There is not much that gladdens my heart more than to see churches gathering together, in the midst of the broader community. That’s what will be happening this Sunday (June 18) at the Point Grey Fiesta Ecumenical Service. (Even better,…
For years, Pacific Theatre has offered the always-sold-out Christmas Presence, in which a rotating series of musical guests celebrate the birth of Christ with songs, readings and other merriment. This year, they have introduced Testament, which will no doubt become…
This is the first time in about 40 years that I have seen an all-woman troupe perform drama. Strangely enough, then it was Shakespeare’s Hamlet, performed to music by the Takarazuka Revue in Tokyo. (They’re still going after almost 100 years.) We had tickets at…
The C2C Network is known for planting churches – but with Multiply 2017 (February 8 – 9 at Westside Church) it is sharing some of its speakers and expertise with churches which are already established. The Multiply Conference has been…
Kaitlin Williams‘ dramatic gifts were evident to my wife when her Sunday school class developed a skit to enliven a lesson. So it has been a pleasure for her to see Kaitlin mature into a serious actor and now, in Pacific Theatre’s latest…
Pacific Theatre will be creating a little corner of Ireland over the next month, in their production of Outside Mullingar. But it took playwright John Patrick Shanley many decades to warm to such an undertaking. He said in a 2014…
Margaret Ritchie and Soran Nakai attended Suitcase Stories by Maki Yi together on opening night (October 28). Margaret has written a review, followed by Soran’s interview with the playwright. Suitcase Stories is a Canadian-Korean woman’s first person account of her…
St. James Anglican Church will take an active role in the 13th Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival by hosting an art show which will reflect this year’s approach: The theme of this year’s festival, Living on Shared Territory,…
Snauq was the name of the Squamish village at Kits Point, before the Kitsilano Indian Reserve was created in 1876. By 1913 the Native population had been pressured to move from the area. That history has been largely overlooked – I certainly never…
Several local churches will be taking part in Good Seed Sunday April 23 with A Rocha Canada. The Christian conservation organization is sponsoring a “time for Christians across Canada to honour the Creator as they celebrate and care for creation” on the Sunday following…