Australia’s Hot Brown Honey headlines Femme January

One of the hits of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is coming to Vancouver.

Hot Brown Honey has had two successful runs at the standard-bearing Fringe, including an award for 2016 Total Theatre Award for Innovation. Originally scheduled for just two weeks, presenters the Vancouver East Cultural Centre has added a week of shows. It now runs Jan 9-27, at the York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr.).

In addition, the Cultch is billing Hot Brown Honey as part of a month of programming. Femme January, as its called, includes a couple of other shows.

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Australia’s Hot Brown Honey headlines Femme January

Innovative Noh Chamber Opera Comes to Vancouver’s Cultch

Featured image of model Noriko Cool by Trevan Wong

One of the most exciting parts of living in and visiting Vancouver is witnessing the incredibly rich East/West cultural collaborations that occur in the city.

This season, The Cultch will host the world premiere of a ground-breaking and emotionally charged noh chamber opera, presented by TomoeArts.

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Innovative Noh Chamber Opera Comes to Vancouver’s Cultch

Gender Non-Conformists’ November Show in Vancouver is Gonna Be Much More than “Pretty Good”

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By Casey Stepaniuk

This November, my absolute dream queer literary event—and possibly yours too—is coming to Vancouver. Local storyteller Ivan Coyote and Toronto-based artist Vivek Shraya are teaming up for a multi-disciplinary show called Pretty Good, combining their various talents as writers, poets, storytellers, and musicians. It’s a short-running show, visiting only Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, and Edmonton, as if it’s some sort of special gift for western Canada! Pretty Good will feature these two talented artists as “they revisit family origins, sing about scars and skeletons, and perform brand new material from their new books.” Another queer Vancouver author, Amber Dawn, will be joining Ivan and Vivek as a guest.

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Gender Non-Conformists’ November Show in Vancouver is Gonna Be Much More than “Pretty Good”

Hit The Motherload At The Cultch – The Ultimate Moms Night Out

Motherload | Image: The Cultch

Motherload | Photo: The Cultch

If you liked the movie Bad Moms, then you’ll love this play about modern motherhood and the hilarity and harsh realities of parenting in this generation. Filled with tear-jerking, mom-twerking, knee-slapping tales, Motherload speaks to every mom who has ever  struggled to find balance, friendships, and themselves in today’s digitally-focused world of parenting.

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Hit The Motherload At The Cultch – The Ultimate Moms Night Out