Festivals & Events in Metro Vancouver

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Did Vin hack your account?

You think Granville Street is a sparkling example of fun? Cuz Council seems to think so, everything they offer up an idea to make Vancouver more 'fun" it seems to involve that bridge & tunnel favourite.

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by whatnext

You think Granville Street is a sparkling example of fun? Cuz Council seems to think so, everything they offer up an idea to make Vancouver more 'fun" it seems to involve that bridge & tunnel favourite.

Granville Promenade this year was great

[Vin]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Oh really? Is Metrotown hosting the Santa parade this year?

If the Santa parade is the only cultural entertainment event or venue for you, your life is very sad indeed.

Originally Posted by GenWhy?

All those corporate HQs in the mall

No, but their many subsidiaries and branches are making loads of money for the city of Burnaby, a municipality barely considered a suburb of Vancouver.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Vin

If the Santa parade is the only cultural entertainment event or venue for you, your life is very sad indeed.

You're the one that responded to the parade cancellation with your usual drivel.

Originally Posted by Vin

No, but their many subsidiaries and branches are making loads of money for the city of Burnaby, a municipality barely considered a suburb of Vancouver.

LMAO.

[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by Vin

If the Santa parade is the only cultural entertainment event or venue for you, your life is very sad indeed.

So in other words, not having the Santa parade doesn't affect the CoV's culture or entertainment at all.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Vin

No, with restrictions on how our city, especially our downtown is constructed, combined with the anti-business environment, we are not getting enough big companies headquartered here, and hence very little participation from the little we have. Hence other cities get yearly sponsorship of events, whereas ours is pretty dismal. We all know Council has no money to fund or fix anything, so let's not pretend they area able to. Perhaps in the future CAC money should also go into festive event allocations?

Well, if it's big companies with their headquarters that make things like the Santa Claus Parade happen, the Seattle Parade must be awesome! Will you be going and posting pictures?

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by Changing City

Well, if it's big companies with their headquarters that make things like the Santa Claus Parade happen, the Seattle Parade must be awesome! Will you be going and posting pictures?

Their xmas thing kinda sounds like the xmas market we have by the waterfront. Personally I still can't apprecaite anything xmas here when it's above zero.

[whatnext]

Bummer, I always like the Auto Show as a chance to check out new models without sales people glomming onto you:

2023 Vancouver International Auto Show cancelled due to supply chain issues
By Darrian Matassa-Fung Global News
Posted December 7, 2022

Organizers for the 2023 Vancouver International Auto Show announced Wednesday that the show is cancelled.

The reason for the cancellation: ongoing supply chain issues within the automobile sector.

“For the last several months, we have been working with vehicle manufacturers and other partners in anticipation of returning in-person to celebrate the 100 edition in the traditional auto show in March,” said Blair Qualey, the New Car Dealers Association of BC’s president and CEO.

“Unfortunately, ongoing global supply chain issues mean that a number of manufacturers and distributors are not in a position to commit to participating in many North American auto shows, including Vancouver.”...

https://globalnews.ca/news/9331865/2...how-cancelled/

[SpongeG]

fully charged live is coming to Vancouver in September.

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[trofirhen]

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of emphasis on music festivals in Vancouver. The Vancouver Festival, decades back, started splendidly with wonderful classical music.
What happened in the interim? I cannot understand why there is not more emphasis on, and appreciation of, classical music in Vancouver, be it symphony, chamber music, opera, choir, or any other expression of timeless music. Look to Seattle for examples. Now there is a city that appreciates music and does it well, IMHO

[Conrad Yablonski]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of emphasis on music festivals in Vancouver. The Vancouver Festival, decades back, started splendidly with wonderful classical music.
What happened in the interim? I cannot understand why there is not more emphasis on, and appreciation of, classical music in Vancouver, be it symphony, chamber music, opera, choir, or any other expression of timeless music.

I was a big supporter of early music through the 80's but a number of poorly produced concerts (I'm looking at you CBC) put paid to that.

