Events @ The Point!
Click on an event below to learn more or purchase tickets. Most of our events are at our location on Alta Lake, and are full of wonderful people and arts. We’d love to see you here!
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Flag Stop Cabaret Night
It’s the 15th annual Flag Stop Festival!
Thursday is all new to the festival with Cabaret Night at The Point featuring musical hosts Whistler Cowboy Jazz, poet Laura Sharp, theatre, comedy and more!
The bar will be open. Admission on a “pay what you can” basis :)
Flag Stop Theatre, Comedy & Bands!
It’s the 15th annual Flag Stop Festival!
The floating stage is still at the heart of the Flag Stop Festival. Friday night sees the western Canadian premiere of stage play Jackie and Jack by legendary vagabond author and playwright Jim Christy. The evening starts with dinner accompanied by live music, moves on to comedy on the floating stage by Laugh Out Live!. Following th premiere of Jackie and Jack, bands take the stage inside the lodge for a night of celebration and dancing. Friday night sees the return of Balkan Shmalkan with their first performance inside The Point, and Saturday features the lively Western Swing and Rockabilly of The Rocket Revellers.
Please join us in celebrating 15 years of the Flag Stop Festival this August 5-8!
Flag Stop Theatre, Comedy & Bands!
It’s the 15th annual Flag Stop Festival!
The floating stage is still at the heart of the Flag Stop Festival. Friday night sees the western Canadian premiere of stage play Jackie and Jack by legendary vagabond author and playwright Jim Christy. The evening starts with dinner accompanied by live music, moves on to comedy on the floating stage by Laugh Out Live!. Following th premiere of Jackie and Jack, bands take the stage inside the lodge for a night of celebration and dancing. Friday night sees the return of Balkan Shmalkan with their first performance inside The Point, and Saturday features the lively Western Swing and Rockabilly of The Rocket Revellers.
Please join us in celebrating 15 years of the Flag Stop Festival this August 5-8!
C.R. Avery & The East Van Abbey Cabaret
C.R. Avery brings his long-running East Van Abbey Cabaret to Whistler for the first time. Featuring his house band, the Storm Collective, along with a host of talented artists delivering everything from rock ‘n’ roll and boogie blues to spoken word, performance art, comedy and dance. It’s an eclectic, high energy night in a cabaret setting at The Point. The East Van Abbey Cabaret has been drawing monthly Vancouver audiences for years, and The Point is excited to finally bring it to Whistler.
Flag Stop Festival at Florence Petersen Park - Evening
The Flag Stop Festival kicks off on Wednesday, August 6 at 6PM in Whistler Village at the intimate Florence Petersen Park behind the library and museum for a night of live music, movement and dance. Vinyl Ritchie lays down the beats from 6PM before festival favourites 10-piece brass party band Balkan Shmalkan march in from the stroll to set the park alight. Dancers from ALGN Whistler string the whole night together with interactive performances between bands. Five piece ska, reggae, rock outfit The West Coast Front keeps the party going from 8PM, with Pemberton’s popular country rockers Dakota Pearl headlining the night from 9-10PM.
Admission is By Donation.
Flag Stop Festival at Florence Petersen Park - Evening
The evening begins at 6PM with a welcome ceremony from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Ambassadors. The beer and wine garden and food vendors are open as DJ Vinyl Ritchie heats up the park with his eclectic 45s. Vancouver writer and theatre artist Cecilia O’Day delivers a preview of her one-woman Fringe monologue Young Widow, and Brandon Barrett returns from Victoria with his latest stand-up offering. Then Comedian Sarah Carson Ford returns to her hometown with a comedy set honed in New York.
Vancouver’s sweet dance party orchestra Balkan Shmalkan will get everybody moving on the grass, and the night wraps up with stellar hometown rockers Introduce Wolves.