The family-friendly public performance will be conducted by maestro Julian Pellicano

Program also features North American premiere of Philippe Schoeller’s Sereno Sole and Bartók’s Divertimento for Strings

New developments for the year ahead span a Vancouver Art Gallery redesign and the opening of SFU’s Burnaby Mountain art museum

Minimalistic Montreal documentary follows renters interviewing fellow roommates, with revealing results

Concert to feature pianist Jane Coop and violinist Joan Blackman with VSO principal musicians Hung-Wei Huang and Henry Shapard

Event features launch of publication accompanying the exhibition Formline: Calligraphy, The Creative Synergy of Bill Reid and Bob Reid

“I know how important provincial support for the arts and culture world is,” the politician tells Stir

Aspiring local dancers have the chance to follow in the footsteps of seven B.C. artists who just finished touring Nutcracker with the company

Steffanie Davis returns to the stage as Isabelle, a millennial reimagining of hopeless romantic Cyrano de Bergerac

The fiercely feminist film is shot with dreamlike beauty, often at night, in story of love and longing

Random scenes and songs that stood out across music, theatre, opera, and dance

Dancer-choreographer Joe Laughlin reflects on four decades of performances in emotional exploration of aging

The creator of murals, coins, stamps, and much more gave a human face to HIV, tirelessly raised money for charity, and brought vivid imagery to the city

Works by collective A Maior and multidisciplinary artist Katayoon Yousefbigloo draw inspiration from the myth-making potential of playing dress-up

At the Little Mountain Gallery, improvisers draw on Shakespeare plays to craft an all-new tragedy

A study out of the U.K. has found that taking in the arts boosts people’s well-being and saves society money

Pantos, waltzes, and stage musicals are just a few of the ways for culture vultures to ring in 2025

Part detective story, part art-history rethink, documentary travels from B.C.and Alaska to Paris to find stunning Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik works that influenced Surrealists

Annual tradition to feature soprano Mónika Fischl and tenor Martin Piskorski with the Strauss Symphony of Canada, conducted by Imre Kollár

Challengers and The Monk and the Gun kick off holiday big-screen series

The director of Action at a Distance joins Ballet Edmonton and Eric Cheung in receiving the honour and cash award

The annual event invites people to take in the traditions, flavours, and entertainment of rice pounding

Thelma & Louise and Umbrellas of Cherbourg are part of the theatre’s Essential Big Screen 2024 series

The colourful artworks with sound capture the movement of water, light, wind, and air from seven key geographic sites in the city

The UBC Masters alumnus and Philippines stage leader helmed the Arts Club’s Million Dollar Quartet, Beneath Springhill, and Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol

Alternately chilling and humorous, experimental art from the Eastern Bloc spans installations, photography, and eerie ice blocks at Vancouver Art Gallery

Chaotic farce by Canada’s most-produced playwright follows a furniture-store owner caught in a compromising position