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Pyper lives in world where AI-generated teens struggle with their own reality, at Frederic Wood Theatre from March 11 to 28

Award-winning play by Susanna Fournier offers an unsettling, witty update of fairy-tale themes as old as Pinocchio and the Pied Piper

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMarch 4, 2026UBC Theatre

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival scales peaks and paraglides down, February 27 to March 11

Views and feats to inspire, from a Women Mountaineers program at The Cinematheque to the Everest tales of adventure filmmaker Elia Saikaly

Emergence: Women in the Storm looks at B.C. communities rebuilding from climate disaster, to March 2

At VIFF Centre, new Velcrow Ripper and Nova Ami documentary finds women leading residents out of wildfire and flood catastrophes, in Lytton, Yarrow, and beyond

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 20, 2026VIFF, VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival

Nunsense blesses audiences with witty humour galore at Metro Theatre, February 27 to March 21

Musical comedy by Dan Goggin stars five nuns on a money-making mission

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 19, 2026Metro Theatre

Tymisha Harris brings joie de vivre to a cabaret icon in Josephine, February 25 to March 1

Burlesque-infused biographical play tells of the legendary African-American performer’s wide-ranging accomplishments

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 18, 2026Kay Meek Arts Centre, Kay Meek, Tymisha Harris

Baritone Geoffrey Schellenberg sings the role of Figaro in The Barber of Seville, February 21 to 28

Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa is the subject of countless pop-culture references by characters like Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie time travels to absurd new heights, at the Park Theatre February 13 to 26

Matt Johnson is back with a chaotic, unabashedly Canadian followup to the cult web series

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2026The Park, Matt Johnson, Park Theatre

Radiohead on the roster as Leslie Dala plays piano recital at Behind the Keys, February 13

Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs’ Valentine’s fundraiser program spans Christopher O’Riley’s arrangements of the band’s songs and Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor

All That's Left of You tracks a Palestinian family's intergenerational pain, at VIFF Centre to February 12

Oscar-shortlisted film takes a sweeping, humanistic look at the toll of decades of violence

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 30, 2026VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF Centre

Rising German piano star Julius Asal makes his Canadian debut with the Vancouver Recital Society, February 8

Among the 28-year-old’s recent achievements is winning the Terence Judd-Hallé Award for young pianists on the cusp of international fame

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 28, 2026VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY, Vancouver Recital Society, VRS

Ghanaian music scholar Kofi Gbolonyo leads upbeat Celebrate Africa! event at BlueShore at CapU, January 30

Long-time UBC and CapU faculty member puts on a show featuring dozens of local musicians, plus vocalists Dawn Pemberton and Khari McClelland

Blackout Art Society’s English looks at language and belonging, January 23 to February 1 at the Firehall

Sanaz Toossi’s play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023 for its look at four students preparing for the TOEFL

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 21, 2026Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL

You’re Just a Place That I Know retraces a refugee story through song, at the BMO Theatre Centre from January 21 to February 1

Adrian Glynn McMorran’s moving theatre-concert pays tribute to his Ukraine-born grandparents, complete with a choir and traditional instruments

MUSIC, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 19, 2026Arts Club Theatre Company, Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre

Vancouver Chamber Choir performs Timothy Takach’s nature-rooted multimedia piece We Are Phoenix, January 24

Under the inspiring title I Fall, I Rise, the concert also features the Focus post-secondary choir and winners of the Young Composers’ Competition

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2026Vancouver Chamber Choir

Photo exhibition shows breathtaking silhouettes at Le Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver, opening January 15

Between Lines and Horizons by French photographer Matthieu Rocher features images from his travels around the Pacific Northwest and Europe

Wrong Husband transports audiences to an ancient Far North, to January 18 at The Cinematheque

Zacharias Kunuk’s latest epic tells a meditative, mystical story of two young lovers separated by fate

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2026The Cinematheque

The Choral fills story of First World War England with music, opening January 9

Ralph Fiennes plays a choir director in 1916, tasked with performing Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2026Fifth Avenue Cinemas

Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Elizabeth Copeland share years of magical memories onstage, January 16

At the Chan Centre, the life partners offer songs and stories from their forthcoming album Laughter in Summer

Rowdy film captures Quebec’s hugely popular Les Cowboys Fringants in concert, January 8

Screening at Alliance Française and co-presented by Visions Ouest, the documentary of the folk-rockers’ rip-roaring 2023 show was shot less than a year before lead singer’s death