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The True Story of Tamara De Lempicka & The Art of Survival digs beneath Art Deco painter’s glossy surfaces

Julie Rubio’s extensive new documentary, making its local debut at the VIFF Centre, reveals a trailblazing woman who was an outsider on several counts

Renegade Arts Co premieres apocalyptic rock musical Back From the Dead, June 11 to 28

Justin Anthony directs the show about a group of survivors navigating the aftermath of a cataclysmic event

THEATREStir VancouverMay 23, 2025Partner Content, Renegade Arts Co

Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresensky is a rebel with a cause

A guest of the Vancouver Chopin Society, the veteran musician risked it all to stand up against tyranny

MUSICJanet SmithMay 23, 2025Vancouver Chopin Society, Spring 2025

Tremors Festival artists crack open the mystery of dreams, both conscious and unconscious

Howard Dai’s Dream Machine pulls inspiration from Taiwanese game shows, while Paige Louter’s Nod acknowledges chronic fatigue

Stir Q&A: Srutika Sabu embodies a South Asian uncle in drag-king clown show at the rEvolver Festival

1 Santosh Santosh 2 Go touches on the model minority myth with hilarity and heart

Theatre review: Meeting addresses sex and love addicts' desires with radical empathy

Set in Pacific Theatre’s activity room, play by Katherine Gauthier leans into realism with depth of character and lasting intensity

THEATREJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Pacific Theatre, Neworld Theatre, Spring 2025

Graham Clark stages 24-hour marathon of laughs to raise funds for Filipino BC, May 23

At Little Mountain Gallery, an array of comedians will work around the clock writing jokes for the standup artist

COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Graham Clark, Little Mountain Gallery, Lapu Lapu

More than 60 artists to perform on West 4th Avenue as Khatsahlano Street Party announces 2025 lineup

Alt-rock band Meltt, D.O.A. frontman Joe Keithley, and singer-songwriter Ché Aimee Dorval are among the Burrard Stage highlights

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithMay 22, 2025Khatsahlano Street Party, Kitsilano

Mary Ancheta’s MAQkestra performs the music of Betty Davis at BlueShore at CapU, June 21

Stellar local musicians play seminal, sassy funk in North Shore Jazz presentation as part of Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Toby Thompson's poetry takes jazz-infused solo at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival

In renowned one-man show I Wish I Was a Mountain, the award-winning British poet leans on rhythm of deep musical influences

$Annie Briard: Refracted Fields is now on view at Surrey Art Gallery's offsite UrbanScreen venue$

Annie Briard: Refracted Fields is now on view at Surrey Art Gallery's offsite UrbanScreen venue

Kaleidoscopic projection reveals natural elements, from the grand vistas of the Coast Mountains to close-up images of roadside plants

BMO Day of Music fills the city with 70 free concerts all day long, May 24

Wurlitzer organ, Azerbaijani folk music, rousing chorales, and more culminate in a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performance at the Orpheum

Pelts, placards, and megaphones, as VALUE: Rebecca Belmore at the Museum of Anthropology disrupts display spaces

Famous works like Wild and Fountain create conversations about museum collections and the land they sit on

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 21, 2025Museum of Anthropology, MOA, Spring 2025, Homepage feature

Legendary songs move from screen to stage to create A Whole New World

Newest production to feature Sound the Alarm’s lineup of seasoned singers mines soundtracks of Disney and Hollywood classics

Emerging artists shine onstage at this year's Cascade Peaks ChamberFest, June 20 to 22

Three concerts at RockRidge Canyon resort in Princeton highlight chamber works prepared by the artists during a week-long intensive

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverMay 21, 2025Partner Content, Cascade Peaks ChamberFest

Club Origami's folded paper allows kids' imaginations to flourish at Vancouver International Children’s Festival

Presented with Boca del Lupo, the accessible production by the U.K.’s Seven Circles encourages interactive learning

Theatre review: Here We Go's fleeting glimpses of mortality are quietly unsettling

In Western Gold Theatre’s spare staging of Caryl Churchill’s taut, wry work, roles rotate across performances with some astonishing results

MUSICJanet SmithMay 20, 2025Western Gold Theatre, Spring 2025

Kicking off Tremors Festival, Erin James infuses music with her passion for fashion

The violinist’s Fantasy Vignettes interweaves Baroque music, costume changes, and sewing machines

THEATRE, MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMay 20, 2025Tremors Festival, RUMBLE THEATRE, Rumble Theatre, Spring 2025

Bard on the Beach presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona, June 13 to September 19

On the BMO Mainstage, director Dean Paul Gibson puts an ’80s spin on this resonant tale of young love

THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverMay 20, 2025Partner Content, Bard on the Beach, Shakespeare

Elektra honours outgoing artistic director Morna Edmundson’s ability to “lead with love”

All-Canadian program Legacy celebrates spring and rebirth as Cassie Luftspring prepares to take the baton

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