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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221117
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SUMMARY:Inferno & Live from the Underworld II: Eurydice's Calling (Double Bill)
DESCRIPTION:Nov 16 Double Bill \n\nLIVE FROM THE UNDERWORLD II: EURYDICE’S CALLING\nAfter 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. Bringing together professionals from the opera\, theatre\, dance\, hip-hop\, and video game industry\, this cross-sector collaboration results in a genre-defying work that redefines opera for the modern age. \nSuitable for all ages\, this experience can be enjoyed by folklore and fantasy lovers\, opera goers and gamers\, and beyond! \nINFERNO\nInferno is a new hip-hop opera in development by IndieFest 2022 resident artist\, Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie. The workshop blends hip-hop\, rap\, beat boxing\, sampling\, R&B\, and contemporary opera in celebration of BIPOC voices. The story reimagines ‘Dante’s Inferno’ as a feminist\, anti-establishment\, anti-collonial allegory\, with the story’s framed layers of Hell representing oppressive systems of power. By analyzing the presence of Paradiso on this historical work\, and by pairing opera’s high stakes and emotional richness with hip-hop’s text driven\, poetic aesthetics\, this musical fusion will ultimately culminate in an illustration of paradise for BIPOC people and communities. \nThis is an accessible performance space. \nTickets\n 
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/live-from-the-underworld-eurydices-calling/
LOCATION:The Annex\, 823 Seymour St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 3L4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221118
DTSTAMP:20221020T161107Z
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SUMMARY:IndieArtist Cabaret
DESCRIPTION: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 seen and supported by the greater artistic community. \nIf you love variety\, daring artists and illuminating works\, you’ll love the IndieArtist Cabaret! \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/indieartist-cabaret/
LOCATION:The Fox Cabaret\, 2321 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221119
DTSTAMP:20221020T163442Z
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SUMMARY:Imaginarium Concert I - Curated by Stephanie Wong
DESCRIPTION: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 we are dreaming up. In a curated evening of nostalgic foods\, reflective musings\, and explorative art forms\, The Liminal holds space for the familiar and the unknown. Join us on November 18th\, where we will honor the discomfort of transition\, while celebrating this present moment of introspection\, connection\, and dreaming. \nThe Imaginarium’s Creative Series addresses curatorial practices at IndieFest\, and brings in four new BIPOC festival curators to curate one performance project each. These conversations will culminate in a series of community events that will take shape as either an in-person performance\, a generative workshop\, or a community panel. \nLearn More\n  \nTickets\n\nCurator\nStephanie Wong
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/imaginarium-concert-i-curated-by-stephanie-wong/
LOCATION:Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden\, 578 Carrall St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6B 5K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
DTSTAMP:20221020T162354Z
CREATED:20221011T155413Z
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SUMMARY:Imaginarium Concert II -Curated by Kelsey Wavey
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe Imaginarium’s Creative Series addresses curatorial practices at the festival\, and brings in four new BIPOC festival curators to curate one performance project each. These conversations will culminate in a series of community events that will take shape as either an in-person performance\, a generative workshop\, or a community panel. \nLearn More\n  \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/imaginarium-concert-ii-curated-by-kelsey-wavey/
LOCATION:The Fox Cabaret\, 2321 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221120
DTSTAMP:20221020T181242Z
CREATED:20221011T155849Z
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SUMMARY:Panel: Holding Space\, Giving Voice\, and Uplifting Black Voices
DESCRIPTION:Holding Space\, Giving Voice\, and Uplifting Black Voices:\nExploring Cultural Erasure on Stage\, in Community and Creation \nIn 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 Black Opera and performance in North America and the way forward to end cultural\, urban erasures in communities of colour. \nModerated by Debi Wong (re:Naissance) and Ashley Daniel Foot (Vancouver Opera) \nTickets\n 
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/rocky-jones-panels/
LOCATION:Strathcona Community Centre\, Senior’s Room\, 601 Keefer St\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A 3V8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTSTAMP:20221103T231727Z
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SUMMARY:TOUR: Created by Erika Mitsuhashi and Alexa Mardon
DESCRIPTION: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 the discomfort that comes along with witnessing facts and reality treated with irreverence. How do the institutions we inhabit every day impose their realities and histories upon us? How might we gesture towards other ways of inhabiting them? \nTOUR (NOV 20) is an intimate event with two show times: 7:00pm & 8:30pm. Limited spots are available so reserve your tickets today! \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/tour-created-by-erika-mitsuhashi-and-alexa-mardon/
LOCATION:Vancouver Opera\, 1945 McLean Dr\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5N 3J7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTSTAMP:20221020T161936Z
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SUMMARY:Imaginarium Concert III -Curated by Raven Grenier
