The Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival is underway! Over the past 24 years this annual event has evolved into a much anticipated local institution and major tourist attraction for our town. Artists from around the world have joined Victoria’s most talented performers in this 11 day theatrical showcase running August 26 – September 5 at various [...]
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By Philip Pierce | September 3rd, 2010 | Leave a comment
This summer’s Ballet Under the Stars festival draws to a close with a night of new beginnings for the Canadian Pacific Ballet. It’s Co-Artistic Director Roberta Taylor’s time to shine as this performance showcases her choreography through five completely new and very diverse works. From clean, musically illustrative classicism to dance theatre of an operatic [...] By Philip Pierce | August 25th, 2010 | Leave a comment
Photo By Tim Bracken – Victoria Shakespeare Society The Victoria Shakespeare Society is back with its eighth annual “Shakespeare in the Summer” festival. They present two shows this year: “Richard the Third” and “The Taming of the Shrew”. You may be wondering, is [...] By Philip Pierce | August 12th, 2010 | Leave a comment
Photo By Tim Matheson In this Canadian classic, writers John Gray and Eric Peterson explore the life of Canadian fighter pilot William Avery Bishop and his accomplishments during WWI. The play humanizes the “hero” and examines Canada’s [...] By Philip Pierce | August 6th, 2010 | One comment
Photo courtesy of The Canadian Pacific Ballet Tonight’s must see is Ballet Under the Stars: Dochas and mixed repertoire performed by the Canadian Pacific Ballet. It is a fantastic sampling of artistic director Roberta Taylor’s choreography interwoven with a well [...] By Philip Pierce | July 27th, 2010 | 3 comments
Forty years ago, the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss coined the term “the raw and the cooked ” to describe the dichotomy between what is found in nature (raw), as opposed to that which is a product of human culture (cooked). Lévi-Strauss felt that this duality exists in all societies to varying degrees, and that human [...] By Daniela Cubelic | July 9th, 2010 | Leave a comment
The grand finale is a dramatic fireworks show in the magnificent Inner Harbour at 10:20 pm, but there is so [...] By Daniela Cubelic | June 30th, 2010 | One comment
By Daniela Cubelic | March 31st, 2010 | 5 comments
Enjoying matcha tea inside the styrofoam tearoom Great New Wave is an exhibit of contemporary art that recently opened at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and I have to admit to being completely swept away by it. [...] By Daniela Cubelic | February 16th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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