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Canadian choreographer Denise Fujiwara spent years creating dance out of the constraints in Christian Bök’s celebrated, vowel-happy book
Read MoreComprehensive display of painter-printmaker’s works highlights his signature abstracts, his iconic West Coast landscapes, and his unique merging of the two
Read MoreVocalist Shruti Ramani sings for the band that draws upon the raga
Read MoreMulti-part project explores Filipinx composer and ethnomusicologist’s pioneering work through photographs, objects, scores, and more
Read MorePaper planes, food rituals, and more, in Urban Ink and The Cultch production that maps the connections and disconnections over decades
Read MoreInventive trio brings genre-bending sound and characteristic improvisations to the stage in copresentation with the Rickshaw Theatre
Read MoreMixing strength and fragility, new sculpture made from found objects will feature in season-closing program devoted to choreography by artistic director
Read MoreVancouver Improvised Arts Society event will feature several talented musicians, including Brooklyn-based Apache experimental violinist Laura Ortman
Read MoreNew DOXA Documentary Film Festival feature tells the incredible story of the Armstrong company, and how spending childhood summers there inspired McNeil’s own art-making
Read MoreFirst 400 copies of new anthology by 16 Canadian playwrights will be distributed to schools in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal
Read MoreNew York–based musicians to harmonize the sounds of Eastern and Western instruments in Vancouver debut at the Annex
Read MoreIn Western Front and Roundhouse copresentation, José Maceda’s work blends traditional bamboo instruments and dozens of voices
Read MoreCanadian singer and voice actor opens up about finding hope and inspiration in Oaxaca’s feathered creatures, ahead of her May 3 performance
Read MoreWith a 20-person choir and Ukrainian folk musicians, Vancouver singer-songwriter’s concert revives story of fleeing Nazi-occupied Ukraine during the Second World War
Read MoreThe Cultch and Urban Ink present Kamila Sediego’s play that explores cultural identity and familial duty
Read MoreBold staging and some standout singing please a packed house, while breathing new life into crowd favourite
Read MoreFilmmaker Shannon Walsh turns her lens on a labyrinthian fantasy world and an all-consuming love that transcends death
Read MoreVeteran roots, blues, and slide guitarist has played everywhere from his home base in the U.K. to the Troubadour in L.A.
Read MoreChoral concert featuring contemporary world music will include works by Moshe Denburg, Farshid Samandari, and Niel Golden
Read MoreSome Assembly Theatre Company play, created in collaboration with diverse youth, reminds audiences of the internet’s exciting opportunities and frightening risks
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