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ANOHNI and the Johnsons open 27th season of Chan Centre Presents programming, October 5

Singer-songwriter’s first Vancouver concert in 15 years features tracks off her latest studio album, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Dance review: Wheezing robotic accordions and whirling shawls, as Èbe pushes definitions of flamenco

Montreal's Sarah Bronsard creates striking visual poetry at the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 19, 2024Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, flamenco, Flamenco Rosario

Gordon Smith Gallery unveils comic-inspired exhibition Playhouse, September 20, 2024 to February 27, 2025

Curated by Annie Canto and Amelia Epp, works by more than 20 Canadian artists offer a transformative viewing of vivid stories and characters

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2024Partner Content, Gordon Smith Gallery

Gospel music to flamenco, the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival returns for its 21st year

Co-founders Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling announce their retirement after Vancouver Moving Theatre’s 2024-25 season

Vancouver Opera opens 65th-anniversary season with Die Fledermaus, October 26 to November 3

Director Ashlie Corcoran and conductor Jacques Lacombe helm spectacular production of Johann Strauss II’s 1960s-set comic operetta

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 19, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Opera, Ashlie Corcoran, Jacques Lacombe

Vines Art Festival's Heather Lamoureux wins Canada Council for the Arts' John Hobday Award in Arts Management

Prize, shared with Calgary’s Toyin Lafenwa Oladele, provides leadership mentoring and $10,000

FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 19, 2024Vines Art Festival, Heather Lamoureux, Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts

At Studio 58, Baggage navigates the emotional weight of failed relationships, October 3 to 13

Play written by Sarah Segal-Lazar centres a cynical character in her 20s as she tries to start a new relationship amid the personified baggage of her exes

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 18, 2024Partner Content, Studio 58, Langara, Langara College

Koulounisation takes a personal look at the French occupation of Algeria

Running at Théâtre la Seizième, new play by French-Algerian artist Salim Djaferi goes beyond the history books

THEATREGail JohnsonSeptember 18, 2024Theatre la Seizieme

Germany's Gropius Quartet plays its debut Friends of Chamber Music concert, October 15

Program for the evening at the Vancouver Playhouse spans Haydn, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 18, 2024Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Gropius Quartet

New Works brings Pop Up Dances Festival to Granville Island and Vancouver Public Library, September 20 to 22

The outdoor site-specific series offers dance in unconventional spaces like public stairwells and storefronts

DANCEGail JohnsonSeptember 18, 2024New Works, dance

At VIFF, documentaries explore humans’ relationships with high tech

*smiles and kisses you*, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Real offer moving and unsettling views of how we attempt to heal ourselves as part of the Spectrum series

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2024VIFF Centre, documentary, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF

Chutzpah! Festival launches 24th edition with Ukrainian klezmer stars, a 1938-set ode to censored cabaret, and more

This year’s lineup ranges from comedy by Juno Award–winner Jacob Samuel to a dance world premiere by Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick

FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 18, 2024chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival, Chutzpah Festival

Rebecca Belmore wins $100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts

Presenting the Anishinaabe artist with the award at today’s ceremony, Scott Watson described her as “one of not just Canada’s, but her generation’s most important artists”

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 17, 2024Rebecca Belmore, Audain Foundation, Homepage feature

The Biting School premieres Empty-Handed at the Firehall Arts Centre, October 2 to 5

Contemporary dance piece choreographed by Arash Khakpour immerses viewers in themes of darkness, deception, and greed

THEATREStir VancouverSeptember 17, 2024Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre, The Biting School

Lovers’ Wind revisits late French filmmaker’s footage of Iran at Western Front, to November 23

Toronto-based artists Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko collaborate on a multi-channel video installation

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonSeptember 17, 2024Western Front

The Improv Centre dives into deception in Betrayers

New show created by Allen Morrison is based on the hit reality-TV series The Traitors

COMEDYGail JohnsonSeptember 17, 2024The Improv Centre, TIC, improv, Homepage feature

Newly published book Taizo Yamamoto: Carts, Hedges, Lions details Vancouver's urban landscape

Through intricate graphite drawings, Vancouver architect Taizo Yamamoto analyzes how seemingly mundane objects speak to the city’s omnipresent issues

READStir VancouverSeptember 17, 2024Partner Content, Figure 1 Publishing

88 Strings combines Chinese, Persian, and Western plucked instruments at Pyatt Hall on September 20

Debut concert by the powerful new ensemble features world premieres and melodious classics

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 17, 2024VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, 88 Strings

Film review: A Mother Apart unpacks a painful legacy of abandonment at Vancouver Queer Film Festival

NFB documentary traces a spoken-word poet's complex relationship with the woman who left her as a child in Jamaica

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 16, 2024NFB, National Film Board, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, VQFF, LGBTQ+

Renowned Indigenous artists Jeremy Dutcher and Alanis Obomsawin perform at the Chan Centre, October 4

Wolastoqiyik tenor-composer and Abenaki filmmaker-musician deliver an intimate two-part concert presented in partnership with VIFF and the Vancouver Art Gallery

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