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Stir Pairing: Dragon Boat Festival edition
Stir Pairing: Dragon Boat Festival edition

With arts, culture, and food, there’s more to the Duan Wu Festival than paddling

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CULINARY, MUSIC, CULTUREGail JohnsonMay 31, 2022CULINARY, SUMMER
Documentary photographer Alexander Glyadyelov captures chaos and destruction in Ukraine
Documentary photographer Alexander Glyadyelov captures chaos and destruction in Ukraine

Alexander Glyadyelov: Gathering Darkness at the Polygon features images taken largely in March and April of 2022, as Russia’s war rages

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 30, 2022The Polygon Gallery
Reading List: New books, including Generation Dread, hone in on the climate crisis
Reading List: New books, including Generation Dread, hone in on the climate crisis

The team at Upstart & Crow shares shares titles that make us think and that offer inspiration

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READStir VancouverMay 30, 2022Read, Upstart & Crow, SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, climate change
Kayhan Kalhor and Kiya Tabassian bring setars into beautiful conversation at Early Music Vancouver
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

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 30, 2022EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver, Kayhan Kalhor, Kiya Tabassian, SPRING
Part game, part theatre piece, New Societies looks to audiences to build utopia
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

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THEATREGail JohnsonMay 30, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, RUMBLE THEATRE, Re:Current Theatre, Homepage feature
Spanish pianist Josefina Urraca joins Chutzpah! Kibbitz, online to June 12
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

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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
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

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WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 29, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Surrey Art Gallery
Film review: Mystifying Memoria casts a strange spell
Film review: Mystifying Memoria casts a strange spell

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

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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
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

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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
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

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 27, 2022rEvolver Festival, Upintheair Theatre, Homepage feature
Teatret Gruppe 38 conjures delicate, low-tech magic at the Vancouver International Children's Festival
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

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FESTS, THEATREJanet SmithMay 27, 2022Vancouver International Children's Festival, Teatret Gruppe 38, Homepage feature, SPRING
Singapore-Vancouver conductor Jennifer Tham directs concert of overseas-Chinese music in Bright Moon
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

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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
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

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 27, 2022Surrey Art Gallery, SPRING
Slow-food thinking fills The Modern Pantry
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

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CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 26, 2022SPRING, Slow food, Kendall Parslow, The Modern Pantry
Theatre review: Hamilton still feels artistically revolutionary as it finally hits Vancouver
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”

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THEATREJanet SmithMay 26, 2022Hamilton
Vancouver New Music and Vancouver Soundwalk Collective host free Soundwalks on May 29 and June 5
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

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 26, 2022SPRING, Vancouver New Music, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC
Theatre review: Humour offsets vulgarity in André Gélineau's S’effondrent les vidéoclubs
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

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Gail JohnsonMay 26, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide
David Kaplan journeys through three centuries of piano, at Music on Main
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

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

The virtuoso plays a famed Stradivarius from 1715

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WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICJanet SmithMay 25, 2022SPRING, Spring Arts Guide, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, James Ehnes
The Vancouver Youth Choir sets their sights to the future in Brave New World
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

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MUSICJanet SmithMay 25, 2022Vancouver Youth Choir
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