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Four Daughters documentary takes novel approach to story of women and Islamic extremism, to February 6 at VIFF Centre

Director Kaouther Ben Hania’s riveting mix of reality and re-enactment just got nominated for an Oscar

Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre hosts Ebony Roots: Concert Part 2 on February 9

Final part of project takes listeners on a journey through historic music in celebration of Black identity and culture

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2024Partner Content, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre

Review: Gravity & Other Myths' The Mirror creates a sophisticated yet saucy cabaret of physical feats

Receiving a wild standing O, Aussie company ups its own game to create a fun, finely orchestrated flow of ever-shifting human towers and sculptures

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 25, 2024Gravity & Other Myths, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Homepage feature

Emily Carr University launches new online Master of Design: Information Futures program

Fall 2024 applications close on January 31 for graduate degree that combines information, communication, and systems designs

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2024Partner Content, Emily Carr University

UBC Opera's Cendrillon conjures a fairy-tale world with some serious singing

As Cinderella and her Prince Charmant, soprano Alexandra Baird and mezzo Katie Fraser relish the chance to stage Massenet’s magic-dusted masterpiece at the Chan Centre

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 25, 2024UBC Opera, CHan Centre for the Performing Arts, CHAN CENTRE

In DARKMATTER, Brussels-based dance artist Cherish Menzo seeks to detach bodies from biased perceptions

PuSh Festival duet with Camilo Mejía Cortés plays with distortion through a hip-hop music technique, rap-anthem choir, black paint, and more

Chor Leoni sets sail with Montreal folk ensemble La Nef in The Return Voyage, February 16 and 17

Following sold-out 2020 concert, acclaimed ensembles reunite to dive deeper into rich repertoire of sea shanties

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2024Partner Content, CHOR LEONI, La Nef

Theatre review: Mean Girls' witty teen comedy makes a "fetch" mix with song-and-dance spectacle

Energized Broadway Across Canada musical heightens the storytelling and deepens the characterizations

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 24, 2024Broadway Across Canada, Mean Girls, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Germany's Goldmund Quartet ahead of its Vancouver debut

In a Friends of Chamber Music concert, the four musicians will play works by Haydn, Borodin, and Beethoven

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, chamber music

Shabaka Hutchings and Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble play the Chan Centre, February 21

Saxophonist-flutist Shabaka is leading the British jazz renaissance, while El’Zabar and ensemble are commemorating a 50-year milestone

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2024Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Review: With humour and honesty, Rakesh Sukesh's because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it) digs into complexities of discrimination and immigration

Free-associative stories and dance stitched loosely together to match ginormous sari tapestry that unfurls in Indian Summer Festival/PuSh Festival/The Cultch show

Vancouver International Dance Festival presents Catherine Gaudet’s Se dissoudre, February 28 to March 2

Solo danced by Marie-Philippe Santerre explores sensations of dissolving and solitude

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 23, 2024Partner Content, VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Master carver Carey Newman's monumental Witness Blanket tours to the West Vancouver Memorial Library

Artist of Kwakwak’awakw, Coast Salish, and settler descent reflects on impact of large-scale work featuring nearly 900 reclaimed residential-school items