Below is our listing of upcoming local lesbian events in Vancouver. These Vancouver queer women events have something for everyone, and are updated on a regular basis by someone who lives in Vancouver. Check back often!
After ironing out some wrinkles, the Womyn's Dance is once again ready to rock! All LGBT welcome for a night of dancing, laughter, good vibes and friendly faces featuring the popular dj annie mayhem.
We offer a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, food service till 11 p.m., fully licensed bar, nearby transit and plenty of parking. So please do join us, and remember that your participation is what keeps these events going.
Tickets at the door starting at 9 p.m. Dancing starts at 9 p.m.
Interested in getting involved with the non-profit organization that organizes the Vancouver Dyke March and Festival each year during Pride week? Want to see what's involved in organizing the event? Here's your chance!
The AGM will begin at 12pm. Please arrive 10-15 mins early.
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Watari
251 E 11th St, between Main & Kingsway, Vancouver
As part of International Women's Day 2010, we (North Shore Women's Centre) will be presenting our 6th annual benefit production, Crimson Cabaret: Celebrating Creative Women on Saturday, March 20th, 2010.
As many of you know, that because of on-going funding cutbacks to social services and advocacy groups this year, we strongly rely on the success of our Crimson Cabaret event to assist us in meeting the needs of women in our community by sustaining our Centre's programs and services for the year ahead. Recent news from the UN documents the "systemic erosion" of women's status in Canada -- dropping in the gender gap index from 14th position in 2006 to 25th position in 2009. With BC having the highest poverty rates among provinces in Canada, women are increasingly disadvantaged and facing more precarious situations.
We have appreciated your support in the past, and this year we need your participation more than ever! Please consider purchasing tickets to attend the show on March 20th, for yourself, your friends and family. And if you are unable to attend - consider buying a ticket anyway and we can pass it along to someone who cannot afford one. If you have not been to the show before - don't miss another year!
Crimson Cabaret provides a unique opportunity to come together to help support women in our communities. As well, it gives you the chance to watch a series of spectacular performances by talented artists! From African drumming to comedy, belly dance to opera - this event represents the wide spectrum of our local community artists at their best - diverse, multicultural and breathtaking.
Tickets Available at:
1.) North Shore Women's Centre - 131 East 2nd Street, North Vancouver
(Mon.-Thurs., 10 am - 5 pm); 604.984.6009, info@northshorewomen.ca.
Cash, cheque and VISA accepted.
2.) Centennial Theatre - 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver
(Mon.-Sat., 12 noon - 5 pm); 604.984.4484, www.centennialtheatre.com.
Cash, VISA and Mastercard accepted.
Tickets available at Ticketmaster, or Charge by Phone 604-280-4444
Tickets (incl. GST) $36.50
(Plus FMF & Service charges)
TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE AT HIGHLIFE, RED CAT RECORDS, LITTLE SISTERS BOOKSTORE AND Wireless Box OfficeTM*
Rogers customers text ‘TIX’ to 4849 Rogers pays your service charges for tickets purchased on your Rogers Wireless phone.
**GENERAL ADMISSION /19+**
After nearly two decades since launching their career with their independently released debut album, Strange Fire, and entertaining millions of fans with 10 major-label studio albums, Grammy-winning duo, the Indigo Girls are back with a new album and performance at the Commodore Ballroom.
The new album, Poseidon And The Bitter Bug, reunites Emily Saliers and Amy Ray with veteran producer, arranger and keyboardist Mitchell Froom (Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, Los Lobos and others), who worked on the Indigo Girls’ acclaimed 2006 release, Despite Our Differences. Longtime bassist Clare Kenny, drummer Matt Chamberlin and engineer David Boucher make up the rest of the core band but the sound is pure Indigo Girls, with uplifting, effortless harmonies; honest, passionately involved lyrics and infectious melodies.
One thing the Girls have done differently on Poseidon is include a second CD that features acoustic versions of all the songs, plus a bonus track, “Salty South.” It’s a chance for listeners to hear stripped down, organic versions of the songs – just the Girls in a room with a few mics – before the arrangements changed with the addition of the band.
With a Grammy, six Grammy nominations and a legacy of releases and tours behind them, the Indigo Girls have outlasted many of their peers and forged their own way in the music business. They’ve always thought independently, and have always balanced their commitment to music and performing with an unwavering commitment to social, political and environmental issues – Ray and Saliers don’t just talk the talk; they walk the walk. In 1991, Ray and Saliers co-founded the non-profit organization Honor the Earth to raise awareness and financial support for indigenous environmental justice, and over the years they have supported groups fighting for women’s rights, civil rights for same-sex couples, and the abolition of the death penalty as well as voter registration.
