The Vancouver Men’s Chorus is thrilled to launch our 45th season with Making Spirits Bright 2025 at the Vancouver Playhouse! This year, we celebrate the warmth, resilience, and togetherness that brighten even the chilliest Canadian winters. With music that blends festive favourites and fresh surprises, we invite you to join us for an evening filled with joy, harmony, and the magic of voices united. Let us warm your winter and make this holiday season truly bright.

The Vancouver Playhouse

Dec 5, 6 at 8pm
Dec 6, 7 at 3pm

At a dinner party in the fall of 2015, filmmaker Mark Halliday came up with an idea to work on a documentary style film featuring the beloved Vancouver Men’s Chorus. Over the course of the next two years, Mark followed the VMC behind-the-scenes, captured thousands of hours of footage, and interviewed members of this tight-knitted chorus.

There was no script but, through the interviews, three themes became clear: the VMC has built and shaped a community for queer and gay men in the past four decades; their performances have changed their audience in the most unexpected ways; the chorus has became a chosen family and has integrated with the lives of its members forever. The interviews, combined with clips Mark filmed of the VMC performances in 2016 and 2017, provided an intimate snapshot of Canada’s first GBTQ2+ chorus.

We Are the Vancouver Men’s Chorus debuted at the 2018 Vancouver film festival ‘Out on Screen’ and was featured at the 2019 Atlanta film festival ‘Out on Film’, and later released on OutTV.