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Vancouver filmmaker gets to know her late brother through the making of back home, premiering at VIFF

The documentary’s writer-director Nisha Platzer was 11 years old when her older brother took his own life

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonSeptember 27, 2022VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, Joella Cabalu, Nisha Platzer, documentary

Whistler Writers Fest celebrates the literary arts in full fall colour

Taking place October 13 to 16, the 21st annual event hosts Canada’s best authors for readings, workshops, mingling, walks, and more

READJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2022Tourism Whistler

Elektra gives new musical life to the language of nature in The Lost Words: A Spell Book

Elektra Women’s Choir’s world premiere celebrates words related to the natural world that the 2007 Oxford Junior Dictionary left out in favour of tech terms

MUSICGail JohnsonSeptember 27, 2022Elektra Women's Choir, Katerina Gimon, Don Macdonald, Morna Edmundson

Dance artist Jeanette Kotowich's Kisiskâciwan journeys to a sacred valley, and into her own identity

Choreographer’s profound new solo premieres on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

DANCEJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Indigenous

Early Music Vancouver celebrates classical-era musician Luigi Boccherini in Boccheriniana

The performance by members of Accademia de’ Dissonanti also features works by European composers of the same era, including Mozart and Bach

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2022Early Music Vancouver

Romi Kim, aka House of Rice drag artist SKIM, makes SUM gallery debut, October 13 to December 8

sticky extensions is an interdisciplinary show in collaboration with Queer Based Media

WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2022SUM Gallery, drag, Romi Kim, SKIM, Queer Based Media, queer

Austria's Ensemble Castor joins Juno-winning soprano Hélène Brunet in The Other Seasons, September 30

Early Music Vancouver offers an alternative to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with some of the legendary composer’s other brilliant works

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2022EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER

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

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