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Indian Summer Festival’s 2021 launch party fuses food, wine, and art

Chef Vikram Vij and Volcanic Hills Estate Winery’s Bobby Gidda collaborate on a gourmet meal to enjoy at home during the art-filled bash

FESTS, CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 11, 2021Indian Summer Festival, Indian cuisine, Vij's

From Snotty Nose Rez Kids to Peggy Lee, the Jazz Fest's Marquee Series highlights the range and remarkable depth of world-class, BC-based talent

A festival highlight from the Granville Island venue, the series draws from soul, jazz, pop, folk, and other diverse music influences

Daring, diverse Jazz Fest series at Frankie's keeps the soul fires burning

From post-bop to cool jazz, blues to Latin styles, Frankie’s Jazz Club hosts a daring, diverse lineup at the 2021 festival

Diverse communities share their culture, heritage at Doors Open Richmond

With tours of everything from a Buddhist monastery to a Persian restaurant, the annual Heritage Canada event goes online for 2021

CULTURAL TOURISM, FESTSGail JohnsonJune 3, 2021Doors Open Richmond, Richmond

A play about housing refugees, a dialogue on madness, and more as rEvolver Festival enters final weekend

Boundary-pushing offerings include a wonderfully weird website-EP and collagelike text fragments

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJune 3, 2021Upintheair Theatre

Stir Pairing: Food and wine from the land to savour during the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival

An Indigenous World Winery red, bannockwich from Salmon n’ Bannock go hand in hand with the multidisciplinary fest that celebrates Canada’s diverse Indigenous cultures

TESSEL, featuring 14 Black dance makers from across Canada, streaming nationwide for free, to June 30

Esie Mensah’s dance film launches on the one-year anniversary of Blackout Tuesday

Talking Stick Festival launches Summer Sojourn in celebration of Indigenous art and culture

The month-long festival by Full Circle: First Nations Performance coincides with National Indigenous History Month

FESTSGail JohnsonJune 1, 2021Talking Stick, Talking Stick Festival, Full Circle

Maria Avila wins Vancouver International Dance Festival’s Biennial Choreographic Award

The independent artist focuses on flamenco, investigates how singing and guitar can enhance her movements

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 shows to feed imaginations at the Vancouver International Children's Festival

Human percussion instruments, Congolese storytellers, and off-the-hook break-dancers

Stir Q&A: Ideas Bobert's Candice Roberts spills the beans on the emotional awareness of clowning

The Vancouver International Children’s Festival show explores hope, failure through a playful character’s old-school world of big-band music, silent film, and tap dance