DESCRIPTION: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 from $10-$30. It is being curated by Raven Grenier\, a Gitxsan and Cree contemporary dance artist and will take place on November 20th at the Annex\, on the traditional\, ancestral\, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. \nThe Imaginarium’s Creative Series addresses curatorial practices at the festival\, and brings in four new BIPOC festival curators to curate one performance project each. These conversations will culminate in a series of community events that will take shape as either an in-person performance\, a generative workshop\, or a community panel. \nLearn More\n  \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/imaginarium-concert-iii-curated-by-raven-grenier/
LOCATION:The Annex\, 823 Seymour St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 3L4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221125
DTSTAMP:20221011T155412Z
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SUMMARY:Association for Opera in Canada: Annual Opera Summit
DESCRIPTION: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 works\, and decent work environments as key conditions to developing a more resilient opera sector. \nThis is a full-sector event\, open to all individual\, artist\, and organizational members of Association for Opera in Canada\, and their staff and faculty. Join your colleagues in examining new ways forward to rebuild and reimagine a more resilient and equitable opera sector. \nWho should attend? \n – Opera companies and their staff and board\n – Opera artists\n – Agents and managers\, and other sector support services and businesses\n – Educational institutions – opera schools and performance training programs\, and their students and faculty. \nRegister\n  \n\n 
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/association-for-opera-in-canada-annual-opera-summit/
LOCATION:Vancouver Playhouse\, 600 Hamilton Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 3L4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221124
DTSTAMP:20221023T213301Z
CREATED:20221011T155412Z
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SUMMARY:Musique 3 Femmes: SOLO
DESCRIPTION: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\, which features stage direction by Jennifer Szeto\, premiered in 2022 at the Watershed Festival in Kingston and was subsequently described by the Kingston Theatre Alliance as the “modern opera the world needs” \n“This production will serve as my debut as a stage director. What more can I say? It’s delightful to explore storytelling from this creative angle (which in opera is so deeply intertwined with and inseparable from the music itself\, so much so it seems absurd that stage and music direction are considered different “entities”). This experience is made even more special by the chance to collaborate in a new way with my colleague Kristin Hoff\, who is a wondrously talented and generous collaborator” – Jennifer Szeto \n  \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/musique-3-femmes-solo/
LOCATION:The Fox Cabaret\, 2321 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3C9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221124
DTSTAMP:20221020T161709Z
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SUMMARY:Imaginarium Concert IV - Curated by Rich Coburn
DESCRIPTION: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 you. But each speaks with a unique and compelling voice. And each has a body of work in the BIPOC Voices database. If something speaks to you\, they have operas and works on every scale for you to discover there! \nThe Imaginarium’s Creative Series addresses curatorial practices at the festival\, and brings in four new IBPOC festival curators to curate one performance project each. These conversations will culminate in a series of community events that will take shape as either an in-person performance\, a generative workshop\, or a community panel. \nLearn More\n  \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/imaginarium-concert-iv-curated-by-rich-coburn/
LOCATION:Vancouver Playhouse\, 600 Hamilton Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 3L4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221125
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221128
DTSTAMP:20221019T163658Z
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SUMMARY:Angel's Bone: Canadian Opera Premiere
DESCRIPTION: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 survivors and the journey of reclaiming one’s power. With this national collaboration between re:Naissance Opera\, Sound the Alarm Music/Theatre\, Loose Tea\, Arraymusic\, and Turning Point Ensemble\, this production champions social change more readily through bold and creatively charged storytelling. \nLearn More and Buy Tickets\n  \n\n 
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/angels-bone-canadian-opera-premiere-nov-26/
LOCATION:The Annex\, 823 Seymour St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 3L4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221127
DTSTAMP:20221109T182027Z
CREATED:20221011T155412Z
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SUMMARY:Double Happiness: A Little Detour
DESCRIPTION: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 through history with an art-pop aesthetic. With its premiere at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre\, Double Happiness: A Little Detour retells personal and communal stories of migration from the Chinese diaspora in a contemporary context. Following the screening will be a panel featuring the creative team about the film’s creative process and the significance to Vancouver’s Chinatown. \nTickets
URL:https://reopera.ca/event/double-happiness-a-little-detour/
LOCATION:Chinatown Storytelling Centre\, 168 E Pender St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6A 1T3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IndieFest 2022
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