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City of Vancouver approves more than $8.4 million in funding to support cultural growth and recovery

Funding comes in response to the financial impact of COVID-19 on Vancouver’s non-profit arts and culture sector

NEWSGail JohnsonJanuary 19, 2021News, City of Vancouver, grants, Indian Summer Festival, COVID-19

As boba tea continues to gain fans, Vancouver’s new Bobasaur introduces DIY Bubble Tea Kits

To mark launch, the company is teaming up with food show Secret Sauce and raising funds for food banks

CULINARYGail JohnsonJanuary 19, 2021CULINARY, Bobasaur, boba

Stir Q&A: composer-musician John Millard helps the animals sing in The Cave

In the climate-crisis cabaret, the artist gives voice to creatures great and small

THEATRE, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJanuary 19, 2021The Cultch, The Cave, John Millard, livestream

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander exhibition at West Vancouver Art Museum celebrates landscape designer’s legacy

Genius Loci presents a body of work spanning seven decades of the visionary artist’s career

Stir Q&A: Caroline MacCaull gets digitally interactive with 003_playback at the Dance Centre

High tech and audience votes determine the course of new dance work

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 19, 2021DANCECENTRE, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

I swallowed a moon made from iron is a haunting meld of voice, the piano, and video

Njo Kong Kie’s song cycle is based on the poetry of late factory worker Xu Lizhi 許立

MUSIC, STAGEStir VancouverJanuary 18, 2021Partner Content, livestream, PuSh Festival

Sonya Iwasiuk, Ghislain Brown-Kossi, and Mat Holstrom launch new exhibitions at PoMoArts, to February 15

Online and in-person exhibitions at Port Moody Arts Centre touch on immigration, relationships, and Canadian culture

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2021art & design, what's stirring, PoMoArts

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 flicks to freak you out at the Vancouver Short Film Festival's After Dark series

Retro ‘80s tech, haunted fridges, giant arachnids, and more

SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 18, 2021VSFF

Named after legendary French chef, Les Dames d’Escoffier BC chapter announces scholarships for women in food, wine, hospitality

The international organization’s local chapter has $50,000 to help women train, study, and pivot

CULINARY, WINEGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2021CULINARY, wine, Les Dames d'Escoffier

Not your basic cup: Hot Chocolate Vancouver elevates the drink's art, to February 14

The 2021 edition features 87 creative flavours

CULINARY, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2021CULINARY, Festivals, fests, what's stirring

UBC School of Music oboist Roger Cole and pianist Terence Dawson serve Schumann and Telemann for lunch, January 20 at noon

The underappreciated double-reed instrument gets its rare chance to sing.

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2021UBC School Music, Chan Centre, livestream

Dementia Lab 2021 looks at how design can uncover and enhance the abilities of people with dementia

Emily Carr University hosts virtual conference with talks, workshops, and performances

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverJanuary 16, 2021Partner Content, Emily Carr, ECUAD

VSO devotes January concerts to Mozart, with music that moves you

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra musical director Otto Tausk has always revered the musical genius

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 15, 2021Music, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Otto Tausk, Homepage feature

El Color Negro finds different shades of Black at Vancouver Short Film Festival

Elegant black-and-white portraits meet powerful spoken-word in work inspired by BLM

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2021BLM, Vancouver Short Film Festival, VSFF

Sound of the City: Tonye Aganaba

The queer, non-binary, multidisciplinary artist talks about organizing, the ward system, and life being beautiful and awful

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 15, 2021Sound of the City, Homepage feature

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival cancels PuSh Rally; curators and producer step down

Statement reveals organizers feel programming was “hindering” attempts to resolve issues at organization

FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2021

Théâtre la Seizième, PuSh plead with B.C. government to hold COVID-19 talks with arts sector upon being forced to cancel VIOLETTE

Local arts groups say virtual-reality show had ‘‘drastic” safety measures in place; question why malls, bars, other public places can operate but not theatres with strict pandemic procedures

NEWS, STAGE, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 14, 2021NEWS, Stage, Theatre, Theatre la Seizieme, PuSh Festival, COVID-19

Hānai Family Table honours the flavours—and history—of Hawai’i

The Vancouver food company imparts a sense of Aloha

Winter Jazz fest goes livestream from February 19 to 21

DJ Kookum, Sierra Baker, and Missy D kick off free programming

MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2021Coastal Jazz, Winter Jazz, livestream

Vancouver Mural Festival launches digitally charged Winter Arts February 12 to 28

Look for more than 20 augmented-reality artworks to pop up in the city’s core

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2021Vancouver Mural Festival, Homepage feature

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