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The beauty of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival lives on, online

Newly released drone film, along with virtual haiku readings and piano performances, preserve the magic of sakura season

Koto: The Last Service, a new short documentary showing at DOXA, captures the end of a restaurant's era

The Maeda family’s Japanese eatery in Campbell River was open for 39 years—and was an anchor in the community

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonApril 30, 2021fests, DOXA, Documentary, restaurants, Japanese food, Homepage feature

Brenna Corner subverts the idea of the seductress in Vancouver Opera's Carmen: Up Close and Personal

Tarot cards and French film influence the director’s pared-back rendition of Georges BIzet’s classic

MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithApril 30, 2021Vancouver Opera, livestream

VSO premieres Bach, Agócs & Mozart with Timothy Steeves playing solo violin, May 2

The virtual performance also features Jane Coop on the orchestra’s stunning new Steinway concert grand piano

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 30, 2021music, VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Jane Coop, classical music

Bharata natyam dancer Vidya Kotamraju yearns for connection at the Vancouver International Dance Festival

The local artist’s new work, Longing…, draws from ancient Indian poetry

Stirred, Not Shaken: The Chickadee Room's Sabrine Dhaliwal and Lily Duong concoct “half kits” for home cocktails

The Chinatown lounge’s DIY drink boxes make the mixing easy

CULINARY, DRINKGail JohnsonApril 29, 2021culinary, cocktail kits, Cocktails, Sabrine Dhaliwal

Vancouver-based artist Derya Akay re-creates a Turkish marketplace at the Polygon, to August 1

The living installation, Meydan, features everything from blown glass to fermentation

One-Page Score Project opens the door to a whole new world of sound and music, April 30 and May 7

Vancouver New Music releases its biggest graphic-notation project ever to live, virtual audiences

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 29, 2021Vancouver New Music, music, what's stirring

Take a virtual journey through Crafting a Difference at London's gorgeous SoShiro Gallery, April 30 at Crafted Vancouver

The landmark exhibition brings together top-flight work from five U.K. galleries

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithApril 29, 2021CRAFTED, Crafted Vancouver

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 ways to celebrate International Dance Day in Vancouver, April 29

From a wave of new Micro-Commissions to a massive projection at English Bay, dance shows its resilience

LIVESTREAM, DANCEStir VancouverApril 29, 2021DANCEHOUSE, Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

Curbside Concerts brings live music to Vancouver side streets and driveways

The new service books local artists to perform outdoors at safe distances

MUSICGail JohnsonApril 28, 2021COVID-19, music, Curbside Concerts

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about PIQSIQ: Songs From the Cultch, April 30 at the Talking Stick Festival

Throat-singing competitions as kids, an unexpected Christmas album, and a new “Vaccination Jam” video

Broken spoons from the 7pm cheer for health-care workers turn into a new fine-art photography exhibition

The Unexpected Collection by Michelle Leone Huisman, part of Crafted Vancouver, captures a unique outcome of the COVID-19 era

This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection offers a rare and poetic view into Lesotho, to May 6 via The Cinematheque

Mary Twala hands in her final powerful performance as a woman standing her ground against a dam

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithApril 28, 2021The Cinematheque

TEDxEmilyCarrU unveils roster of speakers, from animators and illustrators to a robotic engineer, May 8

The theme for this year’s discussion is “ReCognize”, especially as it relates to bias

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 28, 2021Partner Content, Emily Carr, ECUAD

End of an era as dance artist Amber Funk Barton prepares for final chapter of the response

The choreographer-performer appears in the fittingly titled How to Say Goodbye before stepping away from company

DANCEJanet SmithApril 27, 2021the response, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

604 Records hosts Stop Going Viral podcast fest for COVID-19 relief, April 28 to 30

The Vancouver-based label’s livestream features funny folk like Will Arnett and Katie-Ellen Humphries to raise funds for the Pan American Health Organization

Mom Vs. Machine cooks up a mix of biryani, special FX, and brawlin' at Crazy8s

The show manages to go on amid pandemic restrictions at the eight-day filmmaking challenge

SCREENJanet SmithApril 27, 2021Crazy8s, Homepage feature

Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada fears industry collapse following federal government’s 2021 budget

ITAC is urging the Government of Canada to support Indigenous-led solutions, increase funding in response to devastating effects of COVID-19

NEWS, CULTUREGail JohnsonApril 27, 2021News, Indigenous culture, COVID-19, Indigenous tourism, ITAC

DOXA Documentary Film Festival brings back the Drive-In at the PNE Amphitheatre

Cars limited to household bubbles as fest screens films May 13 to 15

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 27, 2021DOXA

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