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SFU Woodward's Launch Festival of Emerging Artists invites applications to May 17

The annual event spans dance, theatre, music, film, and digital arts, with a view to helping performing artists. get careers off the ground

FESTSJanet SmithApril 22, 2022SFU Woodward's, Launch Festival

Theatre review: 'da Kink in my Hair is by turns a hilarious and heart-breaking visit to the salon

Black women’s experiences are braided through the Arts Club’s heartfelt rendition of Trey Anthony’s hit play

THEATREJanet SmithApril 22, 2022SPRING, theatre review, The Arts Club

Elektra Women’s Choir welcomes the Sitka String Quartet for dazzling concert

The two Vancouver classical-music ensembles join forces for the first time in Lake of Stars

MUSICJanet SmithApril 21, 2022Elektra Women's Choir, Partner Content

COVID forces The Cultch to postpone Bad Parent to 2022-23 season

The much-anticipated world premiere by Ins Choi was scheduled to open April 21

THEATREJanet SmithApril 21, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, Ins Choi

Brazil's 2018 election leads to the creation of full-length dance performance Black Feather

Lamondance artistic director Davi Rodrigues has choreographed what he calls a “slightly spookier spinoff” of Swan Lake

DANCEGail JohnsonApril 21, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Lamondance, Brazil, Homepage feature

Spoken-word artist Johnny D Trinh hosts Stage to Page: The Music Edition at Verses, April 24

Kimmortal, Krystal Kiran, and Veda Hille among the panelists at the special open workshop

FESTSJanet SmithApril 21, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Verses, Vancouver Poetry House, Kimmortal, Veda Hille

Crazy8s unveils its top six short films at live Gala Screening, May 7 at The Centre

Tickets are on sale for red-carpet event, followed by vintage-circus-inspired AfterParty

SCREENJanet SmithApril 21, 2022Crazy8s, SPRING

Talea Ensemble traverses numbers stations and unconventional sounds, in two new B.C. works

Vancouver New Music concert debuts pieces by composer Brandon Chow and William Kuo

MUSICJanet SmithApril 20, 2022Vancouver New Music, SPRING

Alegría aesthetics show up in Cirque du Soleil-inspired culinary experiences

Food-loving circus-goers in Vancouver can add flavour to their trip to the Big Top

STAGE, CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 20, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide

Live theatre is back at Bard on the Beach after two dark summers

Shakespeare festival announces 2022 programming, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and special events

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithApril 20, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Bard on the Beach

Early Music Vancouver revives le Grand Siècle with Plaisirs du Louvre

The concert by Ensemble Correspondances evokes the elegant musical era of 17th-century France

MUSICJanet SmithApril 20, 2022Partner Content, Early Music Vancouver

Legendary pianist Evgeny Kissin sounds off on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the uniting power of music

The internationally renowned artist shares thoughts on the war and on his love of performing in advance of his forthcoming Vancouver concert

Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards announce a "hiatus" after 2022 online ceremony

The society cites a lack of engagement and involvement by the theatre community on its juries, committees, and board

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithApril 20, 2022Jessie Awards, Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards

Free live and online screenings mark National Canadian Film Day for West Coast cinephiles

Indigenous movies in the spotlight as venues like VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque, and the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art host celebrations

SCREENJanet SmithApril 20, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

Sansei: The Storyteller looks at Japanese-Canadian internment with a light heart

Kunji Mark Ikeda’s multidisciplinary solo show draws on his family’s history

Celebrate International Dance Day this April 29 with The Dance Centre

Facility presents a full day of free events, both live and online

DANCEJanet SmithApril 19, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, The Dance Centre, SPRING

New Indigenous-owned FirstNationsGallery.com showcases jewellery designed by Indigenous artists of the Pacific Northwest

Founder John Velten wants to create the largest collection of its kind in North America by helping other Indigenous artists access tools, tech, and precious metals

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverApril 18, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Indigenous, jewellery

Glam metal of the '80s meets poetry at Mashed Poetics: Hairway to Heaven

New poems inspired by the likes of Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, and the Scorpions to be performed at this 2022 Verses Festival of Words highlight

FESTSStir VancouverApril 18, 2022SPRING, Verses, Joseph Dandurand, poetry, spoken word, Spring Arts Guide

SLCC to host awakening ceremony for Story Pole by Ed Archie NoiseCat, April 22

The Líl̓wat7úl (Lilwat) artist’s Sqātsza7 Tmicw — Father Land is 20-foot-tall carving of red and yellow cedar

Film review: All My Puny Sorrows stays true to novel's offbeat mix of wry laughter and darkness

Artfully restrained adaptation is an affecting meditation on depression, mortality, and family bonds

SCREENJanet SmithApril 16, 2022Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows, Homepage feature

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