In partnership with the Roundhouse Arts & Recreation Society,
The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre presents:

Etch-YOUR-SketchOFF2!#$%!!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 – Vancouver Rice Bowl Competition
Thursday, April 29, 2010 – People’s CHOYS Award
Nightly at 7:30pm

Come and BE IN the SHOW!
So you think you’re funny or you’ve said "I can do that!" Well, here’s your chance to strut your stuff! Get a team together – Write 6 to 10 minutes of sketches with 2 randomly selected factors – Perform your sketches to a sold-out audience – Wow the judges to win the coveted Vancouver Rice Bowl – Goad the audience and take home the People’s CHOYS Award! Check out the Rules & Regulations on www.vact.ca and Register your team by 5pm March 26th, 2010. Your team could win up to $500! Limited to 8 teams only!

Come CHEER the Etch-Your-Sketchers on!
Wild, ZANY, gut-aching, peeing in pants FUNNY! Ask anyone from the 2009 competition. Celebrity Judges award the coveted Vancouver Rice Bowl to one team only. Winner takes all! On the second night, teams are judged by the audience – measured by YOUR applause. The highest decibel readings take 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize. This is an event you don’t want to miss! Buy your tickets early – sells out yearly!

For more information click here.

18 Mighty Mountain Warriors HOOT Camp
11TH Annual Asian Comedy Night
Saturday, June 5th 2010 at 8pm and 10pm
Sunday, June 6th 2010 at 7pm and 9pm

Back by popular demand from 2009 for their very own show are: The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (18mmw) from Los Angeles!  This group has garnered three awards including the 2007 Emmy Award “Mighty Warriors of Comedy”, the 2006 International Sketch Comedy Championships, and the 2005 Bay Area’s Best Comedy Troupe award. They continue to rock the San Francisco Bay Area and San Jose with their unique blend of Asian and political themed sketches.

For information click here.

In partnership with the Roundhouse Arts & Recreation Society
and the Gateway Theatre
The Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre presents:

Stage Reading – Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 7:30pm
PAL Theatre
581 Cardero Street, Vancouver

Red Letters is an original play written by Alan Bau and Kathy Leung with music composed by Alan Bau about a Chinese immigrant, Liang, who comes to Canada to seek his fortune and leaves his wife, Mei, in China with the hopes of bringing her over once he establishes himself.  However, due to the Canadian laws in the 1920s, a head tax of $500 Canadian was required to bring any immigrant of Chinese descent to Canada.  As this was a huge sum of money to pay, Liang was unable to save enough before the Exclusion Act of 1923 made it impossible for him to bring his wife over.  Desperate to see Mei again, Liang borrows money and leaves for China to bring her home to Canada.

For more information click here.

VACT’s Chop Suey Special #10 – Serving Up a Decade of Performances Show a HUGE SUCCESS!

• 273 attended VACT’s annual fundraiser
• VACT raised over $7,300! 
• Thank you to everyone – audience members, donors, volunteers, performers, crew and hosts!

HIGHLIGHTS included:

• What’s so great about Bubble Tea?
• KIM CHEE Rap Star
• Robbers who stole PANTS!
• Christopher Walken – Asian style
• Miss Teen Canada International 2010 - Suneet Maan
• Walk of Famer – Josette Jorge
• Sex in Vancouver – still hot, sexy and entrancing!
• Sensei Award to Raugi Yu, first Equity Director for VACT
• Montage of ALL of VACT’s productions
• Flower, Drum and Songs More than a Musical Documentary
• Sensei Award to Rick Tae, first Equity Director of a Musical for VACT
• The Flower Drum Song Cast and audience singing Flower Drum Songs
• Unsung Hero Award to Alice Wong, volunteer

It was a Great Night all around – nostalgic and funny, with enticing sex plots and wonderful singing! 

We’ve sat down with some talented VACT alumni for entertaining, insightful and hilarious interviews. We are pleased to bring you: INSIDE THE VACTORS’ STUDIO.

4 NEW Interviews! – Josette Jorge, Raugi Yu and Rick Tae are highlighted this week. Interviews conducted by Claire Fossey (For more details click here)

Josette Jorge, Actress		Rick Tae, Actor
Raugi Yu, Actor

A Bboy Love Story

March 16 – 20 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre

Two of the most well known breakers in the world, Physix and Hong10, are coming to town! "A Bboy Love Story" is a dance theater performance that features some of the world’s top breakdancers, poppers and lockers from Korea. These dancers have won first place in international dance competitions and left strong impressions on the dance communities in countries across the globe as some of the world’s top ranked dancers. Bboy musicals have been very popular and have become quite famous not just in Korea, but globally as well.

For more info, call 778.994.7513.

EACH TICKET PURCHASED ON LINE for CHOP SUEY SPECIAL #10 will be entered into a draw for the tickets.  One On-Line Ticket Purchaser will be chosen at random.  Contest closes January 21, 2010 at 5pm.