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The Firehall Arts Centre is proud to present the Vancouver premiere of Ridge from Saturday, October 26 to Sunday, November 3. Often called the “battle that made Canada,” Vimy Ridge resulted in over 10,000 Canadian casualties. Through direct storytelling, verbatim theatre and live music, Canadian folk music group The Fugitives
The Firehall Arts Centre is pleased to open its 42nd season with the world premiere of The Biting School’s Empty-Handed from Wednesday, October 2 to Saturday, October 5. Empty-Handed is a contemporary dance piece that explores the journeys of five cosmic characters through themes of darkness, deception, and greed. Audience
The Firehall Arts Centre wraps its 2023-2024 season by welcoming back Cheri Maracle in Paddle Song. Running from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, June 2, this energetic and humorous one-woman musical reflects on the proud legacy of trailblazing Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson. Produced and performed by multi-award nominated performer
"Who fears change Invites greater misfortune, What can one do Against misfortune?" In literature, the strange often happens — a homeowner favors a random acquaintance over their own family, people turn into rhinoceroses, a living person receives a funeral wreath... Or even the devil himself with his entourage might visit
The Firehall is pleased to present Fujiwara Dance Inventions’ Eunoia from Wednesday, May 8 to Saturday, May 11, 2024. Eunoia is a dance-theatre production and adaptation of Christian Bök’s award-winning book of poetry of the same name. It is a conceptual book written in the form of a lipogram where
The Firehall is proud to produce and present Keith Barker’s This Is How We Got Here from Saturday, April 13 to Sunday, April 28. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This Is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family still dealing with the lingering trauma of an unexpected loss. A mother,
The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to present Shay Kuebler’s MOI – MOMENTUM OF ISOLATION from Wednesday, March 6 to Saturday, March 9, 2024. Produced by Radical System Art, MOI – MOMENTUM OF ISOLATION bases its themes around loneliness and isolation to reveal how social bonds and connections are essential
A crowd favourite when it premiered here at The Firehall in 2012 followed by a successful Canadian tour, Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen returns this winter from Saturday, February 3 to Sunday, March 3, 2024. To toast Mr. Cohen’s legacy and their 342 performances of Chelsea Hotel, The
Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing is a cultural gathering regarding the impact of human-made environmental destruction on Mother Earth that invites Knowledge Keepers to share stories as activists and academics to bear witness. Let the community hold us all together as we walk towards what climate justice and
A crowd and critic favourite from the 2023 Vancouver Fringe, The Judge’s Daughter is back - provoking discussion as it dares to question the actions of our BC Supreme Court Judges. There are two ways this could go, and the final scene hinges on the judgement of you, the audience.
The Firehall is pleased to launch its 2023-2024 season with the world premiere of Pedro Chamale’s Peace Country from Thursday, October 12 to Sunday, October 22, 2023. Peace Country is inspired by playwright Pedro Chamale’s upbringing in Chetwynd, B.C. This new work by Chamale is an examination of intercultural friendship,
The Firehall closes its 2022-23 season with the world premiere of rice & beans theatre’s Happy Valley from Thursday, May 25 to Sunday, June 4. Conceived and performed by Sydney Risk Award-winning playwright Derek Chan 陳嘉昊, Happy Valley is a solo, interdisciplinary performance. Through text, song, multimedia and music, Happy
