Drawing PostSecret at Firehall Arts Centre (Vancouver) - MV50
Michael Markowsky draws the empty stage during the intermission of PostSecret the stage show at Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC ( Video shot on February 19th and edited by Michael Markowsky on March 20th, 2016.
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“Song for a Secret” by Jim Reid is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
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The Good Bride Trailer - Firehall Arts Centre and Alley Theatre
Check out our new trailer for The Good Bride by Rosemary Rowe - a Firehall Arts Centre and Alley Theatre Production!
Playing at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova St, Vancouver, BC from Feb. 27 - Mar 9, 2019.
Call 604-689-0926 or visit firehallartscentre.ca for your tickets!
Tatsuya Nakatani @ the Firehall Arts Centre Aug. 4th 2018
Powell Street Festival 2018
Special Spaces - Karissa Barry at the Firehall Theatre
Dancer: Karissa Barry
Location: Firehall Theatre, 280 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC
Music: Tick of the Clock by The Chromatics
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The Tashme Project: The Living Archives Trailer
THE TASHME PROJECT comes to the Firehall Arts Centre, April 2 - 13.
The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is an award-winning verbatim theatre play that traces the history and common experience of the Nisei (or 2nd Generation Japanese Canadians) through childhood, WW2 internment and post-war resettlement east of the Rockies. The Nisei, now in their 70’s and 80’s, were children at the time of internment and their stories of adventure and play are presented in sharp relief with the more common internment narratives of hardship and injustice.
Made up of 20 interwoven interviews with Nisei from Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Montreal and Vancouver, the piece moves from voice to voice, story to story with fluidity and with a purposeful and constructed gracefulness.
Written and performed by Matt Miwa and Julie Tamiko Manning, The Tashme Project is an embodiment of Nisei character, language, spirit and story. The actors portray the voices of both men and women interviewees as they seek a deep emotional and spiritual connection with the stories of their elders.
April 2-13
Tues @ 7pm | Wed – Fri @ 8pm | Sat @ 3pm & 8pm | Sun @ 3pm | Wed @ 1pm PWYC (Apr 10)
Firehall Arts Centre
280 E Cordova St
Vancouver BC
Tickets from $20.00
Get your tickets at: tickets.firehallartscentre.ca
Trailer produced by VideoCompany.ca
The Shipment
THE SHIPMENT
By Young Jean Lee
Playing at the Firehall Arts Centre
Sept 24 - Oct. 5
Tickets available at
“A PROVOCATIVE COMEDY TO SHAKE THE WOKE”
-The Georgia Straight
The Firehall Arts Centre is thrilled to launch its 37th anniversary season with SpeakEasy Theatre’s powerful and provocative comedy, The Shipment.
Written by Korean-American playwright Young Jean Lee, The Shipment is a subversive modern minstrel show about Black identity meant to wake the world to the ridiculous narratives in dominant media. Five Black actors – Andrew Creightney, Chris Francisque, Omari Newton, Adrian Neblett, and Kiomi Pyke – play a roster of characters that reads like a bad b-list of Black iconography: Video Ho, Crackhead John, Bad Cop, Standup Comedian, Drug Dealer Mama, Grandma from Heaven, and Record Company Executive, to name just a few. The brazen mash-up of these stereotypes with clichés, distortions, and brilliant sleights of hand all force us to go beyond the lampoon and shift the lens through which we perceive race in order to confront our own bias.
“Young Jean Lee is one of America’s most fearless and exciting playwrights,” says Firehall Arts Centre’s Artistic Producer, Donna Spencer. “In her writing, she is not afraid to tackle difficult subject matter and does so with humour and intelligence. When SpeakEasy Theatre first produced The Shipment, I was privileged to sit in a sold-out performance and watch the audience shift in their seats, uncomfortably, and then laugh out loud a few moments later. The work engaged them and made them consider. I am proud to share this playwright’s work and this talented company of artists with Firehall audiences.”
