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Audain Prize for Visual Art goes to leading conceptual artist Ian Wallace
Audain Prize for Visual Art goes to leading conceptual artist Ian Wallace

The $100,000 award recognizes an internationally celebrated talent who’s known for juxtaposing monochrome abstract painting and photography

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ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022Audain Prize, Ian Wallace
VIFF 2022 film reviews: Moving moments from the basketball court to the back country and beyond
VIFF 2022 film reviews: Moving moments from the basketball court to the back country and beyond

The Mountain is simply lovely, Golden Delicious tender and genuine; The Grizzlie Truth drives into untold history of Vancouver’s NBA team

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FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonSeptember 29, 2022VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF 2022, reviews
VICO celebrates 20 years with new compositions and a range of culture-crossing guests, October 1
VICO celebrates 20 years with new compositions and a range of culture-crossing guests, October 1

Ukrainian ensemble Zeellia and pipa player Qiu Xia He are just some of the special guests

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Mark Armanini
African Chamber Music: Zimbabwean and Ghanaian Traditions Reimagined With Strings
African Chamber Music: Zimbabwean and Ghanaian Traditions Reimagined With Strings

Time Will Tell Arts Society and Caravan World Rhythms co-present exciting new project at the Annex

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022Caravan World Rhythms, Time Will Tell Arts Society, African music
VIFF 2022 film review: Vancouver International Film Festival opener Bones of Crows as powerful as it is emotionally gutting
VIFF 2022 film review: Vancouver International Film Festival opener Bones of Crows as powerful as it is emotionally gutting

Dene/Métis writer, director, and producer Marie Clements’s feature tells a Cree woman’s harrowing life story, inspired by true events

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FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonSeptember 29, 2022VIFF 2022, Vancouver International Film Festival, Indigenous, Marie Clements
VIFF 2022: Riceboy Sleeps and Motherhood find new complexity in maternal bonds
VIFF 2022: Riceboy Sleeps and Motherhood find new complexity in maternal bonds

An immigrant mother’s moving struggle to raise her son in suburban Vancouver, and the fractured relationship between parent and child in Japan

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FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022VIFF, VIFF 2022
Italy's outstanding Quartetto di Cremona opens Friends of Chamber Music season, October 25
Italy's outstanding Quartetto di Cremona opens Friends of Chamber Music season, October 25

Barber, Prokofiev, and Ravel on the program for a string quartet acclaimed for its interpretive artistry

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022Friends of Chamber Music, Quartetto di Cremona
In present-day Metro Vancouver, the arts mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
In present-day Metro Vancouver, the arts mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

From theatre to dance to visual arts and beyond, events (some extending into October) magnify the meaning of Orange Shirt Day

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CULTURE, FESTSGail JohnsonSeptember 29, 2022National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous, Carousel, Dance Centre, Indigenous art
With jet-black humour, Benevolence explores love and self-loathing, to October 15
With jet-black humour, Benevolence explores love and self-loathing, to October 15

Produced in English by Ruby Slippers Theatre in partnership with Pacific Theatre, the play by Quebec’s Fanny Britt won the 2013 Governor General’s award for drama

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WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2022Pacific Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Quebecois
Volver (To Become/To Return) explores immigration through works by Latin American artists in Vancouver
Volver (To Become/To Return) explores immigration through works by Latin American artists in Vancouver

Bold new exhibition at North Van Arts unpacks personal experiences of artists who move between Canada and their country of origin

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ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2022North Van Arts
Vancouver mourns artist and long-time activist Sid Chow Tan
Vancouver mourns artist and long-time activist Sid Chow Tan

The beloved documentarian was a founding director of Head Tax Families Society of Canada

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NEWSJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2022Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, Sid Chow Tan, Terry Hunter
For those who like to squirm: 3 Vancouver International Film Festival picks to unsettle and astonish
For those who like to squirm: 3 Vancouver International Film Festival picks to unsettle and astonish

Holy Spider, Pacifiction, and Other Cannibals are guaranteed to work their way under your skin

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SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2022VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF 2022
Vancouver Writers Fest: Leslie Hurtig on the 35th annual event's learnings and laughs
Vancouver Writers Fest: Leslie Hurtig on the 35th annual event's learnings and laughs

Themes for 2022 include women’s reproductive rights, journalism today, and the meaning of home, says the festival’s artistic director

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FESTS, READGail JohnsonSeptember 27, 2022Vancouver Writers Fest, Leslie Hurtig, Omar El Akkad, Brent Butt, Bill Richardson, jaye simpson
Vancouver filmmaker gets to know her late brother through the making of back home, premiering at VIFF
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

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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
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

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READJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2022Tourism Whistler
Elektra gives new musical life to the language of nature in The Lost Words: A Spell Book
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

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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
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

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DANCEJanet SmithSeptember 27, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Indigenous
Early Music Vancouver celebrates classical-era musician Luigi Boccherini in Boccheriniana
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

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2022Early Music Vancouver
Romi Kim, aka House of Rice drag artist SKIM, makes SUM gallery debut, October 13 to December 8
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

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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
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

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MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 26, 2022EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER
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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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