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Stir Q&A: Laughing Stock assistant winemaker Stefanie Dylla on Syrah and the cellar

The Brock University grad was drawn to winemaking’s endless challenges

WINE, CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 9, 2021Wine, BC wine, BC wineries, Laughing Stock, International Women's Day

Camyar Chai, Carmen Aguirre, Camilla Tibbs, and other arts names take board reins to rebuild PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

“The time for blame is over,” the new board president says after AGM

FESTS, NEWSJanet SmithMarch 8, 2021PuSh Festival, Carmen Aguirre, Camyar Chaichian

B.C. dessert queen aims to change the food world one pint of ice cream at a time

Betterwith Foods founder Lori Joyce says that women are needed in the industry more than ever

CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2021CULINARY, International Women's Day

Stir Q&A: Time winemaker Lynzee Schatz on bubbles, backyard fires, and COVID-19

The Okanagan native earned a Bachelor of Wine Science in Australia

WINE, CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2021International Women's Day, Wine, BC wineries, BC wine, Time Winery

Jessica Schacht brings her arts background to the world of spirits and distilling

The theatre artist, dramaturg, and writer is co-founder of Vancouver Island’s Ampersand Distilling Co.

DRINK, CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2021BC spirits, Ampersand, International Women's Day

Themes of resistance, freedom, and justice run through KDocsFF

Witnessing the power of documentaries to spur people to action, Janice Morris founded the KPU film festival on social justice

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2021Screen, Fests, KDOCS, KDocsFF, KPU, Documentary, Kdocs

Stir Q&A: Brenda Baptiste, chair of Indigenous Tourism BC, on traditional knowledge, diversity, and the wisdom of her grandmother

On International Women’s Day, the member of the Osoyoos Indian Band reflects on the resilience of Indigenous people

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

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