Articles — Stir

Turning Point Ensemble releases video trailer for Interactive concert June 11

Composers David Eagle and Mauricio Pauly perform live electronics alongside TPE players

MUSICStir VancouverMay 31, 2021Partner Content, TPE, Turning Point Ensemble

Stir Q&A: Ideas Bobert's Candice Roberts spills the beans on the emotional awareness of clowning

The Vancouver International Children’s Festival show explores hope, failure through a playful character’s old-school world of big-band music, silent film, and tap dance

Dance review: TWObigsteps Collective's final double bill captures the ephemeral emotions of this suspended time

Two people reach to connect across a socially distanced void, while another reflects on relationship to the past

THEATREJanet SmithMay 30, 2021DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre

Dance review: CAMP performers show their swagger in WANTED

The livestream at the Vancouver International Dance Festival draws from the Wild West

DANCEGail JohnsonMay 29, 2021VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival, CAMP

Sommelier pairs B.C. wine, beer, cider, and spirits with local meal-delivery program

Tractor At Home is changing the experience of ready-to-eat meals by teaming up with Maude Renaud-Brisson

CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 29, 2021culinary, wine, BC wine, Tractor, Maude Renaud-Brisson

Film review: Moby Doc takes a self-consciously strange look at fame and unhappiness

The musician unpacks stardom, addiction, and self-loathing with the help of puppets, drawings, and David Lynch

SCREENJanet SmithMay 29, 2021VIFF

Stirred, Not Shaken: MILA's Under the Boardwalk is pure, peachy cool

The plant-based Vancouver restaurant makes its own fruit popsicles for garnish

CULINARY, DRINKGail JohnsonMay 28, 2021culinary, Cocktails

Some Assembly Theatre Company and RHYTAG tackles mental-health struggles in new digital play BREAKWATER, June 30, July 8, and July 11

The multimedia theatre production follows six youth facing isolation and mental health struggles after a symbolic flood

THEATREStir VancouverMay 28, 2021Partner Content, Some Assembly Theatre

Composer Vivian Fung takes the flute in wild directions in Storm Within

The new flute concerto has its world premiere at Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming virtual concert featuring powerhouse women in music

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 28, 2021VSO, Vivian Fung, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Homepage feature

There Is No Evil takes an epic, four-chapter look at capital punishment in Iran, at The Cinematheque to June 3

The beautifully shot anthology film about moral corruption is a courageous act of defiance

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 28, 2021The Cinematheque

Stir Q & A: Vancouver actor Amanda Sum forges ahead with music career, releasing new video "Hot-Headed Egos"

The singer-songwriter talks mansplaining, spicy-peanut-sauce stirfry, and how no one takes you seriously when you’re young

Pandemic lockdown puts a new, playful spin on James Gnam's entre chien et loup

The plastic orchid factory artist pulls out a dazzling silver tracksuit to dance between joy and fear, the known and unknown

DANCEJanet SmithMay 27, 2021plastic orchid factory, James Gnam, livestream

Vancouver artists take part in new National Arts Centre summer residency called Free Rein

Omari Newton, Ralph Escamillan, Corey Payette, and Jeanette Kotowich are just some of the people developing new work

THEATREJanet SmithMay 27, 2021Touchstone Theatre

New short film Farmer.Sailor.Chef sails to Salt Spring’s Stowel Lake Farm

The ecologyst films’ culinary adventure follows B.C.’s oldest working tall ship to a local leader in sustainable farming

CULINARY, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 27, 2021culinary, screen, short film, ecologyst, Stowel Lake Farm, cooking, BC chefs

When can we see a show again? Performing-arts groups grapple with BC's new reopening roadmap

The jazz fest hopes to host some of the first outdoor concerts, while music, dance, and theatre leaders predict a very gradual return over the fall

Squamish Nation chef Paul Natrall introduces Bannock at Home

The founder of Mr. Bannock Indigenous Cuisine food truck now offers a DIY bannock-making mix

CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 26, 2021culinary, Mr. Bannock, Indigenous food, Paul Natrall

Metro Vancouver fishing families, chefs, and restaurants put B.C. spot prawns at centre-stage

Spot-prawn season is one of the most anticipated West Coast food events of the year

The arts are coming back, following news of B.C.'s Restart plan

With gradual steps in place, theatres and venues could be fully open by fall

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 25, 2021VSO, Day of Music

Marissa Wong prepares for Departure, and then the arrival of Vancouver's newest dance company

TWObigsteps performs a final show, as the artist reimagines the response. as The Falling Company

DANCEJanet SmithMay 25, 2021DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, livestream

Vancouver disability-led Opera Mariposa raises awareness of chronic illnesses, to June 1

Local opera company partners with arts organizations, businesses to support the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia (ME|FM) Society of BC

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonMay 25, 2021What's Stirring, opera, Opera Mariposa, disability, Music

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