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On Alice Street in Oakland, a mural sparks a cultural movement

Documentary streaming at KDocsFF follows the creation of a massive public artwork amid gentrification in the heart of the city’s diverse artistic hub

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 11, 2022KDocsFF, documentary, Homepage feature

KDocsFF 2022 seeks truth, inspires change through the power of documentary film

Social-justice issues are in the spotlight at the annual Metro Vancouver festival, which marks its 10th anniversary this year

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 9, 2022KDocsFF, documentary, Homepage feature

Monumental image by Sara Cwynar announced for BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation

This year’s commission by Capture Photography Festival shines a light on advertising tropes

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2022Homepage feature, Capture Photography Festival, photography, public art

Just For Laughs VANCOUVER reschedules comedy festival to May 25 to 29

Tickets on sale now for standup acts including Nicole Byer, Marc Maron, Ron Wood Jr., and Andrew Santino

COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2022Just For Laughs Vancouver, JFL

Theatre review: Cliff Cardinal's As You Like It takes audience on a journey of shock, vulnerability, then clarity

Performer plays the Trickster, dancing the line between humour and tragedy

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2022PuSh Festival, Crow's Theatre, Cliff Cardinal

Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 events where the arts leap off the page at the Jewish Book Festival

Online talks feature writers who explore subjects from painting-inspired poetry to theatre as a political act

READ, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 5, 2022music, Jewish Book Festival, Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival

Shhh, it's a secret: Here are the few things we can tell you about William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal.

The PuSh show relies on the element of surprise, but Crow’s Theatre’s Chris Abraham says it’s “exhilarating”

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2022PuSh Festival, Crow's Theatre, Shakespeare, Cliff Cardinal

LunarFest Vancouver offers lively celebrations to welcome Year of the Tiger

Special activities include art workshops, film screenings, fortune-telling, and more

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022LunarFest, Partner Content

Montreal's Mélanie Demers unleashes the female voice in La Goddam Voie Lactée

MAYDAY dancers learned everything from singing to playing guitar for a work formed by volatile times

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022PuSh Festival, The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

Talking Stick @ Club PuSh brings Indigenous beats, comedy, and burlesque to Performance Works February 3

Co-curators Rob Thomson and Nimkish Younging present DJ O Show, Sparkle Plenty, and more at the fest’s laid-back, licensed venue

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022PuSh Festival, Club PuSh, Talking Stick Festival, Frank Theatre

JCC Jewish Book Festival: From fictional worlds of beasts to frank takes on antisemitism, the 2022 event covers vast ground

Vancouver author Rachel Rose, author of The Octopus Has Three Hearts, is featured in the annual literary event’s Short Stories Extravaganza

The 37th Annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival represents a diversity of experiences and cultures

The online event showcases recent literature that revels in pivotal ideas of the modern world, sparks meaningful conversation

BOOKS, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 31, 2022Jewish Book Festival, Partner Content

The O Show traces Orene Askew's journey to an Afro-Indigenous Two-Spirit DJ and civil rights activist

Streaming at the Vancouver Short Film Festival, new doc shows spotlights an artist inspired to represent her communities

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 29, 2022VSFF, Vancouver Short Film Festival, DJ O Show

Musical worlds converge in LunarFest Vancouver's Together, Stronger concert

Featuring local string ensemble Harmonia, the performance speaks to spring, celebration, and song

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 28, 2022LunarFest, ACSEA, Charlie Wu

From the comedic to the poetic, Vancouver Short Film Festival's brief takes on the pandemic

Local entries Tomomi on the Farm, Who the Hell Is Nigel?, and Quarantine Fling capture the inspiring and the absurd

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022VSFF, Vancouver Short Film Festival, COVID-19

The Lantern City lights up the night downtown and on Granville Island at LunarFest

Ten diverse local, Indigenous, and international artists have created towering lanterns for the installations

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022LunarFest, Lunar New Year

I swallowed a moon made of iron pays tribute to haunting poetry borne out of Chinese factory despair

Njo Kong Kie’s solo ode to the late Xu Lizhi mixes music, movement, and projections

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022PuSh Festival

Indian Summer Arts Society co-founders Sirish Rao, Laura Byspalko announce they’re stepping down

The duo will stay on till the end of the year, help mount the Indian Summer Festival’s 12th edition in July

FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 25, 2022Indian Summer Festival

Aalaapi ᐋᓛᐱ conjures the storytelling, slow rhythms, and vast silence of the Far North

Multimedia PuSh Festival show blends radio documentary, performance, and projected imagery to follow five young Inuit women

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 24, 2022PuSh Festival, Inuit

Review: Voices wash over mesmerized listeners in the dark, at Vox.Infold

At the intimate PuSh Festival installation, throat-singing, soul, and other styles melt into a soundscape that comes at you from all directions

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 22, 2022PuSh Festival, Lobe Studio, Vox.Infold

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