Community Celebration
VANCOUVER JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL & JAPANESE HALL FOOD BAZAAR
Sunday November 16, 12pm – 3pm
Japanese Hall, 487 Alexander
By donation
Come early to the popular semi-annual Japanese feast and eat, eat, eat! VJLS & JH volunteers work feverishly over many days to make and serve a wide variety of menu items, hot, fresh, seasonal and af ordable. This fundraising event is always popular, with children’s games corner, door and raffle prizes, and a silent auction. At 1pm, for a hot and spicy Heart of the City Festival treat, the popular Barrio Flamenco, led by flamenco dancer and teacher Kelty McKerracher, bring music, song and flamenco dance to the heart of the Japanese Canadian community. Danced and played with spirit, joy and laughter! Ole!
Art
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
November 20 – 23
Numerous locations
Free
The 18th Annual Eastside Culture Crawl is Vancouver’s four-day visual arts, design and crafts festival. This event involves more than 20,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the area bounded by Main Street and Victoria Drive, north of First Avenue to the waterfront. The Eastside Culture Crawl Society provides opportunities for the public to engage with member artists through the ongoing creation of events and programming that support the growth of Eastside artists.
For more information go to www.eastsideculturecrawl.com.
Theatre
Bah! Humbug! – An Eastside adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Preview: December 10, 7:30pm ($10)
December 11 – 13 & December 16 – 20, 7:30pm
Saturday matinees December 13 & 20, 2pm
Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, SFU Woodward’s, 149 W. Hastings
An SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs/Vancouver Moving Theatre co-production in support of the DTES Heart of the City Festival. Featuring over twenty seasonal and popular songs.
At the darkest hour of a winter’s night, Scrooge confronts spirits of the past, present and future. Emerging from Coast Salish land buried under city sidewalks, the spirits bring the old pawn broker face to face with memories he cannot bear and relationships he may never be able to heal.
Bah! Humbug! is a bittersweet twist on a cherished classic that celebrates the transformative power of human redemption. Now more than 150 years old, Dickens’ haunting ghost story is filled with social satire, heartbreak and compassion. We hope that our music-filled adaptation shines the light of truth on this old tale and today’s Downtown Eastside.
Bah! Humbug! features, among others, Juno award-winning singer Jim Byrnes as Scrooge, Margo Kane as Mrs. Cratchit, Tom Pickett as Bob Cratchit, Sam Bob as Spirit of Christmas Present and Dumpster Diva, and Downtown Eastsiders Stephen Lytton as Spirit of Christmas Past, Mike Richter as Scrooge’s nephew Fred and Savannah Walling as Spirit of Christmas Future; also featuring the Downtown Eastside’s own Saint James Music Academy Children’s Choir. A special addition this year is projected images of award-winning Downtown Eastside artist Richard Tetrault. Directed by Max Reimer, with music direction by Neil Weisensel.
Don’t miss this festive and seasonal favourite where Victorian England meets Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Each show features a turkey draw and an audience sing-along of holiday favourites before show start.
Tickets: $29 general/ $15 students & seniors
Tickets: www.sfuwoodwards.ca, or at the door one hour before show time