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The Lake / nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ marks a meeting of minds, cultures, and opera music, at DOXA

Film traces soprano Heather Pawsey’s long journey to decolonize a work about an Okanagan homesteader

MUSIC, OPERA, FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 5, 2022Vancouver Opera, Astrolabe Musik Theatre, SPRING, DOXA

Film reviews: Striking DOXA documentaries travel from the mouths of volcanoes to the hills of Vietnam and beyond

This year’s standouts include Fire of Love, Rewind & Play, and Children of the Mist

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 5, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, DOXA

Piano virtuoso Angela Cheng joins Vetta for all-Dvořák gala concert

Included in the program is a four-hands, one-piano piece Cheng will play with her husband, fellow Juilliard grad and Oberlin professor, Alvin Chow

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra closes season with Mahler's sweeping 5th Symphony

Taipei-born VSO principal violist Hung-Wei Huang also takes the spotlight on the program

MUSICJanet SmithMay 5, 2022VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

JQT celebrates the "queering" of Jewish Heritage Month, through May

Festivities during third annual JQT Heritage Month include Queer Jewish Languages and Bridging Water Rituals

Gavan Cheema weaves an immigrant story of family, labour, and addiction in new Himmat

Blending Punjabi and English, actor-playwright draws on stories revealed to her at her father’s hospital bed

THEATREJanet SmithMay 4, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH, Theatre Conspiracy, SPRING

Stop-motion puppetry to old travel footage, DOXA filmmakers play with format in poetic new ways

Terra Femme fashions its own pioneering archeology; 1970 looks back at the brutality of Cold War Poland; From the Balcony captures humanity from a unique perspective

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithMay 4, 2022DOXA

Vancouver Folk Music Festival returns for 2022 to Jericho Beach Park, July 15 to 17

Taj Majal, The New Pornographers, and Alejandro Escovedo among the musical acts on this summer’s lineupours)

NEWS, FESTSJanet SmithMay 4, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Vancouver Folk Music Festival, SUMMER

Elektra Women's Choir, Sitka String Quartet unite in dreamy Lake of Stars

The concert features world premieres and other compositions that celebrate nature and life

A Wake of Vultures' K Body and Mind returns in live multimedia form, May 4 to 7 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Sci-fi miniseries debuted in virtual form in 2020; now it hits the stage with a big screen, robotic choreography, and more

DANCEJanet SmithMay 3, 2022Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, A Wake of Vultures

Vetta Chamber Music features Canadian concert pianist Angela Cheng in all-Dvořák program

Gala concert is the organization’s grand finale of the season

MUSICJanet SmithMay 3, 2022Vetta Chamber Music, Partner Content

Scents and sounds of Bahamas, as Janice Lynn Mather writes short stories through the eyes of girls and young women

In her new Uncertain Kin, Vancouver-area-based author conjures island life through vivid memory

READJanet SmithMay 3, 2022Janice Lynn Mather

Festival of Israeli Culture holds Outdoor Sunday street party, May 15

Multi-ethnic celebration to feature music, dance, art, food, and more

Review: Vancouver Opera's HMS Pinafore floats a feminist update on Gilbert & Sullivan classic

A feel-good operetta has fun while trying to show the world has changed since women wore pinafores

MUSICJanet SmithMay 2, 2022Vancouver Opera

Tacomio among Vancouver restaurants celebrating Cinco de Mayo 2022

Food plays a major role in the May 5 festivities

CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 2, 2022SPRING, Cinco de Mayo, Vancouver restaurants

Arts Umbrella Dance Company's Season Finale: MOVE features leading choreographers, May 19 to 21

Launching a tour, the program includes works by artists including Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, and Fernando Hernando Magadan

DANCEJanet SmithMay 2, 2022Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

New York’s Emerson String Quartet brings some hope for humanity to Vancouver

The acclaimed ensemble performs a potent mixed program before its 2023 grand finale

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 2, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Friends of Chamber Music

Theatre review: The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare proves fiercely inspiring

Jonathan Christenson’s musical-theatre piece inspired by the only women to be given combat roles in World War II is bold, suspenseful

THEATREGail JohnsonApril 30, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, The Cultch, Catalyst Theatre, York Theatre

At DOXA, Love in the Time of Fentanyl shows the Downtown Eastside's humanity and heart

Colin Askey’s documentary takes viewers inside the Overdose Prevention Society

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonApril 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, DOXA

France's Ensemble Correspondances takes baroque court music to the people

Les Plaisirs du Louvre gives Early Music Vancouver audiences the French royal treatment

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