KARLA MUNDY AND MICHAEL CREBER
SATURDAY, 3 MAY 2025 | DOORS at 19:30, MUSIC at 20:00
This is a Ticketed EVENT
Karla Mundy is a profoundly soulful vocalist whose meticulous expressive control makes her performances as thrilling as they are moving. More than that, she is a paragon of community music-making in Vancouver and beyond. Michael Creber is one of the West Coast’s sought-after musical collaborators, whether as a pianist, composer, arranger, or producer. Together, they weave seamlessly across genres, tight enough to reflect their long-standing work together, but always with breathing room for playfulness and improvisation in the moment.
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VANCOUVER FOLK SONG SOCIETY BENEFIT CONCERT
FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025 | DOORS at 19:30, MUSIC at 20:00
This is a gift economy event
The Vancouver Folk Song Society is Canada’s longest running folk club (since 1959!), and has been instrumental in nurturing the growth of some of Vancouver’s finest traditional singers. This benefit concert will feature performances by The Amorphous Folk Collective, Blackthorn Blossoms, Steel Cut Notes, Lucien & Isa, and Cara Luft. Come help to keep the VFSS going strong for another 66 years!
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HEARTWOOD: THE WELL TREE
SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2025 | DOORS at 18:30, PERFORMANCE at 19:00
This is a TICKETED EVENT
Join folk trio Heartwood – Heidi Wilson, Willy Clemetson, and Sarina Partridge – for an all-ages, immersive, participatory journey through song and story. The Well Tree is a three-person musical, accompanied by a ‘crankie’ – an illuminated, papercut, hand-cranked scroll, created by papercut artist Jen Jones. It is an original ‘singing story’ about wild journeying, remembering kinship, and finding one’s way home in unraveling times.
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FRASER UNION + MOHAMED ASSANI: Benefit Concert for Sahar Ahmadi
SUNDAY, 25 MAY 2025 | DOORS at 14:00, PERFORMANCE at 14:30
This is a GIFT ECONOMY EVENT
Fraser Union is a mainstay of the Vancouver folk music scene. Barry Truter, Kathy Griffin, and Roger Holdstock are also paragons of generosity and compassion. Please join them, along with special guest sitarist Mohamed Assani at this concert to benefit Ms. Sahar Ahmadi, an unaccompanied Afghan minor who is immigrating to Canada. All proceeds will go to a trust fund in Sahar’s name, managed by the Vancouver Unitarian Refugee Committee.
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DROWNING THE MICE
THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025 | DOORS at 19:30, PERFORMANCE at 20:00
This is a FREE EVENT
This is a wonderful opportunity to see theatre in the making, a solo show that is both in the process of finding its shape and, we suspect, already beautifully drawn from Avi Dolgin’s substantial body of thinking and writing. Avi’s contemplations tend toward theology, politics, and his own mistaken choices — he has written two contemporary monologues based on biblical characters — and he might be described as a “theatrical midrashist”, exuding Talmudic, exegetical good humour and lessons learned from the trial-and-error of life. He is offering this performance as a free event; but he will ask the audience for thoughtful criticism he can use to polish “Drowning the Mice” into its final form.
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AL QAHWA
WEDNESDAY, 23 JULY 2025 | DOORS at 19:30, Music at 20:00
This is a gift economy event
Al Qahwa will guide you on a musical journey you may not take frequently, bridging Middle Eastern cultures and hearts. Led by Maryem Tollar on vocals, qanun (Arabic table harp), and riqq (Arabic frame drum), the band features Ernie Tollar on wind instruments, Naghmeh Farahmand on percussion, and Waleed Abdulhamid on bass, vocals, and percussion. “Al Qahwa” is Arabic for “The Coffee House”, inspired by cafe culture in the Middle East, where people go to hear the latest news, music, poetry and stories. Their repertoire includes both traditional songs from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Sudan, as well as compositions by members of the band.
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