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Juan Carmona flamenco quartet performs music from gorgeous new album at Kay Meek Arts Centre

Zyriab 6.7. is the flamenco-guitar master’s most ambitious release yet

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 8, 2022Partner Content, Kay Meek Arts Centre

The Cave takes the climate crisis to the cabaret, giving voice to the animals

Creators John Millard and Martha Ross reflect on the timeliness of a song cycle about wildlife hiding from a raging forest fire

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 8, 2022THE CULTCH, The Cultch, John Millard

SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs hosts Festival of Recorded Movement, November 18 to 26

Latest episode of ArtScape podcast features talk with Sophia Mai Wolfe, artistic director of F-O-R-M

FESTSStir VancouverNovember 8, 2022Partner Content, SFUW, SFU Woodward's

Piano virtuoso Jon Kimura Parker injects energy into Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety”

Upcoming performance with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra features the legendary composer’s Symphony No. 2, which is entirely unlike most other piano concertos

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 8, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Jon Kimura Paker, Homepage feature, piano

Theatre review: Mom's the Word: Talkin' Turkey delights with tales of Christmas calamities

The holiday-themed show is heartfelt and at times hilarious

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Gail JohnsonNovember 8, 2022Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre, Mom's the Word, Homepage feature, Holiday 2022

Move over, wine: Craft cider is the focus for food pairings at North Vancouver’s Windfall

There’s nothing like it in the region: Metro Vancouver’s first urban cidery launches new pop-up featuring a bold menu by chef Douglas Lee

CULINARYGail JohnsonNovember 7, 2022Windfall Cider, food pairings, cider

Dance review: Hourglass is a poignant exploration of passing time

Wooden chairs, breathtaking honesty, and Philip Glass’s 20 Piano Études

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022Chutzpah Festival, Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, Leslie Dala

The Sound of Music hits the Stanley, November 10 to December 24

“Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Edelweiss”: the hills are alive with the return of the popular musical to the Arts Club stage

Winners of 2022 Fulmer Award in First Nations Art, Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art + Design share exhibition, November 14 to 18

Haida artist Reg Davidson has received Fulmer’s Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievementworks

Dance review: Striking imagery as Shion Skye Carter crafts a reverie through paper and ink

Program features innovative work from the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award-winner, as well as soloist Juolin Lee

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Scotiabank Dance Centre

Theatre review: Seasoned actors bring raw honesty to their roles as teenagers in Seventeen

Senior artists teamed up with youth advisors for Western Gold Theatre’s impactful new piece

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 7, 2022Western Gold Theatre, theatre review, review

Vancouver Chopin Society presents pianist Zlata Chochieva in concert

Musicians and critics alike are running out of superlatives to describe the artistry of the spectacular young talent

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 7, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Chopin Society

Composer Frank Horvat writes from the heart in epic, bold Memories of Self-Isolation

Set to original poems, the musician’s cantata has its world premiere at Vancouver Bach Choir’s season-opening concert

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 7, 2022Vancouver Bach Choir, Leslie Dala, Frank Horvat

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Kinesis Dance somatheatro's Noxious, November 16 to 19

New dance work explores pollution of both Planet Earth and the mind

DANCEStir VancouverNovember 6, 2022Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Dance review: Throbbing beats, surging sexuality, and time stands still at Ballet BC's edgy OVERTURE/S season opener

Buzzy show wires directly into the European contemporary-dance vanguard

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 5, 2022BALLET BC, Ballet BC

Review: Beyond King Tut digs deep into the boy king's life and beyond through immersive effects

The exhibition coincides with the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb

Affect Flow celebrates the music of Montreal-based artist and composer Erin Gee, November 19 at the Annex

Vancouver New Music presents a show that brings together Gee with musica intima, pianist Andrea Wong, and a community ensemble

Vancouver’s MICHELIN-Recommended Bar Gobo launches Joyride pop-up, Sunday evenings

The new female-led event features wine, food, and musical picks by DJ Dimanche

Firehall Arts Centre, in association with Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, presents world premiere of Courage Now

Manami Hara’s new play tells the story of Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara, who helped over 6,000 Polish and Lithuanian Jews escape the Nazis in 1940

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 4, 2022Partner Content, Firehall Arts Centre

With Un.Deux.Trois, Mani Soleymanlou brings the largest production to date in the history of Franco-Canadian theatre to Vancouver

Thirty-six French-speaking performers take a deep dive into identity, probing what it means to be “Franco-Canadian”

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 4, 2022Theatre la Seizieme, Mani Soleymanlou, French, French theatre

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