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Vancouver-based Thai chef Pailin Chongchitnant demystifies the food of Thailand in Sabai

Hot Thai Kitchen founder’s new cookbook features simple recipes that omit tedious, time-consuming steps

CULINARY, READGail JohnsonMarch 22, 2023Thai food, Pailin Chongchitnant, Hot Thai Kitchen, cookbooks, Spring 2023

Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream traces its inspiration to Mumbai and a striking funeral rite

New Zealand playwright-performer Jacob Rajan explores mortality with an eerily lifelike vulture puppet

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 21, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Spring 2023

Stir 'Splainer: 5 works at Audain Art Museum's 2023 Illuminate Gala & Auction

Works by artists such as Russna Kaur, Dempsey Bob, Dana Claxton, and more up for bidding

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 20, 2023Audain Art Museum, Dempsey Bob, Spring 2023

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: 5 things to know about touring ensemble's Vancouver concert

The New York City quartet features pianists Wu Han and Wu Qian, violinist Bella Hristova, and cellist Dmitri Atapine

Dance review: Ballet BC adeptly shifts moods from dark eco horror to playful rebellion against conformity at HORIZON/S

Dancers move eerily in Jiří Pokorný’s A Night Walker, while Shay Kuebler’s First/Last has sly fun with suit jackets

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 18, 2023Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Spring 2023

Ruby Singh grows a Polyphonic Garden of “biosonification” at Spring Equinox Summit

At Lobe Studio mini-fest devoted to environmental sound, improvisation, and poetry, artist unveils plant-generated music

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 17, 2023Lobe Studio, Ruby Singh, Spring 2023

Our Ghosts uncovers a decades-old British Columbia mystery at the Firehall Arts Centre

For playwright Sally Stubbs, telling the story of her pilot father’s disappearance was part of fulfilling a promise to her mother

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 15, 2023FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Spring 2023, Spring Arts 2023

Henry Tsang’s White Riot documents a shameful episode in Vancouver history

Vancouver artist’s new book grew out of a walking tour that revisits sites of 1907 anti-Asian violence

READStir VancouverMarch 14, 2023anti-Asian, Henry Tsang, books, BC books, BC authors, Spring 2023

Theatre review: My Little Tomato serves up juicy fun

Drag and dazzle pervade playwright Rick Tae’s queer rom com

Puppets, animatronic reptiles are part of the action in A Dinosaur Tale, March 18 and 19

The family-friendly theatre production is set in the Alberta Badlands

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREGail JohnsonMarch 13, 2023Massey Theatre, family, Spring 2023

Music review: Elektra Women’s Choir stirs up collective emotions in Humanity

Soulful and thoughtful, the concert combined a cappella singing with large-scale photographic projections

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 12, 2023Elektra Women's Choir, concerts, review, music, Music review, Spring 2023

New FEAST! Vancouver celebrates gathering over food and drink

Culinary fest features collaborative dinners, masterclasses, cocktails, a grand tasting, and more with chefs from across Canada

Theatre Review: Sense and Sensibility delivers frothy, boisterous fun

The Arts Club’s take on Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation of the Jane Austen classic is delightfully playful

Leslie Uyeda's new song cycle works through grief and grieving, March 16 at Mountain View Cemetery

Readings by poet Lorna Crozier interweave with work for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble at SUM gallery and Little Chamber Music’s reflective event

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithMarch 10, 2023Spring 2023, Little Chamber Music, Leslie Uyeda

At VIDF, Hiromoto Ida shares a love story in Birthday Present for Myself

An old man raises a glass of sake to himself in moving meditation on life and loss

Film reviews: An aching Italian love story and a matchmaking comedy at Vancouver Jewish Film Festival

Beautifully shot The Shadow of the Day captures prewar Italy, while Matchmaking coins the ultra-orthodox rom-com

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMarch 9, 2023Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, Spring 2023

A toast to spring: 3 B.C. wines to while winter away

“The grape of the Fraser Valley”, a time-honoured Riesling, and a sunny Viognier are on the table; so are wine-tasting experiences

CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 9, 2023Spring 2023, BC wine, wine, Hillside Winery, Singletree, Chronos, Time Winery

Vancouver choreographer Shay Kuebler brings his signature physicality to Ballet BC for the first time

Artist stages a 20-dancer work about society and surveillance, all set to God Speed You! Black Emperor

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 9, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Shay Kuebler, Radical System Art, Spring 2023

Buzzy London-based Elias String Quartet brings verve to Vancouver, March 14

Works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Hadyn are on the bill

Bboyizm's large-scale In My Body explores the struggles behind superhuman hip-hop moves

Faced with his own knee surgeries, Canadian B-boy trailblazer Yvon Soglo crafts an energized look at aging

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 8, 2023Spring 2023, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE

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