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Singapore-Vancouver conductor Jennifer Tham directs concert of overseas-Chinese music in Bright Moon

The Vancouver Chamber Choir performance features pieces by living composers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and beyond

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 27, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jennifer Tham, Chinese

Mere Phantoms: Shadows Without Borders explores memories and migration at Surrey Art Gallery

Interactive shadow installation draws from artists’ journeys to Athens and Istanbul, as well as visitors’ own cut-out creations

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 27, 2022Surrey Art Gallery, SPRING

Slow-food thinking fills The Modern Pantry

With her interest in culinary anthropology, chef and co-owner Kendall Parslow opens bakery-café’s new location in West Vancouver

CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 26, 2022SPRING, Slow food, Kendall Parslow, The Modern Pantry

Theatre review: Hamilton still feels artistically revolutionary as it finally hits Vancouver

Performances are strong across the board, and a lot of the singing sounds excitingly “street”

THEATREJanet SmithMay 26, 2022Hamilton

Vancouver New Music and Vancouver Soundwalk Collective host free Soundwalks on May 29 and June 5

Jorma Kujala gives a different take on Mount Pleasant’s colourful murals, while Jamie Dolinko leads a rour of West End sounds

MUSICJanet SmithMay 26, 2022SPRING, Vancouver New Music, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Theatre review: Humour offsets vulgarity in André Gélineau's S’effondrent les vidéoclubs

The Québécois playwright’s script travels from the day-to-day to the characters’ daydreams

Gail JohnsonMay 26, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide

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

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