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Massey Theatre offers half-price tickets to frontline workers for Noises Off, February 15 to 27

Offer of laughter and fun is aimed at thanking everyone from teachers to grocery clerks to performing artists for their dedication

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2022Massey Theatre

Shhh, it's a secret: Here are the few things we can tell you about William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal.

The PuSh show relies on the element of surprise, but Crow’s Theatre’s Chris Abraham says it’s “exhilarating”

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2022PuSh Festival, Crow's Theatre, Shakespeare, Cliff Cardinal

Sankofa Film Festival showcases stories of the African diaspora, February 12

Mini documentary fest accompanies MOA exhibition Sankofa: African Routes, Canadian Roots

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 2, 2022MOA, Sankofa, Black, Hogan's Alley, Black History Month, documentary

Friends of Chamber Music presents the Han, Finckel, Setzer Trio

Esteemed musicians will perform powerful works by Beethoven, Dvorak, and Anglo-African composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 2, 2022Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Stir Q&A: Mi'gmaq photographer and mask-maker Duane Isaac explores Indigenous relationship between land and body

Sovereignty at SUM gallery is the queer artist’s first solo exhibition in Vancouver

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonFebruary 2, 2022SUM Gallery, Duane Isaac, Indigenous, photography, masks, Homepage feature

LunarFest Vancouver offers lively celebrations to welcome Year of the Tiger

Special activities include art workshops, film screenings, fortune-telling, and more

FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022LunarFest, Partner Content

Montreal's Mélanie Demers unleashes the female voice in La Goddam Voie Lactée

MAYDAY dancers learned everything from singing to playing guitar for a work formed by volatile times

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 1, 2022PuSh Festival, The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE

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

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