Experience the transcendent power of improvised music for a special VIFF Live concert and film screening. Advance tickets SOLD OUT. Learn More Renowned Vancouver pianist Chris Gestrin performs a solo set of Keith Jarrett–inspired music to accompany this special event screening of Köln 75 — a film that captures the compelling, entertaining, and, until now, […]

Aretha Franklin is one of the biggest musical icons of the 20th century. She helped transform the musical landscape of America in the 1960’s & 1970’s, and was one of […]

Aretha Franklin is one of the biggest musical icons of the 20th century. She helped transform the musical landscape of America in the 1960’s & 1970’s, and was one of […]

If you’ve never experienced the jazz version of The Nutcracker Suite before, you’re in for a treat! Get Tickets Legendary composer/arrangers Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington brilliantly reimagined the classic […]

The great Vince Guaraldi is best known for his iconic compositions and performance from Charles M Schultz’s beloved Charlie Brown Christmas Special (1965). He continued to write exciting and clever […]

Or: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Black Experience in Canada, But Were Too Afraid to Ask. Get Tickets Michèle Stephenson’s brilliant essay film is an electrifying history of Black Canada, a story of displacement and discrimination, prejudice and Black pride, from Freedom Road to Africville and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, […]