News Stories
Community members share impactful stories during VIU’s Rainbow Project
June 11, 2024
What: The Rainbow Project: Searching for a voice, Pride stories through the decades When: June 22 and 23, 7 pm Where: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre lobby, Building 310, Nanaimo campus Community members will share impactful stories from their lives during The Rainbow Project: Searching for a voice, Pride stories through the decades. The event is hosted by Vancouver Island University’s Theatre... Read more
Experience Frances Ward’s journey cultivating a kelp farm in the documentary Send Kelp!
May 31, 2024
What: Send Kelp!, a documentary film screening When: June 8, 6 pm Where: Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Malaspina Theatre, Building 310, Nanaimo campus What does it take to create a kelp farm off the coast of Vancouver Island? Frances Ward, a self-professed “seaweed nerd” and adventurer is determined to find out. She sets out to build one of the first farms of its kind in BC. The... Read more
Beyond the boy wizard’s limelight – PUFFS offers a hilarious twist on a beloved magical world
February 27, 2024
What: PUFFS, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic When: March 7 to 16 at 7:30 pm, Opening Gala March 7, 7:30 pm Where: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre (Building 310), Nanaimo campus For seven years, a bespectacled boy wizard with a scar went to a certain wizard school and conquered evil. But this isn’t his story. This is the story of the puffs who happen to be at... Read more
VIU Theatre department presents A Christmas Carol, a live radio play
December 12, 2023
What: A Christmas Carol – Live Radio Play When: Sunday, December 17 at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm Where: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre lobby (Building 310), Nanaimo campus Immerse yourself in the enchanting story of Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol as it comes to life at Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Malaspina Theatre. “Don’t miss this magical experience that will leave you with a... Read more
VIU Theatre Department presents the dark parody Collateral Damage
October 13, 2023
What: Collateral Damage, VIU Theatre Department fall play When: October 19 to 21 and 26 to 28 Where: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre (Building 310), Nanaimo campus Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Theatre Department presents playwright Jackie Crossland’s Collateral Damage this fall. Collateral Damage explores and reimagines the ancient Greek myth of Medea. In the original myth, Medea’s husband... Read more
Drag show offers a night of jaw-dropping and dazzling performances
September 29, 2023
What: Drag in the Theatre When: Wednesday, October 4, 8 to 10 pm Where: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre (Building 310), Nanaimo campus Experience a fabulous night of drag, live vocals and jaw-dropping performances during Drag in the Theatre. The show is presented by Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Positive Space Alliance and Vancouver-based drag queen and VIU alum Darrian Tolerance, Host, Performer... Read more
VIU’s Theatre Department presents the dramatic comedy She Kills Monsters
February 15, 2023
What: She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen – presented by VIU’s Theatre Department When: March 2 to 11 Where: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre (Building 310), Nanaimo campus Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Theatre Department presents the hysterical dramatic comedy She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen as this year’s spring production. The play tells the story of Agnes Evans as she comes to terms with the... Read more
VIU’s Theatre Department presents A Good Person
October 24, 2022
WHAT: A Good Person by Ross Desprez – a play by VIU’s Theatre Department WHEN: October 27 to November 5 WHERE: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre (Building 310), Nanaimo campus Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Theatre Department presents A Good Person by Ross Desprez, which is a comedic adaptation of Brecht’s The Good Women of Szechwan. In A Good Person, God comes to Earth in search of one good person... Read more
VIU’s Theatre Department Presents an Adaptation of Durrenmatt’s Play – The Visitor
February 22, 2022
WHAT: The Visitor – a play by VIU’s Theatre Department WHEN: March 2-5 at 7:30 pm WHERE: VIU’s Malaspina Theatre (Building 310) What would you do for a billion dollars? Can ridiculous amounts of money buy the scruples of an entire population? Join Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Theatre Department to explore these questions and more in the new adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt’s classic... Read more
Colloquium Series Shines Light on the Importance of Arts and Humanities in Today’s World
September 21, 2021
Lectures return to the stage at VIU’s Malaspina Theatre this fall. Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series returns this fall with an engaging lineup that explores women’s contributions within the avant-garde movement, gender roles and expectations of strong female characters and how the T. Eaton Company’s marketing strategies commodified youth culture. The... Read more