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Vancouver Chamber Choir launches 54th season with Figure humaine, September 27

Lineup features works by Johannes Brahms, UBC music student Joanne S. Na, and the choir’s new composer-in-residence Laura Hawley

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 4, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

In Fields of Presence, director Jorge Lozano has an impressionistic “conversation” with his late daughter

Faced with tragedy, Colombian-Canadian film and video artist builds a haunting collage about two indivisible spirits at Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

SCREEN, FESTSAdrian MackSeptember 4, 2024Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Jorge Lozano, Breanna Lozano

Surrey Art Gallery presents the fall opening of Jagdeep Raina: Ghosts In The Fields, September 21

Solo interdisciplinary exhibition depicts 1970s and ’80s farmworker movements with stop-motion animation, black-and-white drawings, hand-stitched quilts, and poetry

Ballet BC artists take to the stage and beyond in Take Form, September 6 and 7

Event sees eight new creations entirely choreographed, produced, and performed by eight of the company’s dancers

DANCEGail JohnsonSeptember 3, 2024Ballet BC, BALLET BC, Medhi Walerski

Vetta Chamber Music opens its 2024-25 season with Liminal Spaces, September 27 to 30

On the program that explores interconnected forces are works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music, Jeffrey Ryan

$1-million endowment transforms Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize into Canada’s largest award for emerging artists

Five shortlisted artists vying for the $25,000 prize announced

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonSeptember 3, 2024The Polygon Gallery, photography

Stir Q&A: Mexican filmmaker Ángeles Cruz on grief, silence, and reappearing at Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

The creative force behind Valentina or the Serenity delves into mourning through the perspective of a young girl

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 3, 2024VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, Homepage feature

From Malcolm Gladwell to Jane Urquhart, Vancouver Writers Fest gives sneak peek at 2024 lineup

More than 120 international and local writers will appear in over 85 events in festival running October 21 to 27

FESTS, READGail JohnsonSeptember 3, 2024Vancouver Writers Fest

New Fates Festival champions femme and nonbinary theatre artists

Inaugural event is a project of Promethean Theatre in collaboration with the Arts Club Theatre Company’s youth committee and features three new comedies

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonSeptember 3, 2024Promethean Theatre, Arts Club Theatre Company, femme, nonbinary, Fates Festival

Sound the Alarm tours Andrew Lloyd Webber's hits to Metro Vancouver in Music of the Night, October 12 to 20

B.C. tour visits 18 cities (six local) with favourites from the musical-theatre icon’s greatest shows, spanning Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and beyond

MUSIC, THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024Partner Content, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS

Self-accompanying soprano Rachel Fenlon marks her Vancouver Recital Society debut with Schubert’s Winterreise

UBC Opera alum has been gaining international acclaim for her immersive interpretations and double talent

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 3, 2024rachel fenlon, Schubert, Winterreise, Liede, Soprano, piano, VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY

Small Town Artillery Collective plays Firehall Arts Centre courtyard, September 7 and 8

The violin- and trumpet-powered rock ’n’ roll band is the project of brothers Tom and Derek van Deursen

READ, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonAugust 31, 2024The Polygon Gallery, books

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Dallas Yellowfly’s Qwalena: The Wild Woman Who Steals Children, September 27

Theatrical performance creates awareness of the intergenerational impacts of residential schools with a blend of storytelling and multimedia components

Rising construction costs mean changes to Vancouver Art Gallery’s new building

Unforeseen price escalation prompts gallery to issue an update on the project’s progress

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonAugust 30, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain Foundation

Through funerals and drunken jokes, women find their place in the world at this year's Vancouver Fringe Festival

Bitches with Baggage sees two ex-friends reunite to mourn a high-school teacher, while A Man Walks Into a Bar emphasizes the importance of healthy communication

Film reviews: At Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, a Colombian town in search of a TV and pink-punk Chilean empowerment

Quick takes on La Suprema and Outsider Girls, two energized offerings at the upcoming ode to new cinema

Indian Summer Festival hosts first annual BC Gin Festival, September 6

Event sees craft gins from around the globe available for tasting, all in support of the annual celebration of South Asian arts and culture

FESTSGail JohnsonAugust 29, 2024Indian Summer Festival, Gin Festival

Vancouver Art Gallery acquires hundreds of new artworks

Major works by local and international artists—including Beau Dick, Teresita Fernández, Geoffrey Farmer, and Ron Terada—have been added to the gallery’s permanent collection

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonAugust 29, 2024Vancouver Art Gallery, visual art

Celebrate Vancouver’s dance scene at annual Scotiabank Dance Centre Open House, September 14

Free classes and events take place all afternoon with artists and companies spanning Flamenco Rosario, Van Vogue Jam, Adam Grant Warren, Voirelia Dance Hub, and more