Shiamaks cherry blossom
Dance without worry and celebrate life in the World Umbrella Dance! Sign up now to be part of hundreds of dancing umbrellas at the 麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery Plaza on April 13 as part of the 麻豆传媒映画Cherry Blossom Festival. No experience necessary. The awesome Shiamak Davar Dance Company will teach their Bollywood choreography in rehearsals starting Feb. 26 in preparation for the spectacular event. You must pre-register because there is a limited number of spaces. The cost, which includes this unique PoP-Art designer umbrella by 麻豆传媒映画artist Anthony Redpath, is $25. Umbrellas are available now for pick-up at VanDusen Garden Shop (5251 Oak) or The Urban Tea Merchant (1070 W. Georgia). Event tickets and registration at VCBF.ca. In the meantime, tickets for Shiamaks Spring Funk at the Bell Performing Arts Centre on March 16 are available on .
Get intimate with art
This year the Boca Del Lupo series includes a performance in a box (The Performance Art Trap), an imagined journey across the Pacific as experienced from inside a shipping container (The Voyage), social acupuncture (Advice From Teenagers) and a tiny fantastic world in paper (The Icebook). Up first, The Icebook is a miniature theatre show made of paper and light. An exquisite experience of fragile paper cutouts and video projections that sweep you into a fantasy world. Children are welcome. Show runs Feb. 27, 28 and March 1, 2 at The Anderson Street Space on Granville Island (1405 Anderson). Tickets: $10 (plus processing fee and HST) Performances at 7pm, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30.
Pictured: Davy and Kristin McGuire, the creators of The Icebook
Winterruption
Rain? Winter? Forget about them this weekend when Granville Island celebrates Winterruption. Highlights include Vive Vendredi; Street Eats & Beats, featuring Vancouvers top food trucks and music; a kids zone; a Coastal Jazz and Blues Society mini jazz fest; an [ART]ifects studio tour; a behind-the-scenes look at the Arts Clubs costume shop; and a kids performance of The Cat in the Hat.
Best-known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, Art Spiegelman is one of the most respected comic artists/illustrators in the world. In CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, the 麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery presents a retrospective of Spiegelmans 40-year career. Thanks to the artists relationship with the gallery and senior curator Bruce Grenville, visitors will be treated to this first retrospective of the cartoonists work until June 9. Spiegelmans career spans the underground comix movement of the 60s and 70s to the anthology Raw to the Holocaust memoirMaus to covers for New Yorker magazine and his response to 9/11, In the Shadow of No Towers. .
Pictured: Art Spiegelmans The Bastard Offspring of Art and Commerce from Lead Pipe Sunday.
