Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival: Spirit Encounters

Name: Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival: Spirit Encounters
Start: 2025-11-02T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-02T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Russian Hall

Join Gerardo Avila for his latest theatrical performance, with shadow puppetry, comedy and Flamenco and Mexican music and dance

Date/Time: Nov 2 2025, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Vancouver, Russian Hall
600 Campbell

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On the Day of the Dead, when the veil between the living and the dead is lifted, start your afternoon with a mask-making workshop, join a community procession to visit local ofrendas, and end the celebration at Spirit Encounters, Gerardo Avila’s latest theatrical performance, featuring shadow puppetry, comedy, Flamenco and Mexican dance, and music. Presented with puppeteers Hazel Bell-Koski and Dana Wilson, storyteller Steven Schwabl, flamenco dancers Maria Avila and Isabel Pacheco, and musicians Anna Lumiere, Peter Mole, and Graham Ord.

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