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Vancouver International Wine Festival 2025 set to spotlight 121 wineries from 15 countries

Top picks from Napa Sauvignon Blanc to Columbia Valley Merlot, plus advice for hitting an international assortment at this year’s Bard on the Beach fundraiser

CULINARY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2025Vancouver International Wine Festival, wine

Visions Ouest hosts 31st-annual Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, February 26 to March 7

Program opens with Charles Aznavour biopic Monsieur Aznavour and closes with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tribute Saint-Exupéry

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2025Partner Content, Visions Ouest Productions, Visions Ouest, VISIONS OUEST

Otosan makes a local comeback at Gateway Theatre, February 17 to 22

The puppetry show was a hit at last year’s Vancouver International Children’s Festival

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025Gateway Theatre, The Little Onion Puppet Co

Vancouver Chamber Choir celebrates the return of spring with Into Light, March 7

Program features works by composer-in-residence laura hawley, Nico Muhly, Alex Freeman, Matthew Whittall, and Tarik O’Regan

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Music review: Artful staging heightens Flight’s sense of airport limbo

Vancouver Opera production balances heart and absurd humour, with a third act that gets full liftoff

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

At Bach Ties the Knot, German soprano Dorothee Mields explores the Baroque master's wedding music

Early Music Vancouver program with Pacific Baroque Orchestra includes a “Fictive Wedding Cantata” that she’s painstakingly compiled from the composer’s lesser-known works

Theatre review: Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla. dives into wild mix of immigrant dramedy, wartime recollection, and musical interludes

Cast finds both humour and heart in Ruby Slippers premiere by playwright Abi Padilla

National Geographic Live's Wild Wolves of Yellowstone offers intimate insight into pack existence

At the Orpheum, biologist Doug Smith shares stories from reintroducing the animals back into the national park and observing their complex behaviours

SCREEN, STAGEJanet SmithFebruary 8, 2025National Geographic, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Homepage feature

Nominations for all BC Achievement awards are now open until February 15

Programs include the Community Award, BC Reconciliation Award, Indigenous Business Award, Polygon Award, and Sam Carter Award

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2025Partner Content, BC Achievement Foundation

Dance reviews: Explorations of identity take striking, and sometimes radical, form on local stages

At the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Daina Ashbee’s We learned a lot at our own funeral takes an unblinking, unsettling look at the death of the self; surreal studies make big impacts at Small Stage

BIG BANG Festival delivers live music to local kids

Music on Main and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre bring the Belgian celebration of sound for young audiences to Vancouver

Vetta Chamber Music presents the Four Jays live in concert, March 7 to 10

Joan Blackman, Jane Hayes, Julia Nolan, and Jodi Proznick play impressionist, 20th-century, jazz, and tango works

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2025Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Actor Andrew Broderick forges connections in Pulitzer Prize-winning Primary Trust

In the Arts Club production, his recently laid-off and all-too-relatable character Kenneth learns to face a world he’s long avoided

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2025The Arts Club, Pulitzer, Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club

Vancouver music scene celebrates Valentine's Day with romantic concerts

Offerings from the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, the VSO, Early Music Vancouver, and more take place on February 14 and 15

Arts groups push for the reinstatement of the BC Fairs, Festivals and Events Fund

The Province, which has provided nearly $80 million since 2021, is reviewing the program, while fests warn of challenges and cutbacks if it’s lost

Seamus Blake, Feven Kidane, the Ha Siblings, and more grace the stage at Jazz at the Bolt

This year’s festival features an electric range of revival shows

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025Jazz at the Bolt, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Feven Kidane, Seamus Blake

The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series features SHIAMAK Vancouver, February 27

Company blends exuberant Bollywood dance with jazz, funk, folk, and modern influences

Theatre review: Wonderful Joe’s eccentric puppet characters fight the forces of gentrification

With a more melancholy undercurrent behind the biting laughs, Ronnie Burkett’s latest show gives voice to the marginalized and the misunderstood

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Ronnie Burkett

Women of the Fur Trade cheekily shifts historical accounts to tell women’s stories of the Red River Resistance

Frances Koncan’s play looks at the fur trade through the perspectives of a Métis woman, a First Nations woman, and a settler woman

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025Firehall Arts Centre, Indigenous, Donna Spencer

The Improv Centre goes straight to the heart during LOVE MONTH

Valentine’s Day and the month of February have plenty in store for lovers looking for a laugh

COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025TIC, The Improv Centre, improv, Valentine's Day

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