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Turning Point Ensemble launches more collaborative 1+1+1... a film series starting January 31

The cross-sector project brings together composers, filmmakers, dancers, visual artists and more in striking five-minute works

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2022Turning Point Ensemble

At PuSh Fest, Theatre Replacement envisions a "future of a future we could never have imagined"

Do you mind if I sit here? grew out of the discovery of 16mm films sent to Vancouver from the USSR decades ago

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2022PuSh Festival, Theatre Replacement, James Long, Marcus Youssef

Dance review: Alexis Fletcher's assemble is a dreamlike trip into questions of life and death

The solo is a feat of complex choreography, video imagery, lighting, and monumental set pieces coming together

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2022Alexis Fletcher, Belle Spirale Dance Projects

Debussy, Satie and Tan Dun shimmer in upcoming Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performance

The Musically Speaking concert is full of colour and playfulness

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Film reviews: Two experimental documentaries decolonize film in thought-provoking ways

Prism shows the true colours of cinematic bias, while maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore digs into Pacific Northwest Indigenous identity

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2022The Cinematheque

Trayvon Martin's death inspires theatre piece Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, at PuSh Festival

Playwright-actor Makambe K. Simamba draws on the story of the Black teen’s life in powerful solo show

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 14, 2022PuSh Festival

Ruby Singh celebrates rich cultural polyphony with Vox.Infold, at the PuSh Festival

Racialized artists come together to find harmony in disparate vocal styles

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2022PuSh Festival

The Cultch launches new RE/PLAY digital-theatre platform to complement live programming

Offerings starting next month include a one-one-one interactive show from Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed and a premiere by Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH

In Solo Flare, members of Turning Point Ensemble show, share their creative spark

Soloists selected a composer to work with and collaborated with various other artists for a cross-disciplinary concert featuring 11 world premieres

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 13, 2022Turning Point Ensemble, Partner Content

Vancouver composer Leslie Uyeda's When The Sun Comes Out sees its U.S. premiere at Portland Opera, January 28

Originally commissioned by the Queer Arts Festival, pioneering opera explores love in a nation where homosexuality is banned.

MUSIC, NEWS, OPERAJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2022opera, Leslie Uyeda

Artist Trevor Lai designs Vancouver Canucks’ 2022 Lunar New Year warm-up jerseys

Having grown up in Vancouver playing street hockey, the animator created a bold Year of the Tiger logo

ART & DESIGN, NEWSGail JohnsonJanuary 13, 2022Vancouver Canucks, Year of the Tiger, Lunar New Year

On Air zooms in on screen culture, mass media at Surrey Art Gallery, opening January 22

Visitors can pull a lever on a slot machine-like installation by late media artist Nancy Paterson that pulls up hundreds of random images from TV clips

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 13, 2022Surrey Art Gallery

LION LION and MAYDAY bring the inspired art of movement from Montréal to the PuSh Festival

Bold and interdiciplinary Se Prendre and La Goddam Voie Lactée show the circus and dance influences of two standout women artists

FESTS, DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2022PuSh Festival

South African dance company Via Katlehong and Soweto-born choreographer Gregory Maqoma explore corruption, hope in Digidance presentation of Via Kanana

The North American premiere of the digital broadcast begins streaming during Black History Month

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 12, 2022Digidance, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE

Shakespeare's First Folio from 1623 opens on Macbeth, on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery

A firsthand preview of the exhibit centred around the extremely rare book acquired by UBC Library

BOOKS, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2022Vancouver Art Gallery, UBC, Homepage feature

Black Arts Vancouver co-founder Chase Keetley kicks off Sankofa Artist Talks at MOA, January 22

Joining the multidisciplinary African-Canadian artist is Chantal Gibson, who will read from her two recent books of poetry

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs Chopin, Fauré & Bologne

The concert features award-winning Canadian Chopin specialist Charles Richard-Hamelin

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Lynne Ramsay's dark, agonizing poetry celebrated at The Cinematheque, to February 4

With films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here, the Scottish director is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary cinema

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2022The Cinematheque