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Kayhan Kalhor and Kiya Tabassian bring setars into beautiful conversation at Early Music Vancouver

Through the ancient instrument’s “sweet, light” sounds, duo shares rich Iranian culture

Part game, part theatre piece, New Societies looks to audiences to build utopia

Re:Current Theatre’s interactive production gets viewers collaborating, competing, and dreaming

Spanish pianist Josefina Urraca joins Chutzpah! Kibbitz, online to June 12

Hosted by actor-comedian-writer Iris Bahr, the virtual event also features NYC flutist Guillermo Laporta

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithMay 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Chutzpah! Festival

Artist Pam Assi talks One with Nature at Surrey Art Gallery, June 2

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

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Surrey Art Gallery

Film review: Mystifying Memoria casts a strange spell

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest cinematic odyssey heightens sound to create a waking dream

SCREENJanet SmithMay 28, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Comedy review: Roy Wood Jr. keeps it real, deftly mixing comedy and cultural critique on subjects from gun violence to anti-vaxxers

At Just For Laughs Vancouver, The Daily Show star offered the perfect act to see after a devastating week in the news

COMEDY, FESTSJanet SmithMay 28, 2022Just For Laughs Vancouver

Theatre reviews: Body autonomy and a queer-love rock-pop concert, as rEvolver fest swings into motion

SEETHERED joins four women in a hospital waiting room, while Passenger Seat cranks up the fog machines

THEATREJanet SmithMay 27, 2022rEvolver Festival, Upintheair Theatre, Homepage feature

Teatret Gruppe 38 conjures delicate, low-tech magic at the Vancouver International Children's Festival

A Story of a House That Turned Into a Dot blends shadow puppetry, storytelling, and music in an intimate show that explores a big emotion

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

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