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Music review: Treasures from Byzantine Manuscripts provides mesmerizing musical escape to centuries-old Greece

Haunting strings, nuanced drums resurrect rich textures from a distant world

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 25, 2022Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Constantinople

Winners of BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2022 announced

Audrey Thomas, Tara Borin, Ruth Ozeki, and Jordan Abel among the authors recognized at the 38th annual gala

READJanet SmithSeptember 25, 2022BC and Yukon Book Prizes, BC books, Jordan Abel

Film review: Eternal Spring uses graphic-novel animation to shed light on persecution in China

Documentary-thriller traces the real-life hijacking of a TV station by Falun Gong movement in 2002, and its brutal repercussions

SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 24, 2022Eternal Spring

Music review: Lushness and verve mark Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's season-opener with Stewart Goodyear

The acclaimed pianist is one of the few in the world who could drop in at the last minute to play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 so masterfully

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 24, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Music review, review, Stewart Goodyear, classical music

Stir Pairing: Got Craft markets X Foxtrot Vineyards' wine

A fall virtual foodie showcase has a taste of what’s in store at Got Craft’s forthcoming Craft Holiday Market; plus, making a Waltz out of Pinot Noir

CULINARY, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonSeptember 24, 2022CULINARY, wine, BC wine, BC wineries, wine pairing, Stir Pairing, Got Craft

Guitarist Gwenifer Raymond's singular fingerstyle playing draws on everything from pre-war blues to folk horror

Rising Welsh-born, Brighton-based artist’s playing manages to be manages to be both earthy and otherworldly

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 23, 2022BlueShore at CapU, Guitar

The Five Vengeances, a physical-theatre piece with comedy and kung-fu, opens the Shadbolt's season, September 27 to October 1

Affair of Honor brings 11 actors/fighters to the action-packed queer love story

THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2022Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Legendary drummer Stewart Copeland brings symphonic power to Police Deranged

Joining the VSO, the icon uses his opera and film composition knowhow to recast hits from The Police

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2022VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Stewart Copeland, The Police

Vancouver meets Italy in the lyrical and energetic Burrows/Morena Quartet, October 7 at BlueShore at CapU

The evening of intimate chamber jazz will take excursions into swinging groove territory

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 23, 2022BlueShore at CapU, jazz

Stir Cheat Sheet: 7 Metro Vancouver events to catch at BC Culture Days 2022

A collective mural, dance that interweaves textile art, and an outdoor art tour focused on decolonization are some of this year’s highlights

Pick of the Fringe rages on, to September 25

Vancouver Fringe Festival’s final push provides one more chance to catch audience favourites

FESTS, THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2022Vancouver Fringe Festival

Friends of Chamber Music subscriptions and tickets on sale for 75th anniversary season

Acclaimed ensembles include the return of Italy’s Cremona Quartet and a goodbye concert by the Emerson Quartet

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2022Friends of Chamber Music

Juno-winning pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin performs all-Chopin program, September 25

The concert launches the Vancouver Chopin Society’s 2022-23 season

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2022Vancouver Chopin Society, Vancouver Civic Theatres, piano

Firehall Arts Centre celebrates 40, welcoming audiences back to live theatre again

Long-time artistic producer Donna Spencer reflects on goals, like diversity, that have remained a priority, amid a new arts climate

THEATRE, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre

Reclaimed-spruce "speakers" feature in soundgarden – Hadden Park, September 24 and 25

Vancouver New Music artistic director Giorgio Magnanensi built the resonators in the site-specific sound installation

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 22, 2022VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver New Music, VNM

Local chef creates royally inspired food at Baan Lao Fine Thai Cuisine

From insects to riceberry to hand-pressed fresh tamarind, Nutcha Phanthoupheng brings the culinary artistry of royal Thai fare to Metro Vancouver

Kyriakos Kalaitzides sheds light on hidden musical treasures of the Byzantine world

His En Chordais joins Constantinople to play newly discovered, centuries-old works from the eastern Mediterranean, at Early Music Vancouver

MUSICStir VancouverSeptember 20, 2022EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver, EMV

Internationally renowned pianist Stewart Goodyear steps into VSO season-opening concert at the last minute

Originally scheduled pianist Khatia Buniatishvili unable to travel due to “unforeseen personal circumstances”

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 20, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Otto Tausk, Stewart Goodyear, piano

Tickets are on sale now for Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story by 2b theatre company starring Ben Caplan

The humorously dark folk tale woven together with a high-energy concert runs November 30 to December 4

THEATREJanet SmithSeptember 20, 2022Partner Content, SFU Woodward's

From Ethiopia to Israel to the world stage, singer-songwriter Gili Yalo defies categorization

The musician blends everything from traditional music of his native Ethiopia to funk to reggae in his genre-mashing sound

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 20, 2022Chutzpah! Festival, Chutzpah! PLUS, Gili Yalo

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