Articles — Stir

The Cultch opens the Patio at 1895 with local beer, wine, Cheezies, and more

The historic theatre adds a new licensed space to Vancouver’s outdoor sipping and snacking scene

CULINARY, STAGEGail JohnsonJune 6, 2021The Cultch, patio

Kapé Philippine Coffee builds bridges between farmers and consumers—and works to decolonize the industry

Iona and Paolo Fresnoza work directly with female-led small farms in their home country

Sound of the City: DJ O Show sounds off on representation, writing her first hip-hop track, and the energy of a crowd

The Afro-Indigenous 2 Spirit artist and Squamish Nation member says the pandemic gave rise to new creative skills

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverJune 4, 2021Sound of the City, music, DJ O Show, indigenous, 2 Spirit

Film reviews: Soba restaurants, sumo wrestlers, and unwed mothers, as Toronto Japanese Film Festival streams here

Highlights include True Mothers, Mio’s Cookbook, and Sumodo—Successors of Samurai

SCREENJanet SmithJune 4, 2021TJFF, Toronto Japanese Film Festival

VAG's vast Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo exhibition amplifies diverse new voices on the local scene

Seeing in new ways, with broken-and-rebuilt ceramics to room-filling tree sculptures, textiles, and murals

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 3, 2021VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Homepage feature

Diverse communities share their culture, heritage at Doors Open Richmond

With tours of everything from a Buddhist monastery to a Persian restaurant, the annual Heritage Canada event goes online for 2021

CULTURAL TOURISM, FESTSGail JohnsonJune 3, 2021Doors Open Richmond, Richmond

A play about housing refugees, a dialogue on madness, and more as rEvolver Festival enters final weekend

Boundary-pushing offerings include a wonderfully weird website-EP and collagelike text fragments

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithJune 3, 2021Upintheair Theatre

Lamondance ramps itself up through pandemic, debuting two new virtual shows

Brazilian-born artistic director Davi Rodrigues keeps the energy and positivity flowing to move a rising company forward

Stir Pairing: Food and wine from the land to savour during the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival

An Indigenous World Winery red, bannockwich from Salmon n’ Bannock go hand in hand with the multidisciplinary fest that celebrates Canada’s diverse Indigenous cultures

Israel in a Box serves up diverse flavours as part of the JCCGV's Festival of Israeli Culture, June 4 to 6

The food-focused feature of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s 18th annual fest showcases the breadth of cultural influences in Israeli cuisine

CULINARY, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJune 2, 2021culinary, What's Stirring, JCCGV