Enjoy Fall Cultural Events in Vancouver, British Columbia

Vanocuver this fall offers a wide array of cultural events from opera to a fringe festival. Here is a brief summary:

Opera and Arias
August 25, September 1 & 8
Enjoy some of the city's finest emerging opera talent at the Bard on the Beach venue in Vanier Park. The Vancouver Opera Orchestra and emerging talent from the UBC Opera Ensemble will perform beautiful arias from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Tickets are $31 to $34.
www.bardonthebeach.org

Vancouver Fringe Festival
September 3 - 14
Most performances at the Vancouver Fringe Festival are anything but mainstream. More than 100 groups from around the world present 700 shows on a variety of indoor and outdoor stages. The big attraction is that few, if any, of these works will make it to the big stages in town, so it's best to get out and see them while you can. Following the main festival, catch the "Pick of the Fringe" from September 18 to 21.
www.vancouverfringe.com

Vancouver International Film Festival
September 25 - October 10
Diversity abounds at the Vancouver International Film Festival with 575 screenings of over 350 films from 60 countries and over 150,000 attendees. Highlights include "Dragons and Tigers: The Cinemas of East Asia" series, the largest annual exhibition of East Asian films outside Asia; and the "Climate for Change" series offering fiction and documentary films that demonstrate fresh information, vision and cinematic artistry about the environment. Full details on this year's film line-up will be online as of September 6.
www.viff.org