And I thought about switching to something more mainstream back when the Vancouver Symphony was in crisis but the laughable 'talent' on stage put me off permanently if I wanted to listen to the Timmins SO I'd move there.

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Look to Seattle for examples. Now there is a city that appreciates music and does it well, IMHO

Seattle is a dirty dump.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Conrad Yablonski

I was a big supporter of early music through the 80's but a number of poorly produced concerts (I'm looking at you CBC) put paid to that.

Seattle is a dirty dump.

Maybe it is, but their music scene is much more developed than Vancouver's. Ask anybody (just about).

[FarmerHaight]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Maybe it is, but their music scene is much more developed than Vancouver's. Ask anybody (just about).

Maybe because Seattle has twice the population and Seattle's benefactors have much deeper pockets?

[CivicBlues]

Originally Posted by FarmerHaight

Maybe because Seattle has twice the population and Seattle's benefactors have much deeper pockets?

Seattle MSA: 4,018,762
Vancouver Metro: 2,642,825

1.52x actually.

[NewfBC]

It's Vancouver.. we can't have nice things.

No Christmas Parade
No Stanley Park Train

etc. etc.

Ron.

[mcj]

Originally Posted by FarmerHaight

Maybe because Seattle has twice the population and Seattle's benefactors have much deeper pockets?

Seattle's metro area in 1990 had a slightly smaller population than we do now in Metro Vancouver. It's not like they only developed their music scene since then.

The deeper pockets is true, but there's plenty of deep pockets that exist here.

Vancouver earned its' "no fun city" moniker by shutting down venues and clubs and centralizing them all to Granville street. There's some great guerilla-style efforts being made like sofarsounds but there's a true lack of venues throughout the city, and especially the suburbs. Surrey is effectively the same population as Seattle proper was in the year 2000, yet has ZERO appreciable live music venues.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of emphasis on music festivals in Vancouver. The Vancouver Festival, decades back, started splendidly with wonderful classical music.
What happened in the interim? I cannot understand why there is not more emphasis on, and appreciation of, classical music in Vancouver, be it symphony, chamber music, opera, choir, or any other expression of timeless music. Look to Seattle for examples. Now there is a city that appreciates music and does it well, IMHO

The Vancouver Festival was a financial disaster - when it was wound up in 1969 it had debts of $350,000 (that would be nearly $3m in today's dollars). That set the context for a lot of potential projects for many years. Vancouver arts agencies frequently over-estimate the interest in their field, and so end up closing, or significantly downsizing. Ballet BC went into receivership in the 2000s. The VSO was in receivership in the late 1980s. The various iterations of Vancouver Opera have been wound up several times over the years. (and it's not just music - the BC Lions were in receivership in the 1990s).

Today's classical music scene seems pretty healthy. There are at least 25 orchestras, opera companies and choirs performing in a variety of venues including the Orpheum, the Chan Centre, the VSOs space, and several of the city's churches. They all seem to have survived the pandemic, despite the interruption to most of their revenue generating activities.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The Vancouver Festival was a financial disaster - when it was wound up in 1969 it had debts of $350,000 (that would be nearly $3m in today's dollars). That set the context for a lot of potential projects for many years. Vancouver arts agencies frequently over-estimate the interest in their field, and so end up closing, or significantly downsizing. Ballet BC went into receivership in the 2000s. The VSO was in receivership in the late 1980s. The various iterations of Vancouver Opera have been wound up several times over the years. (and it's not just music - the BC Lions were in receivership in the 1990s).

Today's classical music scene seems pretty healthy. There are at least 25 orchestras, opera companies and choirs performing in a variety of venues including the Orpheum, the Chan Centre, the VSOs space, and several of the city's churches. They all seem to have survived the pandemic, despite the interruption to most of their revenue-generating activities.

I stand corrected. Thank you for that information.

[GenWhy?]

I don't know how old y'all are but Vancouver proper has a very vibrant music scene of most genres. How do we lack a music scene or festivals?

[WarrenC12]

Seattle punches above its weight in economics and arts.