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BC-born dance artist Daina Ashbee brings her intense, unflinching vision to her first group work

The artist, celebrated in Quebec and abroad, brings J'ai pleuré avec les chiens (TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION) home

Vancouver artists Barbara Bourget, Jay Hirabayashi inducted into 2022 Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame

Other local talents to receive honours include David Y.H. Lui and the late Kay Armstrong

White Girls in Moccasins is a journey of Indigenous self-discovery

Nuu-chah-nulth actor Danica Charlie can relate to the lead character’s struggle for identity

Ensemble Theatre Company's Summer Repertory Festival returns for 2022, with two powerful dramas

Marjorie Prime and Pass Over anchor the fest at ETC’s new home at Waterfront Theatre; film screenings added

sacred skin explores the resurgence of Indigenous tattooing

Exhibition at 2022 Talking Stick Festival highlights seven artists who are revitalizing Indigenous culture through sacred body markings

Buddy Guy cancels appearance at 2022 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

The blues legend announces he’s unable to leave the U.S. due to a recent medical condition

Elektra sings Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water), an act of reconciliation through the arts

Conceived by ethnomusicologist Jeanette Gallant, the five-piece a cappella work is based on Squamish text gifted by Tsitsáyxemaat (Rebecca Duncan) and scored by Métis composer T. Patrick Carrabré

We Care laughs it up in support of health-care heroes, at The Improv Centre throughout June

The Granville Island improv-theatre company partners with philanthropist David McCann for Theatresports-format performances

COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 7, 2022The Improv Centre, health care, SPRING

Talking Stick Festival 2022 celebrates First Nations talent in performing arts

The 21st annual event marks National Indigenous History Month with diverse cultural programming ranging from film to visual arts

Soprano Golda Schultz makes Canadian debut, at Vancouver Playhouse on June 14

The South African-born, Munch-based artist is hailed worldwide for her versatility

Global Soundscapes Festival travels the unique cultural crossroads of Azerbaijani music

The ancient Azeri tar mixes with the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra’s wide world of instruments

MUSICJanet SmithJune 6, 2022Global Sounddscapes, VICO, SPRING

BC Movement Arts expands its rural reach with residencies and new dates in Campbell River

Late-spring season includes a Finnish North American premiere in Sointula and first show in Campbell River

DANCEJanet SmithJune 6, 2022BC Movement Arts Society, SPRING, SUMMER

Film screenings mark National Indigenous People's Day, at MOA on June 21

Several short films will honour the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Musqueam territory that the museum sits on

Theatre review: Handsomely staged with live foley sound effects, Yellow Fever resonates across the decades

Noir tale of racial inequity in 1970s Vancouver speaks directly to today

THEATREJanet SmithJune 5, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, SPRING

Talking Stick Festival brings back Stories That Transform Us, in-person on June 12

The feature-length documentary by Corey Payette also screens for free online to July 3 as part of the festival

Slipping between the real and virtual, the human and nonhuman at The Polygon Gallery's new Ghosts of the Machine exhibit

Nonbinary avatars meet live gardens with augmented-reality fauna, as the digital and natural merge

Morag, You’re a Long Time Deid features loop pedals and Scottish ballads in a journey of queer discovery

A grandmother whom co-creator Claire Love Wilson never met inspired the experimental musical

Taran Kootenhayoo, Columpa Bobb, Sam Bob among Vancouver artists nominated for 2021-22 Jessie Awards

Clean/Espejos, ‘da Kink in my Hair, Bunny, Beautiful Man, and more up for awards before the Jessies go on hiatus

NEWS, THEATREGail JohnsonJune 3, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards

Vancouver Youth Choir closes its season with cutting-edge works in Brave New World, June 4

Group pushes choral music, performing works by Corey Payette, My Brightest Diamond, Laura Hawley, and more

MUSICJanet SmithJune 1, 2022Vancouver Youth Choir, SPRING

Ts'msyen Nation's Lynda Gray propels reconciliation forward with First Nations 101

The East Vancouver resident delves into topics ranging from reproductive health to being an ally in newly updated book

CULTURE, READGail JohnsonJune 1, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Indigenous, BC books

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