Nov 16 Double Bill LIVE FROM THE UNDERWORLD II: EURYDICE'S CALLING After its online success, Live From The Underworld II: Eurydice's Calling comes to The Annex Theatre for its first in-person presentation! Audiences will experience innovative motion capture technology coupled with tried-and-true video game tools, to bring visually and musically dramatic avatars into their world. … Continue reading Inferno & Live from the Underworld II: Eurydice’s Calling (Double Bill) →

Hosted by re:Naissance Opera and Vancouver Opera, the IndieArtist Cabaret will showcase local talent from the dance, opera, drag, music, and theatre sectors. Over 120 minutes, each act will present a ten-minute showcase, celebrating the diverse performances available to audiences city-wide. This event provides a platform to have new works at various stages of development … Continue reading IndieArtist Cabaret →

Hosted by re:Naissance Opera and the Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, Imaginarium I: The Liminal is an evening of music and art that will invoke transformations, be it personal, relational, cultural, or communal. This event is a dedicated space for change; it exists between the past we are shifting away from, and the futures … Continue reading Imaginarium Concert I – Curated by Stephanie Wong →

Come join us for night of sweet indie pop beats, burlesque, and house music that guarantees to make you wanna dance. Kelsey Kanatan Wavey is curating this evening local queer talent – come join us Nov 19 at the Fox Cabaret. The Imaginarium’s Creative Series addresses curatorial practices at the festival, and brings in four … Continue reading Imaginarium Concert II -Curated by Kelsey Wavey →

Holding Space, Giving Voice, and Uplifting Black Voices: Exploring Cultural Erasure on Stage, in Community and Creation In this fascinating panel join Minnesota Opera’s Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Rocky Jones, Vancouver’s Queen of Soul Dawn Pemberton, and Toronto-based queer interdisciplinary artist Morgan-Paige Melbourne for a lively and provocative discussion about the state of … Continue reading Panel: Holding Space, Giving Voice, and Uplifting Black Voices →

Come on out to enjoy an afternoon of Indigenous music. Listen to some tunes by local Indigenous artists while enjoying a canapé selection featuring the best flavours from the land and sea catered by Salmon and Bannock. The event is free to self-identified BIPOC & LGBTQ2S+ Peoples, and by donation at three suggested tiers ranging … Continue reading Imaginarium Concert III -Curated by Raven Grenier →

TOUR: By activating the festival venues, dance performers act as tour guides that lead audiences through space, making short stops on the way to share their “instantaneous expertise” on the history of objects, their surroundings, as well as their own bodies and personal histories. Created by Erika Mitsuhashi and Alexa Mardon, TOUR brings attention to … Continue reading TOUR: Created by Erika Mitsuhashi and Alexa Mardon →

Held in partnership with the Association of Opera Canada, re:Naissance Opera’s IndieFest, and Vancouver Opera, this significant convening will be the first in-person, full sector Opera Summit since the start of the pandemic. The Summit will focus on advancing the goals of the AOC’s strategic plan, Resilience through Equity, which centralizes equity, audience growth, new … Continue reading Association for Opera in Canada: Annual Opera Summit →

Presented at the Fox Cabaret, Musique 3 Femme’s SOLO is a tour-de-force double bill for solo unaccompanied voice, featuring Scottish composer Judith Weir’s King Harald's Saga and Love Songs by JUNO-Award winning composer Ana Sokolović. Helming the performance is one of Canada’s leading performers of new works, M3F co-founder and mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff. The production, … Continue reading Musique 3 Femmes: SOLO →

A musical sampling platter of vocal chamber music by nine exciting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour) composers. BIPOC Voices Director Rich Coburn has curated a dynamic program of works from the BIPOC Voices database. All of these works are unrecorded so the music, and in some cases the composers, will be new to … Continue reading Imaginarium Concert IV – Curated by Rich Coburn →

This 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning opera, Angel’s Bone, by Chinese-American Composer Du Yun and Canadian Librettist Royce Vavrek, is a newly-imagined and all-Canadian production debuting at IndieFest 2022. Addressing the trafficking and exploitation of youth in local communities, the story paints a picture of the realities of human trafficking, it also depicts the resilience of … Continue reading Angel’s Bone: Canadian Opera Premiere →

Based on the live performance piece Double Happiness: Detour This Way, this short film traces the migration paths of two families from Southern China through Hong Kong to finally settle in the Pacific Northwest. Featuring 13 original songs by co-leading artists Nancy Tam (A Wake of Vultures) and Robyn Jacob (Only A Visitor), they weave … Continue reading Double Happiness: A Little Detour →