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.

Welcome to the 14th Annual Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival! We’ve once again pulled together an incredible array of talented actors, comedians, playwrights, musicians and dancers to entertain you for three spectacular summer nights.

From the premiere of stage play The Conversation along with Laugh Out Live! comedy on the floating stage, to live bands The History of Gunpowder and Mivule inside the Point Lodge, to festival favourites Balkan Shmalkan, along with The West Coast Front, Pemberton country rockers Dakota Pearl and ALGN Whistler Dance at Florence Petersen Park.

Welcome to the 14th Annual Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival! We’ve once again pulled together an incredible array of talented actors, comedians, playwrights, musicians and dancers to entertain you for three spectacular summer nights.

From the premiere of stage play The Conversation along with Laugh Out Live! comedy on the floating stage, to live bands The History of Gunpowder and Mivule inside the Point Lodge, to festival favourites Balkan Shmalkan, along with The West Coast Front, Pemberton country rockers Dakota Pearl and ALGN Whistler Dance at Florence Petersen Park.

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.

Join us for another summer of awesome Sunday afternoon lakeside concerts at The Point with a double header featuring SHERI MARIE PTOLEMY’s sweet country ballads, and WHISTLER COWBOY JAZZ QUARTET’s mix of tunes from the 1850s to the 2000s!

Tickets just $10. (Kids free)

Café and cash/card bar. See you at the lakeside!

Join us for another summer of awesome Sunday afternoon lakeside concerts at The Point with DOC FINGERS TRIO. The doctor brings his boogie-woogie A-Team from Vancouver!

Tickets just $10 at thepointartists/events.com (Kids free)

Café and cash/card bar. See you at the lakeside!

Join us for another summer of awesome Sunday afternoon lakeside concerts at The Point with TRIO ELYSIUM – SONGS FOR A SUMMER EVENING (7PM indoors). Alison Hunter (harp), Anne-Elise Keefer (flute), Jeanette Bruce (voice)

Tickets just $20.

Café and cash/card bar. See you at the lakeside!

Join us for another summer of awesome Sunday afternoon lakeside concerts at The Point with GREG KELLY, RACHEL STROBL & STEPHEN VOGLER. From folk, country and roots to ska, reggae and rock!

Tickets just $10. Kids free!

Café and cash/card bar. See you at the lakeside!

JAM! Jazz & Blues! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic. $10 minimum donation requested.

Join us for another summer of awesome Sunday afternoon lakeside concerts at The Point with BROTHER TWANG! Smokin’ originals and covers from Whistler’s acoustic duo rockers!

Tickets just $10 at thepointartists/events.com (Kids free)

Café and cash/card bar. See you at the lakeside!

JAM! Jazz & Blues! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic. $10 minimum donation requested.

JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic. $10 minimum donation.

From 12-4PM, enjoy all-ages activities including snow sculpting and ice dancing competitions, DJ Ira Dance Party (1PM), curling and shinny (ice permitting), costumed characters, live campfire music from Greg Kelly and Thomas Studer, tickle trunk with winter costumes (or bring your own), and scrumptious lunch and hot and cold drinks available from the Cypress Point Café and Harrop’s Bar. What a great way to spend BC Family Day!

The Winter Carnival at The Point is a community celebration featuring live music, dinner and dancing, and a host of free afternoon activities celebrating winter through the lens of the arts.

The evening dinner show on Sunday, February 16 presents East Vancouver’s Petunia & The Vipers, a hillbilly-flavoured swing-inflected ragtime-goodtime!

The evening also includes a Comedy & Winter Art Auction by Laugh Out Live!, dinner, dancing, and a cash bar.

Doors at 6PM with Dinner Tickets, 7PM for Show Only Tickets.

Get ready to dance, dine, and delight in a night of Czech culture! After the incredible success of our 2019 event, Polka & Pilsner returns to The Point Artist-Run Centre at 6pm on Friday, November 15th, 2024. We’ve teamed up with the Czech community and the Multicultural Society to bring you an evening full of lively polka music, dance, and authentic Czech food.

JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic.

JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic.

Come on down to enjoy Double bill featuring Aude Ray’s entrancing originals in English and French and Greg Kelly’s folk roots rock storytelling. $15. Children & youth free.

Flag Stop on the Coast

Fresh off the heels of the Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival in Whistler, the Point Artist-Run Centre brings two new plays to the beautiful Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons, BC. Comedy meets technology as playwrights Alan Forsythe and Stephen Vogler delve into the shaky ground of crypto currency and AI.

Heritage Playhouse, Gibsons, BC

Friday, August 23. Doors 7:30PM. Show 8PM

Tickets $20 advance / $25 at the door (Available August 2, 2024)

Take in the show with a spectacular dinner or arrive for the entertainment alone. Have a drink from Harrop’s Bar and enjoy the roving entertainers before the premieres of two new plays on the floating stage, “Crypto Caper” by Alan Forsythe, and “Aye Aye AI” by Stephen Vogler. Then move inside the lodge to dance to Vancouver’s veteran pop punk rockers Pointed Sticks.

$30 Show Only; $55 with Dinner; $55 with Veggie Dinner Option

Take in the show with a spectacular dinner or arrive for the entertainment alone. Have a drink from Harrop’s Bar and enjoy the roving entertainers before the premieres of two new plays on the floating stage, “Crypto Caper” by Alan Forsythe, and “Aye Aye AI” by Stephen Vogler. Then move inside the lodge to dance to the roots rock reggae of Lil’wat band The Spiritual Warriors.

$30 Show Only; $55 with Dinner; $55 with Veggie Dinner Option

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.

POP-UP PERFORMANCE BIKE RIDE from Florence Petersen Park to The Point. Evan Kinsella & The Tide, ALGN Dance, Brandon Barrett, and the Papa Josh Trio.

Start at Florence Petersen Park at 5PM with live music, and ride your bike to The Point with stops for dance, comedy and more live music.

Come on down to enjoy Lil’wat slide blues guitarist Archie Peters, AND Pemberton singer songwriter Austin Ross. Two great artists on one beautiful afternoon by the lake. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)

Come enjoy the boogie-woogie, jump/swing and bop piano sounds of Doc Fingers, with Tom Keenlyside on sax, clarinet and flute. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)

Are you yearning for some hard driving bluegrass, latin jazz, Texas swing, maybe a Ween cover, and plenty of originals?! Come on down for The Courageous Mountain Rangers. Tickets online, $15. 12 and under free :)

Come enjoy the music of Trio Elysium, featuring Alison Hunter (harp), Anne-elise Keefer (flute), Jeanette Bruce (voice). Come on down! Tickets available online, $15.

Come enjoy the music of Giddy-up Go Daddy! Alt Country to Rock, Folk to Funk, Jam Bands to Bluegrass. Get in touch with yer inner hillbilly. Tickets available online, $15.

JAM! BLUEGRASS! Whether you’ve come before or this is your first time, you’re welcome. Beginner friendly. Don’t play but want to listen? Also fantastic.

From 12-4PM, enjoy all-ages activities including snow sculpting and ice dancing competitions, DJ Ira Dance Party (1PM), curling and shinny (ice permitting), costumed characters, live campfire music from Greg Kelly and Thomas Studer, tickle trunk with winter costumes (or bring your own), and scrumptious lunch and hot and cold drinks available from the Cypress Point Café and Harrop’s Bar. What a great way to spend BC Family Day!