Event

Bite of the Underground

Bite of The Underground
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William St.)

Tickets: $15 student & un/underemployed / $20 Adult
$5 from every ticket sale goes to support commissioning Charlie Demer's Leftovers.

Tickets at the door are CASH ONLY.

Neworld Theatre's Bite of the Underground cabaret night offers you a window into the diversity talent across the Vancouver cultural community. Here, on one night, you will see and hear a selection of bite-sized performances that will make you laugh, make you tap your feet, make you think, surprise you, and leave you wanting more.

Come and see some of the best of the city currently bubbling just below the surface. The artists you encounter here will change what you imagine can be found, in our city, on any given night.

The Underground Line Up

Hosted by CBC Debaters star and Just for Laughs Alumni Charlie Demers

Jazz tunes by East Vancouver's fly cats The Bank Dogs

Neworld Theatre's Artistic Director Marcus Youssef asks Whose Revolution? as he reports back publicly for the first time about his recent trip to Egypt

Emmelia Gordon and Pippa Mackie, creators of the Fringe hit The Progressive Polygamists, present a daring new sketch show

Geoff Berner brings Insightful humour, politically inflammatory compositions and showmanship to the night with his songs and a reading from his new novel, Festival Man

Standup by the hilarious Graham Clark, 3-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee and host of Stop Podcasting Yourself

Balkan Brass band Orkestar Slivovica play festive music from Serbia, Macedonia and other distant and mysterious lands

Featuring a display of the works of painter and multidisciplinary artist Suzo Hickey