PLANK Magazine can reveal that a new summer arts festival is being planned for Vancouver. Evolution (the working title for the Festival) is an initiative of Upintheair Theatre and...
More details on the Wrecking Ball that will take place on November 23rd at the Vogue Theatre have been released. Here’s what the organizers stated in their media release sent out today:
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival is just around the corner and we at Plank are as excited as furrowed-brow arts journalists get (there’ll be a tin of wet food for Mittens and a sliced hot dog in the KD tonight)!
The following written submission was delivered in person by Norman Armour, Executive Director of the PuSh Festival, to Kevin Krueger, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts for The Province of British Columbia at a roundtable session held October 15.
We’re pleased to announce that the first winner of the inaugural Talk of the Fringe Award, sponsored by the magazine affectionately known as PLANK was:
We’re getting close to the wire on decision time for who will win this year’s illustrious Talk of the Fringe Award, sponsored by PLANK Magazine and voted on by our intrepid team of reviewers.
Vancouver: As a creation of the internet, PLANK Magazine fully embraces new technology (well, at least Shane does) but during this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival we will be embracing an old technology: beer.
On August 30, 2009, over 100 members of Vancouver’s arts community packed themselves into a tiny, sweltering room in NDPMLA Spencer Herbert’s West End office to attend a hastily-arranged press conference.
In the beginning, gaming was called gambling. And it was illegal in Canada under the Criminal Code starting in 1892. But then in 1901, a key exemption emerged – gambling was legal if it was a raffle at a bazaar held for charitable or religious purposes. By 1906...