Performance Events 2023
The 2023 festival will kick-off with a local film maker’s special evening, First Festival Films on October 13, followed by retrospective tributes to Coast Music and Dance. The festival presents Joni Mitchell, the Reprise, October 14 & 15, and the return of an annual favourite, a legacy dance event that hasn’t been presented since 1996, the Celebration of Dance, on October 28. These events will bookend two small-stage One Man Shows featuring Lucas Foss and Steve Schwabl. The festival will wrap on Oct. 31 with the second annual eclectic outdoor Samhain Parade and Carnival - a public costumed parade from the Seaside Centre to performances at Hackett Park.
Scroll down for more information on these events.
Covering Joni - The Reprise
A celebration of our beloved Joni Mitchell’s art and music during her 80th birthday year! Originally presented in 2013, this special anniversary concert will feature an outstanding cast of vocalists and musicians including: Bill Barclay, Trudi Diening, Sasha Fassaert, Keely Halward, Wendy Hibberd, Martinez, Graham Ord, Janet Panic, Patrice Pollack, Ross Powell, Rebecca Shoichet, Paul Steenhuis, Randall Stoll, Charlie’s Friends drum corps, and the Sunshine Coast Children’s Choir. Event completed.
coming this weekend!
Celebrating the past 30 years of Sunshine Coast dance, from its traditional beginnings to today’s diversity, this special multi -media dance event pays tribute to the dancers, choreographers, and mentors who helped to create our current vibrant Coast dance community.
Featuring performances by: Sylvain Brochu, Maria Avila, Brittany Robertson, Brooklyn Turner, Anna Kotai, Makenzi Harris, Andrea Villaneuva, Peter Reznick, Connor Dixon, Eibhlin Minastis and more.
~ GALA RECEPTION SATURDAY OCTOBER 28 | 6-7PM ~
Ticket holders may Join us PRE-SHOW between 6-7pm as The Sunshine Coast Dance Society hosts a champagne reception in the Ravens Cry foyer prior to the the doors opening for the 7:30pm show.
TWO SHOW TIMES: 2PM AND 7:30PM
Saturday, Oct 28 | 2pm
ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE $30 PURCHASE HERE | Door $35 (cash only)
Saturday, Oct 28 | 7:30pm
ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE $30 PURCHASE HERE | Door $35 (cash only)
Raven’s Cry Theatre, 5559 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Sechelt
Little Voices | AWARD-WINNING Small stage drama
Little Voices with Lucas Foss is an off-beat, original, and charming one-man play exploring the inner dialogue of an aging couch potato trying to make something more of himself. Caught between his voice of comfort and his voice of truth, he asks himself the big questions: Can he find love and still get home in time for his favourite TV shows? Should he spend more money on cigarettes - or that copy of Soulful Sex at the alternative book store? As he proceeds on his plodding but highly amusing journey, hazarding relationship counselling with his girlfriend, Cheryl, and coming face to face with his deepest fear at a men’s retreat, our very ordinary “hero” discovers his true, and not so ordinary self. ( WINNER: BEST COMEDY Award, and Special Merit 1999 Theatre BC Canadian National Playwright Competition). TWO SHOWTIMES / LIMITED SEATING. Event completed.
coming this week!
Showing size | small stage drama
One man revolts against the cyber giants of the new world order. Steven Schwabl stars in this one-man play by Gordon Halloran.
On the cusp of a new millennium, the career of a powerful, charismatic trader is threatened by the onset of internet trading. In a desperate attempt to survive a digital Armaggedon, he launches an act of sabotage that triggers a battle for control of the world’s largest financial exchange. LIMITED SEATING!
Thurs OCT 26 | 7:30PM
ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE $20 PURCHASE HERE | DOOR $25 (CASH only if seats available)
SEASIDE CENTRE, 5790 TEREDO ST (Limited seating)
CASH BAR AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE (WITH ID)
ANNIE SHEA | Special literary performance
Caitlin Hicks performing excerpts from the comedy Six Palm Trees and her award winning novel A Theory of Expanded Love and her latest 1968 sequel Kennedy Girl.
SUNDAY, OCT 29 | 3:30PM
ADMISSION: FREE ADMISSION WITH $5 REFUNdABLE REGISTRATION FEE REGISTER HERE
SEASIDE CENTRE, 5790 TEREDO STREET
coming Tuesday October 31!
Samhain Parade and Carnival - Oct 31
Celtic and Latin Culture collide in a fantastical parade and stage show of costumes, live music, shadow puppets, and fire dancing. This colourful festival finale event will honour the annual life and death cycle of the fall harvest on October 31st in a unique new way.
Halloween night we will rendezvous at the Seaside Centre for “Catrina” face-painting (spaces limited and on a first-come basis).
Then at dusk (6PM), the Samhain/Dia De Los Muertos inspired street parade of Latin Catrinas, pagan forest people, roving minstrels, and other ghoulish characters (anyone can join in - costumed or not) will parade to Hackett Park, serenaded by Caravan Paradiso, for a folkloric play by Shadow Circus Puppet Theatre followed by the return of the Cool Heat Fire Dancers. Pre-show at Hackett Park by Susana Williams.
Artist Gerardo Avila and his team of puppeteers will present the folkloric Latin tale of Malinche. Her transformation from villain to hero is told through mime, shadow theatre, and music by Caravan Paradiso and Susana Williams.
schedule
3:30pm-5:30pm: Free Catrina face painting, Seaside Centre (first come, first painted!).
5:30pm: Pre-show music at the Hackett Park Bandstand with Susana Williams.
5:30pm: Assemble for parade at Seaside Centre – public welcome! Costumed or come as you are. Come Parade with us!
6pm: Parade from the Seaside Centre to Hackett Park led by Caravan Paradiso.
6pm-8pm: At the Hackett Park Bandstand. Shadow puppetry by Shadow Circus Puppet Theatre with more music from Caravan Paradiso with Susana Williams, followed by the Cool Heat Firedancers.
Tuesday, Oct 31 | 6pm-8pm
Admission: Free
SEASIDE CENTRE, 5790 Teredo Street and hackett park, 5765 Dolphin Street
Aided and abetted by our friends from Rogue Fest.
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