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Vancouver International Wine Festival, Bard on the Beach team up for virtual wine auction

Rare wines, getaways, and Bard-themed experiences are up for online bidding to benefit both local fests

Verses Festival of Words celebrates poetry and more virtually, April 22 to May 1

Performances, workshops, masterclasses, and music merge in the online fest

FESTS, READ, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 19, 2021Verses, fests, spoken word, What's Stirring

2021 Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth focuses on interactivity, featuring virtual workshops in animation

The festival is virtual for 2021, with jury selections happening April 24

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverApril 19, 2021Reel to Real Film Festival, R2R Film Festival

Filmmaker Jennifer Abbott marks Earth Day with climate-crisis talk, via VIFF April 20 at 1 pm

The director’s moving The Magnitude of All Things screens all month via VIFF Connect

SCREENJanet SmithApril 19, 2021VIFF

For Ramadan, Tayybeh's all-female team of Syrian chefs creates takeout iftar

The Vancouver-based social enterprise cooks up a multicourse meal to mark the holy month

CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 18, 2021culinary, Tayybeh, Ramadan, food, Syrian food, Syrian cuisine

Stir Q&A: In Hiromi Goto's new graphic novel, Shadow Life, the older Asian woman is a fierce queer hero

The local writer draws inspiration from her own grandmother for her book, which is illustrated by Ann Xu

READGail JohnsonApril 17, 2021Hiromi Goto, Read, Books, BC authors, BC books, graphic novels, queer fiction

Stirred, Not Shaken: The Bar Cart boxes a pandemic-era success story out of cocktail kits

The Vancouver company ups people’s happy hour at home

CULINARY, DRINKGail JohnsonApril 17, 2021culinary, cocktail kits, Cocktails, The Bar Cart

Stir Q&A: olive theory's Stefan Nazarevich and Shion Skye Carter talk piano wires, DIY, and hardware synthesizersd

The Vancouver multidisciplinary duo draws from their expertise in music and dance

DANCE, MUSICStir VancouverApril 17, 2021olive theory

Dance review: Ballet BC goes from fluid to fierce in REACHING U's strikingly shot double bill

The troupe shows its versatilty to striking effect in GARDEN and Bedroom Folk

DANCEJanet SmithApril 16, 2021BALLET BC

Works by Stan Douglas, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Dana Claxton, and more are on the auction block at Audain Art Museum fundraiser

Chief curator Curtis Collins is just a little bit excited about the artworks on offer at the Illuminate Gala & Auction

Co.ERASGA opens the virtual doors to a Spring Studio Salon, April 17 and 18 at 5 pm

Tin Gamboa, Salome Nieto, Jeanette Kotowich, and Sammy Chien make for a diverse, boundary-pushing program

DANCEJanet SmithApril 16, 2021Co.ERASGA, livestream

VIFF Connect brings a world of Oscar-nominated shorts to home screens to April 29

Take part in an Oscars Voting Survey for a chance to win a Silver VIFF+ membership

SCREENStir VancouverApril 16, 2021Partner Content, VIFF

Laugh Wild's Nina Wilder learns to laugh through ever-shifting pandemic regulations

From online “Comedy Snacks” to microphone covers, producer-comedian has navigated a new world of obstacles

COMEDYStir VancouverApril 15, 2021Laugh Wild Comedy

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra ChamberFest offers an intimate virtual experience

The online concert series kicks off with a free livestream of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, featuring Jeanette Jonquil

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 15, 2021music, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Eric Rohmer's A Tale of Springtime offers a French fix, at the Cinematheque to May 6

Film joins a newly restored seasonal quartet from the celebrated director

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 15, 2021The Cinematheque

New street banners bridge Musqueam and Punjabi cultures in Indian Summer project

Debra Sparrow and Jag Nagra’s birds and bold textile patterns help renew historic Punjabi market

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 15, 2021Indian Summer Festival, Punjabi market

Dance review: Red Sky Performance—More Than Dance, We Are A Movement mesmerizes

The streaming Digidance film celebrates the Indigenous performance company’s 20th anniversary

DANCEGail JohnsonApril 14, 2021Digidance, Red Sky Performance, Indigenous, Indigenous dance, DanceHouse

Film reviews: Buladó takes viewers into the mystical countryside of Curaçao at 2021 R2R Fest

Elsewhere, Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale tells a complex history of German unification in disarming animated style

SCREENJanet SmithApril 14, 2021R2R Film Festival, Homepage feature

Sacred Foods introduces popped lotus seeds, a popular Indian snack, to Vancouver

Founder Mika Gioia grew up with the superfood in Pune

CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 14, 2021Sacred Foods, Vancouver food

Film review: Sisters: Dream & Variations is so much more than a documentary at 2021 R2R Film Fest

The art film travels to Iceland with creative sisters Tyr Jami and Jasa Baka

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonApril 14, 2021R2R Film Festival, Reel to Real Film Festival, Documentary, film, screen

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