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DBLSPK: The Mother Tongue Project wraps up rice & bean theatre's online season, July 23

Jasmine Chen and En Lai Mah explore their relationship to Mandarin, through interviews, song, projections, and martial arts

THEATREJanet SmithJuly 22, 2021rice and beans theatre

Stir Q&A: Multidisciplinary artist Benjamin Lumb on stonemasonry, planetary health, and his latest installation, Hyperion—Titan of Light

The founder of Benjamin Lumb Art House (BLAH) worked with tangled bars of steel for his most recent large-scale piece

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJuly 22, 2021art and design, Benjamin Lumb, Homepage feature

Ed Hill, other local stand-up comedians join headliner Jessica Pigeau at Comedyville, July 27

Zoom be gone: Laugh Wild Comedy is back on local stages, including this show at Brownsville Pub

COMEDY, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJuly 22, 2021comedy, What's Stirring, Laugh Wild Comedy, Ed Hill

Ceremony for Rebel Spirits brings dance and music to Mountainview Cemetery

The site-specific performance by Onibana Taiko and Alvin Erasga Tolentino is part of Queer Arts Festival 2021

East Vancouver's Andina Brewing Company to launch new Frida Kahlo Lavender Lager

The brewery worked with Frida Kahlo Corporation for the forthcoming special release

CULINARYGail JohnsonJuly 22, 2021beer, BC Beer, Andina, Frida Kahlo, East Vancouver

Vancouver Art Gallery puts out call for women's submissions to fall's Yoko Ono: ARISING installation

Work will be shown as part of GROWING FREEDOM: The instructions of Yoko Ono, opening October 9

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJuly 21, 2021Vancouver Art Gallery

Newly renovated VIFF Centre reopens for in-person screenings on July 30

Opening lineup boasts bold new Ema musical, the surreal Mandibles, and France’s La Piscine

SCREENStir VancouverJuly 21, 2021Partner Content, VIFF

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

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