Views and feats to inspire, from a Women Mountaineers program at The Cinematheque to the Everest tales of adventure filmmaker Elia Saikaly

On Our Feet staged reading captures the slow-burning suspense of the famed author’s psychological thriller

Keeper, Tuner, and Forward join Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie in prizes for Canada’s top movies of the year

At Festival du Bois, the singer-violinist will blend Québécois fiddle tunes with an indie-folk sensibility

Percussionist Vern Griffiths leads a rare performance of the rhythmic composition

The VSO School of Music’s advanced young string ensemble Sinfonietta plays pieces by Vaughan Williams, Purcell, and more

One-woman show draws on Marguerite Duras’s novel to tell the story of a French mother in 1930s Indochina

Gourou, Dalloway, and a flick inspired by Liliane Bettencourt of the L'Oréal dynasty help launch 32nd annual fest

Offerings span basketball documentary Saints and Warriors, identity-focused short “One Day This Kid”, and beyond

At VIFF Centre, new Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami documentary finds women leading residents out of wildfire and flood catastrophes, in Lytton, Yarrow, and beyond

Tracey Power’s musical revue poses open-ended questions at the Firehall Arts Centre

Program features pieces by leading choreographers, including Anne Jung, Lukas Timulak, Rebecca Margolick, and Cyril Baldy

In Hannah Moscovitch’s spare, blunt two-hander at The Cultch, tension lives not only in what is being said, but in how it is being said and who is saying it

The company has plans for a captivating array of shows, from high-profile hits like Stuart Little to the moving true-life tale of Jordan, A Hero’s Journey Home

Musical comedy by Dan Goggin stars five nuns on a money-making mission

New York City ensemble’s program for Early Music Vancouver pairs pieces by Handel with high-spirited English country dances by the British African composer and abolitionist

Offerings include features Sirât and Mr. Nobody Against Putin, plus programs for Live Action, Animated, and Documentary shorts

As a young dancer at Nederlands Dans Theater, the artistic director was in on the creation of both Jiří Kylián’s 27’52” and Crystal Pite’s Frontier

Acclaimed ensemble’s impressionistic sound is inspired by blues, gospel, Scandinavian folk, and church music

Burlesque-infused biographical play tells of the legendary African-American performer’s wide-ranging accomplishments

French-Canadian sculptor’s exhibition focuses on the original scale models of her monumental public works

Based for decades at Western Front, long-time EDAM artistic director created more than 50 works and took part in hundreds of performances

The long-time vocalist, pianist, and conductor is set to pass on the baton at the end of the 2026–27 season

Vancouver Bach Choir performs Canadian premiere of work that draws on both ancient tradition and the 20th-century avant garde to explore the creative act

With community partners Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival and Théâtre la Seizième, bold reinterpretation of the tragic play hits the stage

Under director Jillian Keiley’s deft hands, the pacing stays airtight and the dry comedy never tips into full camp.

Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa is the subject of countless pop-culture references by characters like Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson

At The Cultch, removable limbs, retro TV shows, and absurd cabaret numbers about female madness frame a genuinely unsettling story of a grandmother’s institutionalization

Powerful composition shares a program with Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain… (A Whole Distant World…) and Michael Oesterle’s La Chapelle