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David Kaplan journeys through three centuries of piano, at Music on Main

Beethoven and Schumann interweave with the avant-garde, plus pieces the virtuoso commissioned during the pandemic

MUSICJanet SmithMay 25, 2022Music on Main, David Kaplan, SPRING, Spring Guide 2022, Homepage feature

Grammy-, Juno-winning musician James Ehnes performs Beethoven with Vancouver Symphony, June 2

The virtuoso plays a famed Stradivarius from 1715

The Vancouver Youth Choir sets their sights to the future in Brave New World

The award-winning ensemble’s season-end concert features brand-new commissions and Canadian premieres

MUSICJanet SmithMay 25, 2022Vancouver Youth Choir

In Yellow Fever, actor Hiro Kanagawa plays with hardboiled-detective tropes in 1970s Powell Street

The actor-playwright finds the comedy-mystery’s themes of racism all too timely

THEATREJanet SmithMay 25, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Hiro Kanagawa, SPRING, Spring Guide 2022

Stir Q&A: Duncan McCue shares the backstory of new CBC podcast, Kuper Island, about notorious residential school

The series hears from three survivors of the Catholic-run institution on Penelakut Island

New York City-based stand-up comedian Gavin Matts brings his never-give-up attitude to Just For Laughs Vancouver

The Vancouver-born artist will tape his All Things Comedy debut at the fest

COMEDY, FESTSStir VancouverMay 24, 2022Just For Laughs Vancouver, Gavin Matts, SPRING

Daily masterclasses, Limelight Concerts make PRISMA Festival a must for classical-music fans

Every instrument of the orchestra, from tuba to harp, has its day at centre-stage during the glorious annual Powell River fest

MUSICJanet SmithMay 24, 2022PRISMA Festival, Partner Content

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

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