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Film review: The Tragedy of Macbeth builds a stark and gripping monochrome world

Joel Coen draws out note-perfect performances amid a bleak setting of archways, smothering fog, and cawing crows

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 24, 2021Shakespeare, Macbeth, Homepage feature

North Shore Culture Compass reflects the year's diverse cultural traditions in You Are Here calendar

From Korean and Persian New Year to the “Festival of Light”, it’s all artfully captured

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverDecember 23, 2021Partner Content, North Shore Culture Compass, North Van Arts

New Year’s Eve: Local food and drink to toast 2021 coming to an end

From omakase and artisan pizza to bottled cocktails and sparkling wine, here are a few ideas for year-end dining and imbibing whether out or at home

CULINARYGail JohnsonDecember 23, 2021Vancouver restaurants, New Year's Eve

Hara Setsuko Centenary: The Noriko Trilogy screens three of Ozu Yasujirō’s greatest films, at The Cinematheque December 23 to January 3

Good things come in threes in legendary actor’s conflicted “Norikos”, in Late Spring, Early Summer, and Tokyo Story

Ballet BC's Unfold + Give mixed program streams diverse moods and styles, through December 31

Medhi Walerski’s serene GARDEN joins works by Ethan Colangelo, Company 605, and Lesley Telford

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 22, 2021BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Vancouver arts groups respond to new COVID-19 measures

The Cultch, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra among those adjusting to 50-percent capacity at all theatres, concert venues

NEWSGail JohnsonDecember 22, 2021COVID-19, Omicron, Bonnie Henry, The Cultch, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker glitters onscreen at VIFF Centre on December 23, 24, and 26

The sumptuous spectacle draws Londoners in droves each holiday

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 22, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Festive, Festive 1

Ballet BC prepares to move to new facility on Granville Island in former Arts Umbrella location

The company, currently housed in the Scotiabank Dance Centre, will have access to a greatly expanded space

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithDecember 21, 2021BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Arts Umbrella

The books that got us through: Vancouver artists reflect on reads that moved them in 2021

From new releases to classics, here’s what some members of the local arts community were reading this year

READGail JohnsonDecember 21, 2021Read, books, 2021 in review

BC Movement Arts Society brings urban and rural together in new North Island Contemporary Dance Series

Featuring a just-announced lineup of Canadian and international dance artists, the program will travel to Sointula, Port McNeill, and Alert Bay

DANCEJanet SmithDecember 20, 2021BC Movement Arts Society

Two-time Fool Us winner Vitaly Beckman has spent pandemic lockdown creating new artful illusions

The man who pulled one over on Penn & Teller spends months developing original acts that draw on paintings, sketches, and photographs

FESTSJanet SmithDecember 20, 2021Anvil Centre

Melody Courage makes Canadian Opera Company debut in In Winter, online to June 18, 2022

The Vancouver-based Métis soprano performs Ian Cusson’s new work set to text by Katherena Vermette

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERAGail JohnsonDecember 19, 2021Canadian Opera Company, Melody Courage, Indigenous

VAG’s Indigenous Beauty celebrates winter solstice via livestream, December 20

The event featuring singers and powwow dancers Cynthia Jim and Tia Wood aims decolonize the holidays

CULTUREGail JohnsonDecember 19, 2021Indigenous, VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winter Solstice

Dr. Bonnie Henry announces new restrictions to flatten the Omicron curve

B.C. Office of the Provincial Health Officer orders venues with more than 1,000 seats, including theatres, to limit capacity to 50 percent

NEWSGail JohnsonDecember 17, 2021COVID-19, Omicron

Film review: Red Rocket takes an amusing trip into a forgotten corner of industrial America

Washed-up porn star meets donut shop in Sean Baker’s frequently funny and humanistic followup to The Florida Project

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 17, 2021

Bill Reid Gallery launches new publication to accompany Sho Sho Esquiro’s first solo exhibition in Canada

Doctrine of Discovery features a collection of the artist’s contemporary fashions crafted using trade cloths, furs, leathers, hides, beads and shells sourced directly from her Yukon homelands

ART & DESIGN, READGail JohnsonDecember 17, 2021Sho Sho Esquiro, Bill Reid Gallery, Indigenous, fashion, BC books

Circus, dance, theatre, and more, as The Cultch unveils full roster of in-person shows for winter-spring 2022 season

The Femme Festival, The Invisible, Germany’s still hungry and others spread across three venues

DANCE, THEATREJanet SmithDecember 16, 2021THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Film review: The Lost Daughter's brilliant performances paint a complex portrait of motherhood

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play an older and younger version of a woman torn between her children and her career

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 16, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Cliff Cardinal brings his dark humour and challenging spirit to Shakespeare at the 2022 PuSh Festival

William Shakespeare’s AS YOU LIKE IT; a radical retelling by Cliff Cardinal has its Western Canadian debut at the York Theatre

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithDecember 16, 2021PuSh Festival, Cliff Cardinal, Partner Content

Got Craft? Holiday Market is back with 80 innovative makers at the Croatian Cultural Centre on December 18 and 19

Crochet cozies, clay jewellery, and fantasy postage stamps and more

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithDecember 15, 2021Got Craft?, Festive

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