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Dream Cuisines program helps newcomer refugee women share their culture through food ventures

Flavours of Hope is partnering with Coho Collective to help women build business—and community—through their culinary knowledge and traditions

CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 21, 2021culinary, Flavours of Hope, Coho Commissary, refugee, Vancouver food

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 free movies to screen in celebration of National Canadian Film Day, April 21

Christopher Plummer, warped sci-fi time travel, a Winnipeg fable, and much more

VIDF web series spotlights dance artist Josh Martin, whose solo livestreams April 29 to May 1

Company 605 performer-choreographer explores what contains us, internally and externally

DANCEStir VancouverApril 20, 2021Partner Content, VIDF

From Bordeaux to B.C.: Roche Wines is a family affair with French savoir faire

Based on the Naramata Bench, Dylan and Pénélope Roche draw on a family winemaking history that dates back to the French Revolution

CULINARY, WINEGail JohnsonApril 20, 2021Culinary, Wine, BC wine, BC wineries

Pictures of the Year exhibition focuses on social unrest, daily life during COVID-19 at Pendulum Gallery, to April 23

The annual event showcases extraordinary images of 2020 captured by members of News Photographers Association of Canada

Theatre artist Derek Chan stages a lament for Hong Kong in multifaceted yellow objects

Via digital stories and an installation at the Firehall Arts Centre, the rice & beans theatre artist reconnects with home

THEATREJanet SmithApril 19, 2021rice and beans theatre, FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

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

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