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**Event: Vanya - Williams Center for the Arts** **Location:** Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College **Date & Time:** February 16, 2025, at 7:00 PM **Description:** Experience a captivating one-man adaptation of Chekhov’s "Uncle Vanya" brought to life by Andrew Scott, known for his role in "Fleabag." This radical new version, adapted by Simon Stephens, delves into the complexities of human emotions, highlighting hopes, dreams, and regrets. The performance, which won Best Revival at the 2024 Olivier Awards, promises to be funny, sexy, and surprisingly emotional. **Venue:** Landis Cinema, Buck Hall, 219 N 3rd **Ticket Information:** - Public: $15 - Non-LC Students: $6 - Staff/Faculty: $10 (Limit 2) - LC Students: Free (Limit 1) **Genre:** National Theatre Live **Additional Information:** Tickets can be purchased through the Williams Center for the Arts box office.

Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the cross-section of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and tangible, illusionistic and physical. Infinitely Yours explores global warming, the anthropocene, and the vastly changing earth. This piece attempts to physicalize and emotionalize the nonstop barrage of news streaming in through our screens, of environmental transformation that we can’t seem to hit pause or rewind on. This World Made Itself is a visually rich journey through the history of the earth, from the universe’s epic beginnings to the complex world of humanity. The piece is at once scientific, emotional, surreal, and dreamlike.

Ballet Kelowna brings compelling and inspiring performances to regional, national, and international audiences. The company presents numerous styles of dance from Canada’s finest emerging and established choreographers. It embraces the precision and athleticism of ballet technique to create original new works that captivate and engage today’s diverse audiences. The MAMBO and Other Works program features a stunning lineup of signature works from Ballet Kelowna’s contemporary ballet repertoire. With Cameron Fraser-Monroe’s compelling taqəš [tawKESH], Guillaume Côté’s mesmerizing Bolero, and Alysa Pires’ vivacious audience favorite MAMBO, this high-energy program promises to please all audiences.

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Few musicians balance the new opposite the old quite like American pianist Holly Roadfeldt. In this multimedia event, Holly Roadfeldt will be joined by composer Stephanie Ann Boyd, poet Jessica Suchon, and dancer/choreographer Megan Flynn as she performs works by Stephanie Ann Boyd, Philip Glass, Joan Tower, and Lafayette student composers Conrad Tilroe and Owen York.

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