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Seth Rogen tweets out support for Vancouver Art Gallery for #GivingTuesday

Homegrown Hollywood star encourages help for one of the many local arts organizations hit hard by COVID-19

NEWSJanet SmithDecember 1, 2020Vancouver art gallery, Seth Rogen

A Better Life Foundation throws a Giving Tuesday party with Shane Koyczan, Jann Arden, artist Prudence Gogh, and more

The organization that works for food security in the Downtown Eastside commissioned an original artwork by Gogh that’s up for a raffle draw

CULINARYStir VancouverNovember 30, 2020CULINARY, A Better Life Foundation, Mark Brand, Save On Meats, Giving Tuesday

Vancouver Independent Music Centre builds a new hub—digitally and beyond

Cellist Marina Hasselberg debuts work at VIM! Online, while group works toward bricks-and-mortar home

Mezzo-soprano Marion Newman joins Chan Centre as guest curator for new series of works by Indigenous artists

The singer of Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations, English, Irish, and Scottish heritage is an advocate for BIPOC artists

ART & DESIGN, CULTUREGail JohnsonNovember 30, 2020art and design, Chan Centre, Indigenous, Indigenous culture, Indigenous art

Studio 58 launches Audio Play Showcase, to December 11

Final-year students bring “theatre of the mind” to the airwaves

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonNovember 30, 2020theatre, Studio 58, what's stirring

The Array: First Contact's theatre innovators go high-tech and low-tech to reflect our times

Hunters, Tricksters & Mystics riff on doomscrolling and dating apps, while Popcorn Galaxies looks to old-school letters

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 30, 2020Upintheair Theatre, Homepage feature

On World AIDS Day, local queer author reads from his new memoir, Our Story: Coming out in the time of HIV and AIDS

Robert Hamilton appears via YouTube in support of McLaren Housing Society on December 1

READGail JohnsonNovember 30, 2020Read, Books, BC books, World AIDS Day

Dance review: Co.ERASGA's Offering serves up serene solos for an unsettled time

Ritual and strange rites in vignettes that reveal next-gen talent

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 30, 2020Co.ERASGA

Vancouver chefs elevate the art of bento boxes

Takenaka, Minami, and Miku think outside the box in re-creating the traditional Japanese meals

Studio 58’s Theatre: The Play pokes fun at the unstable world of make-believe

Writers-directors Ryan Beil and Mark Chavez find hope for theatre’s future in working with Langara students on their wacky, absurdist play

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 29, 2020theatre, Studio 58, Ryan Beil

Vancouver Women’s Musical Society presents up-and-coming pianist Markus Masaites, December 16 to 30

The digital concert is part of the organization’s 115th season

Mary-Louise Albert's Solo Dances/Past Into Present moves online December 3 to 17

New trailer for the Dance Centre\s streamed show featuring dancers Livona Ellis, Vanessa Goodman, and Rebecca Margolick

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 29, 2020Partner Content, BC Movement Arts Society

Eddy's Kingdom tells one of the strangest chapters in B.C.'s history, streaming to December 26 at VIFF Connect

The documentary follows the twist and turns of theme-park dreams, hostage-takings, and court battles

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithNovember 29, 2020VIFF

Music review: VSO’s Americana program offers fresh performances, impeccable sound

The digital concert features works by composers George Walker, Jessie Montgomery, and Aaron Copland

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 29, 2020music, VSO, classical music, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Measha Brueggergosman, Otto Tausk

Tune in to four new works over three nights in Upintheair Theatre's The Array, December 3 to 5

House of Rice, rice & beans theatre, Popcorn Galaxies, and Hunters, Tricksters & Mystics debut short commissions

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 28, 2020Partner Content, Upintheair Theatre

Vancouver’s 604 Records launches Comedy Here Often? Podcast Network

The new national platform brings together dozens of Canada’s brightest comedians, including Noor Kidwai

COMEDY, PODCASTSGail JohnsonNovember 27, 2020podcasts, Comedy Here Often? Podcast Network, comedy

Choreographer Crystal Pite, chef Robert Anthony Clark among Vancouverites named to Order of Canada

Philanthropist Yosef Wosk among the other honourees nationwide

NEWSJanet SmithNovember 27, 2020Crystal Pite, Yosef Wosk

East Van Panto: Panto Come Home! takes the holiday fun online from December 17 to 27

The Cultch and Replacement Theatre bring back some of the show’s favourite stars and hit songs

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 27, 2020Partner Content, The Cultch

Comedy duo the El-Salomons caps off the 2020 Chutzpah! Festival, November 28

The married Jewish-Palestinian lesbian duo joins comedian Iris Bahr and local comics for a raucous closing party

COMEDY, FESTSGail JohnsonNovember 27, 2020comedy, Chutzpah Festival, Iris Bahr, fests

Dance review: Chutzpah! Festival continues to push dance-theatre realms, even online

Idan Cohen’s Hourglass and Ella Rothschild’s Pigulim draw from clowing and darker themes

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 26, 2020Chutspah Festival

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