Join Viva Chorale as they explore the art of Japanese Kintsugi through song. Kintsugi is the art of repairing pottery that has broken but instead of trying to hide the flaws, they are celebrated with golden lacquer making the breaks more visible and through the process of mending more beautiful than the original. From this […]
Following a sensational 1971 debut in Swan Lake, Karen Kain was promoted to Principal Dancer of the National Ballet of Canada, achieving international fame as one of the great classical dancers of her era. Named Best Canadian Documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival, SWAN SONG immerses viewers behind the scenes as Kain directs a […]
November 14 | Doors Open 6:30 | Presentations + Members Vote 7:00-8:00pm The 100 Women Who Care initiative was launched in 2006 as a simple, efficient, and effective collective fundraising model for charities. One hundred (or more) women each contribute $100 and vote for one of three nominated charities three times a year. There are […]
With a style inspired by haunting northern beauty, sisters Inuksuk Mackay and Tiffany Ayalik are Inuit throat singers from Arctic Canada who blend their ancient traditional form with contemporary technology to create haunting soundscapes and improvisational compositions that change with every show. With roots in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot and Kivalliq Regions, the sisters grew up in […]
Bach on the Rock is privileged to bring “Remembrance 2023” to ArtSpring. We will be featuring “Dona Nobis Pacem”, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 40 minute Cantata for Choir, Orchestra, and two soloists, through the vision of our Artistic Director, Jean-Sébastien Lévesque. We are thrilled to have well-known and loved Canadian Soprano Suzie LeBlanc and Baritone Hans […]
Young Artists Collegium Program The very best students from Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Young Artists Collegium Program come to ArtSpring for a special chamber music concert. Featuring ensembles of outstanding young talent on strings, winds, and piano, the concert will be followed by fascinating on-stage feedback to these rising stars from a great master artist. […]
BUY TICKETS Songs of life, peace, and love will be told during this evening of glorious sound with Cicela Månsson and Don Conley on voice and piano. These life journeys, recounted in a story, a scene, or a vignette, offer a small view into the creator’s life, sharing how they viewed the world around them. […]
Can we still save the oceans? Salt Spring Forum guest, Rashid Sumaila is the man to ask. BUY TICKETS Professor Rashid Sumaila and his colleague Daniel Pauly have provided scientific evidence for a simple solution: All fishing on the high seas should be banned. Earlier this year, their research and advocacy earned them the Tyler Prize […]
Get ready to have a laugh and relate to the real life scenarios in the live sketch comedy MIDDLE RAGED, written and performed by Geri Hall (a regular on This Hour Has 22 Minutes) and Gary Pearson (a writer for Corner Gas, MadTV, and Just for Laughs.) This smart and funny stage show explores the […]
Met Opera Now On Sale. DEAD MAN WALKING | Jake Heggie Sat Oct 12 | 9:55am-1pm Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the […]
Discover a captivating body of works that go straight to the heart of melody. The highlight of this concert is Max Richter's masterful re-composition of the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, which takes us to the convergence of past and present. Works by Glass, Nyman, Amar, Eno, and Einaudi complete this program of spellbinding simplicity. Trio […]
Award-winning Oktopus is a major presence on the Canadian world music scene, with over 250 performances to its credit at home and abroad. The group is primarily devoted to klezmer, distinguished by a novel approach that pulls together components of the classical and Quebecois repertoire, with some jazz and Balkan accents. BUY TICKETS Eight virtuoso […]
The Salt Spring Forum are delighted to welcome Erin O’Toole, former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and widely regarded as one of the last true gentlemen of Canadian politics. There will be much to discuss with him, not least whether social media and US influences have set us on the same course as […]
Amy Beach was a trailblazing composer who wrote with her heart on her sleeve. Join pianist Jane Coop and the Vetta String Quartet performing the Haydn Sunrise Quartet, Shostakovich’s earliest quartet, and the Amy Beach Quintet. Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4, "Sunrise" […]
BUY TICKETS Since 1976, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, a flagship program of Banff Centre, has been an international industry leader in showcasing a selection of outstanding adventure, exploration, and mountain culture speakers, films, books, and photographs from around the world. Following the nine-day festival in Banff, its annual World Tour reaches more than […]
Premiering in Vancouver in 2015, the award-winning Love Bomb is described as “a rock concert within a play – and a mystery on top of that.” A concert of emotion rips through main character Justine’s first performance in years and all because of one uninvited guest, her music takes on a life of its own. […]
Michael Kaeshammer isn’t so much a piano player as a piano whisperer, a master musician, and songwriter able to coax dazzling, kaleidoscopic sounds from his instrument in a way few can rival. Joined by his ensemble of four musicians, that gift powers Turn It Up, Kaeshammer’s superb 15th album, broadly described as “eclectic yet accessible […]
Join RAVEN and SS Public Library for an evening with CBC journalist and author Angela Sterritt, in conversation with Cowichan educator Maiya Modeste (Stqeeye Society) about her new book, Unbroken. Though the topic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirited ( MMIWG2S) People is heavy, Sterritt's storytelling is incredibly life-affirming. Her new bestselling […]
