic tapestry. Kaeshammer has invested a lot in his mastery of 12 […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Please contact the Box Office for further information about getting a ticket refund, an ArtSpring credit, or to convert your ticket into a donation. tickets@artspring.ca / 250-537-2102 Th'owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish by Joseph A. Dandurand A family-friendly indigenous fable. Indigenous storytellers spin a tale from the Kwantlen First […]
Spirit and Tradition Wednesday March 23 | 7:30pm Spirit and Tradition’s key themes are reciprocity and ecological sustainability, conveying important cultural teachings on balance, interconnectedness, and community. Through the sharing of Indigenous knowledge and artistic practices of the Northwest Coast, Spirit and Tradition layers Coastal masked dances, projected imagery, soundscape, and LED puppetry. The audience […]
Sunday March 27 | 2:30pm pre-concert talk at 2pm George Zukerman curated, and emcees, a special program featuring works all written before Ludwig van Beethoven reached the age of 30. The program includes a posthumously discovered quintet for clarinet, horns and bassoon, and the rarely heard Sextet for two horns and strings. The pinnacle of […]
Thursday March 31 | 4pm Nayana Fielkov presents a rough cut of Underbelly, during her week-long artistic residency at ArtSpring. Underbelly is a surrealist comedy in which monsters, dismemberment, shower opera, inconceivable truths and a hot date may be just the recipe needed to shed the past and let it run down the drain. Join […]
Thursday April 7 | 7:30pm Four ferocious players, masterful composition, and a genre-bending sound — Juno award-winning The Fretless is a Canadian quartet making its mark in progressive folk music. A supergroup of celebrated solo artists, The Fretless has been creating a singular and signature sound that expands the idea of what a string music […]
Imaginario: de un libro de música de vihuela Friday April 29 | 7:30pm Working from seven surviving sources, Argentinian soprano María Cristina Kiehr and vihuela player Ariel Abramovich have reconstructed a Spanish songbook that could have been published in Seville or Valladolid during the renaissance. The result of nearly 15 years work shows a deep […]
Friday May 6 - Saturday May 7 | 7:30pm Lovin’ Shakespeare is a celebration of love through some of Shakespeare’s most iconic love scenes and characters. From the comedic to the sublime the story traverses through Shakespeare’s canon from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to Romeo and Juliet. Told through song, sonnet and scene you will […]
Friday May 6 - Saturday May 7 | 7:30pm Lovin’ Shakespeare is a celebration of love through some of Shakespeare’s most iconic love scenes and characters. From the comedic to the sublime the story traverses through Shakespeare’s canon from A Midsummer Night's Dream, to Romeo and Juliet. Told through song, sonnet and scene you will […]
Wednesday May 25 | 5pm All abilities | 9-90 years FluxDelux is a no-experience-required participatory performance event for people from ages 9 - 90+. Participants on their feet or using a wheelchair or any other mobility device share in the creation of a spontaneous choreography guided by a tailor-made web app. BUY TICKETS Movement scores […]
unmoored Thursday May 26 | 7:30pm In their second collaboration Peggy Baker and BC-based dance artist Sarah Chase have created an emotional, autobiographical ‘dancestory’. Crafted from a deeply personal life experience Peggy had long found difficult to share, unmoored describes events during the 20-year arc of Baker’s marriage to the musician, composer, and disability rights […]
Sing and Learn Together Developing the voice, musical literacy, and ensemble techniques. Makana is the Hawaiian word for ‘gift’. Music is a gift that will stay with you for your whole life. This choir is a fun opportunity to sing with other children and to focus specifically on developing good vocal habits at a young […]
Friday May 27 | 7:30pm Come see the Makana Youth Choir in action with their end of term concert. These young singers from grades 2-5 will show you their enthusiasm and joy at the end of their second term. With a focus on teaching musical concepts such as harmony, tone and note reading, find out […]
What better way to celebrate our Treasure Fair fundraising weekend than with a sizzling summer jazz concert. Unfortunately Cory Weeds can't now join us for this special concert, but he has brought in a fantastic replacement, saxophonist Steve Kaldestad. We're very grateful to Steve for stepping in at such short notice. Steve will be fronting […]
At the end of a week-long residency, Vancouver’s CAMP dance collective present a rough cut of Wanted. Wanted was first performed as a livestream presentation for the Chan Centre during lockdown. The residency with us will see the collective reworking it as a touring presentation. Come and see a work-in-progress rough cut, followed by a […]
Broadway on Pointe and other works World premiere. Sunday October 2 | 2:30pm We’re thrilled to open the new season with a world premiere from Ballet Victoria. Singing, dancing, and acting. Dramatic, bold, and beautiful. Two stars collide on the roller coaster of fame in this one-act ballet tribute to Broadway’s most iconic tunes. The […]
Boccheriniana Thursday October 13 | 7:30pm Artistic Director Elinor Frey Boccheriniana celebrates one of the most delightful and original voices of the classical era, Luigi Boccherini, alongside European composers from the same era, Mozart, JC Bach, and Maddalena Lombardi Sirmen. During this time, now known for its elegant “galant” music, Boccherini championed his instrument, the […]
Luigi Cherubini Sung in Italian NEW PRODUCTION Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky opens the new season as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance—a tour-de-force role made famous by opera’s ultimate diva, Maria Callas. The Met premiere of Cherubini’s […]
