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Fiddles and jigs as Festival du Bois announces its return to Mackin Park, April 1 to 3

Jocelyn Pettit, Le Diable à Cinq, Alpha Yaya Diallo, and more music artists fill the grand chapiteau

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 28, 2022Festival du Bois, SPRING

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival announces departure of Jason Dubois from leadership team

Organization’s former managing director had led PuSh with Gabrielle Martin and Margo Kane

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 23, 2022PuSh Festival

Film review: An inspiring portrait of Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter, Warrior Women inspires

The documentary screening at KDocsFF 2022 follows the passing down of Indigenous culture—and activism—through the generations

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 22, 2022KDocsFF, documentary

Film reviews: documentary Ascension gives glimpses into working life in contemporary China, at KDocsFF

In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland and Jean Swanson: We Need a New Map are among the festival’s other highlights

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 18, 2022KDocsFF, documentary

Film review: A chef serves up a revolution in Délicieux at Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

Grégory Gadebois plays Pierre Manceron, a chef in demand by royalty

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 17, 2022Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

Beautiful Man takes aim at the patriarchy through brutally funny satire

Vancouver director Keltie Forsyth can relate to playwright Erin Shields’s rage

THEATRE, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 16, 2022The Cultch, Pi Theatre, Femme Festival, Homepage feature

Vancouver's Only A Visitor blurs boundaries between art music and pop

The quintet founded by Robyn Jacob performs at IronFest2: Electric Bugaloo

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2022Coastal Jazz, Only A Visitor, art music

Big Giant Wave's ode to the power of music was a labour of love for director Marie-Julie Dallaire

Rendez-Vous French Film Festival opener makes flowing connections between the worlds of science and art

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 15, 2022Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, VISIONS OUEST

On Alice Street in Oakland, a mural sparks a cultural movement

Documentary streaming at KDocsFF follows the creation of a massive public artwork amid gentrification in the heart of the city’s diverse artistic hub

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 11, 2022KDocsFF, documentary, Homepage feature

KDocsFF 2022 seeks truth, inspires change through the power of documentary film

Social-justice issues are in the spotlight at the annual Metro Vancouver festival, which marks its 10th anniversary this year

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 9, 2022KDocsFF, documentary, Homepage feature

Monumental image by Sara Cwynar announced for BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation

This year’s commission by Capture Photography Festival shines a light on advertising tropes

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2022Homepage feature, Capture Photography Festival, photography, public art

Just For Laughs VANCOUVER reschedules comedy festival to May 25 to 29

Tickets on sale now for standup acts including Nicole Byer, Marc Maron, Ron Wood Jr., and Andrew Santino

COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 7, 2022Just For Laughs Vancouver, JFL

Theatre review: Cliff Cardinal's As You Like It takes audience on a journey of shock, vulnerability, then clarity

Performer plays the Trickster, dancing the line between humour and tragedy

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2022PuSh Festival, Crow's Theatre, Cliff Cardinal

Stir Cheat Sheet: 4 events where the arts leap off the page at the Jewish Book Festival

Online talks feature writers who explore subjects from painting-inspired poetry to theatre as a political act

READ, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 5, 2022music, Jewish Book Festival, Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival

Shhh, it's a secret: Here are the few things we can tell you about William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal.

The PuSh show relies on the element of surprise, but Crow’s Theatre’s Chris Abraham says it’s “exhilarating”

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2022PuSh Festival, Crow's Theatre, Shakespeare, Cliff Cardinal

LunarFest Vancouver offers lively celebrations to welcome Year of the Tiger

Special activities include art workshops, film screenings, fortune-telling, and more

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022LunarFest, Partner Content

Montreal's Mélanie Demers unleashes the female voice in La Goddam Voie Lactée

MAYDAY dancers learned everything from singing to playing guitar for a work formed by volatile times

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022PuSh Festival, The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

Talking Stick @ Club PuSh brings Indigenous beats, comedy, and burlesque to Performance Works February 3

Co-curators Rob Thomson and Nimkish Younging present DJ O Show, Sparkle Plenty, and more at the fest’s laid-back, licensed venue

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022PuSh Festival, Club PuSh, Talking Stick Festival, Frank Theatre

JCC Jewish Book Festival: From fictional worlds of beasts to frank takes on antisemitism, the 2022 event covers vast ground

Vancouver author Rachel Rose, author of The Octopus Has Three Hearts, is featured in the annual literary event’s Short Stories Extravaganza

The 37th Annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival represents a diversity of experiences and cultures

The online event showcases recent literature that revels in pivotal ideas of the modern world, sparks meaningful conversation

BOOKS, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 31, 2022Jewish Book Festival, Partner Content

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