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Little Chamber Music, Vancouver Bach Choir, musica intima, and brass players bring back Remembering Together, Apart, November 11

Singers and musicians play a simple phrase of remembrance together, then spread out to read veterans’ names aloud at Mountain View Cemetery

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022Vancouver Bach Choir, musica intima, Little Chamber Music, Remembrance Day

Hélène Grimaud Plays Brahms with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Featuring one of the finest pianists in the world, the concert is a VSO original

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 10, 2022Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Keithmas, Slow Hand Beer Company launch Keefs, A Keithmas Beer, December 1

Like the Keith Richards-themed Christmas party on December 17, the new brew raises funds for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Dance review: Persian poetry drives intense cross-cultural Chutzpah Festival offering

Alexis Fletcher and Arash Khakpour make a compelling duo, as All my being is a dark verse builds an atmospheric visual world

DANCE, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022Chutpah Festival, Alexis Fletcher, Arash Khakpour

Throe brings human frailty and struggle to Corporeal Imago’s atmospheric new aerial-dance hybrid

Cirque-trained, Vancouver-based Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes strive to create something deeper than spectacle

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022circus, Corporeal Imageo, DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, Homepage feature

Studio 58's Metamorphoses reimagines Roman myths for current times, November 17 to 24

Second show of the season to take place out in community, at Vancity Culture Lab

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 10, 2022Partner Content, Studio 68, Langara College

"Not your grandfather's Jewish comedy": stand-up comedian Joel Chasnoff smashes stereotypes

The artist who has opened for Jon Stewart and fought in the Israeli Army comes to Vancouver for Chutzpah! Festival

COMEDY, FESTSGail JohnsonNovember 10, 2022Chutzpah! Festival, comedy, Jewish

The Frontliners looks at the challenges of helping refugees amid Vancouver's housing crisis, November 10 to 13

Zahida Rahemtulla’s play was winner of 2022’s Vancouver Fringe Festival’s New Play in Development Prize

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 Eastside Culture Crawl artists using technology and digital tools to catch

Among the highlights of the 2022 festival of visual arts, design, and craft are works by tech-savvy creatives

Dream Marrow explores the power of dreaming, at Burnaby Art Gallery starting November 12

Contemporary artists Hana Amani and Audie Murray work across mediums to explore these abstracted spaces

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverNovember 9, 2022Partner Content, Burnaby Arts Gallery

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announces celebration of life for Bramwell Tovey, January 15

The afternoon concert features Christopher Gaze, Tania Miller, James Ehnes, and Tracy Dahl

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithNovember 9, 2022VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Bramwell Tovey

Circle Craft Christmas Market launches gift season, with 250 artists from coast to coast, to November 13

Vintage map and used-book artworks; cocktail smoker kits; owl ceramics; and a whale cribbage board

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithNovember 9, 2022Holiday 2022

Dance review: Alexander Ekman's Play proves to be a gorgeous delight

Created for the Paris Opera Ballet, the work is having its Canadian streaming premiere

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 9, 2022DanceHouse, Digidance, Paris Opera Ballet, ballet, dance, Homepage feature

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

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