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Side Door raises US$3 million in seed funding to grow, boost visibility in the United States

Co-founded by Vancouver’s Dan Mangan, the performance platform offers a low-overhead touring model for artists

MUSIC, THEATREGail JohnsonJuly 5, 2021Dan Mangan, Side Door, Some Assembly Theatre

Stir Q&A: Pedal power and planetary penance at Boca del Lupo's new Net Zero installation

We get the full story behind the new spin bikes that battery power the troupe’s Granville Island space

THEATREJanet SmithJuly 5, 2021boca del lupo, BOCA DEL LUPO

Nam Dae Moon introduces its famous glutinous fried dough to B.C.

Founded by an ethnic Korean-Chinese family in China, the shop started out making traditional Korean rice cakes

CULINARYGail JohnsonJuly 5, 2021culinary, Korean food, Nam Dae Moon

Reading List: Summer books that compellingly confront the issues of our time, from the climate crisis to colonization

Plus: two titles for those who are struck by wanderlust, all selected by the team at Upstart & Crow

Nominations close soon for Fulmer Award in First Nations Art and Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design Program

BC Achievement Awards recognize Indigenous talent as well as designers making strides in functional works

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJuly 4, 2021BC Achievement Foundation

Stirred, Not Shaken: ¿CóMO? Taperia’s original cocktail inspired by Barcelona and Madrid

El Clásico is a “crushable” Gin and Tonic that goes especially well with the UEFA European Football Championship

CULINARY, DRINKGail JohnsonJuly 2, 2021culinary, Como Taperia, cocktails

Local artist collective THE ART SHOP pops up at Museum of Vancouver, to July 31

River Miller, Kalvin Valko; and Lillian Fong Hoon among those being featured in first of what MOV hopes to be regular, rotating pop-ups by local arts groups

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJuly 2, 2021What's Stirring, MOV, Museum of Vancouver, TAS

Self-guided Punjabi Market audio tours at Indian Summer Festival evoke all the senses, to July 17

Artists, shop owners, and community members bring fresh insights to the past, present, and history of the ‘hood

CULTURE, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 2, 2021Indian Summer Festival

Bodies and seascapes unite in two COVID Commissions from both coasts, at the Dancing on the Edge festival

Billy Marchenski embodies isolation at Iona Beach, while Meredith Kalaman explores ocean and identity

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 2, 2021Dancing on the Edge, Billy Marchenski, butoh, Homepage feature

Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival rolls to Brentwood Market, July 9, 10, 23, 24

Tacofino, Takenaka, Old Country Pierogi among the mobile eateries setting up at Shop the Block—Brentwood Market

Vancouver artist Hanna Lee Joshi's work lands on the cover of international art magazine

The Emily Carr University grad’s I’m a little shy … but that’s ok featured in the current issue of Hi-Fructose

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJuly 1, 2021art and design, Emily Carr University, ECUAD

Haida artist Tamara Bell to reveal mural on Commercial Drive in honour of Indigenous children, July 1

The new, collaborative project on Commercial Drive comes in response to discoveries of unmarked graves at former residential schools

NEWS, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJune 30, 2021News, art and design, mural, Indigenous, Tamara Bell

From pinstriping and airbrushing to winemaking: Gina Fernandes Harfman brings an artist’s approach to Nostalgia Wines

From a barrel program to easy-drinking wine with pin-ups on the labels, she’s keeping lost art forms alive as the Oliver-based winery evolves

CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 30, 2021wine, BC wine, pinstriping, airbrushing

Risk, play, and freedom: Théâtre la Seizième’s micro-residency program supports Francophone artists

Francophone and Francophile artists with theatre-based practices benefitted from creative experimentation

THEATREStir VancouverJune 30, 2021Partner Content, Theatre, Theatre la Seizieme

Vivid animation and thermal imaging recapture vanished Japanese Canadian history at Surrey Art Gallery

Cindy Mochizuki: Autumn Strawberry reflects on farms lost to internment, while Henry Tsang sees Hastings Park buildings through a haunting new lens

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 30, 2021Surrey Art Gallery, SAG, CIndy Mochizuki, Henry Tsang, Homepage feature

Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art take another look at isolation in M.O.I.—the partitions, at Dancing on the Edge July 8 and 9

It’s the second chapter in a multi-dancer work-in-progress that kicks off the fest’s Firehall Arts Centre live series

Home-based chef brings Yemeni culture to Vancouver through food and coffee

Lital Tamari Cohen is the founder of Jedda’s White Coffee and Jedda’s Authentic Yemeni Goodies

Singer Dee Daniels' creativity is reborn after a bout with cancer, and a brush with the divine

She went into the operating room as a leading interpreter of the Great American Songbook, and emerged as a songwriter

MUSICStir VancouverJune 28, 2021Coastal Jazz, Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Jill Barber returns to the Jazz Fest stage with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue

The chanteuse closes the annual festival with an in-person and streaming concert

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJune 28, 2021Jazz Fest, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Jill Barber

VSO to release recording of final live concert of its 2020-21 season featuring Steven Page, Kevin Fox, and Craig Northey, July 6

The in-person show will live on online

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