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Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces free outdoor programming for summer 2025
Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces free outdoor programming for summer 2025

Offerings include Downtown Jazz concerts on June 21 and 22, Bentall Centre happy-hour shows from June 23 to 27, and a day-long July 1 celebration

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MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverApril 15, 2025Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Coastal Jazz & Blues, Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Spring 2025
Theatre review: DEAD DRONE buzzes with live theatre’s power to engage and disrupt
Theatre review: DEAD DRONE buzzes with live theatre’s power to engage and disrupt

Blurring fantasy and urgent reality, Upintheair Theatre’s satirical new work refuses to let its audience retreat into escapism

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THEATREJanet SmithApril 15, 2025Upintheair Theatre, Spring 2025
Vancouver Chamber Choir celebrates five years of premieres with Fresh Ink, May 9
Vancouver Chamber Choir celebrates five years of premieres with Fresh Ink, May 9

Tawnie Olson’s “Beloved of the Sky” and Andrew Balfour’s “Kiyam” accompany a new work by laura hawley on the program

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MUSICStir VancouverApril 15, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Spring 2025, Kari Turunen
Tea Creek and Firma Aquí take top awards at Sundar Prize Film Festival
Tea Creek and Firma Aquí take top awards at Sundar Prize Film Festival

Mareya Shot Keetha Goal: Make the Shot won a spot as best B.C. feature, plus much more as Surrey-based event hands out cash and development support

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FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithApril 14, 2025Sundar Prize Film Festival, Spring 2025
Whisky & Words offers a chance to celebrate local standouts, April 25 at Performance Works
Whisky & Words offers a chance to celebrate local standouts, April 25 at Performance Works

Vancouver Writers Fest fundraiser features tastings from strong B.C. contingent, as well as Scottish distillers

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CULINARY, READJanet SmithApril 14, 2025Vancouver Writers Fest, Spring 2025
Cascade Peaks ChamberFest announces Princeton concert series lineup, June 20 to 22
Cascade Peaks ChamberFest announces Princeton concert series lineup, June 20 to 22

Borealis String Quartet, Gryphon Trio, and more musicians to perform world-class compositions at RockRidge Canyon lakeside resort

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MUSICStir VancouverApril 14, 2025Partner Content, Cascade Peaks ChamberFest, Spring 2025
Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 events to check out at this year's North Shore Writers Festival
Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 events to check out at this year's North Shore Writers Festival

Free offerings include a hockey talk led by sports journalists and a conversation with author Chelene Knight

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READStir VancouverApril 14, 2025North Shore Writers Festival, Spring 2025, North Vancouver, West Vancouver Memorial Library
Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre launches B.C. concert tour of A Whole New World, May 17 to June 20
Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre launches B.C. concert tour of A Whole New World, May 17 to June 20

All-Canadian production by Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre features iconic hits from Disney and Hollywood musicals

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MUSIC, THEATREStir VancouverApril 14, 2025Partner Content, Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre, Sound the Alarm, Spring 2025
Fast-rising Isidore String Quartet puts accent on joy and uplift, at Friends of Chamber Music April 15
Fast-rising Isidore String Quartet puts accent on joy and uplift, at Friends of Chamber Music April 15

The young ensemble revisits and reinvigorates repertoire with an energy that breaks through classical solemnity

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MUSIC, CONTESTSJanet SmithApril 14, 2025Friends of Chamber Music, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Spring 2025
Vines Art Society hosts a Tattoo Gathering with Indigenous artists, April 26 and 27
Vines Art Society hosts a Tattoo Gathering with Indigenous artists, April 26 and 27

Funds raised from flash tattoos go directly to the Artist Survival & Healing Fund, which specifically benefits land-back and cultural-care workers

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ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 12, 2025Partner Content, Vines Art Society, Vines Art Festival
Sketch-comedy-storytelling show Lxdy Parts: Babes finds laughter in the darkness of motherhood
Sketch-comedy-storytelling show Lxdy Parts: Babes finds laughter in the darkness of motherhood

At The Cultch’s Warrior Festival, comedic writers Katey Hoffman and Cheyenne Rouleau explore a messy new life phase

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COMEDY, THEATREJanet SmithApril 11, 2025THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Spring 2025, Warrior Festival, SPRING 2025
SlowPitchSound plays a Vancouver New Music show at the Annex, May 10
SlowPitchSound plays a Vancouver New Music show at the Annex, May 10

Toronto-based turntable artist and composer performs his piece Within Touch with close-up projections of his storytelling process

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MUSICStir VancouverApril 11, 2025Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music, Spring 2025
West Vancouver Art Museum set to move to waterfront Horseshoe Bay building in 2026
West Vancouver Art Museum set to move to waterfront Horseshoe Bay building in 2026

Relocation is temporary while the District of West Vancouver moves forward on plans for a larger purpose-built arts and culture facility

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 11, 2025West Vancouver Art Museum, Spring 2025, West Vancouver
The Frontliners marks world premiere at the Firehall Arts Centre, May 1 to 11
The Frontliners marks world premiere at the Firehall Arts Centre, May 1 to 11

In partnership with Blackout Art Society and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Zahida Rahemtulla’s play follows the housing crisis in East Vancouver

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THEATREStir VancouverApril 11, 2025Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre, Spring 2025
Stir Q&A: In James Kudelka's Half an Hour of Our Time, two dancers shift through heavy silence
Stir Q&A: In James Kudelka's Half an Hour of Our Time, two dancers shift through heavy silence

Former National Ballet of Canada artistic director reflects on his 2008 duet as Plastic Orchid Factory gears up to present its revival

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DANCEJanet SmithApril 11, 2025Stir Q&A, plastic orchid factory, Spring 2025, left of main
Film review: Carl Bessai travels through time and midlife crisis in Field Sketches
Film review: Carl Bessai travels through time and midlife crisis in Field Sketches

Moving from architectural marvel to frozen cabin, the film mixes bitter humour with a poetic fugue fuelled by familial trauma

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SCREENAdrian MackApril 10, 2025VIFF, VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival, Spring 2025
Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour launches 25th edition on Mother's Day Weekend
Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour launches 25th edition on Mother's Day Weekend

On May 10 and 11, more than 100 artists will showcase everything from stained glass to photography across 31 different locations

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ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 10, 2025Partner Content, Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Art Studio Tour, MRPM Art Studio Tour, Spring 2025
Are We Done Now? is a bittersweet exploration of the way lockdown changed us all
Are We Done Now? is a bittersweet exploration of the way lockdown changed us all

Vancouver director Ben Immanuel drew from his acting students’ real experiences to craft a funny and poignant collaborative film that was years in the making

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SCREENJanet SmithApril 10, 2025VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, Spring 2025
CTORA Theatre brings West Side Story to the Granville Island Stage, May 8 to 24
CTORA Theatre brings West Side Story to the Granville Island Stage, May 8 to 24

Chris Adams directs the beloved musical drama about lovers caught in the middle of two warring street gangs in modern-day New York City

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THEATREStir VancouverApril 10, 2025Partner Content, CTORA Theatre, granville island, Spring 2025
BC and Yukon Book Prizes unveil 2025 shortlists, spanning titles by Li Charmaine Anne, Murray Sinclair, and more
BC and Yukon Book Prizes unveil 2025 shortlists, spanning titles by Li Charmaine Anne, Murray Sinclair, and more

A celebratory soirée at the Book Warehouse on May 22 honours authors across eight categories

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NEWS, READEmily LythApril 10, 2025BC and Yukon Book Prizes
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