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Gallery: The Aubreys @ Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC Date: November 9, 2023 Photographed by: Josh Papalia

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[PHOTOS] Dirty Honey @ Rickshaw Theatre

Shots by Jacob Zinn for lenfantvon.com

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HYPERSPACE METALFEST (VANCOUVER, BC) ANNOUNCES 2024 LINEUP ADDITIONS TYMO AND KAYAS

Canada’s premier melodic and power metal festival HYPERSPACE Metal Fest announces the addition of Edmonton thrashers TYMO and Vancouver melodeath KAYAS to their lineup to replace Tylor Dory Trio and Sleepership on day 1 of the event on April 11th at The Wise Hall! Hyperspace Metal Festival returns for its 5th edition after selling out its first two of three nights during its 2023 event. Their…

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March 2023 - Mood Board

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thinking about non places where we leave a little of our present self and burden ourselves with a little more of the future. flower shops movie theatres metros trains art galleries buses rickshaws libraries open mics college grounds grocery stores tourist spots monuments of old tea stalls parks cosmetic shops public restrooms dance rooms desire paths music rooms departmental stores restaurants ice cream stalls temples museums oh

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13th March 2023.

Hi folks. I’m going to have to make this really short. It’s been a long time that I have felt that something new is coming upon me. I love music to death and it is most certainly my life’s Destiny but ever since I left Boston I was searching for something to dream about. My work as a musician is beautiful and fulfilling and incredible but it was my reality, it was no longer something I imagined in a mirror as a dream. And over the years when I couldn’t find solace in music sometimes because it was my everyday job, I found it in stories. Especially in the pandemic I would stay up till 6 am every night watching shows and films reading about actors and analysing what I was feeling when I watched things happen. A part of me thinks that I finally found something that I loved as much as music, or probably in a very different way. Another part of me was frustrated with the way society had instantly cancelled my career and my industry the second the pandemic hit as if we were dispensable, we were not essential goods so our services could be instantly paused and we could go to hell, I thought about quitting music completely and all forms of arts and doing something else. But one day without any expectations of actually doing anything I Tried to get into some classes in acting, most of them were full, the one I wanted to at SPARDHA esp, so I Enrolled in my second choice, partially because the music industry was shut in a pandemic and partially because I was curious. In all honesty I didn’t enjoy it. theatre is deep and intellectual, and unlike the music that I listen to, the films and TV that I watch are less on that side, and more about common life, common folk. At one point I quit the program and the play we were doing because I was called into Coke Studio and tho i regretted not finishing the program I was okay with leaving the course and returning to the music industry which had just opened up again. In the process of the last one and a half years I have full fledged come back to work and been doing music with my band, my choir, and even remotely. But I had a little inkling, that I tried something and I never went through. I kept my interest in going to a few plays though, but only that of SparDHA, whom I felt were the brilliant ones in this country.

While working on BONOBIBI in Coke Studio, members of SPARDHA were involved and my Choir and I were in awe (they did the bonobibi part choreo) and I thought wow how amazing thoughtful artistic and professional are these people?

In Jan I was called into a meeting to ask if I were interested in doing an acting project/musical (more on that later) and it sparked my old head again. Then later In February I was supposed to go to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy awards, and for multiple reasons including my getting Covid I did not go last minute. I wont deny that incident wasn’t hard, but there was something inside me that knew there was something more to me not going to Los Angeles.. That is when I found SPARDHA starting their classes again, and without hesitation I don’t know why I just jumped in. Just fresh out of Covid I was doing one or two shows again and it was the day of Coke Studio launch, I am dressed up from head to toe just performed in front of 10,000 people for the first time in many years, when I went to give my audition for the workshop.

