Our Recommendations
Indulge your appetite for arts and culture.
With so many exciting arts and culture events happening you can feel overwhelmed. The Music on Main Team is here to help! We’ve carefully chosen a list of wonderful digital and live events to discover and experience. Whether you’re looking for a theatrical diversion or a blockbuster art show, some new dance or a classical concerto, our recommendations is a list of must-see events whenever you’re looking for a hit of culture. Make sure to check back often, as we are always scouting fun events that we think you’ll love!
Our Recommendations are must-see events, some from our Vancouver home base and a few from across the globe that we think you’ll enjoy. We’re your trusted source that you’ll want to come back to every time you’re looking for something new and exciting to discover. If you’re looking for only Music on Main events check here.
International Dance Day; Soft Currents: Action at a Distance
Soft Currents is inspired by murmurations – enormous groups of starlings that twist and swirl across the sky in shape-shifting clouds. This unique creation brings together 15 dance artists to explore the idea of collective responsibility. Over the course of one week the performers collaborate together on a series of evolving text and movement-based tasks. The result will be a performance full of spontaneous eruptions, compositions and delights, alternating between collective unison and individual focus, and creating a sense of anticipation from moment to moment.
Soft Currents is created by Vanessa Goodman/Action at a Distance in collaboration with the performers, with original sound by Brady Marks and lighting design by James Proudfoot.
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vAct presents: Love You Wrong Time
Love You Wrong Time delivers a hilarious, no-holds-barred song cycle featuring two friends looking for love while contending with the fetishization of Asian women. Using music, true stories, bar games, and stand up, Maddie Bautista and Deanna H. Choi’s inventive, interactive show serves as a battle cry in the wake of mass violence against Asian femmes, creating a space for rage, grief, tenderness and ruthless comedy.
Conceived, Composed and Performed by Deanna H. Choi and Maddie Bautista
Plastic Orchid Factory: GRAND SAUT
GRAND SAUT produced by Victor Vân Tran / Savage Rock [MST Territories] comprises three distinct dance choreographies developed over three years of intensive dance study and experimentation. It explores new methods for translating street, club and social dance experience onto the stage.
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VAG: Rooted Here: Woven From the Land
Rooted Here: Woven from the Land celebrates the work of four prominent local Salish weavers: qʷənat, Angela George (səlilwətaɬ/Tsleil-Waututh); Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/Squamish); Skwetsimeltxw Willard “Buddy” Joseph (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/Squamish); and Qwasen, Debra Sparrow (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm/Musqueam). The exhibition establishes important contexts for understanding each artist’s career, including the long history of Salish weaving, the rootedness of these traditions in the land and its resources, the interruption of Salish weaving by colonialism and the artists’ significant roles in its contemporary revival and renewal. It also creates an opportunity to better understand the crucial role these artists have played in designing the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new building and the rich significance of its woven surface.
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VIFF Live: Raagaverse Plays Bollywood
Raagaverse is an exciting Indo-Jazz fusion project spearheaded by Shruti Ramani (voice) in a collaboration with the award-winning Jodi Proznick (bass), the supremely talented Noah Franche-Nolan (piano, Nord), and the fiery Nicholas Bracewell (drums). Raagaverse’s music melds ancient and rich Hindustani melodies with dense and dynamic Jazz harmonies.
For this special show, Raagaverse will be delving into the vibrant world of Bollywood, from Lata Mangeshkar classics to A.R. Rahman’s magic. Shruti will share clips from the legendary Bollywood musicals which inspire her, counter-pointing them with the band’s unique take on these songs, in Raagaverse’s iconic jazz quartet sound.
The show will also feature other extraordinary musical guests; Kiarah O’Kane on backing vocals, Thad Bailey-Mai on Trumpet and Curtis Andrews on percussion alongside Raagaverse.
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Vancouver Symphony presents Naomi Woo
Naomi Woo presents a program curated around the exceptional musical world of Hungarian icon, György Ligeti. A passionate advocate of new music, Naomi’s highly anticipated return to Vancouver is sure to delight!
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