Challengers and The Monk and the Gun kick off holiday big-screen series

The director of Action at a Distance joins Ballet Edmonton and Eric Cheung in receiving the honour and cash award

The annual event invites people to take in the traditions, flavours, and entertainment of rice pounding

Thelma & Louise and Umbrellas of Cherbourg are part of the theatre’s Essential Big Screen 2024 series

The colourful artworks with sound capture the movement of water, light, wind, and air from seven key geographic sites in the city

The UBC Masters alumnus and Philippines stage leader helmed the Arts Club’s Million Dollar Quartet, Beneath Springhill, and Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol

Alternately chilling and humorous, experimental art from the Eastern Bloc spans installations, photography, and eerie ice blocks at Vancouver Art Gallery

Chaotic farce by Canada’s most-produced playwright follows a furniture-store owner caught in a compromising position

Other members of the local arts community to be named include Emily Carr University president emeritus Ron Burnett and guitarist-educator Donald Alder

Event designed specifically for youth features hands-on activities, surprise performances, and mini concerts by local and international artists

Christmas tunes translated by elders into the endangered Haida language to be performed at December 21 concert

Audiences can watch the beloved Christmas film on the big screen while musicians perform John Debney’s original score live

Tempered optimism from artists and others as VAG scraps old plans for a scaled-back building

A smart revolving set and some smashing choreography keep this family musical moving

Metro Theatre’s holiday production brims with over-the-top moments and laugh-out-loud humour

The powerhouse mezzo-soprano sings a program that includes Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 by J.S. Bach and Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Nativitatis Domini, ZWV 8

Everything is heightened in Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling parody of privilege and willful ignorance

At the Art Gallery at Evergreen and Burnaby Art Gallery, resource extraction is explored through large-scale copper weavings

Lineup includes German string virtuoso Lulo Reinhardt, along with Alexandra Whittingham, Niwel Tsumbu, and Sönke Meinen

Persistent smiles and anguish; geometric interiors and painstaking compositions in Japanese director’s well- and lesser-known films

Riveting French Romantic production stars internationally acclaimed soprano Emily Pogorelc in the titular role

Vancouver City Council approves a motion to relocate Ken Lum’s Monument to East Vancouver to a more accessible and visible spot

The composer is an advocate for diversity and inclusion within the choral and classical-music realms

The classic production features the Kingdom of the Sweets, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the evil Mouse King, and more

New choir member Jayson Cervantes has found a home with the renowned ensemble about to mount its seasonal concert

Rising Victoria-raised star never saw the Tchaikovsky classic until he was 20—and now jetés between seven roles

Really Happy Someday wins Borsos Award for best Canadian feature film