Virtual reality exhibition features works by local and international artists, including a special presentation of Martin Messier’s 1 Drop 1000 Years

Willow Lewmos directs the darkly comedic solo show as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Intimate performance explores the absurd world of amateur YouTube videos

Visions Ouest and Alliance Française present the Quebec comedy-drama about a healthy senior who gathers his clan at a cottage to announce his plans for MAID

Vocals, movement, and lighting meet in a bold reimagining of David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize–winning choral composition

Offerings spans queer cinema, live electronic music, and dance throughout this multidisciplinary collaboration between six emerging curators

Immersive theatre experience arrives just in time for spooky season, featuring freaky performances and mischievous sewer rats

Award-winning performer, composer, and producer leads a project that blends blues, gospel, hip hop, and griot traditions

With plenty of laughter, improv-comedy veterans Naomi Snieckus and Matt Baram candidly explore loss and how we attach meaning to objects

Award-winning filmmaker discusses his mission to highlight the unmatched diversity of wild cats in India

The Cree-Dene composer’s new work joins a program aimed at instilling calm, bliss, and joy

Hilarious production is bursting with outrageous innuendos and queer chaos

Cataloguing the campy to the harrowing, the writer behind Shot in Vancouver: Adventures in Hollywood North appears at the Vancouver Writers Fest on October 24 and 25

Accompanying silent auction raises funds for children with serious illnesses across British Columbia and the Yukon

As part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, the new show nods to Mexico’s Día de los Muertos and similar traditions from other countries

Baroque masters William Christie and Paul Agnew lead the vocal ensemble in a revelatory program devoted to the lauded Italian composer

Featuring contemporary and canonical pieces, the acclaimed ensemble’s program at the Kay Meek Arts Centre reflects dedication to creating space for emerging and marginalized voices

Actor Steffanie Davis plays three roles in the Arts Club production, including the gleefully unhinged, bug-munching Renfield

Running in repertory, two plays shine light on what people don’t always see

The American pianist’s project is part of her ongoing engagement with the work of post-abstract expressionist painter Cy Twombly

Burning director Lee Chang-don takes a masterful look at the the wealth divide

Keely Rois O’Brien’s season opener at Gateway Theatre has a simple message: if you don’t know how to say it, say it with cake 

Program features world premieres by Cameron Fraser-Monroe and Ballet BC company dancer Michael Garcia, plus Out Innerspace’s Last Flower

Director Brenna Corner dove deep into history to flesh out the corruption that surrounds a tragic character who lives life on her own terms

Performer’s lifelong immersion in the forms of Bharatanatyam will create space for new audience responses at Mandala Arts and Culture event

Continuing online from December 1 to 20, the program features a Ukraine solidarity screening of the powerful documentary Traces

The celebrated Vancouver artist reflects on his youth, sexuality, and aging in a final solo performance

Isabel Leong and her 18-piece band play scores by Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi—but they don’t simply re-create the music of the films

Grammy-nominated composition draws on poetry to honour species that have vanished from the natural world