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Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Vetta Chamber Music’s season finale, Jane Coop and Friends

The virtual concert features powerful works by Mozart and Franck

MUSICStir VancouverJune 8, 2021music, Vetta Chamber Music, Jane Coop, Joan Blackman

PiDGiN sous chef Kym Nguyen makes their mark on the culinary scene as Top Chef Canada's first non-binary competitor

The Vancouver creative, who chose cooking over a career in architecture, hopes to inspire others to be confident about their identity

CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 8, 2021culinary, PiDGiN, LGBTQ2SAI, nonbinary, Homepage feature

Intimate objects and assemblages emblazon Arbutus Greenway billboards via the Capture Photography Festival, until July 1

Celia Perrin Sidarous’s “Flotsam” series plays with art history, still lifes, and archival imagery

ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 7, 2021Capture Photography Festival

Gastown's Di Beppe Ristorante celebrates Festa della Polenta, to June 30

Once considered peasants’ food, polenta is at the heart of an annual tradition celebrated throughout Italy—and beyond

Christopher Gaze co-hosts VSO's Musical Picnic With Friends, premiering June 10

The virtual concert features “Summer” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, an appearance by pianist Jane Coop, and other highlights

Daring, diverse Jazz Fest series at Frankie's keeps the soul fires burning

From post-bop to cool jazz, blues to Latin styles, Frankie’s Jazz Club hosts a daring, diverse lineup at the 2021 festival

A cinematic sci-fi ode to Polish author Stanisław Lem, at the Cinematheque until July 1

Andrei Tarkovsky, Steven Soderbergh, and more paid tribute to the Polish author

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 7, 2021The Cinematheque

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