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Chutzpah Festival's Jessica Gutteridge aims for joy in a full live-and-livestream hybrid

A Night at the Opera’s Marx Brothers opener November 4 sets the tone for a playful lineup

FESTS, LIVESTREAM, COMEDYJanet SmithNovember 3, 2021Chutzpah Festival, City Opera

Theatre review: Nombre drives to the heart of our shared humanity

The participatory show in French at Théâtre la Seizième proves touching

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 3, 2021Theatre la Seizieme, French

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers sheds light on the opioid crisis in Kanai First Nation in new film

The NFB documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy looks at efforts to practice harm reduction on the largest reserve in Canada.

Film reviews: 3 movies to check out at the South African Film Festival, from a must-see family drama to powerful documentaries

Barakat, Zero to Zero, and Murder in Paris are some of the standouts streaming November 4 to 14

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 2, 2021South Africa, South African Film Festival, VSAFF

Gender parity as Whistler Film Festival unveils online and in-person programming for December event

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter opens a lineup with a strong female contingent

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 2, 2021WFF, Whistler Film Festival

Dinner and a show: Vancouver's Anh and Chi Vietnamese restaurant partners with The Cultch for a culinary-arts pairing

Both the Mount Pleasant eatery and the play we the same were born out of the experiences of Vietnamese refugees

Surfacing 2021: The Eastside Culture Crawl preview exhibits return to mark 25th anniversary

Salon-style curated exhibition returns to five venues with works by more than 85 artists

Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet comes to atmospheric cinematic life, in French Movie Club screening at new time November 4

Visions Ouest Productions and Alliance Francaise screening takes a ferocious look at lives of women in early-19th-century France

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 2, 2021VISIONS OUEST, Rendez-Vous French Film Festival, Alliance Francaise

Photographer Dina Goldstein captures iconic, aging Vancouver and Victoria artists in OG Punk

Members of Dayglo Abortions and Death Sentence as well as other key figures of the 1980s punk scene featured in new exhibition at the Polygon

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonNovember 2, 2021The Polygon, Dina Goldstein, punk, photography, POLYGON GALLERY

Touchstone Theatre returns to live performance with Adam Grant Warren’s new Lights, and more

A play about Trayvon Martin and a Scottish-themed queer musical are other highlights

Laughter connects hearts and minds at Openings: A Cultural Sharing

The Firehall presents the wide-ranging series as part of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

We the same's dramatic tale of Vietnamese refugees is, at its core, a mother-daughter story

Playwright Sangeeta Wylie and Ruby Slippers’ Diane Brown use traditional music, shadow puppetry, and camera closeups for livestream premiere

THEATRE, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithNovember 1, 2021The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Ruby Slippers Theatre

Cornucopia, Whistler’s celebration of food and drink, celebrates 25 years, November 4 to 28

One of B.C.’s biggest annual culinary festivals outside of Vancouver features winery dinners, seminars, cooking demos, and more

CULINARY, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonNovember 1, 2021Cornucopia Whistler, Whistler, SLCC, Fort Berens, Time Winery

Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre names Derek Chan as new managing artistic director

The playwright, director, and performer has been co-artistic director of rice & beans theatre since 2010

NEWS, THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 1, 2021Derek Chan, vAct, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, rice and beans theatre

Launch of Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey draws on the power of story, art and song

Further We Rise Collective/Sacred Rock Society present three days of ceremony, teachings, storytelling, and art during Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival

Chinatown Storytelling Centre to open in Vancouver, the first permanent space of its kind in Canada

The purpose-built space will feature exhibitions, a theatre space, speaker series, and more, all sharing experiences of early Chinese immigrants

Music review: Vancouver New Music's Electric Fields festival pushes sound and motion technology

Toggle switches, low-fi pickups, and glowing wireless controllers: a mixed bag of digital experiments

MUSIC, LIVESTREAM, FESTSStir VancouverOctober 31, 2021VNM, Vancouver New Music, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, E-fest 2021

Review: Imagine Picasso allows visitors to see a master from all angles

Mammoth multi-plane exhibit finds fresh ways to show the master’s staggering range of styles

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithOctober 31, 2021Imagine Picasso

Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, Linden MacIntyre, and more gather at Read for the Cure

Inspired by a book club, the virtual event raises funds for environmental-cancer research

READStir VancouverOctober 31, 2021Read, Upstart & Crow

The Magnitude of All Things links personal and planetary loss on a profound scale, at VIFF Centre to November 4

Travelling from Australia to the Amazon, the director finds a way through grief

SCREENJanet SmithOctober 30, 2021NFB, National Film Board, Jennifer Abbott

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