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Sisters: Dream & Variations follows the artistic journey of fiercely creative siblings to Iceland and beyond at 2021 R2R Film Fest

Catherine Legault’s artful documentary about Jasa Baka and Tyr Jami has its West Coast premiere at the R2R Film Festival

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonApril 8, 2021R2R Film Festival, Reel to Real Film Festival, Fests, Screen

Ballet BC's GARDEN grows again as part of REACHING U program

Medhi Walerski keeps hope alive, finally debuting his first production as artistic director

DANCEJanet SmithApril 8, 2021BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Homepage feature, livestream

Kevin Fraser and Immigrant Lessons bring dance to BIPOC youth

The team is hosting ongoing workshops out of the Massey Theatre

DANCEStir VancouverApril 8, 2021Massey Theatre, Immigrant Lessons

Affair of Honor offers furious fun in Playthings at PHT, April 8 to 17

The fight- and movement-based theatre and performance company livestreams a daring tale of mortals and gods

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 7, 2021Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, PHT, What's Stirring

Artigiano partners with Vancouver Mural Festival, adds local art to coffee offerings

As the coffee chain grows, so will the number of public artworks

CULINARY, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 7, 2021Artigiano, Vancouver Mural Festival

New Digidance film celebrates Red Sky Performance's 20th year of sharing Indigenous worldviews

More Than Dance, We Are A Movement features excerpts of works and interviews with the arts group’s founder, Sarah Laronde

DANCEGail JohnsonApril 7, 2021Homepage feature, DanceHouse, Red Sky Performance, Digidance

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

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