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Festival du Bois returns to Mackin Park from March 24 to 26

Tickets now on sale for fun-filled event that celebrates French Canadian heritage

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverMarch 6, 2023Partner Content, Festival du Bois

Spring Arts: A month-by-month guide to all that's blooming on Vancouver stages and screens

Cherry blossoms, circus moms, and ukelele orchestras: a roundup of don’t-miss music, theatre, dance, and more

DANCE, FESTS, MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 6, 2023Spring 2023, SPRING 2023, Homepage feature

Vancouver Jewish Film Festival offers a sneak peek at The Cure for Hate

The work in progress follows the journey of Tony McAleer from racist extremist to anti-hate activist

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 6, 2023Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, Spring 2023, documentary

Italian artist Alessandro Sciarroni brings a nearly lost dance form to Vancouver International Dance Festival

Save the last dance for me puts a new spin on the whirling polka chinata

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 3, 2023VIDF, dance, polka, Italian, Italian Cultural Centre, The Dance Centre, Spring 2023

Award-winning animation and thought-provoking shorts as Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth announces 25th anniversary program

Ice Merchants, Sedna: Empress of the Sea, workshops for kids, and more, from March 28 to April 6

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents DEBORDEMENTS from March 8 to 11

The piece from Montréal-based company La Otra Orilla fuses flamenco and punk culture

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverMarch 1, 2023Partner Content, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Kokoro Dance kicks off 2023 Vancouver International Dance Festival with Wabi-Sabi

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayshi to perform moving duet on opening night

Coastal Dance Festival honours Indigenous stories, March 2 to 5

Dancers of Damelahamid welcome Indigenous artists from around the globe for 16th annual cultural celebration

Vancouver International Burlesque Festival unveils 2023 program, March 29 to April 2

Zyra Lee Vanity, Moscato Sky, and Vancouver-based Legend Lorna headline an inclusive live event

Vancouver Jewish Film Festival announces 27 world and Canadian premieres for 34th annual event

The longest running Jewish film festival in Canada takes place in March, in person and online

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 22, 2023Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, film, film festival, Jewish, SPRING 2023, Spring 2023

KDocsFF reviews: Engrossing Backlash unmasks cyberbullying against women; The Cartel Project peels away a cover up; and more

The Doctrine of Recovery spotlights Indigenous resistance; The Happy Worker probes the modern workplace; Navalny unfolds like a thriller

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 22, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival

Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 highlights of KDocsFF 2023

The social-justice film festival returns in person with its largest run to date

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 17, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival, KPU

Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily, and The Bad Plus, for June 23 to July 2 event

Fest opts for a smaller, more sustainable event as it moves forward for 2023

MUSIC, NEWS, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2023Jazz Fest, Coastal Jazz & Blues

At KDocsFF, The YouTube Effect explores the streaming site’s lack of regulation

Alex Winter’s documentary about the power and perils of the Google-owned tech behemoth has its Canadian premiere at the social-justice film festival

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 13, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival

Isabel Vincent shares story of opera-loving British sisters who saved Jewish musicians from the Nazis at JCC Jewish Book Festival

Author of Overture of Hope put her investigative-journalism skills to work in researching the women’s overlooked history

FESTS, READGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2023Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Book Festival, Jewish, Holocaust

KDocsFF 2023 presents two double features about Indigenous governance, history, and resistance

Films’ directors will take part in discussions at Vancouver’s premier social-justice film festival

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2023Partner Content, KDocsFF

Banished from Egypt, comedian Bassem Youssef brings biting humour to JFL Vancouver

The “Jon Stewart of the Arab World” is a former heart surgeon now based in L.A.

COMEDY, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2023JFL, Just for Laughs Vancouver, comedy, Bassem Youssef, Homepage feature

At JCC Jewish Book Festival, graphic novelists share stories of Holocaust survival in But I Live

Relating their experiences was not always an easy process for the survivors

Matriarchs Uprising employs tech to take female contemporary Indigenous dance into the future

The multifaceted festival features everything from VR films to dancing avatars while remaining rooted in ancestral world views

Theatre review: Soldiers of Tomorrow's artful simplicity makes for strong storytelling

With mesmerizing live music by Emad Armoush and a small army of toy soldiers, Itai Erdal confronts his past in Israel’s military

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2023PuSh Festival, The Elephant Theatre

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