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Reading List: Spring brings books that mesmerize, educate, and inspire

Nobel Prize-winner Kazue Ishiguro and renegade B.C. biologist Alexandra Morton are among the authors with new must-reads

READStir VancouverApril 6, 2021Read, Upstart & Crow

Drink local: April marks BC Wine Month, giving people a chance to learn about the liquid from the ground up

Spring is bud break in the province’s vineyards

CULINARY, WINEGail JohnsonApril 5, 2021Wine, BC wine, BC wineries, BC Wine Growers, BC Wine Month

What’s Stirring: Italian Design Days celebrate craftsmanship, April 7 to 15

Made-in-Italy brands take centre-stage at the event featuring virtual and by-appointment visits to Vancouver-based design studios and showrooms

This Is Something Else podcast digs into Arts Club and local-theatre history through conversation

Andrew Kushnir’s five-part series mines a half-century of stories behind Canada’s largest urban stage company

PODCASTS, THEATREJanet SmithApril 5, 2021Arts Club Theatre

Response: Our Land Narrative video works explore connections to nature at the Polygon Gallery April 7 to 17

Screenings are the result of workshops with Indigenous artists and Knowledge Keepers

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 5, 2021POLYGON GALLERY

It’s a puzzle: B.C. designers, artists create jigsaws to beat the pandemic blues

Robazzo’s Puzzle Labs features works by Canadian artists; Vancouver cartoonist Lorne Craig depicts Granville Island

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 5, 2021art & design, Granville Island

Stir Q&A: Pianist Jane Coop on being a Steinway Artist, the thrill of the piano, and livestreaming

The artist has upcoming performances with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as well as with Vetta Chamber Music

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 3, 2021Music, Vetta Chamber Music, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, VSO, Jane Coop

Gabryel Harrison’s After Every Winter, Soft Wind comes to Visualspace Gallery, April 22 to May 15

The artist’s new collection of paintings is grounded in previous work with floral imagery but informed by pandemic-induced uncertainty

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 3, 2021art and design, painting, What's Stirring

Stir Q&A: Dancer Billy Mustapha talks Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and training in a box

In-demand in the commecial world, he’s been able to keep his career moving during COVID-19

DANCEStir VancouverApril 3, 2021

Opera memorial fund named for late designer Barry Gilson to support future The Flight of the Hummingbird productions

Tributes roll in for colibrettist and codesigner of the opera for young audiences

NEWS, OPERAJanet SmithApril 2, 2021Vancouver Opera

While they were sleeping: here are some of the billboard images that the Capture Photography Festival had to cover up

Steven Shearer’s pictures, drawn from his massive archives, unsettle by design

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 2, 2021Capture Photography Festival

Vivek Shraya's Trauma Clown photo series probes the commodification of personal pain

The writer colourfully tracks her own trajectory a the SUM Gallery, as part of the Capture Photography Festival

ART & DESIGN, READJanet SmithApril 1, 2021Vivek Shraya, Sum Gallery, Capture Photography Festival

Stir Wine Pairing: Community is at the core of North Shore Art Crawl, PiDGiN, and Township 7

Visiting artists’ studios online, ordering in from indie restaurants, and picking B.C. wine are ways to support local this long weekend

The Essentials brings together musicians, poets, and scholars in search for what's needed, April 16 to 18

Khari Wendell McClelland hosts genre-busting concert experience, in The Cultch and Soft Cedar copresentation

THEATREStir VancouverApril 1, 2021Partner Content

RAG@HOME features Brendan Fernandes in conversation with Inaction dancers, April 3

The choreographer collaborated with an architecture and design firm to create a set of mobile dance supports and platforms for the Richmond Art Gallery presentation

DANCEGail JohnsonApril 1, 2021Richmond Art Gallery, dance

B.C. cultural leaders meet with Dr. Bonnie Henry; the arts could start reopening gradually in May and June

The March 30 Arts Roundtable included Minister Melanie Mark and arts leaders from across the province

NEWSGail JohnsonMarch 31, 2021News, COVID-19, Bonnie Henry, Donna Spencer

The Quarantettes Bring in the Spring for isolated East Vancouverites

The uplifting story of four local theatre artists and musicians ready to sing in the season for those in need of a boost

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithMarch 31, 2021The Chop Theatre, Neworld Theatre

Whistler’s Audain Art Museum takes its signature Illuminate gala online for 2021

The virtual celebration features a brilliant selection of unique artworks for bidding in a live auction

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 31, 2021Partner Content, art and design, Audain Art Museum

Stir Q&A: Artist Anique Jordan explores skin tone and the Black woman's body at Capture Photography Festival

Works from the Darkie series find new resonance as large-scale public art

FESTS, ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMarch 31, 2021Capture Photography Festival, BLM, Homepage feature

Stir Q&A: Idan Cohen talks myths, gods, and clowns, as he reinterprets Orfeo ed Euridice

Opera meets choreography in studio showing at the Dance Centre

DANCE, OPERAJanet SmithMarch 31, 2021livestream, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre

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