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Elektra Women's Choir rebrands as Elektra

The new name reflects the ensemble’s commitment to inclusion and embraces gender neutrality

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 16, 2024Elektra Women's Choir, Elektra, Morna Edmundson

VLACC celebrates Latin American Heritage Month with Latin Expressions series, October 5 to 26

Headlined by Polaris Music Prize–winning Colombian Canadian artist Lido Pimienta, program spans film, visual arts, dance, literary, and music events

Vancouver International Dance Festival names Deanna Peters and Victor Vân Tran as new codirectors

Annual fest’s founders, Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, step down from leadership roles after more than two decades

Teen Angst sees performers read from their old journals and diaries at the Shadbolt, September 21

The comedy revisits cast members’ hormone-fuelled puberty-era days

COMEDYGail JohnsonSeptember 15, 2024Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

A Studio Quivering in Readiness highlights B.C. artists at Burnaby Art Gallery to November 24

Works by Gordon Smith, Bill Reid, Roy Kiyooka, Toni Onley, and eight others are displayed in new exhibition, all donated by late collector Harry Locke

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 14, 2024Burnaby Art Gallery, Gordon Smith, Bill Reid, Roy Kiyooka, Toni Onley, BC art

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts hosts mesmerizing jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, October 11

In a copresentation by Cellar Music Group, Pelt and his four-piece band play experimental songs off his latest record, Tomorrow’s Another Day

Theatre review: Jersey Boys has smooth moves, authentic grit, and style for miles

At Arts Club’s Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, Julie Tomaino helms a honed production that hits all the high notes of the Four Seasons story

THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 13, 2024Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre

Lovers' Wind investigates the late Albert Lamorisse's final film, at Western Front to November 23

Artists Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko use video installation to honour French filmmaker who died in 1970 by helicopter crash in Iran

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverSeptember 13, 2024Partner Content, Western Front

Qwalena: The Wild Woman Who Steals Children addresses the ongoing impacts of the Indian Act

The titular character in the show by 3 Crows Productions represents government agents who removed Indigenous kids from their homes to attend residential school

Singer-guitarist Nano Stern, leader of new-wave Chilean folk, plays the BlueShore at CapU on October 10

Maestro mesmerizes audiences with soulful lyrics and virtuosity on Spanish and electric guitars, piano, violin, and Andean and Nordic flutes

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 12, 2024Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Nano Stern

In multidisciplinary work Agrimony, a traditional flower remedy inspires artists to dissolve their masks

Dancer Sophie Dow and musician Laura Reznek join forces for a free-flowing work performed in intricate papier-mâché masks

DANCEJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024The Dance Centre, Sophie Dow, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Pacific Baroque Orchestra tackles music director’s new arrangement of Goldberg Variations

Alexander Weimann’s fresh take on Bach’s “apex” of Baroque keyboard music is set to open Early Music Vancouver season

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver, Bach

Théâtre la Seizième presents Salim Djaferi’s theatrical documentary Koulounisation, September 25

Franco-Algerian artist investigates his understanding of colonization by unravelling the thorny story of the French occupation of Algeria

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra opens season with cinematic interpretation of Stravinsky’s The Firebird

Director Lucas van Woerkum will edit and adapt his film to the orchestra’s performance in real-time, in program that includes Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Morlock’s Night, Herself

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 12, 2024Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Classical music, Otto, Lucas van Woerkum

Theatre review: Come From Away’s true story still soars with authentic East Coast style

Hit musical about Gander, Newfoundland’s heroic welcome to unexpected flights on September 11, 2001 still resonates

THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 11, 2024Broadway Across Canada, Vancouver Civic Theatres

At the Vancouver International Film Festival, Portraits series highlights cultural icons and ground-breaking artists

Screenings taking place from September 26 to October 6 include Luther: Never Too Much, Disco’s Revenge, So Surreal: Behind the Masks, and nine others

SCREENStir VancouverSeptember 11, 2024Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre, VIFF 2024, Vancouver International Film Festival

From Montreal to Vancouver, Belle Spirale Dance Projects announces its 2024-25 season

Now in its second year, local company will perform at Vancouver Playhouse for the first time

DANCEGail JohnsonSeptember 11, 2024Belle Spirale Dance Projects, Alexis Fletcher, Sylvain Senez, dance

Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival celebrates community and creativity

Still Moon Arts Society artistic director Carmen Rosen realized her vision of a lantern procession through the park

FESTSGail JohnsonSeptember 11, 2024Still Moon Arts Society, Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, Homepage feature

Dr. Michael J Prokopow launches inspiring new book Reside: Contemporary West Coast Houses

Introduced by Clinton Cuddington, stunning publication tours Canada’s most exceptional homes through deeply informed prose and over 300 captivating photos

Vancouver New Music announces 2024-25 season spanning "sci-fi turntablism" and a Casavant Frères pipe organ

Organization’s 51st year of programming opens on September 27 with Ugandan electronic musician Afrorack and closes with Toronto-based artist SlowPitchSound

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 10, 2024VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

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