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Summer Arts Guide 2022: Vancouver arts festivals return full-on, with world beats, hands-on art, and outdoor cinema

Blazing with cultural diversity, celebrations are back in new form, with new locations

FESTS, CULTUREJanet SmithJune 13, 2022SUMMER, Summer Guide 2022, Homepage feature

Summer Arts Guide 2022: Cultural events to catch all across B.C.

From reggae in Victoria to an exhibition at the country’s highest art gallery, the arts are thriving province-wide

CULTURAL TOURISMGail JohnsonJune 13, 2022SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Summer Guide 2022

Summer Arts Guide 2022: Patio season in Vancouver

Options for open-air dining and imbibing have never been more plentiful

CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 13, 2022SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Summer Guide 2022

5X Pride brings 5X Festival to a celebratory close at the Beaumont Studios, June 17

Desi drag queen Jolene Sloan performs at the wrap-up party for the fest all about South Asian youth culture

FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJune 12, 20225X Festival, drag, South Asian, What's Stirring, SUMMER

Film reviews: Visually stunning journeys to far-away lands, with The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs and Neptune Frost

Folklore with a feminist twist in Himalayan India, and a mind-bending Afro-futurist trip through Burundi, at The Cinematheque

SCREENJanet SmithJune 11, 2022The Cinematheque

BC Movement Arts Society brings Finnish dancework The Days to North Island region

The piece sees its North American premiere on June 17 in Sointula’s historic Finnish hall

DANCEJanet SmithJune 11, 2022BC Movement Arts Society

From flame-torched sushi to Japanese groceries, ABURI Market broadens focus beyond food

The Japanese concept of washuko is at the heart of the new culinary destination

CULINARYGail JohnsonJune 10, 2022Seigo Nakamura, ABURI, sushi, Japanese food, West Vancouver

Vancouver artists Barbara Bourget, Jay Hirabayashi inducted into 2022 Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame

Other local talents to receive honours include David Y.H. Lui and the late Kay Armstrong

White Girls in Moccasins is a journey of Indigenous self-discovery

Nuu-chah-nulth actor Danica Charlie can relate to the lead character’s struggle for identity

Kinky Boots' dynamic stage duo talks high heels, quick changes, and being who you want to be

Stewart Adam McKensy and Sayer Roberts form a close bond as the drag queen and shoe-maker at the centre of Arts Club’s celebratory musical

THEATREJanet SmithJune 10, 2022Arts Club Theatre, Kinky Boots, Homepage feature, SUMMER

Vancouver Chopin Society announces glorious 2022-23 season to celebrate its 25th anniversary

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Zlata Chochieva, and Tomasz Ritter are among the esteemed visiting artists who will help mark the milestone

MUSICJanet SmithJune 10, 2022Vancouver Chopin Society, Partner Content

Ensemble Theatre Company's Summer Repertory Festival returns for 2022, with two powerful dramas

Marjorie Prime and Pass Over anchor the fest at ETC’s new home at Waterfront Theatre; film screenings added

From South Korea to Niger, musicians from around the globe to perform at TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Sweden’s Fire! and Switzerland’s Gerry Hemingway are among the acts and artists from all four corners of the map coming to the 2022 fest

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJune 9, 2022Jazz Fest, Coastal Jazz, Partner Content

Music as a positive force for peace drives international PRISMA Festival more than ever

Cofounder and artistic director Arthur Arnold, who recently stepped down from the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, has never felt stronger about musical connection

MUSIC, FESTSJanet SmithJune 9, 2022PRISMA Festival, SUMMER, Homepage feature

The sounds of ceramics at performance-installation Moon Bells / Symbiotic, June 12 at the Annex

Artist-musician Roxanne Nesbitt plays her dangling sound panels in a Vancouver New Music show that is part installation, part performance

MUSICJanet SmithJune 9, 2022Vancouver New Music, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Back for 2022, 5X Festival celebrates South Asian music, art, and culture

The fest elevating South Asian youth culture features everything from pop-up dance performances to a Pride party

FESTSJanet SmithJune 9, 20225X Festival, SUMMER

sacred skin explores the resurgence of Indigenous tattooing

Exhibition at 2022 Talking Stick Festival highlights seven artists who are revitalizing Indigenous culture through sacred body markings

Buddy Guy cancels appearance at 2022 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

The blues legend announces he’s unable to leave the U.S. due to a recent medical condition

Elektra sings Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water), an act of reconciliation through the arts

Conceived by ethnomusicologist Jeanette Gallant, the five-piece a cappella work is based on Squamish text gifted by Tsitsáyxemaat (Rebecca Duncan) and scored by Métis composer T. Patrick Carrabré