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Bass Coast set to host B.C.'s biggest festival art exhibition with 60 awe-inspiring installations

The electronic-music and art festival is an outdoor gallery, with dance and movement

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 28, 2023Summer 2023, Bass Coast

Vancouver's Chinatown Storytelling Centre launches Our Journey Continues

New exhibition honours families who have thrived 100 years after the Chinese were barred from entering Canada

From The Hobbit to The Princess Bride, The Improv Centre serves up Tall Tales: The Quest Is Up To You!

The summer show created by TIC ensemble member Mary Saunders draws inspiration from classic fantasies

COMEDYGail JohnsonJune 26, 2023The Improv Centre, TIC, improv, comedy

Women, Life, Freedom comes to Cityscape Community ArtSpace, July 7 to August 26

New exhibition celebrates and gives voice to Iranian women

Whistler's Audain Art Museum hosts epic exhibition by Japanese visual artist Manabu Ikeda

Flowers from the Wreckage is the first solo exhibition in North America by the artist who draws meticulously detailed large-scale works in pen and paper

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 23, 2023Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Summer 2023, Homepage feature

Indigenous festival ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire) releases 2023 lineup, with headliners Black Belt Eagle Scout and Reservation Dogs’ composer Mato Wayuhi

Second annual celebration of Indigenous culture, creativity, and community is a presentation of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and Musqueam

West Coast Modernism celebrated in new exhibition featuring works by two local greats at West Vancouver Art Museum

Order From Chaos: B.C. Binning and Jane Adams illustrates how the work of the former inspired the latter

Indigenous music and culture in the spotlight at massive 2 Rivers Remix Music Feast LIVE

With more than 40 leading Indigenous artists and acts, the three-day fest by 2 Rivers Remix Society has a theme of Bring the Children Home

MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonJune 21, 20232 Rivers Remix Society, Indigenous, Summer 2023, Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Ballet BC’s MOMENTUM Gala returns for 2023, June 24

Dance, music, food, and more are all part of the fundraising bash at Rocky Mountaineer Station

DANCEGail JohnsonJune 19, 2023Ballet BC

Stir Pairing: Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2023 meets La Fabrique St-George Winery

Concerts at the urban winery are part of the fest’s Club Series, which features several other cool venues

Stir Bedside Table: Vancouver chef Zach Poole

The culinary leader of Strathcona’s V.V. Tapas Lounge talks Vanguardians, Anthony Bourdain, and why he’ll never write his autobiography

READ, CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 19, 2023Stir Bedside Table, books, Summer 2023

Queer Arts Festival 2023: Bharatanatyam dance artist Sujit Vaidya celebrates brown queerness

Breathe In the Fragrance is the performer-choreographer’s erotic new gender-ambiguous fantasy

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s The Path Forward celebrates Indigenous cultures, June 24

The free day-long event falls on the heels of National Indigenous Peoples Day

Black Culture Celebration hits Vancouver's Sunset Beach, June 17

Kardinal Offishall, Rascalz, Maestro, and Choclair join Vancouver’s Juneteenth festival, with Black art, food, fashion, and more

FESTSGail JohnsonJune 15, 2023Black, Juneteenth, Summer 2023

Stir Q&A: Pi Theatre's Truth & Lies explores post-truth era through short plays and virtual reality

Inspired by Othello, the Vancouver company’s season-closing performance directed by Richard Wolfe dives deep into the digital realm

THEATREGail JohnsonJune 15, 2023Pi Theatre, Kwasi Thomas, Pippa Mackie, Summer 2023, Homepage feature

Massey Theatre gets $20.1 million investment from City of New Westminster

Funds will go toward renovations and accessibility at the historic venue

THEATRE, NEWSGail JohnsonJune 14, 2023Summer 2023, Massey Theatre, Jessica Schneider

Million Dollar Quartet celebrates the glory of rock 'n' roll

Inspired by the 1956 jam session of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, director Bobby Garcia’s take turns a new lens on the jukebox musical

THEATREGail JohnsonJune 14, 2023Arts Club Theatre, Bobby Garcia, Summer 2023