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Dreams of belugas and orcas give rise to Songs for a Lost Pod

Leah Abramson’s nine-song cycle has its world premiere in Vancouver

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 20, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Music on Main

Mashing forms and exploring identity, as rEvolver Festival returns with live performances

Gender? I Hardly Know Them mixes sketch comedy and true monologues to spread “Prairie queer joy”

COMEDY, THEATREJanet SmithMay 20, 2022Upintheair Theatre, rEvolver Festival, Homepage feature

The Vancouver Chopin Society welcomes back acclaimed pianist Eric Lu, May 22

The young musician is in demand around the world as a recitalist and concerto soloist

MUSICJanet SmithMay 20, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Vancouver Chopin Society

Film review: Vortex's radical act of cinema adds up to a devastating look at mortality

Using split screens and long takes, auteur Gaspar Noé takes viewers on an uncompromising trip to an elderly couple’s agonizing end

SCREENJanet SmithMay 20, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

North Van Arts celebrates nature in spring and summer exhibitions, events

Programming highlights include Turning Trash Into Treasure and Arts in the Garden

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 20, 2022North Van Arts, SUMMER

Dance review: Co.ERASGA's Passages of Rhythms is a cross-cultural conversation

Fusion of duets features bharatanatyam, flamenco, vocalization, and contemporary dance

Film review: Mau takes a brisk, style-savvy, but revelatory look at Canadian design maverick

Fittingly fuelled by block text and imagery, documentary also digs into Bruce Mau’s unlikely beginnings for meaning

ART & DESIGN, SCREENJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Bruce Mau, VIFF

Ballets Jazz Montréal to bring Dance Me—Music by Leonard Cohen to Vancouver on August 30

The late artist had approved the work choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Ihsan Rustem

DANCEJanet SmithMay 19, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide

Pi Theatre presentation of This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear asks friends and strangers to read together out loud

Writer-performer David Gagnon Walker leads a journey of worry and wonder as part of Pi Provocateur Series

THEATREJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Pi Theatre, Pi Provocateurs

Hamilton arrives at Vancouver's Queen E Theatre, May 24 to June 29

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking blockbuster musical won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 19, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Broadway Across Canada, Hamilton

Standing up against stereotyping, artists celebrate Asian Heritage Month through music and storytelling

Musicians push back against anti-Asian hate, speak out about their experiences of racism in live concert

MUSICStir VancouverMay 19, 2022Asian Heritage Month, Amanda Sum

Ballet BC unveils 2022-23 season that features Roy Assaf, Johan Inger, and more world premieres

Royal Winnipeg’s Nutcracker returns, Tero Saarinen Company coproduces, and Vancouver choreographer Shay Kuebler creates first work for the company

DANCEJanet SmithMay 19, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Jazz community mourns as Vancouver pianist and vibraphonist Paul Plimley dies at 69

Beloved musician was founder of the New Orchestra Workshop Society and was a memorable fixture at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Jazz, Jazz Fest

Arts Club Theatre Company announces cast and creative team for Kinky Boots

The blockbuster Broadway spectacular struts onto the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage June 9 to July 31

THEATREJanet SmithMay 19, 2022Partner Content, Arts Club Theatre, SUMMER

Just For Laughs Vancouver: L.A.-based comedian Atsuko Okatsuka says Hi

The Japanese-born stand-up artist was inspired by Margaret Cho

Vancouver New Music presents an evening of solo pipe organ with Sarah Davachi, Stefan Maier, and George Rahi

The concert features acoustic and augmented performances on Vancouver’s largest pipe organ

MUSICJanet SmithMay 18, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver New Music

Early Music Vancouver announces 2022 Vancouver Bach Festival—Scottish Baroque and Other Traditions

Sixth-annual fest hosts Scottish Baroque experts David McGuinness and David Greenberg as artists-in-residence

MUSICJanet SmithMay 18, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Early Music Vancouver, SUMMER

Bright colours and progressive ideas as Mississippi Masala sees a vivid new restoration, at The Cinematheque starting May 19

Mira Nair’s cult classic, with its spicy story of cross-cultural love and family, has aged well

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 18, 2022The Cinematheque

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

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