Finn and the Salmon of Knowledge
Saturday October 31, 1pm – 2pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Free
Finn and the Salmon of Knowledge is Chapter Four of Finn the Fish Boy, a story of resilience, disability, identity, and belonging. It tells of a journey down the Fraser River that reflects the life of Indigenous storyteller Stephen Lytton, a Nlaka’pamux man and Elder from Lytton, BC. Created collaboratively by Stephen and Irish artist and storyteller Deirdre Keohane, the work brings together Indigenous and Irish perspectives. Inspired by the ancient Irish tale, The Salmon of Knowledge, the story explores how knowledge is carried through land, water, memory, and community. Together, the artists discover what happens when stories cross cultures and become a shared journey.
The Carnegie Dance Troupe Work-in-Progress Performance
Sunday November 1, 3pm – 4pm
SFU Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre
149 W. Hastings Admission by donation
The Carnegie Dance Troupe dancers demonstrate the power of collective artmaking that has always been grounded in community. Since 2006, the principle supporting the Troupe has been absolute inclusivity. Performances are created through a collaborative process, seeking to connect us to our bodies, to our breath, to the energy of the earth, and to our sense of belonging in community. The Carnegie Dance Troupe is part of Karen Jamieson Dance.
RayCam 长者故事分享圈
主持人： Jim Sands / Kevin Li
日期： 11月3日星期二 上午11点至下午1点
地点： RayCam 社区中心
RayCam Seniors Story Sharing Circle
Tuesday November 3, 11am – 1pm
RayCam Cooperative Centre
920 E. Hastings Free
诚邀您参加由 RayCam 长者故事圈举办的开放工作坊，本次活动由故事创作者 Jim Sands 与翻译 Kevin Li 共同主持。我们每周聚会，分享彼此的故事与经历，并提升讲故事的技巧。
本周，我们的特邀嘉宾是 Deborah Williams，她是“星火”（The Flame）的联合创始人——该活动是温哥华和维多利亚首屈一指的讲故事盛会。本次环节将提供粤语与英语双语服务，并配有翻译协助。现场将提供午餐（如需预订午餐，请致电：604-257-6949）。
You are invited to participate in an open workshop with the RayCam Seniors Story Circle, facilitated by storyteller Jim Sands and interpreter Kevin Li. Each week the circle meets to share stories and develop storytelling skills. Today’s special guest is Deborah Williams, co-founder of The
Flame, Vancouver’s premier storytelling event. The session will be held in Cantonese and English, with the support of an interpreter. Lunch is included; please register for lunch by calling 604-257-6949.
Epigone
Preview Tues Nov 3, 7:30pm
Opening Wednesday November 4, 7:30pm
Thur Nov 5 to Sat Nov 7, Tues Nov 10 to Sat Nov 14, 7:30pm
Matinees Sun Nov 8, 4pm; Sat Nov 14,
Sun Nov 15, 2pm
Russian Hall, 600 Campbell
$0–$75. Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/cc/epigone
Electric Company Theatre presents the world premiere of Epigone, written by Kevin Kerr and directed by Jonathon Young. The play is a modern myth about complicated grief, stigmas of addiction, our responsibilities to the dead, and to one another. It follows an unlikely hero exiled to a remote northern double-wide trailer, where the living wrestle with loyalty, shame, and the unfinished work of care as the past refuses to stay buried. Cast: Lili Beaudoin, Kevin Macdonald, Tom McBeath, and Colleen Wheeler.
On the evenings of Wed Nov 4, Fri Nov 6, Sat Nov 7, and the afternoon of Sun Nov 8 audiences will have the opportunity to shop at an Art Market in the lobby before the show and during intermission. Coming out to the art collective at the Downtown Health Centre, artwork for sale includes Native carvings, beaded earrings, paintings, badges, cards, decorations and more!
Professional M.D.
Wednesday November 4, 5pm – 6pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free
Professional M.D. by Kagan Goh is a 20-minute solo monologue that fuses confessional spoken word, stand-up comedy, and mental health advocacy into one unflinching performance. We follow his wry, disarming attempt to explain a life-altering diagnosis and the unpredictable terrain that follows: dizzying highs, devastating lows, and hard-won, sometimes mystical wisdom found between them. Equal parts riotous and raw, it is a love letter to survival, sanity, and the people who hold us through the storm, performed by a person who has lived it.
