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Film review: Winter Journey's story of survival in Nazi Germany pushes the documentary form

Authentic-feeling re-enactments meet digitally altered archival footage and photographs

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 7, 2021VJFF

Take-out meals, wine bundles, and food packages are made to celebrate International Women's Day in Vancouver

Special culinary offerings throughout March support women in business, women in need

CULINARY, WINEStir VancouverMarch 6, 2021Culinary, Dachi, Tayybeh, Coho, International Women's Day

Film review: My Salinger Year flashes back to New York City's romantic literary world, in a pre-online era

Memoir of young woman’s work at an agency has surface charms, but lacks deeper interior life

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 6, 2021VIFF

VSO, dancer Ralph Escamillan perform Carnival of the Animals; streaming starts March 7

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra takes a walk on the wild side with works by Camille Saint-Saëns, Bohuslav Martinů

DANCE, MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonMarch 6, 2021VSO, Ralph Escamillan, what's stirring, dance, music

K Body and Mind finds multimedia utopia in a sci-fi miniseries

Cyberpunk aesthetics and an action-packed soundtrack drive theatre artist Conor Wylie’s collaborative new online work with A Wake of Vultures

THEATREStir VancouverMarch 5, 2021A Wake of Vultures, Conor Wylie, livestream

Bassist Jodi Proznick brings joy of jazz to Vetta Chamber Music—and aims to get more women in the field

Tango Klezmer Jazz is a new virtual concert featuring four of Canada’s leading female musicians

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 5, 2021Music, Vetta Chamber Music, Jodi Proznick, jazz

Sound of the City: Christie Lee

The full-time mother and hip-hop lover incorporates her traditional knowledge and ancient hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ dialect into her rap music

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverMarch 5, 2021Sound of the City, music, Homepage feature

Passages, about five women on a gruelling Nunavik expedition, screens at VIWFF, to March 14

The feature-length documentary follows a journey of adversity, discovery

Stir Q&A: Behind the surreal stop-motion music-theatre video "We Teach Our Objects How to Speak Our Language"

Animator Margaret Krawecka talks metaphorical blinds, analogue machines, and patience, in new project by Theatre Conspiracy and Rumble Theatre

THEATRE, MUSICJanet SmithMarch 5, 2021Rumble Theatre, Theatre Conspiracy, Cold Calculi

Virtual Humanity takes Human Library's one-on-one conversations online

Amid pandemic isolation, the project that connects you with a stranger’s story has never been so needed

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 4, 2021Zee Zee Theatre

Stir Q&A: Kinesis Dance somatheatro's Paras Terezakis talks about pollution, plastic, and Debris

From a swim in the Aegean Sea to a trip to the Philippines, how the dance artist came to put our eco crisis top of mind

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 4, 2021DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Kinesis Dance

Rollicking sailors’ songs come to life in Shanties!, a digital concert by Chor Leoni and La Nef

The rousing performance helps explain why #ShantyTok is a thing

MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 4, 2021Music, Chor Leoni

Film review: Subversively fun Kiss Me Kosher sets love amid a powder keg

Israeli-Palestinian tensions and intergenerational trauma set the unlikely backdrop to romantic comedy at VJFF

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 3, 2021VJFF

Stir Wine Pairing: For International Women’s Day, we’re sipping on Time, dining at Burdock & Co., and admiring local lens-based, light-focused artworks

B.C. winemaker Lynzee Schatz, chef Andrea Carlson, and visual artist Annie Briard capture our senses

Applications open for Vancouver Music Fund, supporting Indigenous, Black, and other underrepresented artists

City of Vancouver, Creative BC provide $300,000 for emerging, diverse voices in the music sector

NEWS, MUSICGail JohnsonMarch 3, 2021News, Music, City of Vancouver, Creative BC

Film review: They Ain't Ready for Me paints a vivid portrait of Tamar Manasseh's fight to save her neighbourhood

Heartwarming story of rabbinical student puts viewer at street level in Chicago’s South Side

SCREENStir VancouverMarch 3, 2021Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, VJFF

Rollout of new $181.5 million federal funding boosts digital and COVID-safe live events for arts and music sectors

Virtual and nonvirtual initiatives are splitting the new money, via Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council

NEWSJanet SmithMarch 3, 2021Canada Council for the Arts

It’s back: locals’ favourite Cantina Norte serves Mexican fare with West Coast flair

Originally called Café Norte, the family-run restaurant in North Vancouver has one hell of a back story

CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 3, 2021CULINARY, Cantina Norte, Mexican cuisine

Jean-Pierre Perreault’s groundbreaking Joe sees new virtual life on DanceHouse's Digidance program, March 17 to 23

Percussive Canadian work was a spectacle ahead of its time

DANCEStir VancouverMarch 2, 2021Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse

Film review: Here We Are crafts tender, layered story of father-and-son bond

Exploring autism, the parental role, and the need to let go

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 2, 2021Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, VJFF

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