The Chan Centre for Performing Arts

As part of Kickstart Festival 2010, She Laughed, She Cried! is a special evening of fado and comedy that will move you from tears to riotous laughter!

The University Singers and University Choral Union together in concert.

UBC presents Sport and Society: Join us in person and online for five thought provoking dialogues with Olympic & Paralympic athletes who have used their celebrity to make a difference in the world.

This 37-year-old Brit is one of the most imposing figures in contemporary classical music and is widely sought after by the world’s leading orchestras, opera companies and festivals.

Canada’s National Arts Centre and Cultural Olympiad 2010 present a concert of unique and uniquely Canadian work, representing our rich cultural landscape through music, dance and song.

We are delighted to welcome an internationally renowned humanitarian and a hero of the Rwandan genocide, Paul Rusesabagina. Mr. Rusesabagina will share his experiences and will be taking questions from the audience.

The 70-member UBC Symphony Orchestra presents a series of concerts each season at the Chan Centre.

The only performing arts company of its kind in the world, Arabesque features live acoustic Arabic music and vocals accompanying 18 dancers expressing Bellydance, Whirling Dervish and the ritual arts of the Middle East.

Internationally acclaimed cellist, Steven Isserlis, returns to the Vancouver Recital Society with a varied program of sonatas by four composers for whom important anniversaries fall in 2010 — Schumann, Barber, Chopin and Dohnanyi.

Steven Isserlis explores Beethoven's fourth cello sonata from the point of view of a performer, demonstrating the challenges, questions and interpretative possibilities offered by this unique masterpiece.