Garnering five Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards nominations and a Best Actor win for Omari Newton, The Shipment is biting satire at its very best.
“Bold, honest and hilarious.” – Vancouver Presents!
“…a surrealist collage.” – Colin Thomas
Credits for The Shipment
Written by: Young Jean Lee
Performances by: Andrew Creightney, Chris Francisque, Omari Newton, Adrian Neblett, and Kiomi Pyke
Directed by: Kayvon Khoshkam and Omari Newton
Set & Costume Design by: Markian Taraskiuk
Lighting Design by: Itai Erdal
Produced by: Markian Tarasiuk
ABOUT YOUNG JEAN LEE
Young Jean Lee has been called “hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by the New York Times, “one of New York’s smartest, thorniest, and most knockdown hilarious playwrights” by The Guardian, and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by Time Out New York. She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Her plays have been published by TCG (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays, The Shipment and Lear) and by Samuel French (Three Plays by Young Jean Lee). She is currently under commission from Plan B/Paramount Pictures, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, and has an MFA from Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College. She has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, NYFA, NEA, NYSCA, the Jerome Foundation, The Fox Samuels Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Rockefeller MAP Foundation. She is also the recipient of two OBIE Awards, the Festival Prize of the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award.
ABOUT SPEAKEASY THEATRE
It’s with great urgency our present culture needs the live experience to help connect, question and remember why we are alive. SpeakEasy Theatre is committed to creating an environment where communities come together to celebrate. We are driven to foster stories created by diverse artists who are immediate, honest and unforgiving.
Check out some press and reviews from when The Shipment originally played at the Vancity Culture Lab:
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Spooky Action trailer
SPOOKY ACTION
Lesley Telford/Inverso Productions
Playing at the Firehall Arts Centre
Oct. 16 - 19
Tickets available at
An interdisciplinary dance project inspired by particle entanglement
Spooky Action is inspired by Einstein’s famous phrase referring to particles that are so closely linked, they share the same existence. A collaboration with poet/performer Barbara Adler, this interdisciplinary work weaves together visual art, contemporary dance, poetic storytelling and original composition to extend the theory to human connections. In the full length work, all mediums are exploring the quantum property of entanglement by turns intricate, mysterious, refined, and dryly witty. Spooky Action brings together thought-provoking dance and engaging narrative to probe the mysterious ways we act on each other’s lives.
“Telford has a profound way of tapping into emotional and intellectual landscapes. She’s an exciting voice to watch as we go forward in this next generation of choreographers.” – Emily Molnar, Ballet BC
“Lesley Telford and Inverso use quantum physics as their conceptual seed. …The resultant performance was just as intriguing as the premise. The piece was beautifully choreographed and gracefully executed. The ebb and flow of energy from one dancer to another was tantalizing.” – Vancouver Arts Review
Collaborators
Performers: Stéphanie Cyr, Eden Solomon, Brandon Alley, Lucas Wilson-Bilbro
Apprentices: Anya Saugstad, Beth Durnie
Text: Barbara Adler
Composer: James Meger
Lighting: Alan Brodie
Production Manager: Heidi Quicke
Inverso Productions
Founded in Madrid in 2012 by choreographer Lesley Telford, Inverso is now a Vancouver-based company. It is a platform for exchange, creating dance through the lens of other art forms. This platform aims to develop collaborative ventures with the goal of creating and building interdisciplinary works alongside other artists. Inverso focuses on choreography as a method of conversation and exchange; between art forms, between dancers, dancers and the physical environment on stage, words and movement, movement and light, collaborators and technologies – fundamentally with the goal of pushing the artistic practice.
