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With After Yang, Koganada explores loss, love, and identity in a new kind of sci-fi film

Set in a warm and leafy future, android story draws on director’s personal experiences

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 11, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, SPRING

Hey Viola! returns to the Anvil, with music-fuelled story of a civil-rights trailblazer, starting March 16

Viola Davis’s fight to sit in a movie theatre mixes with gospel, jazz, and freedom songs

STAGEJanet SmithMarch 11, 2022Anvil Centre, Krystle Dos Santos, SPRING

Tzoulahem filmmakers revisit a larger-than-life Cowichan legend from multiple angles

Harold Joe helps bring to life a figure who’s fascinated him since his grandmother told him stories about the warrior

SCREENJanet SmithMarch 10, 2022VIFF, Tzoulahem, SPRING

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra brings the magic of Mischa Maisky to the Orpheum

The upcoming concert features one of the globe’s most outstanding cello players

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 10, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Partner Content

Internationally acclaimed choreographer Daina Ashbee’s work returns to Vancouver

J'ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction) runs March 9 to 12 at Scotiabank Dance Centre

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 10, 2022Daina Ashbee, The Dance Centre, DANCE CENTRE, SPRING

Spring schtick: Metro Vancouver comedy events that will put some laughs in your life this season

From commentary on obscure VHS tapes found in dumpsters to a big-name love-fuelled performance, local offerings will have you in stitches

New Rose-Ellen Nichols Award memorializes Coast Salish mezzo soprano

The annual award will alternate between voice and costume recognitions, with an emphasis on Indigenous culture

OPERA, MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithMarch 10, 2022City Opera, Rose-Ellen Nichols

At the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Imitation Game shows mind-expanding possibilities of AI meeting art and design

Robots “collaborate” with painters, while machines generate surreal visual worlds

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMarch 10, 2022VAG, Vancouver Art Gallery, Homepage feature, SPRING

He shoots, he scores! Men Express Their Feelings takes a shot at toxic masculinity

Structured like a hockey game, Sunny Drake’s comedic play explores what it means to be a “man”

THEATREGail JohnsonMarch 10, 2022Zee Zee Theatre, Sunny Drake, Homepage feature

Be-Longing takes an interdisciplinary look at the queer diaspora, to March 13 online via The Cultch

Frank theatre’s multicultural, multilingual collaboration explores love and exile

Vancouver International Dance Festival hosts a range of free and by-donation performances

Artists include Olivia Shaffer, Manuel Roque, Benoît Lachambre, and Tiger Princess Dance Project

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 9, 2022Vancouver International Dance Festival, VIDF

Paneficio Gallery opens in the heart of Strathcona

The new, intimate gallery space grew out of Paneficio Studios and launches with an exhibition by Dana Cromie

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonMarch 9, 2022SPRING, Paneficio Gallery, Valerie Arntzen, Dana Cromie

Cloud Album captures the beauty and diversity of the skies through photography

Books, albums, and pre-photographic cloud studies also make up the ambitious new exhibition at the Polygon Gallery

Christine Quintana's Clean/Espejos brings together two women from different sides of a Mexican resort

New play is performed in English and Spanish to fully explore both perspectives

Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Revisor nominated for Britain's Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production

The prizes are the U.K. stage scene’s equivalent to the Tony Awards

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithMarch 8, 2022DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, Crystal Pite, Kidd Pivot, Jonathon Young

Vetta Chamber Music takes the bassoon, violin, and piano to exciting places in Bassoon!

Performed by a powerful trio of women, the concert is full of fun and fresh takes on a range of musical works

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 8, 2022Vetta Chamber Music

Vancouver International Children's Festival announces return to in-person events on Granville Island, May 31 to June 5

Tickets on sale Wednesday for a lineup that spans African circus, Indigenous dance, and Fred Penner himself

FESTSJanet SmithMarch 8, 2022Vancouver International Children's Festival

JD Derbyshire turns their real-life experiences with the mental-health system into an interactive theatre piece

In Certified, audience members make up a review board tasked with determining the solo character’s sanity

THEATREGail JohnsonMarch 8, 2022JD Derbyshire, Gateway Theatre, mental health, SPRING

Valerie Whitney explores the full range of the French horn at Sonic Boom fest

U.S.-born virtuoso and UBC instructor interprets work by local emerging composers—one as young as 14

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverMarch 7, 2022SPRING, Sonic Boom, Vancouver Pro Musica

Vancouver International Women in Film Festival runs virtually for 2022, March 8 to 13

Titles include Donkeyhead, Querencia, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, and more

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