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Lunar New Year in Vancouver: 4 chefs, 4 countries, 4 stories

Celebrated throughout Asia, Lunar New Year has different traditions and tastes from place to place

CULINARYGail JohnsonFebruary 12, 2021CULINARY, Lunar New Year, Coho Commissary

Chilean-Canadian poet, author, educator, and activist Carmen Rodríguez named honorary elder by Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre

The award recognizes her key role in developing the Latin American community here

NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2021VLACC

Jack Zipes shares insights into how fairy tales offer truth and hope in the face of fascism

Vancouver’s MISCELLANEOUS Productions hosts a free online lecture and Q&A with the renowned folklorist

THEATRE, BOOKSGail JohnsonFebruary 12, 2021Miscellaneous Productions, Jack Zipes, theatre, youth

Film review: Cured takes unprecedented look at historic fight to take homosexuality off the illness list

Shedding light on the heroes who took on the American psychiatric establishment

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 12, 2021The Cinematheque

Sound of the City: Zam Zam

The Somali-Canadian singer-songwriter and DJ on spontaneity, Daft Punk, and having time to herself

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2021Sound of the City, music, Zam Zam

LunarFest Vancouver celebrates the Year of the Ox with a special focus on family

The festival wishes an Ox-picious year for everyone through virtual and safely distanced programming

FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 12, 2021Partner Content, LunarFest, Fests

Myriam Steinberg's graphic-novel memoir confronts pain of infertility, at JCC Jewish Book Festival

Catalogue Baby captures five years of struggle, from grief and despair to rage and levity

Film review: Josep animates the true story of an artist who fled Franco Spain to French internment

Streaming at Rendez-Vous, story of artist Josep Bartoli maintains a moral clarity amid war

SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 11, 2021Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, VISIONS OUEST

The Poet & the Patrician reimagines Baldwin-Buckley debate, to February 28

The podcast is part of Us: A Black Peoples Month Festival

Stir 'Splainer: Three VMF Winter Arts creators tell the stories behind their augmented-reality experiences

Activist wallpaper, odes to immigrants, and a 3-D huckleberry bush

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverFebruary 11, 2021VMF, Vancouver Mural Festival, Downtown Vancouver BIA, AR, VR

Stir Wine Pairing: La Ligue Gourmande brings absurdist supper club to the Fort Gallery

Todd Gronsdahl’s eccentric exhibition happens to open at an epic time for food lovers: We’re going for B.C. ice wine and pan-Asian rice bowls

For Body and Soul, DanceHouse partners with two Vancouver restaurants for a French night out at home

Faubourg and Dip & Sip have offers for patrons who plan on watching the Canadian premiere of Crystal Pite’s new work

DANCE, CULINARYStir VancouverFebruary 11, 2021Partner Content, DanceHouse, Dance

And Then They Came for Us, featuring George Takei, kicks off online KDocsFF running March 12 to 21

Metro Vancouver social-justice documentary fest travels from the Philippines to Chechnya

SCREEN, FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2021KDOCS, Kdocs

Lucky foods are on the Chinese Lunar New Year menu at Western Lake

Chef Kent M.K. Wong has created a celebratory meal rooted in Cantonese traditions

CULINARYGail JohnsonFebruary 11, 2021culinary, Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Chinese food

Simone Blais throws a light on Black dance community in Dance Like Everybody's Watching

Documentary tackles appropriation and racism, while celebrating movement

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2021VIFF, Black History Month, contemporary dance

Fractals dazzles at the COMMOTION, to February 27

We can’t take our eyes off David Miller’s computer-generated works now showing in a web-exclusive exhibition

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2021art and design, the Commotion, art gallery, what's stirring

Acclaimed B.C. dance artist Joshua Beamish focuses on intimacy in Proximity

PuSh presents the choreographer-performer’s thrilling new collection of contemporary-dance works

DANCE, FESTSStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2021Partner Content, PuSh Festival, Joshua Beamish, dance, Dance Centre

Film review: Wandering sheds light on Rohingya people living in the world's largest refugee camp

The Rendez-Vous French Film Festival documentary shows what life is like for more than 600,000 persecuted Muslims from Myanmar

SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2021screen', movies, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Rohingya, film

Vancouver director Paul Emile d’Entremont lifts the veil on homophobia in sports

Documentary Standing on the Line/ Franchir la ligne looks at pressures of athletes coming out, at Rendez-Vous fest

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2021Rendez-Vous French Film Festival

Vancouver International Dance Festival unveils 18-show livestream program from March 4 to June 19

Company 605, Lamondance, Ne.Sans Opera, and more broadcast live from KW Production Studio

DANCE, NEWS, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2021VIDF

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