Beautiful Dreamers is a film and live performance cabaret of new feminist avant-garde art. From surrealism to science fiction, from macabre to the erotic, this event showcases women who conjure the unexpected, the beautiful and the somewhat odd.
These short films and cabaret performances deeply probe and play with non-(Western)traditional, non-formulaic narratives from Vancouver and Canada's most edgy, ingenious women artists. You won't see "talking head" documentaries or classic love stories here. Expect mythology and magic, femme monsters and unlikely heroines, burlesque and a dash of the perverse, and, of course, expect feminist voices heard in new and unexpected ways.
Curated and hosted by Amber Dawn, Director of Programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
Filmmakers:
Asa Mori
Dana Claxton
Penny Lane
Amber Dawn
Kathryn Jean
Thirza Cuthand
Julie Atlas Muz
Shawna Dempsey
Lorri Millan
Divya Mehra
Freya Bjorg Freya
Leslie Loksi Chan
and more...
Live Performers:
VaVa Vunderbust
Little Woo
Luisa Jojic
April O'Peel
Jonie Gyoza
Morgan Brayton
Edward Malappropriate
Namchi Bazar
and more...
DJ/soundscape artist: Iffer
*Vancity is a wheelchair accessible venue with one wheelchair accessible, gender-neutral washroom and several chair-accessible seating spaces inside the theatre. Volunteers are available to assist with seating arrangements.
The first feature-length documentary on gay and lesbian identity, Word is Out (www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/word-is-out-stories-of-some-of-our-lives) is "an electric piece of living history . . . The silence of gay people on screen is finally broken" (The Advocate).
Quite possibly as relevant today as it was on its debut more than 30 years ago, Word Is Out: Stories Of Some Of Our Lives is an important film. Offering a vastly different perspective on gay and lesbian identity in America than was common view at the time, the film presents 26 diverse gay and lesbian individuals who, with profundity, honesty and humour, describe their struggle to live a decent life in America despite prejudice, discriminatory laws and society’s unwillingness to treat them with respect and equality.
From Tede Bond's declaration, "We're all born naked and anything anybody wears at any time is drag," to George Mendenhall's first step into gay culture, "With twenty dollars in my pocket, I took a Greyhound bus to San Francisco, ran into a police officer and asked 'Where's a gay bar?'" Word is Out is sure to engage and intrigue.
-CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES -
"A stunning documentary...unquestionably a landmark film." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"An affectionate, stirring and witty film . . . A remarkably coherent chronicle of what it is like to grow up different in America." - David Ansen, Newsweek
"The most intelligent, telling, cinematic look to date at the homosexual experience in America." - John Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle
-EXCERPTS FROM WORD IS OUT: STORIES OF SOME OF OUR LIVES -
"I thought I was just one of those people who could never love anybody. When I fell in love with Henry ... it meant I was human." - David Gillon
"Pretty soon all the girls were French-kissing on the couch and all the boys were dancing to slow Rock and Roll. I loved it!" - Nick Dorsky
"There were court-martial trials, and your friends were testifying against you, that yes, they had seen you necking with a woman." - Pat Bond
A Folktronica Collection ... world and folk meets elctronica and groove
In a world of musical cliches, Lentic is exactly the kind of music that rewards discerning fans, and Ember Swift remains exactly who she is, an extraordinary artist producing extraordinary work.
The legendary, raucous, rowdy performance gang, Sister Spit, creeps up on the CAN/US border Saturday, April 10th with a vanload of queertastic brilliance! Don't miss this multimedia explosion of zinesters, fashion plates, slam poets, novelists, performance artists, poets and fancy scribblers. Featuring queer luminary Michelle Tea, legendary trans film director and screenwriter Silas Howard, queer graphic novelist and anti-racist activist Elisha Lim, lesbian slam-poet/performance artist Lenelle Moise, trans psychic memoirist Len Plass, queer zinester/portraitist/graphic novelist Nicole J. Georges, and Power Point loving shape-shifter translady Annie Danger!!
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A lesbian sci-fi romp through space, Antarctica, and a microwave oven - all comedy, all camp.
A group of female astronauts voyage to a far-off moon system to help populate a space resort, only to find themselves aimlessly adrift when their ship collides with unexpected wreckage. Their complications are further interrupted by malfunctioning Sex Drive Implants, creating a Sapphic love boat of moaning and unzipped space suits. To make matters worse, the only people who have a chance on saving them is a dysfunctional Midwestern family back on Earth, headed by a spaced-out housewife. A hilarious comedy, Brides of the Moon surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection.
