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Punjabi Market Live celebrates with dance, music, poetry, food, and more, August 28

Think bhangra, jalebis, Sufi music, and more, as Monsoon Arts Festival takes to 49th and Main

FESTS, CULTUREJanet SmithAugust 22, 2022Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts, SUMMER

Arts and culture thrive along the Sea to Sky Corridor

Fall is an ideal time to discover rich and diverse cultural experiences in Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton

Vancouver singer Krystle Dos Santos brings soulful sounds to Songs of Summer

The two-time Western Canadian Music Award-winning artist will perform originals and Motown classics at Gateway Theatre’s open-air concert

MUSICGail JohnsonAugust 22, 2022SUMMER, Gateway Theatre, Krystle Dos Santos, Hey Viola, Summer Arts Guide

Theatre review: Come From Away is full of Newfoundlandish heart

Broadway Across Canada’s soulful touring production is inspired by real people’s experiences when planes were grounded in Gander on 9/11

Art and chaos in Durango City, with Santuario: A Punk Portrait of Paty Aguirre at Vancouver Latin American Film Festival

Fest artistic director Christian Sida dives into his first film, a raucous, mezcal-fuelled “docoficción” look at a maverick artist

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithAugust 18, 2022VLAFF, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, SUMMER

Chefs' Table Society of B.C. co-hosts Wild Salmon Celebration, August 27

The 2022 event features leading Vancouver culinary artists, live music, and Main Street Brewing beer

The Dance Deck Neuf brings multidisciplinary back-yard bliss to East Van, August 20 and 21 and 27 and 28

This year’s roster includes Ballet BC dancers, plus music, spoken-word, and poetry

DANCEJanet SmithAugust 16, 2022Dance Deck, Alexis Fletcher, SUMMER

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

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