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Nk'Mip Cellars celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day and its 20th anniversary

Led by Justin Hall, one of the first Indigenous winemakers in the world, the Osoyoos Indian Band winery teams up with local Cree-Dene chef Heat Laliberte for the Three Sisters Dinner Kit

Buffy Sainte-Marie to launch Chan Centre's 2022-23 season, its 25th anniversary

Other featured performers include Oumou Sangaré, Fatoumata Diawara, Dinuk Wijeratne, and Sandeep Das

MUSICGail JohnsonJune 15, 2022Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Chan Centre

New voices bring fresh life to BC's jazz scene as TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival prepares to open

Trumpeter-bassist Feven Kidane, guitarist Alvaro Rojas, and multi-instrumentalist Andromeda Monk are part of a new generation putting their own spin on the form

Harlem Duet reframes Othello as a story of love, betrayal, and the Black experience

Marci T. House and Donald Sales star in the Bard on the Beach performance of Djanet Sears’s “rhapsodic blues tragedy”

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJune 15, 2022Bard on the Beach, Black, Marci T House, Donald Sales, SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide

Finnish dance duo discovers the human complexity of simplicity in The Days

Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen got their wish for a more intimate piece that works as a metaphor for a life lived

DANCEJanet SmithJune 15, 2022DANCE CENTRE, BC Movement Arts Society, Dance Centre

R&B vocal artists Adria Kain and Janette King sing of queer love

The musicians perform locally through a Queer Arts Festival and TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival co-presentation

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival's Ironworks Innovation Series spotlights eclectic array of collaborations

Darius Jones and Strings, Like the Mind, and CANABRAVA NOW bring together local and visiting talents

MUSICJanet SmithJune 15, 2022Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, JAZZ FEST 2022

Saxophone great Darius Jones nurtures string connections on the West Coast

At the jazz fest, New York City artist dedicates The Vancouver Suite to violinists Josh and Jesse Zubot, cellist Peggy Lee, and bassist James Meger

Vancouver poet Tolu Oloruntoba wins 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize

Judges describe writer’s debut collection, The Junta of Happenstance, as “dazzling”

NEWS, READGail JohnsonJune 15, 2022Tolu Oloruntoba, Griffin Poetry Prize

A Midsummer Night's Dream kicks off Bard on the Beach's comeback, to September 24

Fairies, talking trees, and creepy goblins all show up in the production directed by Scott Bellis

THEATRE, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJune 14, 2022Bard on the Beach, SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide

Girl power, fight sequences fuel Kill the Ripper, at the Rio

The Geekenders’ latest is a Victorian-era revenge fantasy

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREGail JohnsonJune 14, 2022Geekenders, SUMMER

Halifax’s 2b theatre company returns to Vancouver with hit show Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

Genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan and Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch tell a true story about the refugee experience

THEATREJanet SmithJune 14, 2022SFU Woodward's, Partner Content

South Korea's wildly fun ADG7 mashes shamanic sounds with funky beats to create the ultimate party band

Bowed zithers and bamboo flutes meet bright headgear and K-pop dance steps

MUSICJanet SmithJune 14, 2022Caravan World Rhythms, Rio Theatre

Ballet BC announces search for new executive director, forthcoming departure of John Clark

After a successful five-year tenure, Clark to remain in his position in the interim

DANCE, NEWSGail JohnsonJune 14, 2022Ballet BC

Presales today, and wider public release on Thursday for nine-gallery, immersive Beyond King Tut in Vancouver

Creative producer Mark Lach says the multimedia journey uses high-tech projection in new, storytelling ways

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJune 14, 2022Beyond King Tut

Through song and healing circles, Tla’amin Nation and PRISMA Festival make harmony together

Cyndi Pallen is among the Indigenous artists who will perform alongside the 80-member PRISMA Festival Orchestra in concert at the beach

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJune 14, 2022PRISMA Festival, Indigenous, SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Powell River

Michael Roberson talks health, ballroom, at SFU June 15 and 16

Following the international art consultant’s second Vancouver appearance is a vogue workshop by Ralph Escamillan (aka Posh Gvasalia Basquiat)

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJune 13, 2022SFU

Theatre review: Morag, You're a Long Time Deid innovates in ways that defy the term "musical"

Claire Love Wilson’s sublime voice drives a piece that turns Strathcona space into an old-timey Ceilidh hall

THEATREJanet SmithJune 13, 2022the frank theatre company, Touchstone Theatre

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces 2022 daily schedule

Highlights of the July 15 to 17 fest include Taj Mahal, The New Pornographers, and Five Alarm Funk

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithJune 13, 2022Vancouver Folk Music Festival, SUMMER

West Coast Modern Week unveils 2022 lineup

Panel discussions, film screenings, a poolside cocktail party, and the 16th annual West Coast Modern Home Tour are highlights

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