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Arts Club’s Redbone Coonhound delivers hard-hitting comedy

The newest release in the 2021–22 Listen to This: Audio Play Series comes from playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 24, 2022Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre

Juilliard-trained Vancouver-born pianist Ian Parker plays finger-twisters with Vetta

Growing up, the musician was literally surrounded by pianos

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 24, 2022Vetta Chamber Music, Ian Parker, piano

Aalaapi ᐋᓛᐱ conjures the storytelling, slow rhythms, and vast silence of the Far North

Multimedia PuSh Festival show blends radio documentary, performance, and projected imagery to follow five young Inuit women

FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 24, 2022PuSh Festival, Inuit

Review: Voices wash over mesmerized listeners in the dark, at Vox.Infold

At the intimate PuSh Festival installation, throat-singing, soul, and other styles melt into a soundscape that comes at you from all directions

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 22, 2022PuSh Festival, Lobe Studio, Vox.Infold

Stir Q&A: Keith Langergraber on climate change, isolation, and the creepiness of borders

The Vancouver- and Kelowna-based visual artist hiked to over a dozen fire towers throughout the Pacific Northwest as part of the research behind The Dusk Meridian

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 21, 2022Vancouver Art Gallery, Offsite, VAG, Keith Langergraber, site-specific work

Chinese-American writer Jane Wong feeds her ancestors through sculptural poetry

The Bellingham-based poet wrote After Preparing the Altar, The Ghosts Feast Feverishly upon learning about the Great Chinese Famine

ART & DESIGN, READ, CULINARYGail JohnsonJanuary 21, 2022art and design, Richmond Art Gallery, Jane Wong, poetry

Refugee experience drives Bosnian drama "The Day We Left" at the Vancouver Short Film Festival

Facing adversity has fuelled Elma Begovic to create a work that hits close to home

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 21, 2022VSFF, Bosnia, short film, Vancouver Short Film Festival

Just For Laughs Vancouver postpones comedy fest due to extended COVID restrictions in BC

Trevor Noah: Back To Abnormal World Tour at Rogers Arena February 26 will proceed at 50 percent capacity

COMEDY, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 21, 2022Just For Laughs Vancouver, JFL NorthWest

VIFF Talks features creators of Showtime's obsessed-over hit Yellowjackets, January 26

Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson talk about the cult series that follows a girls’ soccer team into a horror-laced survival epic

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 20, 2022VIFF

Lunar New Year: Metro Vancouver chefs tastefully welcome the Year of the Tiger

Metro Vancouver chefs are celebrating with especially artful dishes

CULINARYGail JohnsonJanuary 20, 2022Lunar New Year, Year of the Tiger, Vancouver food, Asian food

PuSh Festival: Through VR and live theatre, VIOLETTE brings rarely discussed subjects to light

The one-on-one work by Montreal’s Joe Jack et John confronts consent and sexual assault among neurodivergent women

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 19, 2022PuSh Festival, Roundhouse Community Centre, Realwheels Theatre, French, VR

Female emotion and physicality powers La Goddam Voie Lactée by MAYDAY's Mélanie Demers

Award-winning choreographer from Montreal shares her latest work at Scotiabank Dance Centre February 4 to 6

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 19, 2022The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

For Vancouver flute player Christie Reside, dark and stormy music fits the times

The artist’s upcoming VSO performance does away with the instrument’s stereotypes

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 19, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Christie Reside, UBC School of Music, flute

Ian Parker and Friends find the beautiful connections between Haydn, Schumann, and Mendelssohn

The Vetta Chamber Music concert features the return of the magnetic pianist in a trio of serene pieces

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2022Vetta Chamber Music

East London's Joseph Toonga taps raw vulnerability and racial injustice through dance in Born to Manifest

At the PuSh fest, the artist mixes hip-hop and contemporary styles with images ripped right from the Black male experience

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2022PuSh Festival

P.Mansaram exhibition introduces B.C. to multidisciplinary artist's vast body of intricate work

The Medium is the Medium is the Medium shines a light on the late Indian-born, Ontario-based artist’s career spanning more than five decades

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 18, 2022Surrey Art Gallery, Indian Summer Festival, Homepage feature

Marion Landers' For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb examines the trauma and triumphs of confronting systemic racism

Livestreaming via VIDF, the dance-theatre work mines the artist’s family roots in Cape Town’s “Coloured” community

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 18, 2022VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Violin star Chloe Kim and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra travel to Corelli's Italy and beyond, online January 19

At Early Music Vancouver, the dazzling “La Follia” varations and more

MUSIC, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2022Early Music Vancouver, EMV, Chloe Kim

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

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