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Dance artists Deanna Peters and Less San Miguel find a new language in Orange

With the help of a DJ, two artists from streetdance and experimental realms explore seeing and being seen

DANCEJanet SmithApril 7, 2021Mutable Subject, plastic orchid factory, livestream

Theatre artists Nancy Tam and Derek Chan lead interactive audio play 蝦仔 Little Shrimp, at Carousel Theatre April 8 to May 2

Bilingual performance for kids age 6 and up looks at intergenerational bonds in Chinese families

PODCASTS, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 7, 2021Carousel Theatre

The Gig Is Up and Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché among first films announced for 20th-anniversary DOXA Festival

Vancouver-shot Someone Like Me and a new Elle-Maija Tailfeathers project are also on the roster

SCREENJanet SmithApril 7, 2021DOXA

Vancouver chefs capture the beauty—and taste—of cherry blossoms for Sakura at Home

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival’s virtual fundraiser features take-out meals by some of the city’s best restaurants

Arts Umbrella steps into its future with new home on Granville Island

The arts education centre for young people soon opens doors to its new building, complete with theatre, pottery wheels, exhibition space, dance studios, and more

ART & DESIGN, NEWSGail JohnsonApril 6, 2021News, art and design, Arts Umbrella, Homepage feature

Young Israeli pianist Ariel Lanyi shows his stuff at Vancouver Recital Society, starting April 7 at 10 am

The artist’s repertoire spans rapidly shifting Haydn to romantic Szymanowski

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 6, 2021VRS, Vancouver Recital Society, livestream

Major Gordon Smith and Jarislowsky Foundation gifts fund new curator of Canadian art at Vancouver Art Gallery

Late painter’s $1 million bequest believed to be the largest from an individual artist to a Canadian museum

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithApril 6, 2021VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery

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

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