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Company 605's Brimming blends live performance with live-feed cameras, at VIDF

Online and at the Orpheum Annex March 18 and 19, dancer Josh Martin re-explores the body as a container

DANCEJanet SmithMarch 13, 2022VIDF, Vancouver International Dance Festival

Disco moves, Italian food, and the immigrant experience meet in Made in Italy

Playwright-performer Farren Timoteo’s solo musical comedy is a coming-of-age tale inspired by family stories

THEATREGail JohnsonMarch 13, 2022The Arts Club, SPRING, Spring Arts Guide

Persephone finally finds her agency in a contemporary retelling called bad eggs

Unladylike co. playwright Jessica Hood upends the Greek myth in an innovative film-theatre-animation hybrid

THEATREJanet SmithMarch 12, 2022unladylike co.

Friends of Chamber Music welcomes dazzling Esmé Quartet to Vancouver

The performance is part of the Germany-based Korean ensemble’s first North American tour

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 11, 2022Friends of Chamber Music, Partner Content, Music, SPRING

Theatre review: Cast gives its all as Ominous Sounds at the River Crossing dives into thorny ideas about authenticity and appropriation

Through metatheatrics, play-within-a-play successfully tackles complex ideas

THEATREStir VancouverMarch 11, 2022Touchstone Theatre, Roy Surette

Vancouver Recital Society announces concert by star pianist Yuja Wang on March 30

Live performance at the Orpheum features the third VRS visit for an artist known for her skill and charisma

MUSICJanet SmithMarch 11, 2022SPRING, VRS, Vancouver Recital Society

Nowruz 2022: Vancouver's Delara restaurant celebrates Persian New Year with flavours of saffron, pomegranate, sumac, and more

Chef Bardia Ilbeiggi’s menu reflects his Iranian roots on the March 20 holiday and every day

CULINARYGail JohnsonMarch 11, 2022Nowruz, Persian food, SPRING, Vancouver restaurants

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

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