Lesley Telford
Lesley Telford is a Vancouver-based choreographer who has returned to her hometown after a career in Europe spanning 20 years, where she danced and choreographed with Netherlands Dans Theater 1 and Compañia Nacional de Danza. She is the artistic director of Inverso Productions and also leads the Performance Research Project for emerging artists at Arts Umbrella. Lesley has refined a choreographic approach that is sensitive to the minute relationships between performers and between performers and their environment. Her work brings together a technically rigorous vocabulary with devotion to an unforced ‘liveness’ that embraces in-the moment reactivity and attunement to sensation. She has choreographed over 20 dance works internationally, including one full length work that she produced through her company Inverso Productions along with Korzo Productions. She has been commissioned to create works for Ballet BC, Netherlands Dans Theater 1, Hubbard Street Dance Company 2, Compañia Nacional de Danza 2 (Spain), Ballet Vorpommern (Germany), International Project for Dance in Rome-DAF (Italy), Butler Ballet (US) and an upcoming work with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
JeffaCubed - Water (Firehall Arts Theatre)
Live performance (May 31, 2013) of 'Water' at the Firehall Arts Theatre, North Delta, BC.
Good Bye Dollface | LightBox @ Firehall Arts Centre (12/05/12)
Caroline Liffmann and Lina Fitzner: dance and projections | Lee Hutzulak: music and documentation. The rainbow effect in this video was a pleasant surprise and perfect compliment to the mood of the piece. Staged for The Firehall Arts Centre 2012 ed. of BC Buds.
Fire Hall - Port Angeles - Most Endangered Properties 2014
The Port Angeles Fire Hall stands as a reminder that not all visions are implemented as planned. Designed by Seattle architect William Aitken and completed in 1931, the Art Deco Fire Hall was the first of three contiguous buildings that were to serve collectively as a city-government campus. Budget realities during the Depression, however, forced city leaders to scrap plans for the additional buildings, leaving the Fire Hall to serve triple-duty as the permanent home for the Fire Department, the City Council Chambers and the city jail. The Fire Department used the building until the 1950's, at which point new equipment and firefighting technologies required the department to relocate to a larger facility nearby. But the Fire Hall remained in active use, serving as a juvenile home, Port Angeles' first YMCA, the city Sanitation Department, a Senior Center and, until closing in 2006, a popular café.
The Fire Hall is located on soft and moisture sensitive soils, creating a concern of foundation settling and possible erosion and seismic related problems. In addition, the building's envelope is no longer weatherproof, contributing to interior deterioration. Recent assessments place the cost for core and shell upgrades at over $1 million dollars, with full restoration likely to cost double that. Undaunted, city and county officials continue to champion rehabilitation and reuse of the structure. Together with the former Carnegie Library (now the Clallam County Historical Museum) and the historic Clallam County Courthouse, in 2011 the Fire Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Port Angeles Civic Historic District, the only National Register-listed historic district within the city's core. Returning the Fire Hall to active use would not only restore the vision city leaders had nearly a century ago, it would complement the positive effect the Port Angeles Downtown Association has had in its efforts to revitalize and enhance the city's Main Street business core.
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Parallel Lines at Firehall Theatre in Vancouver B.C
Video filmed by Andy Mons. Part of a half hour show. Theme based on mother/daughter relationships. Interdisciplinary performance written by Angela Brown & Kaija Pepper. Directed and choreographed by Angela Brown. Staring Rhonda Shultz (musician/singer) and Cory Caulfield (singer/dancer).
Beth Southwell: Lake Ontario at the Firehall Arts
Beth Southwell sings Lake Ontario at her CD Release concert on June 22nd at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver BC. She is performing with Jesse Waldman on guitar, Michael Rush on bass, Monica Lee on viola and piano, Michael Simpsonelli on drums, Meghan Engel on violin and saw and back up singers Christie Rose and Bahiyyih Peters.
Historic North Delta's Firehall Centre for the Arts plowed down
The historic Firehall Centre for the Arts, built in 1968, met its fate as a Case hydraulic excavator plows it down to make room for the construction of two apartment buildings in North Delta, BC, Canada on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017.
© 2017 Sanjib Dutta
The 502-square-meter (5,400 square feet) wood-frame building was built in 1968 as a Fire Hall. It was re-purposed to an arts centre by volunteers in 2001. The centre housed a theater, gallery and multi-purpose area.
