Where to See Christmas Theatre & Live Music in Vancouver This Holiday Season

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For many, the holiday season means going out and seeing some of your favourite Christmas-themed shows, concerts, theatre, and music performed live to best get in a festive mood before the big day. Be sure to check out six of Vancouver’s most cheerful seasonal performances in person coming this winter.

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Where to See Christmas Theatre & Live Music in Vancouver This Holiday Season

The VSO presents the most unique and fun way to watch the holiday classic, Home Alone!

VSO Home Alone

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Even though Rotten Tomatoes has ranked “Home Alone” as the 52nd best Christmas movie out of 55 (um, excuse me???) It still ranks highly in most people’s hearts as one of the best movies of the holiday season.

This month, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is giving us one of the most unique and fun ways to watch the classic movie this December 18 & 20th at the Orpheum Theatre.

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The VSO presents the most unique and fun way to watch the holiday classic, Home Alone!

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs to thousands at free, outdoor concert

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Last year, thousands gathered at Sunset Beach for the first annual Symphony at Sunset, a free, open-air concert taking place in Downtown Vancouver.

For 2019, the Symphony is back for another year of beautiful music by the beach. Last year, more than 14,000 people attended the free concert at Sunset Beach. This year, it is expected that even more people will attend, so organizers are working to ensure that the event will remain free and accessible for music-lovers of all ages.

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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs to thousands at free, outdoor concert

Thorgy Thor and the Vancouver Symphony Team Up

By Rachel Rosenberg

Drag is finally getting its long-deserved moment in the mainstream spotlight. A incredibly creative art form, many queens have to be skilled in fashion, makeup artistry, lipsyncing, comedy and branding. The reality television series RuPaul’s Drag Race has introduced 140 queens to audiences over 11 seasons, and as the show has grown in popularity, there has been a wider variety of queens playing with the traditional camp vs. pageant drag queen form. Thorgy Thor is a brilliant example of this mix; a classically trained musician who spoke yearningly about performing in drag with an orchestra (“thorchestra”) during her time on the show.

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Thorgy Thor and the Vancouver Symphony Team Up

Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend

It’s festival time this weekend! Dine Out Vancouver begins with special menus and events across the city, the PuSh festival is on the scene with genre-bending performances, the VSO is presenting new music, and there’s a Hot Chocolate Festival to keep you warm in between. If it happens to be a clear night on Sunday, get your chocolate to-go and look up to see a full lunar eclipse.

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Things to Do in Vancouver This Weekend

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to Host Two Free Outdoor Concerts this July

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in the Park

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The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) is hosting two exciting events this summer as part of their free outdoor concert series.

On Sunday, July 8, the VSO will host their incredibly popular ‘Symphony in the Park’ outdoor concert at Deer Lake Park. Then the VSO will host their first ever ‘Symphony @ Sunset’ on Saturday, July 14 at Sunset Beach in English Bay!

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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to Host Two Free Outdoor Concerts this July

Harry Potter, Like You’ve Never Seen Before… With a Live Orchestra!

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Almost everyone can recognize the iconic soundtrack of the extremely successful Harry Potter movie franchise. Play a few seconds of the bars of the opening and you can’t help but picture yourself in a world of witchcraft and wizardry.

From Thursday, July 5 to Saturday, July 7, 2018 the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will be bringing the Harry Potter soundtrack to life with a live performance of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Concert, the fifth film of the series.

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Harry Potter, Like You’ve Never Seen Before… With a Live Orchestra!