Senior $32 | Grades 8-12 Student $5 Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director […]
Keywork Productions presents Free admission | Tickets by donation. 10,000 Gifts is a story about a small Cowichan Valley School trying to reimagine what school can be. With well over 10,000 years of ancestry in the valley, Quw'utsun elders walk alongside the students and staff of Q’shintul (Mill Bay Nature School) guiding and demonstrating the […]
The Cowichan Hospice Society presents Single tickets will be on sale Saturday, January 28 at 10am. Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) directs this beautifully crafted and achingly touching crowd-pleaser about an unconventional family formed under the strangest of circumstances. Making an effortless transition from Japan to Korea, Kore-eda revisits themes dear to him — forsaken childhood, adoption, […]
The Cowichan Hospice Society presents Single tickets will be on sale Saturday, January 28 at 10am. The life, music, and activism of legendary Indigenous singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie are explored in this documentary that is as captivating as its subject, who smashed through barriers to become an inspiration to fans and fellow musicians alike. This well-researched […]
Senior $32 | Grades 8-12 Student $5 Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of […]
Senior $32 | Grades 8-12 Student $5 One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make […]
The Cowichan Hospice Society presents Subscribe to all 5 shows for $70! Blind Ambition follows four friends who have conquered the odds to become South Africa's top sommeliers after escaping starvation and tyranny in their homeland of Zimbabwe. Driven by relentless optimism, a passion for their craft and a sense of national pride, they form […]
Senior $32 Spend your Tuesday mornings enjoying award-winning performances from the Metropolitan Opera, broadcast in HD from New York City. American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen […]
The Cowichan Hospice Society presents Subscribe to all 5 shows for $70! Two childhood friends fatefully reunite after being wrested apart 20 years ago, in this decades-spanning romance from writer-director Celine Song. Drama Reel Alternatives is a monthly fundraiser bringing Toronto Film Festival’s critically acclaimed films to the Cowichan Valley. This year’s circuit will feature […]
Senior $32 Spend your Tuesday mornings enjoying award-winning performances from the Metropolitan Opera, broadcast in HD from New York City. Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm […]
Senior $32 Spend your Tuesday mornings enjoying award-winning performances from the Metropolitan Opera, broadcast in HD from New York City. Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform […]
Student $10 This event is sold out. To join the waitlist, please call 250-746-2722. VIMFF 2024 Program here The Cowichan Performing Arts Centre is proud to partner with the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF) to bring Cowichan Valley audiences 9 thought-provoking and adventure-inspiring mountain films about climbing, biking, snowsports, environmental stewardship and more! […]