The traffic on that day was horrendous and I took a bike and 2 rickshaw and walked from the craziest place of this university in the middle of the highway to the Audition..I was bursting in adrenaline, it was showing on my face. And when my audition was happening I was asked are you interested in theatre, I said no. I said I’m here to learn a skill, I’m here to grow myself as a performer but theatre is not what I want to do. I was told that even if I didn’t do theatre, the course that I was doing was gruelling and tough and was about theatre, there was no room for anyone who came with ego or other forms of preconceived notions even for actors who are doing this. I was asked if I could do the work. I said 100%, work is something that I can do. I was told that this workshop is essentially for people who will be in their next production so they will not be encouraging me to take this course and take it at a later time when it is directed towards acting only and not theatre. It was Valentine’s Day, those who saw me after knew that I was actually enjoying the fact that one hour ago I was jumping up and down with university students launching Coke Studio second season, and then I was being sad that something again in this new dream that I had tried to make for myself doesn’t work out. I was sad but specially because I was looking for something new to happen in my life after that all was over and I wanted to run away from the Grammy thing, t(hat’s something I may write about some other day (or in my memoirs maybe,) but I spent my evening actually going through the emotion of the extreme high and the extreme sort of Drop that I felt. I had said canceled going to Singapore, a place where I had lived as a child when my father works there and ever since a lot of things have happened I have been yearning to go there to feel close to my dad, but because of the course dates I had booked myself only to Thailand with friends later instead of doing this introspective Singapore trip, still I told myself it was okay.

The next day I started planning to book up my days again, there was a potential gig, some studio work that I had left to do but before I booked anything I called one of the members of the group that I knew from working in Coke Studio with us, and I said when are you going to give us the answers, and he said within a few hours, I said with him how sad I felt that The Audition indicated that once again I would not get a chance in the workshop (this is the same one that I had tried for in 2021 and did not get in.) he doesn’t so much just said to wait. Needless to say I got in.

On the first day it was truly gruelling physical work my post covid body could not take it. I came home and collapsed, the second day I pushed again and I got dizzy and almost fell in class. That’s when I had to reveal to one of the facilitators that I am fairly out of Covid, and that I would take steroids

(How I had gotten through my Brac students gig during my Covid.) to come back to class the next day. She told me, try boiled eggs and Saline, and my doctor actually said the same thing and my friend Doctor suggested juice. On day three I went fully prepared boiled eggs juice a line, the works. And when I was in class I was in that bloody class. Strangely taking the workshop healed my Covid somehow, it had been weeks that I was able to exert physical strength but when I was there there was nothing that was just me giving my hundred percent. Physically was not the issue at all, it was the mental part. I am a phone addict, my attention span is horrible, I am restless. but I wrote to my sister: those five hours a day that I didn’t have access to my phone, made me so clear about so many things that I’m always struggling with. Like decisions and emotions. I Ended the course on top of the world, almost yearning for more but felt really grateful that in the middle of so many theatre people (on the last day they were asked who felt what kind of difference in the acting in the workshop, and I was the only one who said I don’t have an answer because I’ve never done it before.) That I got to learn something even in its basics even knowing that I just learnt the list of things that I don’t know. I was off to Thailand and feeling really centred when I found out that Sir was going to do one more workshop on voice and speech. And I thought well if I did that there would be aspects of it that I already knew but I was saying to a friend that the way that this incredible teacher has made me feel as a way that I’ve not felt in a long time, I would take a course where he’s teaching to cook rice. Anyway in this course I felt sick again and actually had to go out of the class one day and straight to the doctors. I know the drill, I am s director myself; when I see the weak links I know that they are not going to be the ones that can sustain for long periods of extreme rehearsals, and I was sad that Sir saw me at my post Covid time when I was not 100% and actually i felt he will start to ignore me as the weak link. At the end of this course everyone was discussing new production and how everyone can be involved; in terms of working backstage helping publicity, I assumed that the participants of the actual play were selected. But suddenly I was invited to a conversation talking about if I wanted to do the production. This was 10th March night. The production goes in to 14th March i.e. tomorrow. On 11th March I called the facilitator and I said are you serious are you looking for me to help out with the background score, and she said so he’s going to have a meeting with you tomorrow. I know the schedule; it’s three months of every day, and so I too was feeling all sorts of nerves, and I just started speaking to all my friends are usually take advice from. All my three friends (shawki sharmin and tanmoy) and my sister had nothing else to say but Armeen,yes. (Well my sister calls me Bubu so she said Bubu. Also she said “i dont think u can say no”. Which made me realise ive already said yes.)