Sunshine Seniors Dance Troupe
Thursday November 5, 11:30am – 12pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free
Life lies in movement! Join the Sunshine Seniors to learn traditional physical exercises that improve health, enrich life, calm emotions, and lift spirits. Experience the Sunshine Seniors’ attitude to life and passion for Canada as they share their desire to build a rich and diverse cultural community in the Downtown Eastside. Traditional Chinese refreshments provided.
生命在于运动！欢迎加入阳光长者群，一同学习传统养生功法，强健体魄、丰富生活、舒缓情绪、提振精神。感受“阳光长者们”的生活态度，以及她们对加拿大的热爱，一同分享她们在市中心东端建设多元文化社区的愿望。现场备有传统中式茶点。
自2020年以来，唐人街东区妇女中心的女性们每两周聚会一次，练习中国舞，包括扇子舞。她们的年龄从60多岁到87岁不等，包括来自中国不同地区的退休女性，她们有的拥有传统舞、拉丁舞和现代舞的背景，有的只是热爱舞蹈。参与者来自斯特拉斯科纳太极拳团、Stephen Wong狮子团、唐人街社区警务中心（DEWC Peer Program）和唐人街社区警务中心。指导老师Eva是一位终身舞者，曾任萨斯喀彻温省舞蹈老师，她带领团队在传统音乐和粤语流行音乐的伴奏下进行舞蹈表演，以庆祝文化、欢乐和社区。
Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon: A Fan Dance Performance
Thursday November 5, 12:30pm – 1pm
Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Free
Join the Chinese Seniors Dance Troupe from the DTES Women’s Centre for a graceful and vibrant fan dance performance set to the Chinese melody Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon. The dancers celebrate beauty, harmony, and cultural tradition through flowing movements and colourful fans. The troupe brings together senior women who find joy, connection, and confidence through dance, creating opportunities for friendship and community building. This performance highlights the talents, creativity, and resilience of Chinese senior women in the DTES while sharing a cherished piece of Chinese cultural heritage.
来自市中心东端（DTES）妇女中心的“华裔长者舞蹈队”将带来一支优雅并充满活力的扇子舞。伴随着大家耳熟能详的中国经典名曲《彩云追月》，舞者们将通过行云流水的动作和色彩斑斓的扇子，演绎对美、和谐以及文化传统的赞美。
该舞蹈队汇聚了一群在舞蹈中寻找快乐、建立联结并收获自信的长者女性，为她们创造了建立友谊和社区凝聚力的宝贵机会。这场演出将不仅展现市中心东端华裔长者女性的才华、创造力与坚韧精神，更与节日的观众们共同分享一份珍贵的中华文化遗产。
Stories of Old
Thursday November 5, 3:30pm – 5pm
Carnegie 3rd Floor Gallery, 401 Main Free
How many stories do you know about the Downtown Eastside? What was Bloody Sunday? How about the Fight to Stop the Freeway? The Raymur Mothers? The Woodward’s Squat? CRAB Park? Were you there? What do you remember? We’ll do the fact checking afterwards. Share stories with Teresa Vandertuin, who for over thirty years has worked, lived and played in the Downtown Eastside, and for over twenty years has worked with the Heart of the City Festival where she heard an infinite number of stories about our community. She will share what she’s heard, and looks forward to hearing the stories you have in your memories. We’ll randomly choose the stories to share.
Solo, Solo, Together
Friday November 6, 1pm – 2pm
SFU Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre
149 W. Hastings Free or by donation.
Tickets: Solo_Solo_Together.eventbrite.ca
All Bodies Dance Project presents a collection of new solo dances. Each work offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s unique perspective, and together these solos form a portrait of a diverse community. Featuring work by Susie Gray, Nico Gruzling, Lance Lim, Peggy Leung, and Old Baby, Solo, Solo, Together celebrates the strength of the individual while asking what becomes possible when we gather our singular experiences together.
1984:AGAIN
Friday November 6, 5pm – 6pm
SFU Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre
149 W. Hastings
$0–$35. Tickets: 1984AGAIN.eventbrite.ca
Big Brother isn’t coming. He’s already here. In Theatre Terrific’s gripping adaptation of Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984:AGAIN, Winston Smith commits the ultimate crime — he falls in love. In a world of absolute surveillance, his forbidden affair becomes a radical act of defiance against the Ministry of Truth. Drawing terrifying parallels to modern-day surveillance, disinformation, and politics, 1984:AGAIN asks: can human connection give us the collective courage to stand together and rebel? Written and directed by Kevin Jesuino, Artistic Director of Theatre Terrific.
