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Urban Ink Theatre artist Corey Payette wins BC Reconciliation Award

The multitalented force behind Children of God and other musicals joins the list of nine inaugural award winners

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithApril 27, 2021Urban Ink Theatre, Raven Theatre, Corey Payette

Support Vancouver restaurants and be Member for Day at the Polygon

The gallery is teaming up with local eateries, plus doing takeaway meals for charity, alongside its Feast for the Eyes exhibition

CULINARY, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 27, 2021culinary, art gallery, art and design, the Polygon, Nuba, Bishop's

Queer-led podcast company hears from people who wrote letters to their future selves in Hope This Finds Me Well

Editaudio came to life in response to the lack of women, queer, non-binary, and trans people in the industry

PODCASTSGail JohnsonApril 26, 2021podcasts, queer, BIPOC, Trans, women

Food for the Rest of Us explores radical activism through farming

The feature documentary, premiering at DOXA, digs deep into how marginalized communities are leading the way when it comes to being connected to the land and to our food

SCREEN, FESTS, CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 26, 2021food, Documentary, DOXA, indigenous

Vancouver Art Gallery to host special live version of Diversity Reads bookclub-podcast on April 29 at 4 pm

Coral Santana hosts BLM activist Cicely Belle Blain and VAG’s Stephanie Bokenfohr in a discussion of Girl, Woman, Other

READ, PODCASTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 26, 2021VAG

The Dance Centre celebrates International Dance Day online on April 29

The all-digital program features micro-commissions from an exciting and diverse group of local artists

DANCEStir VancouverApril 26, 2021sponsored content, dance, The Dance Centre

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

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