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All-Indigenous burlesque collective Virago Nation performs at the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, November 4

Seven artists are on an empowering mission to reclaim Indigenous sexuality from the effects of colonization

At the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, departed loved ones draw near in Spirit Encounters

Mexican-born artist Gerardo Avila helps celebrate the Day of the Dead and highlights the joys of the holiday through the magical migration of monarch butterflies

OUROFEST brings electrifying street dance to Massey Theatre, November 14 and 15

Mainstage performances presented by OURO Collective include Greece’s TARANTISM, German-American B-boy RubberLegz, and more

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 22, 2025Partner Content, Ouro Collective, New Works, OUROFEST, Massey Theatre

Stir Q&A: Shelter tackles homelessness through art at Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Radix Theatre project helps put paint supplies in the hands of marginalized artists whose works will show on bus shelters and at November 4 art sale

Urban Ink hosts the sixth annual TRANSFORM Festival at the Vancouver Playhouse starting November 6

Presented in collaboration with The Cultch, multidisciplinary event features an all-star lineup of Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists

Jen Sookfong Lee's The Hunger We Pass Down confronts intergenerational trauma and the insatiable desire for survival

Ahead of her appearance at Vancouver Writers Fest, author talks horror, motherhood, and the power of female rage

FESTS, READJanet SmithOctober 15, 2025Vancouver Writers Fest, Jen Sookfong Lee

Chutzpah! Festival launches 25th edition with The Flame, Lenny Bruce tribute, and more, November 12 to 23

Offerings at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre also include Take This Waltz and 8 Gays of Channukah - The Musical

FESTS, THEATREStir VancouverOctober 14, 2025Partner Content, chutzpah! festival, Chutzpah! Festival

Stir Cheat Sheet: Cory Doctorow to Mona Awad, 5 highlights of this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest

Readings and discussions focus on women’s perspectives on horror writing, and how to find your inner dinosaur in a world of chickens

FESTS, READStir VancouverOctober 14, 2025Vancouver Writers Fest

For guest curator Canisia Lubrin, Vancouver Writers Fest proves a respite from the heaviness of the world

Author of forthcoming elegy The World After Rain looks at writers’ roles in times of crisis

READ, FESTSEmily LythOctober 10, 2025Vancouver Writers Fest, Canisia Lubrin, Homepage feature

Vancouver New Music’s Whispered Folds festival delves into sounds from the other side

Interdisciplinary artists Parmela Attariwala and Erin Gee take very different approaches to exploring the afterlife through their work

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 9, 2025VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

Small File Media Festival brings experimental shorts to the big screen

The Cinematheque program proves that digital filmmaking has a future beyond artificial intelligence

SCREEN, FESTSAdrian MackOctober 8, 2025The CInematheque

Music on Main explores the future of sound with biennial Modulus Festival, November 7 to 10

Offerings range from the world premiere of Hildegard Westerkamp’s cinematic tone poem Klavierklang to the multidisciplinary project Resonant Transmutations

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 8, 2025Partner Content, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, Modulus Festival

National Film Board doubles down on defining what it means to be Canadian for an “elbows up” era

Attending VIFF, NFB chair Suzanne Guèvremont has a new strategic plan that strives to reach out to the next generation

SCREEN, FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithOctober 3, 2025NFB, National Film Board

VIFF documentaries sketch in the history of B.C. art icons

The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes reveals quiet life of a master who avoided spotlight; The Art of Adventure tracks a young Robert Bateman’s journey with Bristol Foster across the world in a Land Rover