House
Friday November 6, 8:30pm – 9:30pm
SFU Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre
49 W. Hastings
$0–$35. Tickets: House_Solo_Play.eventbrite.ca
Jonathon Paterson performs House, the acclaimed solo play by Daniel MacIvor — a cornerstone of contemporary Canadian theatre. With its blend of dark humour, psychological depth, and tour-de-force performance demands, House is a gripping exploration of memory, identity, and the fragile architecture of the self. Directed by Willow Lewmos.
Dispatches
Saturday November 7
1pm – 2:15pm & 5pm – 6:15pm
SFU Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre
149 W. Hastings
$0–$35. Tickets:
www.eventbrite.ca/cc/dispatches-4872800
The new play by Jenny Simpson, Dispatches, follows a woman caught between caring for her dying mother and supporting her niece in crisis. As a disjointed family encounters the threats of addiction, this play offers an intimate portrayal of reconnection and recovery in a system ill-equipped to support them. Dispatches is an unflinching look at the human cost of the ongoing poisoned drug epidemic. Directed by Heller. Cast: Tamara Escamilla, Kimberly Envik-Howard, Ally Rafter, Taea Rattlesnake, Mariska VanVreumingen, and Nick Wangersky.
Street Dance in the Atrium
Saturday November 7, 2pm – 3:30pm
Woodward’s Atrium, 111 W. Hastings Free
Join us for a captivating afternoon of young performers who focus on hip-hop, breaking skills, Afro styles, House dance and high-energy performances. It’s an exciting line-up!
The Now or Never Crew is an intergenerational group of passionate individuals with diverse dance styles and backgrounds, and includes hip hop dancers, breakers, and choreographers, each contributing unique talents and expertise.
I Am The Ibaloi Wanderer is a story about Filipino diaspora searching and longing for belonging. As they wander, they become guests in many cultures, some not as far removed from their own. Choreographer and dancer Mario Matias, with the performing cast Eugenia Vasquez (Giny Mirez), Carrie Gelson, Mariane Leblance, and Winnie Wen.
The afternoon concludes with the Young Reckless Group, from the African Descent Society. These are young people who mostly reside in Strathcona and focus on hip-hop, dance and rap storytelling. They love to dance and perform.
Голоси Духів
Субота, 7 листопада, 15:30–16:30
Вхід – добровільний внесок
Spirit Voices
Saturday November 7, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender
Free or by donation. Tickets: Spirit_Voices.eventbrite.ca
Фольк-опера “Голоси духів” – це твір у процесі створення, що розповідає історію міжгенераційної травми, яка охоплює п’ять поколінь. Поштовхом до цієї історії стала смерть перших трьох дітей Анни Ярецької – української іммігрантки, яка прибула до Канади у 1909 році. Згодом вона народила ще десятьох дітей і пережила великі труднощі та надзвичайно суворі умови життя.
Багато років потому її онука усвідомлює, що травма бабусі є джерелом її власної хронічної хвороби. Разом із цим усвідомленням з’являється можливість звільнення від травми та зцілення для всього її роду. Цей твір є простором для дослідження такого зцілення та зустрічі з ним.
Beverly Dobrinky’s folk opera, Spirit
Voices, is a work-in-progress telling the story of intergenerational trauma spanning five generations. The story is triggered by the death of the first three children of Anna Yarecky, a Ukrainian immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1909. She went on to have ten more children and survived great hardship and harsh conditions. Her granddaughter comes to realize many years later that her grandmother’s trauma is the source of her chronic illness, and with this realization comes the possibility of release and healing for her entire lineage. This work is an exploration and meeting ground for this healing.
LIVE IN HELL
Saturday November 7, 9:30pm – 10:45pm
KW Production Studio, 111 W. Hastings
$0–$35. Tickets: live_in_hell.eventbrite.ca
Marita Michaelis’ LIVE IN HELL is your next problematic fave — a comitragic solo show featuring a self-obsessed and definitely NOT sexy She-Devil. Through pathetic practical magic, crowd work, and puppet therapy, the She-Devil confronts her own iconoclastic celebrity status as the ultimate scapegoat, unboxing her makeshift hellscape and unravelling her psyche. Replete with original songs, joyful transgressions, and crappy splendour, LIVE IN HELL is irreverent and indulgent pageantry at its absolute worst. Winner of Playwright Theatre Centre’s Kathleen Flaherty New Play Prize and presented as part of the 2026 Vancouver Fringe Festival. 19+.
