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Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival highlights Indigenous cultures, animation, and more, to August 14
Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival highlights Indigenous cultures, animation, and more, to August 14

Listen Before You Sing tells the true story of a mountain-tribe children’s choir, while Goddamned Asura explores Taiwan’s disillusioned youth

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SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithAugust 4, 2022Taiwan Film Festival, SUMMER
Metro Vancouver's love of Italian food grows fonder
Metro Vancouver's love of Italian food grows fonder

Isetta, Nox, Carlino, Fiorno, Acquafarina, and Impostori among the newer and notable restaurants focusing on the culinary arts of Italy

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CULINARYGail JohnsonAugust 3, 2022Vancouver food, Vancouver restaurants, Italian food
The Cinematheque celebrates 50 years in August, with the "nihilistic pleasures" of film noir
The Cinematheque celebrates 50 years in August, with the "nihilistic pleasures" of film noir

The cinema is welcoming audiences back in droves, with its mix of crisp restorations and the avant garde

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SCREENJanet SmithAugust 2, 2022The Cinematheque, SUMMER
Federation of Canadian Artists explores newness at Surrey Art Gallery, to October 16
Federation of Canadian Artists explores newness at Surrey Art Gallery, to October 16

Fresh Paint, a juried exhibition, features paintings by the group’s Fraser Valley Chapter

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ART & DESIGN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithAugust 1, 2022SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Surrey Art Gallery
Vancouver playwrights reimagine a heartbreaking Punjabi folk tale at Monsoon Festival
Vancouver playwrights reimagine a heartbreaking Punjabi folk tale at Monsoon Festival

In Dooja Ghar (The Other House)—A Mirza Sahiban Story, Andy Kalirai and Paneet Singh retell Pilu’s 17th-century tragic romance

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FESTS, THEATREStir VancouverAugust 1, 2022Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, SUMMER
Kessler Academy connects music by Polish and Ukrainian composers to tumult of today's world
Kessler Academy connects music by Polish and Ukrainian composers to tumult of today's world

Microcosmos Quartet and Music on Main program culminates in string-orchestra concert

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MUSICJanet SmithJuly 29, 2022Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN, SUMMER
Vines Art Festival focuses on land justice through the healing power of the arts
Vines Art Festival focuses on land justice through the healing power of the arts

Among the artists taking part in the fest’s We Return: Opening Ceremony are Tzo’kam, Manuel Axel Strain, and Randall Bear Barnetson

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FESTSGail JohnsonJuly 29, 2022SUMMER, Vines Art Festival
Music review: David Greenberg and David McGuinness deliver uplift at Vancouver Bach Festival
Music review: David Greenberg and David McGuinness deliver uplift at Vancouver Bach Festival

Joining the two in-demand artists was Kirsty Money, who made playing the nyckelharpa look easy

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FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonJuly 28, 2022SUMMER, Vancouver Bach Festival, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER
Chutzpah! PLUS announces two exciting events: Gili Yalo and Ne.Sans Opera & Dance’s Take This Waltz
Chutzpah! PLUS announces two exciting events: Gili Yalo and Ne.Sans Opera & Dance’s Take This Waltz

The extraordinary upcoming performances kick off Chutzpah!’s fall festival season

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FESTSJanet SmithJuly 28, 2022Chutzpah! Festival, Partner Content
Vancouver Street Dance Festival busts out big moves for 10th anniversary, July 30 at Robson Square
Vancouver Street Dance Festival busts out big moves for 10th anniversary, July 30 at Robson Square

Free celebration features battles in forms like house and waacking

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DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 28, 2022VSDF, SUMMER
Stir Pairing: A day at the museum plus 7 local wines to celebrate BC Day
Stir Pairing: A day at the museum plus 7 local wines to celebrate BC Day

Burnaby Village Museum hosts artists like sitar player Mohamed Assani; a look at few B.C. labels for summer toasting

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CULINARY, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJuly 27, 2022BC wine, SUMMER, BC Day, wine
Kūsou/空相's interactive audio-visual art installation melds calligraphy, music, and multimedia
Kūsou/空相's interactive audio-visual art installation melds calligraphy, music, and multimedia

