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A Cultural Celebration MENAT Style! mixes together storytelling, music, and food

Medusa Theatre team created monologues out of real memories from immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey

THEATRE, CULTUREJanet SmithMay 18, 2022Rumble Theatre, RUMBLE THEATRE, Medusa Theatre, MENAT, SPRING

Loss of small-town landmarks gives rise to Québécois playwright André Gélineau's S’effondrent les vidéoclubs

With humour and colourful characters, new play explores the parallels between a dying lake, a doomed videostore, and solitudes

THEATREGail JohnsonMay 18, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Theatre la Seizieme, French

Impermanent Flower integrates Butoh with storytelling and illustration, at New Works May 27 and 28

Inspired by children’s pop-up books, the production features Salome Nieto and Adam Farnsworth

DANCEJanet SmithMay 17, 2022New Works

Arts Umbrella Dance Company performs season finale, MOVE, at Vancouver Playhouse May 19 to 21

The 90-member pre-professional repertory troupe to offer works by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, and more before touring Europe

WHAT'S STIRRING, DANCEJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Arts Umbrella, Crystal Pit

Vancouver artist Jin-me Yoon wins 2022 Scotiabank Photography Award

Since the ‘90s, Yoon’s work has examined gender, sexuality, culture, ethnicity, citizenship, nationhood, and more

NEWS, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, photography, Jin-Me Yoon

The Vancouver Chamber Choir celebrates the music of China, Taiwan, and Singapore in BRIGHT MOON 明月

Special guests include Singaporean Vancouverite conductor Jennifer Tham and Vancouver Chinese Choir Association 溫哥華國韻合唱團, under the direction of Ling Lu

MUSICJanet SmithMay 17, 2022Vancouver Chamber Choir

Mozart and her Brother shares untold story of the legend's sibling, at the Anvil May 20 and 21

The Genuisettes Collective introduces audiences to another musical genius, Maria Anna Mozart

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERAJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, The Anvil Centre

Youth-driven IGNITE! 2022 Festival hits the Cultch, May 18 to 22

Highlights include new one-act plays and a VR stand

WHAT'S STIRRING, FESTSJanet SmithMay 17, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, IGNITE!, The Cultch

Joe Laughlin molds new inspiration out of clay, glass, and more in DANCE:CRAFT

Joe Ink choreographer collaborated with five artisans in a project five years in the making

DANCEJanet SmithMay 16, 2022Joe Ink, SFU Woodward's, Joe Laughlin, SPRING

Sugar artist Lucie Radcliffe turns cookies into masterpieces

The founder of Lucie Bakes is a graphic designer by trade

CULINARYStir VancouverMay 16, 2022CULINARY

Early Music Vancouver presents Kayhan Kalhor and Kiya Tabassian celebrate the delicate sounds of the setar, June 3 and 4

Kalhor cofounded Masters of Persian Music and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble; Tabassian cofounded the Ensemble Constantinople.

MUSICJanet SmithMay 16, 2022Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, SPRNG

Celebrating Asian Excellence poster campaign marks Asian Heritage Month with message of positivity and promise

Boca del Lupo’s The Fishbowl on Granville Island and theatres across Canada display the new, rallying words and faces

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithMay 16, 2022Boca del Lupo, BOCA DEL LUPO, Sherry J Yoon, Asian Heritage Month

The Biting School, Nancy Lee 李南屏, and Mohammadreza Akrami are Here For Now, May 20 and 21

Volume 3 of the cross-disciplinary art event features experimental theatre, sound, and contemporary dance

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERA, THEATRE, DANCEJanet SmithMay 16, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, The Biting School, Nancy Lee

Elektra to release “Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water)”, a collaborative project with First Nations

Two years in the making, the new video was conceived by co-curator and ethnomusicologist Jeanette Gallant

MUSICJanet SmithMay 16, 2022Partner Content, Elektra Women's Choir

Hello World, Love in the Time of Fentanyl, and more winners announced for 2022 DOXA Festival

Galb’Echaouf and Children of the Mist also earn juried prizes

SCREEN, NEWSJanet SmithMay 15, 2022DOXA

S'all good as VIFF picks the brain of Better Call Saul co-creator Peter Gould, online May 17

The writer for all five seasons of Breaking Bad now works as co-creator, showrunner, and executive producer for Saul Goodman’s final journey

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 15, 2022VIFF

Dance review: Sci-fi replicants and glowing rods, as striking imagery defines Ballet BC season-closer What If

An evening of all-new works from Dorotea Saykaly, Felix Landerer, and Vancouver’s own Out. Innerspace takes risks that pay off

DANCEJanet SmithMay 14, 2022Ballet BC, BALLET BC, SPRING

Dance review: Ziyian Kwan's Rebel Grace joyously says No to oppression, Yes to representation

Glitter shines through in Dumb Instrument Dance’s new work

DANCEGail JohnsonMay 14, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Ziyian Kwan, Dumb Instrument Dance

Opera Mariposa helps people with chronic illnesses via online benefit, to June 1

Canada’s first disability-run opera company supports International Awareness Month for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Fibromyalgia

WHAT'S STIRRING, OPERAJanet SmithMay 13, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Opera Mariposa

Music review: The Leonids explore vast sonic territory in concert with Chor Leoni

The new ensemble defies expectations of what lower-tone male singers can do

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 13, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Chor Leoni, The Leonids

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