This year’s amazing week of shows has come to a close!

We’ve started to put up pictures from the festival with shots from The olivia Project and Fruit Basket. Be sure to check back in the coming weeks for complete galleries of all the nights.

What have you missed?

Monday night was our toe tappin’ music night Toast of the Town, which featured everything from classical guitar to traditional Quebecois folk tunes and highlighted by ruckus dancing and super intimate sit down song-smithing. Finally capped off with a hip hop dance party courtesy of Panther & the Supafly.

Tuesday night we had the second annual olivia Project, a chocolate box of surprises that brought us from traveling gypsies to giant-spider infested nightmares, creepy marionettes, sound collages questions about God and masturbation and much much more.

Tonight we have Danse Cabaret and, all week long in the VanCity Culture Lab, we have the IGNITE! Young Playwrights Festival which is three one act plays running in rotation – two each night.

Please join us each of the next four nights for to see the best young talent performing this city!

Wanna know what’s happening during every evening of IGNITE?

Our show pages have been updated and are teaming with information about each night’s storyline, dress-code, set list, and artist biographies.

Still not sure what to wear? This year, the youth panel went all out to dress up and show you how it’s done: with enthusiasm and a sense of humour. Check it out.

Toast of the Town — The olivia Project — Dance Night
Word — Fruit Basket – Finale — Young Playwrights Festival

Want to learn how to juggle? How about poi spinning, or even some clowning skills? The IGNITE! Youth Panel is holding a free circus skills workshop this Saturday. (see event on facebook event.)

..and a reminder that the Film Contest deadline is this Friday, and we are still accepting visual art submissions up until April 11th.

We are looking for visual art submissions in all medias – from installations to paintings to photography, we want it all! This year’s theme is Nature vs. Nurture, which is completely open to your interpretation.

IGNITE! is proud to be holding our first ever film contest! If you have a film in the making or one that’s been sitting on your shelf for a while, then you should consider submitting it to IGNITE! Winners receive cash prizes and get their films screened during this year’s festival.

Don’t delay: Last day to send in your film is April 1st, and visual art is April 11th.