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Stir Q&A: Plastic pollution and human toxicity swirl in Kinesis somatheatro's new Noxious

Choreographer Paras Terezakis talks Pacific gyres, microplastics, extremism, and the open dialogue that can happen in a studio

From Jaffa to Vancouver, Israeli-Persian artist Liraz sings of women's freedom

The groundbreaking singer-songwriter performs at the 2022 Chutzpah! Festival, echoing Iran’s rallying cry of Woman, Life, Freedom

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 14, 2022Chutzpah! Festival, Liraz, Persian, Jewish, Israeli, live music, Homepage feature

Theatre review: Un.Deux.Trois grapples with complex questions of Franco-Canadian identity

Playwright Mani Soleymanlou’s epic trilogy unpeels layer after layer in the quest for self-understanding

THEATREJanet SmithNovember 13, 2022Theatre la Seizieme, Mani Soleymanlou, theatre review, review

Theatre review: The Cave's cabaret-jazz songs are the highlight of climate-minded creature feature

Performers hand in compelling vocal turns as animals in a show that sometimes gets heavy handed with humans

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 13, 2022The Cultch

Friends of Chamber Music presents farewell concert by the Emerson String Quartet

The renowned ensemble will be retiring at the end of the season

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 12, 2022Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Stir Pairing: Experiencing Italy in Vancouver

This edition features Eastside Culture Crawl artist Amy Slosky; MICHELIN-Recommended restaurant Ask for Luigi; and a Chianti Classico

The Cultch unveils full live winter-spring season, starting with Ronnie Burkett and new Corey Payette musical Starwalker

Australia’s popular Circa troupe and New Zealand’s Indian Ink Theatre Company will also hit Vancouver

NEWS, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 10, 2022THE CULTCH, The Cultch

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

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