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Talking Stick Festival brings back Stories That Transform Us, in-person on June 12

The feature-length documentary by Corey Payette also screens for free online to July 3 as part of the festival

Spanish pianist Josefina Urraca joins Chutzpah! Kibbitz, online to June 12

Hosted by actor-comedian-writer Iris Bahr, the virtual event also features NYC flutist Guillermo Laporta

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMay 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Chutzpah! Festival

Artist Pam Assi talks One with Nature at Surrey Art Gallery, June 2

Canada’s first disability-run opera company supports International Awareness Month for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Surrey Art Gallery

Grammy-, Juno-winning musician James Ehnes performs Beethoven with Vancouver Symphony, June 2

The virtuoso plays a famed Stradivarius from 1715

Butoh-inspired dance meets pop-up-book aesthetics in New Works' interdisciplinary Impermanent Flower, May 27 and 28

Salome Nieto and Adam Farnsworth join forces on an ode to impermanence

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 24, 2022New Works, SPRING

Three soloists take on Vancouver's largest pipe organ, May 28

Sarah Davachi, Stefan Maier, and George Rahi perform at Pacific Spirit United Church via Vancouver New Music

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithMay 24, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Vancouver New Music

Inverso Productions' Lesley Telford draws on personal long-term care experience for new Gem-Like, at the Shadbolt May 25 to 28

Piece inspired by her mother’s journey shares a double bill with new film version of quantum-physics-inspired Spooky Action

Hamilton arrives at Vancouver's Queen E Theatre, May 24 to June 29

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking blockbuster musical won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 19, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Broadway Across Canada, Hamilton

Bright colours and progressive ideas as Mississippi Masala sees a vivid new restoration, at The Cinematheque starting May 19

Mira Nair’s cult classic, with its spicy story of cross-cultural love and family, has aged well

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 18, 2022The Cinematheque

Arts Umbrella Dance Company performs season finale, MOVE, at Vancouver Playhouse May 19 to 21

The 90-member pre-professional repertory troupe to offer works by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, and more before touring Europe

WHAT'S STIRRING, DANCEJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Arts Umbrella, Crystal Pit

Mozart and her Brother shares untold story of the legend's sibling, at the Anvil May 20 and 21

The Genuisettes Collective introduces audiences to another musical genius, Maria Anna Mozart

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERAJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, The Anvil Centre

Youth-driven IGNITE! 2022 Festival hits the Cultch, May 18 to 22

Highlights include new one-act plays and a VR stand

WHAT'S STIRRING, FESTSJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, IGNITE!, The Cultch

The Biting School, Nancy Lee 李南屏, and Mohammadreza Akrami are Here For Now, May 20 and 21

Volume 3 of the cross-disciplinary art event features experimental theatre, sound, and contemporary dance

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERA, THEATRE, DANCEJanet SmithMay 16, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, The Biting School, Nancy Lee

S'all good as VIFF picks the brain of Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, online May 17

The writer for all five seasons of Breaking Bad now works as co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer for Saul Goodman’s final journey

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 15, 2022VIFF

Opera Mariposa helps people with chronic illnesses via online benefit, to June 1

Canada’s first disability-run opera company supports International Awareness Month for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERAJanet SmithMay 13, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Opera Mariposa

Hip-hop-driven Can I Live? looks at how people of colour have been excluded from climate activism, online to May 15

Artist Fehinti Balogun on hand for watch party and talkback at The York Theatre, May 14

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRING, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithMay 12, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH

Capture fest artists lead Canada Line Exhibition walking tour, May 14

Kyla Bourgh, Chad Wong describe their artworks as part of the 2022 photography festival

JQT celebrates the "queering" of Jewish Heritage Month, through May

Festivities during third annual JQT Heritage Month include Queer Jewish Languages and Bridging Water Rituals

Festival of Israeli Culture holds Outdoor Sunday street party, May 15

Multi-ethnic celebration to feature music, dance, art, food, and more

Carousel Theatre brings Green Thumb’s The Code to Granville Island, May 10 to 14

Rachel Aberle’s play looks at the complexity of high-school relationships

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