The Firehall Arts Centre is launching its 37th anniversary season with SpeakEasy Theatre’s powerful and provocative comedy, The Shipment opening on September 25, 2019.
Cast of The Shipment. Photo by Jens Kristian Balle
The Shipment at Firehall Arts Centre
When: September 25 to October 5, 2019 Where: Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova, Vancouver) Tickets: From $20 online or call (604) 689-0926
Written by Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee, The Shipment is a subversive modern minstrel show about Black identity meant to wake the world to the ridiculous narratives in dominant media.
Five Black actors – Andrew Creightney, Chris Francisque, Omari Newton, Adrian Neblett, and Kiomi Pyke – play a roster of characters that reads like a bad b-list of Black iconography: Video Ho, Crackhead John, Bad Cop, Standup Comedian, Drug Dealer Mama, Grandma from Heaven, and Record Company Executive, to name just a few. The brazen mash-up of these stereotypes with clichés, distortions, and brilliant sleights of hand all force us to go beyond the lampoon and shift the lens through which we perceive race in order to confront our own bias.
Garnering five Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards nominations and a Best Actor win for Omari Newton, The Shipment is biting satire at its very best.
Win Tickets
I have a pair of tickets to give away to opening night on September 25th. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Follow the Firehall Arts Centre on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram along with SpeakEasy Theatre on Twitter and Facebook for more info.
Summer isn’t over yet, in fact some of the very best events of the year are just beginning! Aside from some family fun at local farms, the PNE, and upcoming festivals, Miss604 is proud to sponsor this Friday and Saturday’s Richmond World Festival. This event and many more Vancouver Labour Day Long Weekend activities follow below:
Festivals of dancing, writing, theatre, improv, and design pepper the Vancouver event landscape this month. We kick off September with a holiday and the wrap of the PNE Fair, and in between Miss604 is proud to sponsor Maker Faire Vancouver (September 14, 2019), the Tri-City Culture Days (September 27-39, 2019), the Canuck Place Gift of Time Gala (September 21, 2019) and the Vancouver International Film Festival (September 26 to October 11, 2019). All of these and more September events in Metro Vancouver can be found below:
Feast of Fields is FarmFolk CityFolk’s annual local food celebration and fundraiser, held each year on a different farm in the Okanagan Valley, in Metro Vancouver and on Southern Vancouver Island. The past 24 years have seen 58 Feasts – 24 in Metro Vancouver, 21 on Vancouver Island, 10 in the Okanagan, and 3 in the Sea to Sky corridor. Entering its 25th year, the Metro Vancouver edition will be held at a farm in Richmond for the first time.
Feast of Fields 2019
Where: Rabbit River Farms (17740 River Rd, Richmond) When: Sunday, September 8, 2019 1:00pm to 5:00pm Tickets: Adults $99; youth aged 13 to 18 $45; children aged 6 to 12 $15. Click here to purchase »
Join the fun at Rabbit River Farms in Richmond for this wandering gourmet harvest festival that highlights the connection between farmers and chefs, field and table, and between farm folks and city folks.
The delicious, one-day-only alfresco party will transform a bucolic section of the popular organic egg producer’s property into a wandering gourmet buffet, complete with around 50 carefully curated food and drink stands.
I have a pair of tickets to give away! Here’s how you can enter to win:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Sunday, September 1, 2019. Follow the Feast of Fields event on Instagram as well as FarmFolk CityFolk on Facebook and Twitter for more info.
The Richmond World Festival takes place this Friday and Saturday (August 30-31, 2019) at Minoru Park in Richmond and I’m giving you the chance to win a VIP experience!
The festival will feature over 100 artists performing on 8 stages, serving up rich slices of African, Asian, North and South American, European, South Pacific and Caribbean cultures.
Win a VIP Experience at Richmond World Festival
This festival of music, arts, food and culture from around the globe is already pretty amazing, but how would you like $50 in vouchers to spend at the vast selection of food trucks and a meet and greet with Friday’s headliners, Bedouin Soundclash?
Richmond World Festival – Bedouin Soundclash
Formed nearly two decades ago, and named after Israeli dub artist/producer Badawi’s 1996 release of the same name, Bedouin Soundclash debuted in 2001 with the album Root Fire. Their acclaimed sophomore release Sounding a Mosaic (2004) featured the hit single, “When the Night Feels My Song” and was produced by legendary punk-hardcore royalty Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains. The album earned Bedouin Soundclash their first JUNO Award in 2006 for Canada’s ‘Best New Group.’ Their follow-up album, Street Gospels (2007) also produced by Jenifer, earned a “Pop Album of the Year” nomination and “Video of the Year” nomination for the single “Walls Fall Down” at the 2008 JUNOs as well as three Much Music Video Award nominations for their video for “Until We Burn in the Sun” in 2009. In their long career, the band has shared the stage with the likes of The Roots, No Doubt, Ben Harper, Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails, Damian Marley, Gogol Bordello and Thievery Corporation, among others.
In 2010, the band released their fourth studio album, Light the Horizon, which included the singles “Mountain Top,” “Elongo,” and “Brutal Hearts”– the latter featuring French-Canadian singer-songwriter Coeur de pirate. And now, after a seven year hiatus, the band re-emerges ready to release their fifth studio album +MASS- set for release in early 2019.
Here’s how you can enter to win $50 in food truck vouchers and a meet and greet on Friday, August 30, 2019:
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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, August 29, 2019.
Richmond World Festival 2019
When: Friday, August 30, 2019 4:00pm to 10:00pm Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:00am to 11:00pm
Where:Minoru Park & Richmond Cultural Centre Plaza (7191 Granville Ave, Richmond)
