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Festival du Bois spotlights Acadian sounds, Métis culture, all-ages fun & more, March 8 to 10

Event marks 35 years at Coquitlam’s Mackin Park with a weekend lineup that includes contra dancing, Métis jigging, and more

FESTS, DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 22, 2024Partner Content, Festival du Bois, Francophone, Spring 2024

Work Different documentary looks at the shift to working from home from all angles

Making its Vancouver premiere at Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Julien Capraro’s new NFB movie assesses the good, the bad, and the ugly of the emerging laptop-and-sweatpants generation

Stir Q&A: Vancouver International Dance Festival's Virginie Brunelle talks about strings, artificial grass, and beauty

The Quebec artist’s Les corps avalés, performed live with the Molinari Quartet, explores human fragility with intense musicality

Ronnie Burkett, Measha Brueggergosman-Lee among laureates for Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement

SCTV’s Andrea Martin, rapper Wes “Maestro” Williams, and choreographer Mélanie Demers also recognized

New Works shares fresh XR programming in the Short Circuit Series, March 15 to 17

Extended reality-dance offerings include workshops, panel conversations, and a community mixer

DANCE, SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 22, 2024Partner Content, New Works, Spring 2024

Father Tartuffe: An Indigenous Misadventure uses humour to pry into more difficult social issues

For this fresh twist on Molière classic, actor Danica Charlie says it’s been a challenge to travel back to the Canada of 1967

Vancouver Chamber Choir's Sacred & Profane pairs choral classics with modern works, March 8 and 15

Choir to perform program featuring Benjamin Britten’s Sacred and Profane in Vancouver and Abbotsford

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2024

Vancouver International Wine Festival travels to Italy: 5 expert picks from the Tasting Room

Whether it’s wine from lesser-known regions in Campania or Umbria, or favourites like Nebbiolos and Barberas, get ready for a dose of dolce vita

CULINARY, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Vancouver International Wine Festival, wine, Homepage feature

Michael van den Bos hosts Screwball Express film studies course at VIFF Centre, March 18 to April 29

Film scholar introduces six Screwball Comedy films to audiences with talks about the genre and its most famous artists

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 21, 2024Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, Spring 2024

Venus Envy—The House of Venus Story makes West Coast premiere with live Wiggle 30 show, February 25 at the Rio Theatre

Michael Venus’s film about the rise of DIY drag celebration meets performances by Synthia Kiss, Peter Breeze, Symone Says, and more

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2024Rio Theatre, The Rio Theatre, drag, LGBTQ+, Pride

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Sister Jazz Orchestra and Dee Daniels on March 8

BlueShore at CapU presents gospel-jazz vocalist and all-woman big band at the Kay Meek Arts Centre

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 20, 2024Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU, Kay Meek Arts Centre, Spring 2024

Theatre review: Every Brilliant Thing engages its audience in innovative ways

At the Arts Club, solo performer Naomi Wright adeptly offers a lighthearted route into heavier subject matter

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2024Arts Club Theatre, Naomi Wright, Homepage feature

Friends of Chamber Music presents Poland's Karol Szymanowski Quartet on March 12

Concert celebrating group’s 25th anniversary features works by Haydn, Schoenberg, Mendelssohn, and Szymanowski

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 20, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Spring 2024

Film review: Morally complex mystery Lucy Grizzli Sophie opens Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

In the movie based on critically lauded Quebec play La Meute, two people form an unlikely bond in a remote B&B

Four free and low-cost shows take place at 24th annual Vancouver International Dance Festival

Audiences can check out Modus Operandi, Ferenc Fehér, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, and VIDF Jazz Jams from February 25 to March 9

Vieux Farka Touré brings timeless Malian guitar music to the York Theatre, February 23

Virtuoso performs tracks off his two 2022 albums, including Khruangbin collab Ali, an homage to his late father Ali Farka Touré

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2024BlueShore at CapU

Comedian Che Durena reflects on his fast rise, from bartending to shelter resident to TikTok star

Appearing at Just for Laughs Vancouver, Port Coquitlam-raised standup talks sex, vices, and the importance of craft

COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 17, 2024JFL Vancouver, Just for Laughs Vancouver

Rendez-Vous French Film Festival launches 30th-anniversary edition, February 24 to March 8

Two-part lineup hosted by Visions Ouest Productions features over 60 titles, including Haitian director Henri Pardo’s partly autobiographical film KANAVAL

Vancouver Art Gallery unveils 2024 exhibition calendar, spanning posters, zines, and a new force in painting

Lawrence Weiner’s poster archive, a colour-coordinated ode to monochrome, the first career survey on Dominican-American painter Firelei Báez, and more

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithFebruary 16, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, Spring 2024