That night, the night before I was supposed to have a meeting with Sir to talk about my role, I get an SMS saying you do not need to have said meeting “apni dol ey achen 14th march shokal 8:30 theke rehearsal” (which translates to “ you are in the group.”)

Friends. Don’t know what will happen. If I will last the whole 3 mknths, or a week if I am just singing 2 lines or there to for helping out.. But “ami doley achi” and I’ve opened this new space to document the brilliant Syed Jamil Ahmed and Spardha through my eyes as someone from a blank slate. (Soz that was not short :P )

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NITA STRAUSS ANNOUNCES SUMMER HEADLINING TOUR

Alice Cooper shredder hitting the road with solo band

Nita Strauss is hitting the road this summer with her solo band. The superstar shredder, who recently rejoined Alice Cooper's band after taking a hiatus to tour as a member of popstar-turned-pop-punker Demi Lovato's backing ensemble, has announced a slew of U.S. headlining dates.

Kicking off June 3rd in Nashville, the tour will travel from coast to coast before wrapping up July 14th in New Orleans, and Lions at the Gates will be supporting the whole trek. Tickets go on sale this Friday May 7th at 10 a.m. local time, and you can get yours here. 

See the full list of dates below. 

Strauss recently dropped a new song with Alice Cooper and is gearing up to release her long-awaited new solo album. 

Nita Strauss, Lions at the Gates 2023 tour dates:  6/13 Nashville, TN @ Exit/ In 6/14 Atlanta, GA @ The Loft 6/15 Greensboro, NC @ The Hangar 1819 6/17 New York, NY @ The Meadows 6/18 Toronto, ONT @ Horseshoe Tavern 6/19 Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedrafts 6/21 Harrison, OH @ The Blue Note 6/22 Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop 6/23 Angola, IN @ The Eclectic Room 6/24 Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre 6/25 Madison, WI @ The Majestic Theatre 6/26 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room 6/28 Denver, CO @ The Bluebird Theater 6/29 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 6/30 Boise, ID @ Neurolux 7/1 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre 7/2 Vancouver, BC @ The Rickshaw Theatre 7/3 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon 7/5 Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post 7/6 Los Angeles, CA @ Whisky A Go Go 7/8 Las Vegas, NV @ The Space 7/9 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom 7/11 San Antonio, TX @ The Rock Box 7/12 Dallas, TX @ Trees 7/13 Houston, TX @ Scout Bar 7/14 New Orleans, LA @ The Parish at House of Blues

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Thailand Part I: Bangkok

Since my mom flew to the opposite side of the world to visit me in Vietnam, we also went to Thailand together to make her long flight even more worthwhile. Although we were only there for a week, we saw and did so much that I must break the trip up into multiple posts to cover everything!

Our first stop was Bangkok. When we flew in the first thing I noticed is how massive the city is! Looking out the airplane window I could see a huge expanse of skyscrapers and cityscape stretching out as far as the eye could see.

For our first night we booked a guided tuk tuk tour of the city. Thailand is famous for its tuk tuks, motorized rickshaws that are named for the sound their engines make when they start. A trip to Thailand is not complete without taking a tuk tuk at least once.

Our tour started with a night market to eat some Thai street food before going to Wat Arun, or Temple of the Dawn. The temple wasn’t fully open since it was night time but we could still get a good look around the grounds and see the beauty of the temple at night. After that we went to Pak Khlong Talat, the largest flower market in Bangkok, before eating dinner where we had our first Pad Thai in Thailand. The tuk tuk tour then drove us around past some more famous sites before ending the night in Chinatown. Our guide took us to the famous Yaowarat Road where there are ton of food stalls every night. We got mango sticky rice, another thing that a trip to Thailand is not complete without. Overall it was a great tour and a great introduction to Bangkok.

From our guide’s recommendation we got up early the next day to see two of Bangkok’s top sights: the Grand Palace and Wat Pho, which are conveniently located next to each other. The edifices at both were probably the most beautiful man-made things I have ever seen. I was in awe at the splendor and craftsmanship of everything.