The historic site faced the wrecking ball after the Corporation of Delta sold the plot to a developer to build two six-story townhouses. Money from the land sale will be used to construct a new arts and culture centre adjacent to the North Delta Recreation Centre.
The replacement cultural facility will be about 9,000 square feet in size. It will house a community theatre with seat capacity of 120. The facility will have spaces for set preparation, storage and practice. It will host council, community and public meetings. There will be an area for music lessons - both instruments and vocal, areas for art shows, multipurpose rooms and a social gathering space.
Powell Street Festival Society
The 39th Annual Powell Street Festival
Saturday, August 1st & Sunday, August 2nd, 2015
11:30am to 7:00pm
Oppenheimer Park (400 block of Powell Street)
Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Street)
Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (475 Alexander Street)
Vancouver Buddhist Temple (220 Jackson Avenue)
Centre A (229 E. Georgia Street)
Mark Takeshi McGregor, Artistic Director
I Live Still (highlights)
I LIVE STILL
An Afro Contemporary Dance
Testament Triumph Resilient Struggle of the Human Spirit
Length of Full is Piece 30mins
Directed by Marion Landers
Choreography by Marion Landers and Robert Halley
*this video is from the 2011 BC BUDS SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL performed at The Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marion Landers and Robert Halley draw upon their respective South African and Guyanese heritage and their professional experience with African and Contemporary dance to explore new territory together. They are interested in creating works that speak to the relevance of African heritage within history and current affairs of artistic and cultural traditions. Works that are meaningful of this great diverse nation, Canada, and for the care and respect we need to show the African continent in these trying times.
In I Live Still, Landers and Halley explore an Afro-Contemporary movement vocabulary, creating motifs of everyday life and relationships, including the regal and sensual body of the African woman and the traditional boundaries of the compound. These boundaries, or markers of traditional African life, are antagonized and frayed by an unexpected invader and the horrors of war.
Dance sequences highlight strength, perseverance, struggle and the delicate balance of human relationships, in which the love of brother and sister, husband and wife can brutally overlap with that of soldier and victim.
I Live Still is dedicated to the people of the Southern Sudan, with particular reference to their Referendum and speaks Universally to strength and resilience of the human spirit
For Performance, Workshop bookings and other inquires please contact:
Marion Landers: moelanders@hotmail.com
Robert Halley: robertexpression@gmail.com or visit alignmentofsource.com
'Stanley Kubrick' by @JeffaCubed (Firehall Arts Theatre)
Live 'premiere' performance (June 28, 2013) of 'Stanley Kubrick' by @JeffaCubed - Firehall Arts Theatre, North Delta, BC.
šxʷʔam̓ət (Home) 2018 Webcast
šxʷʔam̓ət (home) is Theatre for Living's 2017/2018 production: an audience interactive play on Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities that toured across BC and Alberta, ending with 9 shows at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. The webcast was on March 10th, 2018.
Lasqueti Island's New Multi-Functional Healthcare Facility
With a population of just under 450 permanent residents, Lasqueti Island opens the doors to its very own Health Care Centre, privately funded by the community.
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The way they walked through the world - Caitlin Griffin
Created by Caitlin Griffin. Promotional trailer for The Firehall Arts Centre's BC Buds 10th Annual Spring Art Festival in Vancouver BC.
Performances May 9 and 10th, 2014. Music: Kevin MacLeod, Lost Frontier
what is maladjusted?
Community workshop participants talk about the process behind Theatre for Living's main stage production Spring 2012, entitled maladjusted.
For more information about maladjusted theatreforliving.com
maladjusted is playing Tues-Sun at 8pm until March 24, 2013 at the Firehall Arts Centre 280 E Cordova st Vancouver BC.
Tickets are $12 + service fees. To purchase tickets contact the Firehall Arts Centre box office 604-689-0926 or firehallartscentre.ca