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Capture Photography Festival announces 2025 Selected Exhibitions Program

Krystle Silverfox, Natasha Katedralis, Fred Herzog amid the names showing at galleries and venues across Metro Vancouver

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2025Capture Photography Festival

Experience a night of romance and music at Behind the Keys on February 14

Annual Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs fundraiser features a piano recital by Leslie Dala with wine and chocolates

Circa's Duck Pond reimagines Swan Lake with flippers, trapezes, and human towers

New twist on a classic ballet is full of beauty and wit, breaking new ground for the Aussie modern-circus troupe

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2025DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Homepage feature, circus, Circa

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Vetta Chamber Music’s French Connections concert

The program features works by Gabriel Fauré and Jean Françaix for a certain “je ne sais quoi”

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 15, 2025Vetta Chamber Music, Jane Coop, Joan Blackman, Henry Shapard

JCC Jewish Book Festival launches landmark 40th-annual edition, February 22 to 27

Lineup opens with memoirist Selina Robinson and closes with actor-comedian Brett Gelman of Stranger Things and Fleabag

Moving Sound unites a trio of dancers and a trio of musicians for an improvised encounter, January 19

Belle Spirale Dance Projects and the Campbell Kahre Varty Trio collaborate on the intimate performance

MUSIC, DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Scotiabank Dance Centre, Belle Spirale Dance Projects

Dance//Novella's Emerging Artist Program is in residence at The Polygon Gallery, to January 30

Twelve emerging dance artists choreograph and perform a group piece guided by the theme of “shifting identities”

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Dance Novella, The Polygon Gallery, The Polygon, The Dance Centre

Film review: Monsieur Aznavour takes a sweeping trip through the early days of chanson

Romantic locales, witty repartee, and entrancing music in biopic about “France’s Frank Sinatra”

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Visions Ouest, Visions Ouest Productions, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise

Schumann Quartet plays a Friends of Chamber Music concert on February 11

Youthful German ensemble features brothers Erik, Ken, and Mark Schumann, along with Veit Hertenstein

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 14, 2025Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Schumann Quartet

Friends of Chamber Music mourns the loss of Eric Wilson

The volunteer board president was 97 years old

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2025Friends of Chamber Music

Ruby Slippers Theatre premieres Abi Padilla's Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla., February 6 to 16

Heartwarming, hilarious play is presented in association with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Presentation House Theatre, and Blackout Art Society

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra hosts rising conductor Karl Hirzer in Land of Winter, January 16

The up-and-coming artist is former associate conductor with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2025VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

All That Remains explores wounded relationship between body and environment, at the PuSh Festival

Italian-born, Denmark-based dance artist Mirko Guido opens event with hybrid of movement, sculptures, and sound performance

BlueShore at CapU hosts dance and music party Celebrate Africa! on January 31

Performers include local ensemble Adanu Habobo, dancer-drummer Kwashie Kuwor, marimba master Kurai Mubaiwa, and more

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Adanu Habobo

Jewish Book Festival prologue event features two renowned authors, January 19

Maya Arad and Eshkol Nevo will discuss their latest works

READ, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025Jewish Book Festival

Sons documentary looks at masculinity and what it means to raise a male child in today’s world

New NFB release by Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker Justin Simms raises many questions about parenting in the era of Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025NFB, National Film Board, documentary

Théâtre la Seizième presents immersive show De glace, January 31 to February 2

Production by L’eau du bain theatre company follows the friendship of two young girls in an endless Norwegian winter

Film review: The Brutalist takes an epic look at art, trauma, and the American Dream

Transfixing acting and big ideas as film tracks an architect-refugee trying to rebuild in the U.S.

SCREEN, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025Cineplex, Homepage feature

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 facts about pianist-conductor and rising star Vanessa Benelli Mosell

Italian artist joins the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Schubert’s Third Symphony and other works

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2025Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Schubert

Fight director Jonathan Hawley Purvis talks swashbuckling sword battles in The Three Musketeers

Based on the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas, Arts Club Theatre Company and Citadel Theatre coproduction is full of heroism, passion, and adventure

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 9, 2025Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club

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