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Vancouver chefs capture the beauty—and taste—of cherry blossoms for Sakura at Home

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival’s virtual fundraiser features take-out meals by some of the city’s best restaurants

Stir Q&A: Artist Anique Jordan explores skin tone and the Black woman's body at Capture Photography Festival

Works from the Darkie series find new resonance as large-scale public art

FESTS, ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 31, 2021Capture Photography Festival, BLM, Homepage feature

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 facts about Mi'kmaq artist Jordan Bennett’s al’taqiaq: it spirals

His first lens-based public artwork will be unveiled as part of Capture Photography Festival at BC Hydro’s Dal Grauer Substation

Instruments from the trombone to the oboe and organ take spotlight at Sonic Boom Festival, March 27 and 28

Angelique Po joins forces with Jeremy Berkman, while Beth Orson gives new pieces wind

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMarch 26, 2021Sonic Boom, livestream

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival features a new way to appreciate the trees: dance with them

Desiree Dunbar’s Soundwalk Dance is an exception to the beloved annual event’s virtual 20201 format

Festival du Bois, Maillardville’s annual music festival, announces 2021 lineup

B.C.’s largest fest of French Canadian and Francophone music and culture celebrates online with artists from all across Canada

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverMarch 24, 2021Partner Content, Festival du Bois, Maillardville, Francophone

Stir Q&A: At Sonic Boom, piano sensation Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa tackles 10 pieces by 10 BC composers

Practising Japanese, morning smoothies, and walks at Trout Lake help get her in the right mindset to tackle range of works

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMarch 19, 2021Sonic Boom, livestream, Homepage feature

Film review: The Great Green Wall takes a musical journey across the width of Africa, to combat desertification

As the climate crisis threatens a vulnerable land, Mali singer Inna Modja wants people to live the African way

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 17, 2021Screen, Fests, KDocsFF, KDOCS, Kdocs, Documentary

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 speakers pursuing social justice to catch at KDocsFF

Joel Bakan, Alexander von Bismarck among those taking part in talks at the 2021 documentary-film festival

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMarch 14, 2021Screen, KDocsFF, KDOCS, Kdocs, docum, Joel Bakan, Film Festival

Camyar Chai, Carmen Aguirre, Camilla Tibbs, and other arts names take board reins to rebuild PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

“The time for blame is over,” the new board president says after AGM

FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithMarch 8, 2021PuSh Festival, Carmen Aguirre, Camyar Chaichian

Themes of resistance, freedom, and justice run through KDocsFF

Witnessing the power of documentaries to spur people to action, Janice Morris founded the KPU film festival on social justice

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2021Screen, Fests, KDOCS, KDocsFF, KPU, Documentary, Kdocs

Passages, about five women on a gruelling Nunavik expedition, screens at VIWFF, to March 14

The feature-length documentary follows a journey of adversity, discovery

Breaking Bread documentary digs into food as a bridge between Arabs and Jews

Playing at the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, the film hears from chefs behind Israel’s A-Sham Arab Food Festival

2021 Vancouver International Dance Festival puts cinematic angle on contemporary choreography

The fully livestreaming fest gives audiences the best seat in the house

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 1, 2021Dance, Fests, VIDF, Kokoro Dance, KW Studios

Senegalese food is on the table for Let’s Celebrate Africa: En cuisine!

The online cooking class, by Alliance Française Vancouver and Afrika21, features West African cuisine by Madani Kitchen and marks Black History Month

CULINARY, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 26, 2021culinary, Alliance Francaise, Madani Kitchen, Black History Month

Talking Stick's InterSocial Nations is a Virtual Dance Party, February 27

DJ O Show and DJ Kookum bring the fest’s Winter Lodge to a celebratory close

FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 26, 2021Fests, Festivals, What's Stirring, Talking Stick, Talking Stick Festival

From Talking Stick to Microphone honours Indigenous poets Zaccheus Jackson Nyce, Taran Kootenhayoo

Nyla Carpentier curates the beloved Talking Stick Festival event that highlights spoken word and music

Stir Q&A: Gordon Grdina on his trio's Winter Jazz performance, pandemic life, and nerves

The Vancouver group’s namesake, a revered oud and guitar player, joins Coastal Jazz’s annual fest

MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 19, 2021Music, Fests, Coastal Jazz, Gordon Grdina Trio, Winter Jazz, Granville Island, PuSh Festival

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 highlights to check out at the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival

From the climate crisis to queer identity, the fest is full of thought-provoking author talks

BOOKS, READ, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 18, 2021VAG, Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Book Festival, fests

Talking Stick Festival announces 2021 programming, celebrates 20th anniversary

Western Canada’s premier Indigenous performing-arts festival goes online

FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 16, 2021Talking Stick Festival, Talking Stick

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