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Talking Stick @ Club PuSh brings Indigenous beats, comedy, and burlesque to Performance Works February 3

Co-curators Rob Thomson and Nimkish Younging present DJ O Show, Sparkle Plenty, and more at the fest’s laid-back, licensed venue

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022PuSh Festival, Club PuSh, Talking Stick Festival, Frank Theatre

JCC Jewish Book Festival: From fictional worlds of beasts to frank takes on antisemitism, the 2022 event covers vast ground

Vancouver author Rachel Rose, author of The Octopus Has Three Hearts, is featured in the annual literary event’s Short Stories Extravaganza

With TM, Belgium's Ontroerend Goed prompts audiences to question their fear of "the other"

The one-on-one online theatre piece slyly reframes conspiracy theorists and the “polarized world”

THEATRE, LIVESTREAMJanet SmithJanuary 31, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Homepage feature

Tiko Kerr explores nearness in career-spanning solo exhibition, now showing

Politics of Proximity showcases works on canvas, collage, and Plexiglas

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 31, 2022Tiko Kerr, Monica Reyes Gallery

Vancouver comedian Simon King announces new album, As Good As Or Better Than

Robin Williams once called the stand-up artist a “truly gifted comedian”

COMEDYJanet SmithJanuary 31, 2022Comedy Here Often?, 604 Records, Simon King

Music community mourns trailblazing Coast Salish opera singer Rose-Ellen Nichols

Mezzo-soprano helped bring alive groundbreaking works such as Marie Clements’ Missing and Margaret Atwood’s Pauline

MUSIC, NEWS, OPERAJanet SmithJanuary 31, 2022City Opera, opera

The 37th Annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival represents a diversity of experiences and cultures

The online event showcases recent literature that revels in pivotal ideas of the modern world, sparks meaningful conversation

BOOKS, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 31, 2022Jewish Book Festival, Partner Content

The O Show traces Orene Askew's journey to an Afro-Indigenous Two-Spirit DJ and civil rights activist

Streaming at the Vancouver Short Film Festival, new doc shows spotlights an artist inspired to represent her communities

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 29, 2022VSFF, Vancouver Short Film Festival, DJ O Show

Film review: The Conductor follows maestro Marin Alsop's rise in the face of shocking rejection

For decades, the trailblazer was told it was impossible for a woman to lead an orchestra

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 28, 2022The Conductor, VIFF, VIFF Centre

Musical worlds converge in LunarFest Vancouver's Together, Stronger concert

Featuring local string ensemble Harmonia, the performance speaks to spring, celebration, and song

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 28, 2022LunarFest, ACSEA, Charlie Wu

Stir Pairing: Mixed-media, spy-thriller beer, and killer hot dogs in Mount Pleasant

This East Vancouver outing brings together Western Front, Main St. Brewing, and Sausageland

Indigenous knowledge, a theme of care form basis of 12 short films in Response: Soft Action at the Polygon, to February 6

The video works are the culmination of a collaboration between the gallery and Cap U’s First Nations Student Services, Indigenous Digital Filmmaking Program

SCREENGail JohnsonJanuary 28, 2022The Polygon, Capilano University

Firehall Arts Centre adds two-hander Mary’s Wedding to its season

Announcement follows postponement of this week’s FADO– The Saddest Music in the World

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra offers the moving music of Mozart and Brahms

Upcoming live performance features highlights of both legendary artists’ repertoire

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Tropical winds of Hawaii blow through International Guitar Night with slack-key great Jim "Kimo" West

Hawaiian finger-style playing adds to other virtuosic traditions at the Massey Theatre

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2022Guitar, International Guitar Night, Massey Theatre

Bagpipes, a Chinese "Auld Lang Syne", and more at Gung Haggis Fat Choy, online January 30 at 5 pm

The brilliant made-in-Vancouver mashup of Robbie Burns Day and Lunar New Year includes a take-home meal

MUSIC, LIVESTREAM, CULINARYJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2022lunar new year, City Opera

Maestro Otto Tausk: Music will always find a way

The music director of Vancouver Symphony Orchestra says the pandemic has proven the power of and need for the arts

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 27, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Otto Tausk, Homepage feature

From the comedic to the poetic, Vancouver Short Film Festival's brief takes on the pandemic

Local entries Tomomi on the Farm, Who the Hell Is Nigel?, and Quarantine Fling capture the inspiring and the absurd

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022VSFF, Vancouver Short Film Festival, COVID-19

The Lantern City lights up the night downtown and on Granville Island at LunarFest

Ten diverse local, Indigenous, and international artists have created towering lanterns for the installations

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2022LunarFest, Lunar New Year

Conversation on the Art of P.Mansaram livestreams via Surrey Art Gallery, February 5

The free talk about the prolific Rajasthani-born Ontario-based artist’s work is moderated by Indian Summer Festival’s Sirish Rao

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 26, 2022Surrey Art Gallery, Indian Summer Festival

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