Included in admission to the Grand Palace was admission to a showcase of Thai traditional dances at the Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre, so my mom and I went to that to experience some more Thai culture.

After the show we wanted to stay out of the heat (April is unfortunately the hottest month in Thailand), so we ventured over to Iconsiam, one of the largest shopping malls in all of Asia. I have been to some very nice malls in Vietnam and Singapore, but I can confidently say that Iconsiam is now the best mall I ever been to. You can buy just about anything there, with stores ranging from luxury brands like Chanel and Porsche to more modest brands and local vendors. There are also a ton of food options; the ground floor is home to a giant indoor market and there is a dining atrium with a miniature version of the fountain in the Singapore Changi Airport. Iconsiam is located right next to the riverfront and they have a free observation deck that offers great views of the city. We ended up spending hours exploring everything that the mall had to offer. The famous Van Gogh Alive was also on exhibit there. I had never been and tickets were half the price as what I saw advertised in the US so we decided to visit the exhibit, which ended up also being a great experience. It may seem a little silly to spend so much time in a mall, but Iconsiam really was so unique and luxurious.

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Typhoon at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver, Artificial Light was their encore (I'm still freaking out about this show that I drove 2000 kilometers for)

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Ché Aimee Dorval   The Crowned (Live at The Rickshaw Theatre)

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Gallery: Chelsea Grin @ Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC Date: November 7, 2023 Photographed by: Danielle Costelo

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[PHOTOS] Holding Absence @ Rickshaw Theatre

Shots by Jacob Zinn

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HYPERSPACE METALFEST (VANCOUVER, BC) ANNOUNCES 1ST BATCH OF BANDS FOR 2024

Canada’s premier melodic and power metal festival HYPERSPACE Metal Fest returns for its 5th edition after selling out its first two of three nights during its 2023 event. Gearing up to present its 2024 lineup, HMF is proud to announce its first batch to perform at the festival from April 11th to 13th in Vancouver, BC at Wise Hall and Rickshaw Theatre. The HMF 2024 lineup will feature headliners…

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The Pack A.D. - live at the Rickshaw Theatre 2020

The Pack A.D. is one of Canada’s best bands. Check out a livestream no audience show from 2020 for free on Youtube and turn up the volume

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heres the thing (and i know about internet safety but it's ok bc i dont even live in the same city the concert is in) i was thinking maybe i would do song dynasty makeup bc the ljg concert is at the rickshaw theatre in chinatown but i did a little bit of research and not only did A White Man choose the name ' rickshaw ' (with the wonton font of course) but the theatre is not owned or operated by an asian person. so maybe tonight i will be white

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Strike Walk #1 continued

While I pondered this problem, Frozen at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane emptied, and I was suddenly battling for space with fifty diminutive Elsas and their carers, a decent proportion belting out Let It Go with more enthusiasm than decorum.

I decided to "let it go" and (as I passed the Royal Opera House) to try and replicate "six foot three of highly concentrated potential" which is not easy when you're five foot seven (and a half).

Nevertheless I made it to the southernmost end of Endell Street as the book describes, where I found Earl's Cafe - not a venue Strike and Robin have ever used for a meeting, I don't think, but fingers crossed for book six.

Pippa enters "an old red telephone box" here, but I walked up and down both pavements and there isn't one, although that's not to say there wasn't one in 2010. There are plenty of doorways to flit in and out of, though. At this point some stray Elsas went past in a rickshaw and waved at me. I waved back with the hand holding my phone and managed to turn the torch on. Took me a good five minutes to turn it off, by which time my battery life was getting low.

On to the end of Endell Street where it meets High Holborn. Much to Celia's disappointment and ours, here Strike probably thought of Charlotte with nothing on, or at least he would have were he not being pursued by a knife-carrying maniac.

Turn left and keep left after St Giles Square and you find yourself in Denmark Street. (At this stage, I am still conducting surveillance on myself in reflective surfaces and I don't expect this will have gone unnoticed by the Met.)

The book says Strike turns "left ... into Flitcroft Street" which is where I got lost.

(Continued...)