Mutatis Mutandis

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

After a successful world premiere at Living Things 2022, Mutatis Mutandis returns to mystify and amaze us with theatrical illusions and the boundless charms of puppetry. Anchored in the fascinating […]

Bois

Kelowna Community Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Puzzle Theatre (Quebec) A green leaf grows on a dead branch; pieces of wood come together to form hybrid creatures, some hostile, some comical.  Bois is a strange world of […]

Objects in Motion

Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna, BC, Canada

Image: Persona, Sujin Moon. South Korea, 2022 Animated film screening, curated by Myron Campbell. A Living Things Festival favourite, Objects in Motion is an evening of international, award-winning animated short […]

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Kelowna Community Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Featuring Juno Award-nominated Land’s End Ensemble of Calgary. Get tickets here. Land's End Ensemble (Beth Root Sandvoss, cello; Susanne Ruberg-Gordon, piano; Vincent Ho, Artistic Director; with guest artist Chris Sies, […]

Looks Like Sounds

Kelowna Community Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

A public improvisation and dance party, with the Land's End Ensemble, local musicians and dancers.  Looks Like Sounds first appeared at Living Things 2020, just before we all went into […]

“The Noisebau” by Puppets Forsaken – Exhibition

The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna, BC, Canada

On view in the Main Gallery of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from January 19 to March 2, 2024 is The Noisebau by Puppets Forsaken, an acoustic noise band comprised of David Gifford and Natali Leduc.

Dog Rising

Kelowna Community Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

With its celestial bodies launched into orbit, vibrating in a sensual and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life-cycle, the dynamic flow of matter. From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey’s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison.

$35 – $55

Marina Hasselberg

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Boundless inquisitiveness sits at the very heart of award-winning cellist Marina Hasselberg's rich artistic practice. Over the past decade, she has traveled a distinctive route that has variously led her through early music, free improvisation, the fringes of pop songcraft, electronics, contemporary chamber music, and an array of interdisciplinary collaborations that resist classification.

$25 – $45

Marina Hasselberg

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Boundless inquisitiveness sits at the very heart of award-winning cellist Marina Hasselberg's rich artistic practice. Over the past decade, she has traveled a distinctive route that has variously led her through early music, free improvisation, the fringes of pop songcraft, electronics, contemporary chamber music, and an array of interdisciplinary collaborations that resist classification.

$25 – $45

Dog Rising

Kelowna Community Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

With its celestial bodies launched into orbit, vibrating in a sensual and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life-cycle, the dynamic flow of matter. From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey’s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison.

$35 – $55

Objects in Motion

Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna, BC, Canada

Objects in Motion is an evening of international, animated short films curated by local artist, professor and animator Myron Campbell. The films move from hilarity to pointed social critique, taking us to new places with innovative, formal exploration.

$20

RAMANENJANA – A public lecture about a dance epidemic

Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna, BC, Canada

A public lecture featuring Romanian choreographer and filmmaker Simona. Deaconescu, discussing the creative process behind Ramanenjana, a performative docufiction about a dance that literally made history.

Free

Canary

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

What do you do if you’re a university theatre professor and you find yourself working with increasingly depressed, isolated and anxious students? What do you do if you feel like a ‘canary in the coal mine’ of institutional learning?

$25 – $45

Ramanenjana

Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna, BC, Canada

Romanian choreographer and filmmaker Simona Deaconescu, and Malagasy dance artist and cultural activist Gaby Saranouffi have created a docufiction performance about a dance that literally made history. Ramanenjana has been described in historical documents as a "choreomania" or "dance epidemic" in which more than 20,000 people danced with supernatural resistance from February to May.

$25 – $45

Plastic/Plastique

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

ALL AGES SHOW - A plastic-bag world where colorful creatures are born and endlessly transform themselves. They fill and empty themselves, they fly, they eat each other, they are bored… They exist. Step by step they reveal their nature. They are primitive, naive and comic, and they look a little bit like us...  

$25

Ramanenjana

Mary Irwin Theatre at Rotary Centre for the Arts 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna, BC, Canada

Romanian choreographer and filmmaker Simona Deaconescu, and Malagasy dance artist and cultural activist Gaby Saranouffi have created a docufiction performance about a dance that literally made history. Ramanenjana has been described in historical documents as a "choreomania" or "dance epidemic" in which more than 20,000 people danced with supernatural resistance from February to May.

$25 – $45

Plastic/Plastique

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

ALL AGES SHOW - A plastic-bag world where colorful creatures are born and endlessly transform themselves. They fill and empty themselves, they fly, they eat each other, they are bored… They exist. Step by step they reveal their nature. They are primitive, naive and comic, and they look a little bit like us...  

$25

Plastic/Plastique

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

ALL AGES SHOW - A plastic-bag world where colorful creatures are born and endlessly transform themselves. They fill and empty themselves, they fly, they eat each other, they are bored… They exist. Step by step they reveal their nature. They are primitive, naive and comic, and they look a little bit like us...  

$25

Playbook & Living Things Dance Party

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

PLAYBOOK is an immersive 5.1 sound, music, and text experience, designed to transport the audience to the fluid environment of a library.

$25

Plastic/Plastique

Black Box Theatre 1375 Water Street, Kelowna, BC, Canada

ALL AGES SHOW - A plastic-bag world where colorful creatures are born and endlessly transform themselves. They fill and empty themselves, they fly, they eat each other, they are bored… They exist. Step by step they reveal their nature. They are primitive, naive and comic, and they look a little bit like us...  

$25