France is in the spotlight at this year’s event, which features a weekend-long tasting event at the Vancouver Convention Centre

Harmonizing through the decades, Vancouver choir is set to premiere six new arrangements

In the Theatre Conspiracy production copresented by Touchstone Theatre, a South Asian man finds self-expression through dance

Director Mindy Parfitt finds inspiration with local implications in the darkness, wit, and honesty of Duncan Macmillan’s acclaimed play

In the endearing new Metro Theatre production, a five-sister team of performers creates an exceptionally strong and funny ensemble

Arts Club production centres a married couple that recounts the good, the bad, and the ugly of spending 50 years together

Contemporary-art-like 27’52’”makes elaborate play with shadows and time, while Frontier reveals new narrative and thematic complexity

The Nova Scotian singer-songwriter is touring with a new multimedia show, Cradled by the Waves

New Works copresents Isak Enquist's genre-defying fusion of martial arts and contemporary dance influences

Acclaimed Montreal singer and songwriter intertwines healing experiences in nature and musical history to reach toward the light

Care of Théâtre la Seizième, the work examines how female friendships must adapt to the pressure of raising a new life

Based on the true story that inspired Beauty and the Beast, play centres Catherine de Medici and the man who awakens her wild side

Next season includes high-camp spoof Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Tracey Power’s premiere The Elvis Christmas Comeback Special, and the newly named Lindsay Family Stage

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

At the Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau and star Malia Baker confront anxiety and mortality in the deep freeze of the Prairies

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