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Studio 58 opens season with Blue Stockings' story of Cambridge University's first female students, October 6 to 16

Jessica Swale’s play follows their late-19th-century struggle to earn the right to a degree

THEATREJanet SmithOctober 2, 2022Studio 59, Langara College

Stir Q&A: Director Chelsea McMullan discovers new ways to shoot dance for Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas, at VIFF 2022

New documentary goes inside the choreographer’s process, then plays out the celebrated National Ballet work in its entirety

SCREEN, DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithOctober 1, 2022VIFF 2022

Music review: Stewart Copeland and the VSO rock the Orpheum with Police Deranged

Making innovative use of the symphony, the drumming legend made sure everyone onstage and off had a blast

MUSICJanet SmithOctober 1, 2022VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, The Police, Stewart Copeland

Dance review: Nêhiyaw Métis artist Jeanette Kotowich brings intensity, joy to Kisiskâciwan

The big sky, golden fields, and deep river valley of the dancer-choreographer’s Prairie homeland inspire the new solo

DANCEGail JohnsonOctober 1, 2022The Dance Centre, Jeanette Kotowich, Indigenous, review, dance review

VIFF 2022: The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons illuminates elusive art-world rule-breaker

Animation, interviews, and archival footage bring to life the works that turn urban detritus into subversive, allegorical statements

SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 30, 2022VIFF, VIFF 2022

Peruvian-born Vancouver chef Ricardo Valverde pays tribute to his homeland at Suyo

From ceviche to causa, the Mount Pleasant restaurant puts a contemporary spin on comida Peruana

CULTURE, CULINARYGail JohnsonSeptember 30, 2022Vancouver food, Vancouver restaurants, Suyo, Ricardo Valverde, Max Curzon-Price

VIFF 2022: Film duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead take a wild and witty tour through paranormal and conspiracy lore with Something in the Dirt

The pair play two hapless Laurel Canyon neighbours in a crazy-making cosmic-horror flick born out of the pandemic and apocalyptic wildfires

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022VIFF, VIFF 2022, Vancouver International Film Festival

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

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

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

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

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

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022VICO, Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Mark Armanini

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

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

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

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

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

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022VIFF, VIFF 2022

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

MUSICJanet SmithSeptember 29, 2022Friends of Chamber Music, Quartetto di Cremona

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

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

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

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

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithSeptember 28, 2022North Van Arts

Vancouver mourns artist and long-time activist Sid Chow Tan

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

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

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

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

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

FESTS, READGail JohnsonSeptember 27, 2022Vancouver Writers Fest, Leslie Hurtig, Omar El Akkad, Brent Butt, Bill Richardson, jaye simpson

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