Queen of the Night Dinner and Concert Gala

Laudate Singers’ delicious evening of song, buffet dinner and fun. Opera-themed costumes welcome! Silent auction. Laudate Singers will regale you with choruses and arias from Don Giovanni, Tosca, Turandot, La Traviata, La Bohème and more. Doors & silent auction open – 6pm | Music begins – 6:15pm | Buffet Dinner – 7:15pm A dramatic evening […]

Textile Narratives | Exhibition

Artists and communities have been using textiles to tell stories for thousands of years. This exhibition invites makers and artists who work with fibre, textiles, and surface design to rescue, repurpose, and recycle material to tell stories, communicate thoughts and ideas, and to convey messages and memories. Through weaving, repurposing, and stitching, textile prompts us […]

Debbie Tuepah / Salish Sea, J35 Less 1 | Exhibition

Debbie Westergaard Tuepah is a Surrey-based visual artist who uses primarily yarn, paint, found, and ready-made objects to consider the conceptual and embodied experience of information in relation to contemporary issues and events. Tuepah’s 3-dimensional works comprise of networks of material representing systems, modes of measurement and visceral realities. Tuepah’s interest in information and data […]

Jodi Picoult in Conversation with Marsha Lederman

Join beloved novelist and the bestselling author of twenty-five books, Jodi Picoult, for an evening in conversation with Globe and Mail journalist, Marsha Lederman, about her latest release, A Spark of Light. This powerful, provocative new novel explores the results of a heart-stopping event, when a gunman opens fire on Mississippi’s sole remaining women’s reproductive […]

Kate Atkinson in Conversation with Alix Ohlin

From the international bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson comes Transcription, a new novel that explores the repercussions of one young woman’s espionage work during World War II. She will speak with UBC’s Chair of the Creative Writing Program, Alix Ohlin, about her latest work, her inspiration and her career to date. The winner of the […]

Jazz Vespers (‘Worship And All That Jazz’)

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Monthly Jazz Vespers, featuring some of Vancouver’s finest jazz musicians This month we welcome Linda Szentes and Jazzlinks with Linda on vocals; Ron Sluyter on piano; Johan Worst, bass, and Zoltan Kollar on drums. A collection during the service will be in support of our Jazz Vespers ministry. 

Journey of a Salmon Art Exhibition | September 22 – October 13

This multi-disciplinary exhibition will explore and record the epic journey of salmon, engaging the viewer in an incredible story of life, death, and rebirth in British Columbia. Each year, salmon return to their place of birth, traversing the Pacific Ocean, up river rapids and streams to reproduce and then die, sustaining the flora and fauna […]

Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

Presented by “Players & Singers” The greatest masterpiece of the English Baroque, Dido and Aeneas has some of the most wonderful characters and arias in the operatic repertoire. Based on the Virgil epic, the story recounts the brief courtship between Queen Dido of Carthage and Prince Aeneas of Troy.  TWO PERFORMANCES – 3pm and 8pm […]