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Cirque du Soleil brings the Big Top back to Vancouver with classic Alegría in March 2022

The circus spectacles are returning after a 20-month pandemic shutdown

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 23, 2021Cirque du Soleil

Biennial Dance in Vancouver reimagines event through "slow curation" for a changing world

Australia’s Angela Coquet brings an outside eye to this year’s intimate, immersive offerings

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 22, 2021DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, The Dance Centre

Looks and sounds like the holidays: Stir's guide to seasonal concerts, plays, and performances

From classic carols to raucous dance and theatre pieces, Vancouver’s performing-arts groups are ready to spark joy

MUSIC, DANCE, THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 22, 2021Festive, Festive 1

Touchstone Theatre launches 2021-22 season with live performance of Lights by Adam Grant Warren

The intimate, wry play about family bonds and facing loss in the shadow of Alzheimer’s disease has its world premiere in Vancouver

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 22, 2021Partner Content, Touchstone Theatre

Leif Garrett, Black Sabbath, and upside-down Christmas trees: Steven Shearer mines archived imagery for a deeply layered viewing experience

New exhibition at the Polygon Gallery speaks directly, and sometimes painfully, to growing up in the 1970s

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithNovember 21, 2021THE POLYGON, The Polygon Gallery, Homepage feature

East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland gives the topsy-turvy fairy tale a sassy update

Writer Sonja Bennett re-creates Commercial Drive through the eyes of a modernized protagonist

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 21, 2021The Cultch, Theatre Replacement, East Van Panto, Sonja Bennett, Homepage feature, Festive

In conjunction with Sankofa, Sound House hosts Sadé Awele, Maia Wallace, and Brandon Bwanakocha at MOA's Haida House, November 25

Diverse sounds of the African diaspora are featured in MOA’s music series

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 20, 2021MOA

Stir's ultimate guide to Metro Vancouver holiday markets

Here’s where to get into the holiday spirit and check out the latest by local artists, designers, makers, and creatives

Stir Pairing Eastside Culture Crawl edition: Where to find a special craft beer and nostalgic snacks during the fest

We’re hitting Strange Fellows Brewing and the Drive Canteen during the festival’s open-studio weekend

Manuel Piña to give an artist's talk about his moving video installation Naufragios, at Surrey Art Gallery

Exploring migration, the ocean, and utopia, the UBC instructor appears December 2

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 19, 2021Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery

Faya Dayi takes a hallucinatory look at Ethiopia’s khat crops, to November 24 at The Cinematheque

Poetic black-and-white imagery explores the intoxicating hold the green leaves have on a people

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 19, 2021The Cinematheque

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 sweet ceramic studios to scope out at the Eastside Culture Crawl

Sleek black and white, ghostly forms, and “antiques for the future”

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 19, 2021Eastside Arts Society, Eastside Culture Crawl

Forev Circus brings its stunts to Evergreen Cultural Centre, November 24 and 25

Former Cirque du Soleil performers, a husband-and-wife duo start their own circus act

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 19, 2021Evergreen Cultural Centre, Forev Circus, circus, Cirque du Soleil, What's Stirring

Dance West Network supports dance artists and writers in conversation

Re-centering/Margins creative residency offers emerging dance artists of colour the chance to invite emerging writers of colour to accompany their in-studio processes

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 18, 2021Partner Content, Dance West Network

Red Sky Performance looks to the night sky through the eyes of the Anishinaabe

A work for six dancers with live music and cosmic visuals, Trace explores Indigenous star stories

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2021DanceHouse, Red Sky Performance, Sandra Laronde, Homepage feature

For Romeo and Juliet, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and SFU's Precursor Lab team up to create a musical-visual experience

Live performers interact with shadow puppetry for a real-time hybrid effect that visually responds to Sergei Prokofiev’s romantic score

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2021VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Vancouver New Music's Parallel 04: UNION Immersed performances and installations unveiled November 28

Ten artists from farflung disciplines came together for a workshop in WebXR

MUSIC, ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 18, 2021Partner Content, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music

With Hasalala Danxalax, mezzo Marion Newman and fellow performers reframe operatic performance

With a mix of western and Indigenous repertoire, the Chan Centre’s new guest curator aims for change on- and off-stage

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 18, 2021CHAN CENTRE, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Theatre review: Farm to Fable dishes up warmth and comfort via Zoom

Meaghan Chenosky is an affable chef and aspiring restaurateur in writer-director Amiel Gladstone’s new comical play

CULINARY, THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2021The Cultch, Amiel Gladstone, Meaghan Chenosky, Zoom

Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir announces Sing We Now of Christmas concert series

The highly anticipated seasonal event features performances at four local venues plus a new virtual concert

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 17, 2021Partner Content, Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir, Festive

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