Raven’s Cry Theatre is proud to be the Sunshine Coast’s premier Event Facility.
In addition to offering first run movies on a weekly basis, we also pride ourselves in our support for several local events, charitable organizations and dance academies.
We host a wide variety of events throughout the year: from live Dance Recitals and Plays to broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera. Read below for info on our event partners and their upcoming events!
Life of a Vagabond “Alias: JIM CHRISTY”
Date(s): September 18th, 2025
Showtime: 2PM
Canadian Author, Poet, Writer, Journalist, Artist, Sculptor, Actor
Film by Jay Parnell
Documentary film and Q&A with Jim Christy himself!
Tickets $10 at the door
A Night with Janis Joplin: The Musical
Date(s): September 26th, 2025
Showtime: 2pm and 7pm
A night with a legend
Like a comet that burns far too brightly to last, Janis Joplin exploded onto the music scene in 1967 and, almost overnight, became the queen of rock & roll. The unmistakable voice, filled with raw emotion and tinged with Southern Comfort, made her a must-see headliner from Monterey to Woodstock. From Broadway to your screen, now you’re invited to share an evening with the woman and her influences in the musical, A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN. Fueled by such unforgettable songs as “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Piece of My Heart,” “Mercedes Benz,” “Cry Baby” and “Summertime,” a remarkable cast and breakout performances, A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN, written and directed by Randy Johnson, is a musical journey celebrating Janis and her biggest musical influences—icons like Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Odetta, Nina Simone and Bessie Smith, who inspired one of rock & roll’s greatest legends.
Comedy on the Coast 2025
Date(s): September 27th, 2025
Showtime: 7:30pm (Doors Open at 6:30pm)
Comedy on the Coast is back! Don’t miss this amazing line up – Dan Quinn, Charlie Demers and Graham Clarke. All proceeds benefit the Sechelt Hospital Foundation!
*Adult venue 19+
Barracuda – The Essential Tribute To HEART & Zeppelin
Date(s): October 4th, 2025
Showtime: 7:30PM
Barracuda – The Essential Tribute to HEART, a night filled with all the hits and energy of the legendary band!
Barracuda, a tribute to Heart, first hit the stage in 2011, and rapidly became the top Heart tribute in North America. In 2012, having heard rave reviews of Barracuda, Heart’s original lead guitarist and co-writer, Roger Fisher, drove from Seattle to Vancouver with brother Michael, Heart’s original manager and sound technician, and also the subject of the song ‘Magic Man’ to see Barracuda. Roger and Michael went on record saying that Barracuda was the best Heart tribute they had ever seen, and they had seen many. Roger was so impressed with Barracuda
that he made several special guest appearances with Barracuda, on both sides of the border.
Based in Vancouver, BC, Barracuda’s DL Car covers the vocals of Ann Wilson with absolute perfection, which is not an easy task. Her precision is nothing short of breath-taking. Sourced out of Portland, Oregon is Sarah Moon, who perfectly covers the vocals and guitar of Nancy Wilson. On lead guitar, keyboards and harmony vocals is Ray Roper, formerly of recording artists Stonebolt. Multi-instrumentalist Darryl Hebert plays keyboard, electric and acoustic guitars, keytar, banjo and mandolin. Mark Kenny, also a member of Nick Gilder and Sweeney Todd, plays bass, and veteran of many Vancouver-based bands, Doug Grant plays drums. In honoring Heart’s roots and history, Barracuda includes two or three Led Zeppelin classics in their set.
Barracuda captures the sound of Heart down to the finest detail both vocally and instrumentally, and have to be seen to be believed!
An afternoon with Bob McDonald
Date(s): October 5th, 2025
Showtime: 2PM to 4PM
Join us for an inspiring afternoon with renowned science journalist and beloved CBC broadcaster Bob McDonald, as he shares stories from his remarkable life and career, drawn from his memoir, Just Say Yes.
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La Sonnambula
Date(s): October 18th, 2025
Showtime: 10:00AM
Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga returns after his acclaimed 2023 Met debut in L’Elisir d’Amore, co-starring as Amina’s fiancé Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.
Running 2h 45m.
La Boheme
Date(s): November 8th, 2025
Showtime: 10:00AM
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.
Running 3h 5m.
Arabella
Date(s): November 22nd, 2025
Showtime: 10:00AM
Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder makes her Met debut as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.
Running 3h 50m.
National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove
Date(s): November 28th, 2025
Showtime: 2pm and 7pm
OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB.
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack. Based on the motion picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George, based on the book ‘Red Alert’ by Peter George.
Andre Chenier
Date(s): December 13th, 2025
Showtime: 10:00AM
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.
Running 3h 10m.
I Puritani / Les puritains
Date(s): January 10th, 2026
Showtime: 10:00AM
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On New Year’s Eve, the curtain goes up on the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.
Running 3h 20m.
Tristan and Isolde/Tristan et Isolde
Date(s): March 21st, 2026
Showtime: 9:00AM
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.
Running 4h 50m.
Eugene Onegin
Date(s): May 2nd, 2026
Showtime: 10:00AM
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).
Running 3h 45m.
El Ultimo sueno de Frida y Diego
Date(s): May 30th, 2026
Showtime: 10:00AM
American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.
Running 2h 25m.
Elder College – Disinformation in Canada
Date(s): September 13th, 2025
Showtime: 2PM TO 4PM
Disinformation in Canada
Dr. Ahmed Al-Rawi
Associate Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication Director of the Disinformation Project School of Communication Simon Fraser University
FREE PUBLIC EVENT OPEN TO ALL AGES
Annual Clifford Smith Memorial Lecture
Disinformation in Canada
One of the burning media issues of our time is discerning fact from falsehood. Using examples from both Canadian and international media, Dr. Al-Rawi will focus on the spread of both misinformation and disinformation, how to navigate the challenges of identifying false information, and some ways to
protect ourselves against it.
General queries: info@sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca
You must register on our web site sunshinecoasteldercollege.ca/fall-2025
The Coast Recital Society is a non-profit society dedicated to the presentation of the finest recitals and chamber music for Sunshine Coast audiences.
The Coast Academy of Dance is a highly respected dance school serving the Sunshine Coast area for more than two decades, with over 300 students and 10 well-qualified teachers in Sechelt, BC.
The Sunshine Coast Film Society
The Sunshine Coast Film Society brings a diverse selection of films to the lower Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada: films that share compelling content, images, and ideas. We cultivate the appreciation of film and provide an alternative to mainstream entertainment in our community. See what’s coming up at our website www.scfs.ca
Since its inaugural year in 2004, the Sechelt Arts Festival has become the leading edge platform for engaging the Sunshine Coast artistic community in innovative visual and performing art projects.
The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
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