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Vancouver International Burlesque Festival's Faye Havoc is here to upend assumptions around "sexiness"

Wielding boas or peacock feathers, the ace “Seamstress of Striptease” defies convention

FESTSJanet SmithApril 25, 2021VIBF, burlesque, Vancouver Burlesque Festiva;, Homepage feature

Vancouver Biennale's sculptures are on the move

Following the installation of Chen Wenling’s The Proud Youth in Yaletown, The Meeting by Wang Shugang finds a permanent home in White Rock;

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 25, 2021art and design, public art, Vancouver Biennale

Comedy and the COVID era: Susan Thompson sees the therapeutic value of laughter in a new light

“We have to make jokes, otherwise isolation and everything going on will swallow us up.”

COMEDYJanet SmithApril 24, 2021

Stir 'Splainer: Burrard Arts Foundation residency artists tell the stories behind their works

Rydel Cerezo alludes to private school in the Philippines, while Kriss Munsya remembers Hogan’s Alley

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 24, 2021Burrard Arts Foundation

Talking Stick Festival heads outdoors, online, with Plant Walk, April 29

You can explore Stanley Park virtually with ethnobotanist-artist T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss and the fest’s Margo Kane

New energy spills out of confinement for Company 605's Josh Martin

At VIDF, Brimming explores the body as a rigid container for an invisible inner world

DANCEJanet SmithApril 23, 2021VIDF, Company 605, Homepage feature

Not your "typical" choral performance: musica intima broadens creative boundaries with the Beginning of Song

The conductorless vocal ensemble’s upcoming virtual concert merges music, spoken word, and film

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 23, 2021musica intima, music, choral music

Vancouver New Music releases largest One-Page Score Project to date

The latest edition features 20 new pieces by 20 professional musicians and 42 University Transition Program students

MUSICStir VancouverApril 23, 2021Partner Content, Vancouver New Music, music

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Home Within, streaming from April 23 via the Chan Centre

Silkroad Ensemble’s haunting ode to Syria blends Kinan Azmeh’s mournful clarinet and Kevork Mourad’s projected drawings

MUSIC, LIVESTREAMStir VancouverApril 23, 2021CHAN CENTRE, Chan Centre

With Tree Snag, Douglas Coupland reflects a day beachcombing in Haida Gwaii with his friend, the late Gordon Smith

Coupland shares the back story of the dramatic new large-scale public artwork at Grosvenor Ambleside in West Vancouver

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on April 24 celebrates the joy of booking

The 50-plus indie book shops in Metro Vancouver are a close community, note the bibliophiles at Upstart & Crow

In wake of billboard controversy, Capture Photography Festival and Vancouver Art Gallery host discussion on role of public art April 24

Panel of curators and others explore the issues around the removal of Steven Shearer’s images

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithApril 22, 2021Vancouver Art Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, Capture

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival unveils online lineup of more than 100 concerts, June 25 to July 4

Ravi Coltrane, John Beasley’s MONK’estra, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Talking Pictures, and much more from BC and around the world

For Earth Day, Beetbox plant-based restaurant chips in to help kids connect with nature

The vegetarian Vancouver eatery is helping send children from low-income families to Saplings Outdoor Program

CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 22, 2021culinary, Earth Day, Beetbox, vegetarian, plant-based, Vancouver food

Got Craft? Spring Pop-Up Virtual Market features more than 75 makers to May 2

Hand-stamped silver spoons, mod ceramic wall hangings, and artisan chutney, and more

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 21, 2021Got Craft?

Stir Q&A: Vancouver poet Joseph Dandurand on pain, the positives of isolation, and being shortlisted for 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

The Kwantlen First Nation member and artistic director of Verses Festival of Words gains global recognition for his latest poetry book, The East Side of It All

READ, FESTSGail JohnsonApril 21, 2021Verses, Joseph Dandurand, Indigenous, poetry

DanceHouse set to light up the night with eight-story video REBO(U)ND, April 29 to May 8

Gravity-defying dance work to be projected on tower by English Bay

DANCEStir VancouverApril 21, 2021Partner Content, DANCEHOUSE

The Da Vinci Experience immerses Greater Vancouver in a multi-sensory celebration of the genius's life and work

The immersive production straight from Italy is curated by the director of the Leonardian Museum in Vinci

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 21, 2021art and design, multimedia, immersive, the Da Vinci Experience

Sarah Berman tries to see NXIVM leader through women's eyes in Don't Call It a Cult

Questions remain, as Vancouver author unravels the allure and mind control of Keith Raniere

READStir VancouverApril 21, 2021NXIVM

The 2021 Lawyer Show Online: Cabaret-A-Ganza takes a trip through musical theatre on April 23 at 7:30 pm

The annual tradition raises funds for Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre

THEATREJanet SmithApril 21, 2021Touchstone Theatre

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