This play is a sci-fi comedy from the razor-sharp satirists, The Five Lesbian Brothers, and produced by a multi-award winning theatre group, The Leaping Thespians. It is a bawdy, dystopic and subversive comedy.
Really, it's all shits and giggles.
WARNING: Adult content, lewd language and ridiculously bad simulated sex.
Tickets $18 in advance: www.leapingthespians.ca
$20 at the door, available after 7:30pm on the day of the show.
A lesbian sci-fi romp through space, Antarctica, and a microwave oven - all comedy, all camp.
A group of female astronauts voyage to a far-off moon system to help populate a space resort, only to find themselves aimlessly adrift when their ship collides with unexpected wreckage. Their complications are further interrupted by malfunctioning Sex Drive Implants, creating a Sapphic love boat of moaning and unzipped space suits. To make matters worse, the only people who have a chance on saving them is a dysfunctional Midwestern family back on Earth, headed by a spaced-out housewife. A hilarious comedy, Brides of the Moon surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection.
This play is a sci-fi comedy from the razor-sharp satirists, The Five Lesbian Brothers, and produced by a multi-award winning theatre group, The Leaping Thespians. It is a bawdy, dystopic and subversive comedy.
Really, it's all shits and giggles.
WARNING: Adult content, lewd language and ridiculously bad simulated sex.
Tickets $18 in advance: www.leapingthespians.ca
$20 at the door, available after 7:30pm on the day of the show.
A lesbian sci-fi romp through space, Antarctica, and a microwave oven - all comedy, all camp.
A group of female astronauts voyage to a far-off moon system to help populate a space resort, only to find themselves aimlessly adrift when their ship collides with unexpected wreckage. Their complications are further interrupted by malfunctioning Sex Drive Implants, creating a Sapphic love boat of moaning and unzipped space suits. To make matters worse, the only people who have a chance on saving them is a dysfunctional Midwestern family back on Earth, headed by a spaced-out housewife. A hilarious comedy, Brides of the Moon surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection.
This play is a sci-fi comedy from the razor-sharp satirists, The Five Lesbian Brothers, and produced by a multi-award winning theatre group, The Leaping Thespians. It is a bawdy, dystopic and subversive comedy.
Really, it's all shits and giggles.
WARNING: Adult content, lewd language and ridiculously bad simulated sex.
Tickets $18 in advance: www.leapingthespians.ca
$20 at the door, available after 7:30pm on the day of the show.
A lesbian sci-fi romp through space, Antarctica, and a microwave oven - all comedy, all camp.
A group of female astronauts voyage to a far-off moon system to help populate a space resort, only to find themselves aimlessly adrift when their ship collides with unexpected wreckage. Their complications are further interrupted by malfunctioning Sex Drive Implants, creating a Sapphic love boat of moaning and unzipped space suits. To make matters worse, the only people who have a chance on saving them is a dysfunctional Midwestern family back on Earth, headed by a spaced-out housewife. A hilarious comedy, Brides of the Moon surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection.
This play is a sci-fi comedy from the razor-sharp satirists, The Five Lesbian Brothers, and produced by a multi-award winning theatre group, The Leaping Thespians. It is a bawdy, dystopic and subversive comedy.
Really, it's all shits and giggles.
WARNING: Adult content, lewd language and ridiculously bad simulated sex.
Tickets $18 in advance: www.leapingthespians.ca
$20 at the door, available after 7:30pm on the day of the show.
A lesbian sci-fi romp through space, Antarctica, and a microwave oven - all comedy, all camp.
A group of female astronauts voyage to a far-off moon system to help populate a space resort, only to find themselves aimlessly adrift when their ship collides with unexpected wreckage. Their complications are further interrupted by malfunctioning Sex Drive Implants, creating a Sapphic love boat of moaning and unzipped space suits. To make matters worse, the only people who have a chance on saving them is a dysfunctional Midwestern family back on Earth, headed by a spaced-out housewife. A hilarious comedy, Brides of the Moon surprises with poignant portraits of lost souls reaching for connection.
This play is a sci-fi comedy from the razor-sharp satirists, The Five Lesbian Brothers, and produced by a multi-award winning theatre group, The Leaping Thespians. It is a bawdy, dystopic and subversive comedy.
Really, it's all shits and giggles.
WARNING: Adult content, lewd language and ridiculously bad simulated sex.
Tickets $18 in advance: www.leapingthespians.ca
$20 at the door, available after 7:30pm on the day of the show.
Havana Restaurant and Gallery
1212 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
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