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Stir Q&A: Monkey on a Stick filmmaker talks about his exposé of historic Hare Krishna corruption

Boldly pushing the documentary form, Vancouver director tracks a story that involved guns, drugs, money laundering, child abuse, and even murder

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 24, 2024VIFF, VIFF Centre, documentary

Canada’s dance community calls on federal government to increase funding to the arts

As part of the Canadian Arts Coalition’s national call to action, the Canadian Dance Assembly has launched an advocacy campaign

DANCEJanet SmithOctober 24, 2024Canadian Assembly of Dance, New Works, funding, Canadian Dance Assembly

DanceHouse stages Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things), November 22 and 23

Through visceral synchronized rhythms, the full-length work challenges mandatory conformity and cohesion

DANCEStir VancouverOctober 24, 2024Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Compagnie Catherine Gaudet

Passionate and feisty Ariel Quartet returns to the Vancouver Playhouse on October 29

Friends of Chamber Music concert features well-loved works by Ravel and Beethoven, alongside a contemporary piece by Israeli composer Matan Porat

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 24, 2024Friends of Chamber Music, ariel q, chamber music

Eastside Culture Crawl officially launches 28th-annual festival with Take Flight fundraiser

An online Silent Auction and the ever-popular Art Roulette offer vital support to the festival while celebrating Eastside artists

Ukraine's Kommuna Lux tours exuberant "Odesa gangsta folk" to the Chutzpah! Festival

Group melds folk traditions, klezmer music, and urban energy into a unique style as it raises money for Ukraine’s humanitarian and military efforts

Saxophonist Brodie West's music is full of quiet surprises

The artist’s quintet comes to the Ironworks on November 2, as part of the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society’s IronFest V weekend

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2024Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Free-spirited Blue Moon Marquee’s wide travels take duo to New Orleans

Appearing at the Kay Meek Arts Centre, Vancouver Island pair fuels its blues and folk with curiosity and joie de vivre

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2024Kay Meek Arts Centre, Blue Moon Marquee

Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week launches fifth edition, November 20 to 23

Showcase at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre unites Indigenous designers from across Turtle Island for runway shows and an Artisan Market

ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, FASHIONStir VancouverOctober 23, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week

The Prop Master’s Dream, a fusion opera, pays tribute to a unique soul

Vancouver Cantonese Opera production at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival honours the late Wah-Kwan Gwan

Gene Kelly: A Life in Music comes to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, November 15 and 16

Show written and hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly features scenes from the American icon’s most beloved films set to a live symphony

MUSICStir VancouverOctober 23, 2024Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Gene Kelly

Krystle Dos Santos’s BLAK celebrates notable Black Canadian women in music and beyond

Representation is at the core of the artist’s new cabaret-style show

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 23, 2024Krystle Dos Santos, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Black, Homepage feature

The Sojourners close this year's Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, November 10

Juno Award-winning group weaves doo-wop, R&B, country, and blues with themes of social justice and human dignity

Director Ashlie Corcoran takes Vancouver Opera’s Die Fledermaus to the Swinging Sixties

The 65th-season opener features a witty new script by Mark Crawford and a Sweet Charity-worthy array of colourful retro costumes

THEATRE, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 22, 2024Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Ashlie Corcoran, Homepage feature

Sundar Prize Film Festival welcomes applicants for Filmmaker Mentorship Program

Canada-wide opportunity connects aspiring filmmakers with established industry professionals

SCREENStir VancouverOctober 22, 2024Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival, Sher Vancouver

Griefwalker conjures a haunting live soundtrack for FW Murnau’s devilish classic Faust

In this classic of German expressionism screening at the Shadbolt, “Every frame is like an album cover,” says the postrock band’s Simon Dobbs

SCREEN, MUSICJanet SmithOctober 21, 2024Griefwalker, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread traces four decades of a Haida haute couture trailblazer

Appearing at Vancouver Writers Fest, the designer talks about a 40-year career that set the stage for today’s explosion of Indigenous fashion

The Last Night at the Cabaret Yitesh comes to the Chutzpah! Festival, November 9 and 10

Michael Wex’s uproarious show combines 1930s cabaret songs, original comedy sketches, Yiddish adaptations of international hits, and vaudeville classics

Dancer Nate Yaffe unmasks his vulnerability and sheds constraints in faith hole

Presented by plastic orchard factory, the solo is performed partly in the nude

DANCEGail JohnsonOctober 21, 2024plastic orchid factory

Marc Garneau unpacks memoir A Most Extraordinary Ride at BlueShore at CapU, November 18

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and first Canadian to go into space talks about his awe-inspiring life trajectory

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