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Film reviews: A look at the European Union Film Festival's road trips, riders, and reindeer-herding rappers

In annual event at the Cinematheque, Cyprus/Greece/Italy’s The Man With the Answers, Poland’s Leave No Traces, and a few other standouts

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 15, 2023Homepage feature, European Union Film Festival

Stir Cheat Sheet: 7 food and beverage spots to pair with the Eastside Culture Crawl's array of artwork

From food-truck bites to pints at local breweries, here are Stir’s culinary highlights at the annual event

CULINARY, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 15, 2023Eastside Culture Crawl, Eastside Arts Society

At Eastside Culture Crawl, intricate paper cutting becomes beautiful multilayered art

Artists like Rachael Ashe and Tara Lee Bennett make magic with paper and scissors

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 12, 2023Eastside Culture Crawl, Eastside Arts Society

At the Chutzpah! Festival, Rita Ueda's I Have My Mother’s Eyes channels two families' generational strength

Chamber opera tells story of a Japanese diplomat who aids in the escape of 6,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied Lithuania

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 9, 2023Chutzpah! Festival, Powell Street Festival

At IndieFest, Sanctuary & Storm reflects on passion through two historical female figures, at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre November 17 to 19

World premiere from Vancouver Opera and re:Naissance Opera stars Kwagiulth-Stó:lō First Nations mezzo-soprano Marion Newman

MUSIC, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithNovember 9, 2023Vancouver Opera, re:Naissance opera, IndieFest

In one-woman play Whistle, Hadar Galron delves into the past, present, and future of the Holocaust

Actor-playwright developed semi-autobiographical monodrama with Yaakov Buchan, the son of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s secretary

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 3, 2023Chutzpah! Festival

European Union Film Festival launches 26th annual Vancouver edition at The Cinematheque, November 16 to 30

Spanish romantic comedy Ramona opens the festival, and Ukrainian comedy Luxembourg, Luxembourg closes

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 3, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

Whistler Film Festival launches as holiday season hype begins in Whistler Village, November 29 to December 3

Featuring film premieres, industry summits, parties, and more, annual event is also the perfect opportunity to enjoy a relaxing, pre-festive getaway to a winter wonderland

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 2, 2023Partner Content, Whistler Film Festival, Tourism Whistler

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 screenings and installations to catch at F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement

Offerings this year span stop-motion animation and immersive video environments, and topics from Indigenous belief systems to melting glaciers

DANCE, SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverNovember 2, 2023F-O-R-M, Festival of Recorded Movement

Behtab Behseta's one-woman show at the STAND Festival depicts growth and resilience in the aftermath of trauma

The performer and Blackout Art Society’s artistic director Amir Hosseini speak to the festival’s origins and the importance of uplifting immigrant artists

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 31, 2023Blackout Art Society, STAND Festival

Belle Spirale Dance Projects' KIN navigates intergenerational memory at the STAND Festival, November 2

Piece directed by Alexis Fletcher highlights the partnerwork and emotion of Brazilian dancers Juan Duarte and Lazaro Silva

Klezmer master Michael Winograd's dedicated research allows him to bridge 21st century and distant ancestors

Appearing with the Honorable Mentshn and Socalled at the Chutzpah! Festival, clarinet virtuoso approaches his work as a “repairer of chains”

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 29, 2023Michael Winograd, Chutzpah! Festival, klezmer

Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing offers dialogue and guidance amid the urgent climate crisis

Artists Lara Aysal and Rosemary Georgeson lead a Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival workshop based on conversations with Elders, activists, and academics

In Hopeful Monster, Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly create eerie abstraction at Music on Main’s Modulus Festival

Pianist and multi-instrumentalist’s album collaboration wields a supernatural sound using digital processing, among other techniques

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 27, 2023Music on Main, Modulus Festival

Chutzpah! Festival's opening and closing nights deliver laughs and life lessons, November 2 and 23

Opening night is a special presentation of The Debaters: Chutzpah Edition, and closing night features The Best of Israeli Comedy

COMEDY, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 25, 2023Partner Content, Chutzpah! Festival

Stir Cheat Sheet: 3 ways to celebrate like it's an Indian wedding, at Diwali Fest 2023

For Metro Vancouver event’s 20th anniversary, South Asian mehendi, rangolis, live dance and music, and much more

CULTURE, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 24, 2023Diwali Fest, Diwali, Homepage feature

Eastside Culture Crawl launches 27th annual edition with Take Flight benefit to November 4

Event features Art Roulette draw with 31 pieces of original art, plus an online Silent Auction

Tony Wilson’s music-filled, multimedia The Homeless Project shines a light on the city’s dispossessed

As part of Ironfest and Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, an all-star team of improvisors join the musician-composer who knows what it’s like to live on the streets