Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

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  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Join us for a rare live performance with life partners and creative collaborators Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland for a magical evening of song, story, and shared joy. For over four decades, Canadian composer, singer and songwriter Beverly Glenn-Copeland—the visionary artist, Black trans elder and lifelong musician—has invoked and celebrated the power of community and […]

  • Kiuryaq

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The Northern Lights have always carried stories—frightening, spiritual, epic, and playful. Kiuryaq is a circumpolar performance exploring our relationship with the Northern Lights—“kiuryaq” in Inuvialuktun—created through collaboration among Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from Canada, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), and Sápmi (Norway). At its centre are two siblings born in the North: one raised beneath the Aurora with […]

  • Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. A Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and scholar, Simpson’s work breaks open the boundaries between story […]

  • Split Tooth: Saputjiji

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    From Polaris Prize and Juno award-winning singer Tanya Tagaq comes Split Tooth: Saputjiji, a performance expanding the elemental and poetic world of her beloved book Split Tooth. Neither adaptation nor concert, Split Tooth: Saputjiji is a new language of performance—gathering Inuit throat singers, musicians, and performers within a staged environment that blurs music and memory, landscape and breath. […]

  • Crowd Pleaser: An Evening with Yotam Ottolenghi

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    In Crowd Pleaser, Yotam Ottolenghi blends live cooking, storytelling, and audience interaction in a warm, insightful stage event that explores the pleasures and pressures of feeding others. Seated between an armchair and a cooking station, Ottolenghi unpacks a “Mary Poppins” bag of ingredients while delving into the emotional and practical challenges home cooks face—from impressing in-laws […]

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    Empire of AI: Karen Hao in Conversation with Naomi Klein

    Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Join us for this timely talk where acclaimed author and journalist Karen Hao lays out the stakes of the most consequential tech arms race in history—and the role we all can play to ensure that AI benefits everyone. AI is transforming the world at breakneck speed and concentrating extraordinary power in the hands of a few. […]