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Butoh-inspired dance meets pop-up-book aesthetics in New Works' interdisciplinary Impermanent Flower, May 27 and 28

Salome Nieto and Adam Farnsworth join forces on an ode to impermanence

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 24, 2022New Works, SPRING

Three soloists take on Vancouver's largest pipe organ, May 28

Sarah Davachi, Stefan Maier, and George Rahi perform at Pacific Spirit United Church via Vancouver New Music

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithMay 24, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Vancouver New Music

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's large-scale new canvas hits auction block in support of residential-school awareness and survivors

Online auction runs May 25 to June 22 for Indian Residential School, Leaving the Shallow Graves and Going Home

Stir Cheat Sheet: Artists and acts to catch at Arts in the Garden

North Van Arts’ outdoor celebration of nature across the North Shore includes visual art, live music, dance performances, and more

Tilda Swinton and award-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul join forces for dreamlike Memoria

Winner of the Cannes 2021 Jury Prize opens at VIFF Centre’s Vancity Theatre May 27

SCREENJanet SmithMay 24, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, SPRING

Stir Cheat Sheet: 6 films to catch at The Cinematheque's retrospective on pioneering female filmmaker Tanaka Kinuyo

Famous as an actor, the postwar Japanese director crafted almost-forgotten films centred around strong women

SCREENJanet SmithMay 23, 2022The Cinematheque, Homepage feature

Inverso Productions' Lesley Telford draws on personal long-term care experience for new Gem-Like, at the Shadbolt May 25 to 28

Piece inspired by her mother’s journey shares a double bill with new film version of quantum-physics-inspired Spooky Action

Stir Pairing: Some of B.C.'s best in art, food, and wine to tease the coming of summer

This edition features ARTS 2022 at Surrey Art Gallery, BC Farmers’ Market Trail, and Blasted Church Vineyards

Dance review: Joe Ink's DANCE:CRAFT builds an atmospheric world of movement, imagery, and sound

Inspired by an array of surreal art objects, the interdisciplinary show also integrates striking lighting, projections, and music

DANCEJanet SmithMay 21, 2022Joe Ink, SFU Woodward's, Zubot, SPRING

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

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