Immersive Powell Street Festival experience plays with ideas of meaning, emptiness, and harmony

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ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithJuly 27, 2022Powell Street Festival, Anvil Centre, SUMMER
Music supervisors from Wandavision and Better Call Saul on deck for next VIFF Amp Music in Film Summit
Music supervisors from Wandavision and Better Call Saul on deck for next VIFF Amp Music in Film Summit

Application deadline extended to August 7 for annual program aimed at emerging composers and other artists, with emphasis on marginalized communities

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SCREEN, FESTS, NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithJuly 26, 2022VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival
Surrey Art Gallery announces Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep, a dreamlike video art installation
Surrey Art Gallery announces Zachery Cameron Longboy: Guardian of Sleep, a dreamlike video art installation

Longboy places his multiple identities as a white-adopted/Native gay/Two-Spirit/Sixties Scoop survivor at the centre of his multidisciplinary practice

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJuly 26, 2022SUMMER, Surrey Art Gallery, Partner Content
Queer as Funk, Dawn Pemberton, and DJ Slade celebrate Pride in concert, July 30
Queer as Funk, Dawn Pemberton, and DJ Slade celebrate Pride in concert, July 30

The event at the Commodore kicks off Vancouver’s first Pride celebration in two years

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MUSICJanet SmithJuly 26, 2022SUMMER, Pride Vancouver, Queer as Funk, Dawn Pemberton
Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 boffo Baroque concerts at the Vancouver Bach Festival
Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 boffo Baroque concerts at the Vancouver Bach Festival

Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Arkora, Contrasto Armonico, and much more as Early Music Vancouver puts a jig in the event’s step

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MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverJuly 26, 2022Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Vancouver Bach Festival, SUMMER
The Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver Independent Music Centre announce 2022 Music in the Courtyard
The Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver Independent Music Centre announce 2022 Music in the Courtyard

The Murray Porter Band, Serenata Mexicana, Don McGlashan, Eagle Ex Machina, and more play the third season of the open-air concert series

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MUSICJanet SmithJuly 25, 2022SUMMER, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver Independent Music Centre, Summer Arts Guide, concerts
Spain's Mucha Muchacha and more, as Vancouver International Flamenco Festival unveils lineup for September 3 to 25
Spain's Mucha Muchacha and more, as Vancouver International Flamenco Festival unveils lineup for September 3 to 25

Tickets now on sale for guests including Montreal’s Kara Miranda Lawrence and Calgary’s Anastassiia Alexander

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FESTS, DANCEJanet SmithJuly 25, 2022Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, flamenco
At Vancouver's Powell Street Festival, food is culture
At Vancouver's Powell Street Festival, food is culture

Spam musubi, matcha, and black-sesame chocolate are among the food and drink on offer at the celebration of Japanese-Canadian arts

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FESTS, CULINARYGail JohnsonJuly 25, 2022SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Powell Street Festival, Vancouver food
Verses Festival of Words reignites Sounds Like Fire, August 11
Verses Festival of Words reignites Sounds Like Fire, August 11

The Vancouver Poetry House event features performances by Kimmortal, Desirée Dawson, Francis Arevalo, and Hari Alluri

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FESTSJanet SmithJuly 24, 2022SUMMER, Summer Arts Guide, Verses, Kimmortal, Desiree
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Ballet BC has just announced that its artistic director Medhi Walerski will leave his role as of June 30, 2027, following the company’s big 40th-anniversary season.

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Set to a soundtrack of Broadway showtunes and Christmas songs, production features a standout performance from Victor Hunter as grand dame. 

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The Horseradish Theatre stages the quirky Slavic-accented comedy Number 13, December 18 to 21. 

When a Prime Minister’s assistant’s romantic hotel rendez-vous is interrupted, a host of hilariously chaotic misunderstandings ensue. 

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DanceHouse and The Cultch present an extraordinary work of circus/dance, the North American premiere of Recirquel’s otherworldly Paradisum. 

Directed and choreographed by Bence Vági, Paradisum explores the new possibilities of
 

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