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Renovations between 2019 and 2020, which were completed in time for the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, added a 41-seat theatre, the Studio Theatre, for smaller audience presentations, a new media lab to present new media and virtual reality projects, an education suite and a video wall in the complex's atrium.
The Electric Company Theatre was originally formed as a collective in 1996 by Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Kevin Kerr and current Artistic Director Jonathon Young, who met while training at Vancouver's Studio 58. [1] [2] The team has created nearly 20 original works of theatre and performed 13 tours in Canada, USA, and the United Kingdom. The ...
Opened in 2005, the VIFF Centre is the home the Vancouver International Film Festival offices, as well as the Vancity Theatre and Studio Theatre. The relaunched festival was staged entirely at the city's independent Ridge Theatre, although the festival has since expanded into a multi-venue event headquartered at the VIFF Centre in downtown ...
Revenues declined during the late 20th century, [3] and Famous Players closed the Stanley, which was by then the oldest operating movie theatre in Vancouver, [3] [26] on September 25, 1991 after a final showing of the Stanley regular Fantasia; [27] the theatre had previously shown Fantasia at least four times, in 1977, [28] 1979, [29] 1980 ...
Modeled after the Globe Theatre in London, this intimate and flexible studio theatre seats between 160 and 275 people depending on the seating configuration. The theatre holds 12 – 3 level seating towers which can be moved using an air castor system, a technique used by Boeing to move airplane parts. Compressed air is blown through tubes and ...
From 1969 to 1988, the campus was a high-security storage facility operated by the Federal Reserve Board.With the approval of the United States Congress in 1997, it was purchased by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond via a $5.5 million grant, done on behalf of the Library of Congress.
Rio Theatre interior, 2011. The Rio Theatre is an independent, multidisciplinary art house in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Built in 1938, the Rio served East Vancouver primarily as a movie theatre until 2008, when new owner, Corinne Lea, began to add live music and multimedia and multidisciplinary art events.
In addition to hosting the organization's own screening activities, the Cinematheque's theatre is a host venue for several of Vancouver's largest annual film festivals, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.