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Realwheels Theatre's Wheel Voices: Tune In! marks festive farewell for artistic director Rena Cohen

The virtual variety show wraps a decade of work, with an acting academy set to open in fall

THEATREJanet SmithMay 10, 2021Realwheels Theatre

Crafted Vancouver gets people talking with the Conversation Series

The virtual discussions cover the craft continuum, from the ancestral to the contemporary

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverMay 10, 2021Partner Content, Crafted Vancouver

Film review: Sisters With Transistors celebrates the early female trailblazers of electronic music, at DOXA

Musical mavericks like Daphne Oram, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel laid the groundwork for today’s IDM and ambient sounds

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 10, 2021DOXA

Paul Wong leads a virtual tour of A Seat at the Table, May 18

The multimedia artist shares insight into works at the MOV exhibition about Chinese immigration and B.C.

CULINARY, ART & DESIGN, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 10, 2021culinary, Paul Wong, Chinatown, MOV, Chinese culture, Chinese food

Vancouver Chinatown Walkabout dives into history, culture, culinary arts, May 16

The Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC hosts a virtual tour as part of the explorASIAN Festival

CULINARY, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 10, 2021culinary, Chinatown, ExplorASIAN, Festivals, fests

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg opens up about body image in Body Parts

The dance-theatre artist uses her characteristic warped humour to move through pain

DANCE, THEATREGail JohnsonMay 9, 2021Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Progress Lab

The May Long Festival brings the party—and the local talent—to virtual stages

From soul to drag to stand-up, the Anvil Centre Theatre’s online fest features four wildly diverse performances

FESTSGail JohnsonMay 8, 2021The May Long Festival, Anvil Centre, Jessica Schneider, Drag

Infamy Too! brings play and precision to percussion at Music on Main's Listening. Together. fest

Aaron Graham and Julia Chien join energized forces on everything from pop cans to woodblocks

MUSICJanet SmithMay 8, 2021Music on Main, livestream

Film review: At DOXA, Summer of Soul's look back at "Black Woodstock" rocks

Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, and more, as Questlove fashions a breathlessly exciting tribute to a concert in Harlem ’69

SCREENJanet SmithMay 7, 2021DOXA

Islamic art workshop, Indigenous plant walk, and more at Burnaby Festival of Learning May 9

Free online sessions range build skills in everything from photography to herbs

FESTS, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithMay 7, 2021Burnaby Festival of Learning, livestream

Film review: First Woman is a quietly moving story of a person straining to atone

At the DOXA fest, a recovered drug addict struggles to return to the world

SCREENJanet SmithMay 7, 2021DOXA

VSO, CircusWest take families to the Big Top, May 9

In celebration of Mother’s Day, the two organizations team up for OriginO Kids Concert

MUSIC, DANCEGail JohnsonMay 7, 2021VSO, CircusWest

Theatre review: Authentic performances bring The Boy in the Moon to brutally honest life

Meghan Gardiner and Marcus Youssef create nuanced, lived-in chemistry in story of raising a child with severe disabilities

THEATREJanet SmithMay 7, 2021The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Neworld Theatre, livestream

Wandering, a Rohingya Story captures daily life in the world’s largest refugee camp, to May 13

The poetic, sobering documentary hears from families forced to flee Myanmar, streams for free at the Cinematheque

SCREENGail JohnsonMay 7, 2021Documentary, The Cinematheque

Vancouver photographers capture behind-the-scenes images of local restaurants for food-service fundraiser, to May 31

Proceeds from Breaking Bread’s Behind the Plexi fundraiser will go to scholarships for hospitality workers

CULINARY, ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonMay 6, 2021culinary, photography, Breaking Bread

Les Cowboys Fringants road movie L'Amerique Pleure, as Le Printemps des Rendez-vous streams new francophone films

The Quebec folk-rock group’s new concert-event joins a roster of cinema from around the world

Stir Q&A: Artist Monique Martin talks folding, hand-cutting, and the enduring symbol of the dandelion in a pandemic

The meticulously created blooms are sprouting at Gallery George, Seymour Art Gallery, and beyond

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 6, 2021Gallery George

Bill Reid Gallery launches new book on May 8, extends To Speak With a Golden Voice to September

New works added to the Haida artist’s legacy exhibition,

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonMay 6, 2021Bill Reid Gallery, Indigenous art, Haida, art, art gallery

Vancouver filmmakers put epic effort into queer-refugee-sponsorship tale Someone Like Me, at DOXA

Directing duo Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams followed every aspect of their subjects’ lives—right into a pandemic

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 6, 2021DOXA

Film review: Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy takes a compassionate eye to the fentanyl crisis

Filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers shares stories of people from her homeland of the Blood Reserve in the new documentary streaming at DOXA

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 6, 2021DOXA, Kímmapiiyipitssini, Tailfeathers, fentanyl

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