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Patience pays off, as Dear Audrey director finds poignant humanity amid one couple's Alzheimer's journey

Respected NFB documentarian Martin Duckworth opened his rambling Montreal duplex to filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 16, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre, NFB, National Film Board

An interdisciplinary premiere and much more as Elektra Women's Choir announces 2022-23 program

Season launches with The Lost Words: A Spell Book, inspired by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s art-filled bestseller

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 15, 2022Elektra Women's Choir

Sunset Cinema inflates the big screen, with musicals and more, August 16 to 24

Sing 2 kicks off the fun at šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl’a7shn plaza this week, followed by Pitch Perfect, Spider Man: No Way Home, and In the Heights

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 15, 2022Vancouver Civic Theatres, SUMMER

Arts Umbrella's International Summer Dance Intensive is underway, gathering talents from across the globe

Acclaimed faculty join Arts Umbrella Dance’s artistic director Artemis Gordon, with repertoire by the likes of Johan Inger and Crystal Pite

DANCEJanet SmithAugust 15, 2022Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

B.C.'s CedarCreek Estate Winery named WineAlign's Winery of the Year for 2022

The Kelowna winery topped all 251 producers at Canada’s National Wine Awards; SpearHead Winery named Best Performing Small Winery of the Year

CULINARYGail JohnsonAugust 14, 2022BC wine, BC wineries, CedarCreek, SpearHead

Electronic musician Loscil to perform first live audiovisual concert in three years at Chan Centre EXP

The Vancouver-based composer and multimedia artist also known as Scott Morgan will be joined by New York musician Rafael Anton Irisarri

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 13, 2022Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Jarrett Martineau, Loscil

The Cinematheque's 50th anniversary party goes film noir, August 19 at Performance Works

It’s followed, on August 20, by screenings of dark classics Sunset Boulevard and Nightmare Alley

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 12, 2022The Cinematheque, SUMMER

Little Chamber Music's Friends and Family Concert Series brings serene new sounds to Mountain View Cemetery, August 12 to 14

Blueridge Chamber Music’s Schubertiade, a site-specific Jordan Nobles premiere, and much more

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 12, 2022Little Chamber Music, SUMMER

Stir Q&A: Emergence explores the struggle to come out in South Asian community, at Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Local documentary has travelled the world with its multigenerational message of “love is love”

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithAugust 12, 2022VQFF, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, SUMMER

Artists in prison share works in Locked Up, at Gallery Gachet to August 19

Subtitled The Soul Speaks Out, the exhibition features paintings, sculptures, soap carvings, poetry, and more, created by incarcerated people

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithAugust 12, 2022SUMMER, Gallery Gachet, prison

Theatre review: Romeo and Juliet leans into comedy over tragedy at Bard on the Beach

New production begins at the end, and puts a farcical new spin on the Nurse

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithAugust 11, 2022Bard on the Beach, SUMMER

Gateway Theatre’s Songs of Summer concerts return in-person to the great outdoors

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 11, 2022Partner Content, SUMMER

Book reviews: Two B.C. journalists pen powerful personal stories

Marsha Lederman’s Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed and Tara McGuire’s Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose are compelling, moving reads

READGail JohnsonAugust 11, 2022BC authors, books, BC books

The Big Bad Wolf mixes folklore and eco themes at Trout Lake, for the Vines Art Festival

The “immersive promenade” activates natural spaces during park-wide Our Tended Harvest celebration

FESTSJanet SmithAugust 10, 2022Vines Art Festival, SUMMER

Stir Cheat Sheet: 6 Vancouver comedy series to catch

Founded by TheatreSports alumni, The Comedy Department is one new local company offering live stand-up shows

COMEDYStir VancouverAugust 10, 2022Standup comedy, comedy, Comedy Here Often?, Yuk Yuk's, The Comedy Department

Guide My Way concert launches new album of songs from the long-postponed musical Sedna

A pandemic and flood damage haven’t dampened the Urban Ink crew’s hopes for the grand-scale, Inuit-inspired production

THEATRE, MUSICJanet SmithAugust 9, 2022Urban Ink Theatre, Sedna, Corey Payette, SUMMER

The Dance Centre announces 2022-23 season, with French electroacoustic innovator Franck Vigroux's Forêt, French-Malian Smaïl Kanouté, and more

Local premieres include Jeanette Kotowich’s Kisiskâciwan, Justine A Chambers and Laurie Young’s One hundred more, and Corporeal Imago’s Throe

DANCEJanet SmithAugust 9, 2022DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre

Artists draw from nature in In Reflection Across the Shore exhibit, at the Museum of Vancouver starting August 5

Show is part of ACSEA’s new Reflect Festival, connecting Taiwan and the Pacific Northwest

FESTSJanet SmithAugust 9, 2022TAIWANfest, SUMMER

The Empress of Vancouver pays tribute to a drag icon and this city's fight for queer rights

In Vancouver Queer Film Festival opener, a true nonconformist reflects on the fight for Pride and “homonormativity”

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithAugust 9, 2022Vancouver Queer Film Festival, LGBTQ2SAI, LGBtQ+, SUMMER

Chor Leoni announces 2022-23 season, live and online

The Juno-nominated men’s choir marks its 31st season with more than 15 world premieres

MUSICJanet SmithAugust 8, 2022Chor Leoni, VanMan Choral Summit, Eric Lichte, The Leonids, choir

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