The Cultch welcomes the Neanderthal Arts Festival with an exclusive deal for E-zine subscribers

ITSAZOO Productions lends their talents to the Neanderthal Arts Festival's presentation of Chairs.

From July 21 - 31, the Neanderthal Arts Festival is bringing a series of innovative and unconventional productions to The Cultch. A partnership between Upintheair Theatre and Left right Minds, Neanderthal features "cutting-edge contemporary theatre from local and national emerging artists", says co-creator Daniel Martin.

The presentation series includes a musical about a bigamist, a contemporary adaptation of the Dadaist classic The Gas Heart and a Beckett-inspired play about a man building a chair, among others.

We are pleased to bring you a special offer from the Neanderthal Arts Festival:

15% OFF NEANDERTHAL'S 3-SHOW PASS - PAY ONLY $39 AND SEE 3 SHOWS!

To receive this discount, use the coupon code 15THAL at the time of purchase. This code can be applied to online purchases of the 3-Show Pass, available at tickets.thecultch.com (simply enter the code into the "Discount Coupon" field at the checkout page), by phone at 604.251.1363, or in person. 

Our Box Office hours are as follows:

Mon - Fri: 12 - 6pm
Sat: 12-4pm

THIS OFFER EXPIRES JULY 15, 2011, SO DON'T DELAY!


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Touchstone Theatre's True Love Lies opens The Cultch's 11/12 season with the crackle of lightning fast one-liners, acidic exchanges and wickedly witty characters.

By subscribing to The Cultch's 11/12 season before August 2nd, you'll gain access to an incredible collection of theatre, music and dance before everyone else does. With single tickets going on sale in August, get the best seats at the best prices by subscribing now.

This new season is the perfect time to come back to The Cultch! We're eager to share with you the laughter, thrills and music we having coming up, which includes Brad Fraser's hilarious new work True Love Lies, Ronnie Burkett's masterpiece Penny Plain and so much more. So don't miss a single show  - check out our complete season here.




The award-winning post-punk musical cabaret comedy sensation is back: Die Roten Punkte plays at The Cultch this summer

Equal parts pop concert, clowning, sketch comedy and cabaret, Die Roten Punkte is the continually evolving story of siblings Astrid and Otto Rot, orphaned electro-punk rockers and ostensible darlings of the Berlin underground rock scene.

"It's a rock 'n roll concert
And I'm a rock 'n' roll monster
I can't control my hands and feet
When I hear that monster beat"
-Die Roten Punkte, "Rock and Roll Monster"

This dysfunctional, squabbling, co-dependent pair travel the world with their music and their disconcerting mid-Atlantic accents. At their insistently MEGA concerts, their personalities take a backseat for a moment, to a thumping, leaping, buzzing assault of post-pop-punk RAWK.

Die Roten Punkte (DRP) have featured everywhere from the prestigious Spoleto Festival Charleston USA, to Australian television's most popular and credible music programme, RAGE. They installed a four storey inflatable dinosaur at the Victorian Arts Centre, and hosted a dress-up-like-DRP theme night at Winnipeg.

Die Roten Punkte - Kunst Rock runs from August 2 - 13, 2011 at The Cultch. Single tickets can be purchased here and begin at just $16!

Spaces are limited for The Cultch 2011 Summer Camp

The Cultch's summer camp provides an opportunity for high school-aged youth to work with mentors from Vancouver-based theatre company The Only Animal.

Expect a positive environment where you can explore your creativity through various aspects of theatre and performance. We will explore acting, movement, voice, sound, storytelling, video and projection and you'll have the opportunity to act, direct, and come up with new material to create a performance from, culminating in a showing to your family and friends.

Get your registration in soon as there are just 4 spots left. Register now! Or for more information visit www.thecultch.com.

Celebrating Cultch volunteers 

On June 18, The Cultch hosted our annual volunteer barbeque to thank our volunteers for all their hard work during the 10/11 Season. Yaletown Choices Market was kind enough to supply the fantastic food and special thanks go out to the following companies and businesses for their generous prize donations: Escents Aromatherapy, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Grandview Lanes, the Vancouver Aquarium, Museum of Vancouver,  Dutch Girl Chocolates, Mogiana Coffee, Memphis Blues Barbeque House and the Georgia Straight.

Our volunteers do so much to ensure that The Cultch continues bringing world-class programming to our local audience. They are invaluable and we extend our eternal thanks to them. If you would like to get involved in the Vancouver arts community, read more about our volunteer program here.

Supporting artists and fostering creativity through residencies  

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, The Cultch's most recent Artist-in-Residence.

The Cultch is all about fostering creativity. Whether it's music, theatre or dance on our stages, or visual art in our gallery, we want to see artists succeed. Besides programming the incredible talent of local, national and international artists, The Cultch works behind the scenes to encourage artist success.

One way we do this is through our residency program. Residencies at The Cultch offer artists free rehearsal space - often in our Vancity Culture Lab - to focus on developing a project they are working on.

Click here to read more about the residency program or here to read about our latest artist-in- residence, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg.

East Side Shows at the Vancouver Fringe Festival

 

COMING SOON! The upcoming 2011 Vancouver Fringe Festival plans to share its theatre-loving self with East Vancouver with an assortment of Fringe companies presenting in venues on the east side. Participating venues include The Cultch's Vancity Culture Lab, The Havana Theatre, The Firehall Arts Centre, and The Sun Yat Sen Chinese Gardens. To keep up-to-date on these East Van specials, follow the presenting crew on Facebook here!