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L’Onore Pizza approaches pies with monkish purity

Pizza maker-owner Abhiyan Rajhans mills his own flour for the sourdough pizza at his New Westminster restaurant

CULINARYGail JohnsonJuly 21, 2021Italian, Italian food, L'Onore Pizza

Singer-songwriter Leela Gilday reconnects with the land and reflects on a year of reckoning

Appearing at this year’s online Mission Folk Music Festival, the Dene artist sings of hard truths and resilience

MUSIC, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJuly 20, 2021Mission Folk Festival

Wreck Beach Butoh returns to Vancouver's iconic clothing-optional beach

Kokoro Dance presents its annual performance for 10 artists rain or shine

DANCEGail JohnsonJuly 20, 2021Kokoro Dance, Wreck Beach Butoh, butoh, Jay Hirabayashi

Lil’wat playwright Yvonne Wallace's new short film reflects her own language recovery

Her cuzlhkán kalāxsa nqwal̛úttena (I am going to remember my language) debuts at Touchstone Theatre’s Seismic Shift on July 21

LIVESTREAM, THEATREJanet SmithJuly 19, 2021Touchstone Theatre, Lil'wat

Diving In: The Art of Cleaning Lakes and Oceans creates beauty out of trash, ongoing

Sea to Sky Arts Council Alliance and Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans are hosting regular clean-ups, collecting waste to be turned into artwork

Stirred, Not Shaken: Strawberry Youth at Vancouver's Oakridge x Pac Rim Patio evokes a summery mood

Fairmont Pacific Rim creative beverage director Grant Sceney combines fresh garden favourites with Botanist Gin and Champagne for this al fresco cocktail

CULINARY, DRINKGail JohnsonJuly 18, 2021culinary, Cocktails

Film review: The American Sector tracks down pieces of the Berlin Wall across the U.S.

Documentary directors travel to roadsides, gated homes, and other unexpected spots to gather perspectives on past and present

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 18, 2021The Cinematheque

Dance review: Rachel Meyer builds another off-kilter world of wonder in Mama, do we die when we sleep?

Four top-flight dancers inhabit a surreal universe of stacked chairs, a strange blue dress, and an echoing lullabye

DANCEJanet SmithJuly 17, 2021Dancing on the Edge

Vines Art Festival brings live music, storytelling, dance, fashion, and more to Vancouver parks, August 9 to 19

Called Feast Year, the event comes back with over 100 performing and visual artists

FESTSJanet SmithJuly 17, 2021Vines Art Festival

Rachel Peake joins Arts Club Theatre Company's leadership team as Ashlie Corcoran departs on maternity leave

The well-known director and dramaturg will bring to life programming back in the historic Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithJuly 17, 2021Arts Club Theatre

Sound of the City: Floetic emerges from the pandemic maintaining his message of unity

The Vancouver DJ is optimistic about the future despite the difficulties of the past year—as an artist and as a member of the BIPOC community

SOUND OF THE CITY, MUSICStir VancouverJuly 16, 2021Sound of the City, music, Floetic

Jan Wade assembles the personal, the political, and the historical through found objects in Soul Power, at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The vivid use of everything from antique buttons to Scrabble tiles and horseshoe charms traces back to her childhood in Hamilton’s Black community

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJuly 16, 2021Vancouver Art Gallery, Homepage feature

Artigiano partners with Salty’s Lobster Shack for a weekly Atlantic-meets-Pacific pop-up

The East Van-based seafood eatery rolls over to North Vancouver’s Shipyards District

CULINARYGail JohnsonJuly 15, 2021Artigiano, Salty's Lobster Shack, Shipyards

Alpha Yaya Diallo, Mr. Fantastic, the Boom Booms, and more perform at Vancouver's African Descent Festival, July 17 and 18

The seventh annual event celebrates cultural diversity, rejuvenates the spirit of Hogan’s Alley

FESTSGail JohnsonJuly 14, 2021Music, fests

Alexis Fletcher switches it up with Vanessa Goodman and Ted Littlemore, creating a new sonic connection

At Dancing on the Edge, Tuning marks a new journey for the 14-year Ballet BC dancer

DANCEJanet SmithJuly 14, 2021Dancing on the Edge

Between two brick walls off a downtown Vancouver alleyway, Chupito is a love letter to Mexico

The new outdoor food and cocktail bar is inspired by the flavours and traditions of the Sinaloa coast

CULINARYGail JohnsonJuly 14, 2021Chupito, La Taqueria

Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba plays live locally, July 14, 15, and 18

Drawing on jazz, pop soul, and rock, the B.C. artist has multiple JUNO, Grammy, and Latin Grammy nods to his name

MUSICGail JohnsonJuly 14, 2021Music

Firehall Arts Centre's Music in the Courtyard concert series comes back July 30 to September 5

Indie-pop, salsa, classical, jazz, and more on the roster, in copresentation with Vancouver Independent Music Centre

MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithJuly 14, 2021FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Anosh Irani's new Transcendence premieres at Indian Summer Festival, July 15

Performed by Munish Sharma and Laara Sadiq and directed by Lois Anderson, the work explores pain and transformation

FESTSGail JohnsonJuly 13, 2021What's Stirring, festivals, Indian Summer Festival, Anosh Irani

Early Music Vancouver announces all its concert tickets will now be free for Indigenous peoples

The new ticketing policy was conceived by Cree-Métis two-spirit baritone Jonathon Adams, the group’s summer artist-in-residence

MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithJuly 13, 2021Early Music Vancouver

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