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East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid reverses the underwater tale, and gives it a romantic twist

Ghazal Azarbad and Amanda Sum talk dolphin squeaks, dastardly villains, and the need to subvert the messages in the 1989 cartoon

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithNovember 17, 2022The Cultch, THE CULTCH|, East Van Panto, Holiday 2022, Homepage feature

Stir Q&A: Eastside Culture Crawl's Esther Rausenberg on coffee, the crow mascot, and streets full of arts lovers

The Eastside Art Society’s artistic and executive director describes the moment the fest starts as “surreal and exhilarating”

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's unapologetically personal and dreamlike Bardo opens at VIFF Centre November 18

A Mexican filmmaker is visited by a series of vivid dreams, by old friends, ghosts, and his own uneasy conscience

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 17, 2022Partner Content, VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival, VIFF Centre

In Aunties Sing: Music is Medicine, Sandy Scofield joins in sharing matriarchal wisdom

Métis artist’s moving new CD Red Earth celebrates resilience and mourns Indigenous losses, from Tina Fontaine to theatre artist Taran Kootenhayoo

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 17, 2022VIMHouse, Sandy Scofield, Vancouver Independent Music Centre

Vancouver's Lumière Festival brings performing arts to outdoor, public spaces

The re-imagined fest features everything from pop-up flamenco to Persian jazz

Theatre review: Jesus Christ Superstar revival puts focus on music over storytelling

Some energetic numbers and visually impressive design can’t make up for a show that feels rushed and compressed

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 17, 2022Broadway Across Canada

Textile artists weave innovative new visions at Eastside Culture Crawl

Blending technology, sustainability, and old hand traditions, lines by Loudly Insecure, FELT à la main with LOVE, and Nico Gruzling explore new frontiers in fibre art

ART & DESIGN, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 16, 2022Eastside Culture Crawl

Vancouver playwright Manami Hara tells diplomat hero Chiune Sugihara's life story in new ways

The late Japanese consul in Lithuania helped some 6,000 Jewish people flee Nazi-controlled Europe

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 16, 2022Firehall Arts Centre, Manami Hara, Jane Heyman, Japanese, Carmen Aguirre

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar bring soulful sounds to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

The powerhouse band will share tracks from its stunning new album, The Reckless One

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 16, 2022Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Vancouver's Dorothy Dittrich wins Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama

The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key, which premiered at the Arts Club in 2017, takes national prize

NEWS, READ, THEATREJanet SmithNovember 16, 2022G-G Awards, Governor General's Literary Awards

April Verch and Cody Walters bring century-old traditions alive at Kay Meek Arts Centre, November 24

The duo mixes banjo, guitar, and fiddle with understated vocal harmonies and energetic footwork

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 16, 2022Partner Content, Kay Meek Arts Centre, Kay Meek, folk

Focused on authenticity, Juilliard String Quartet comes to Vancouver

Quirkiness and emotion characterize the venerated ensemble’s concert program, with epic works by Beethoven and Widmann

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 16, 2022Friends of Chamber Music, Homepage feature, chamber music

Film reviews: European Union Film Festival travels from Helsinki karaoke lounges to an Austrian detention centre

Finland’s Karaoke Paradise, Poland’s I Never Cry, and Austria’s Fox in a Hole are standouts

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithNovember 15, 2022The Cinematheque, European Union Film Festival, Homepage feature

Celebrate Craft Beer Week with this Treasure Hunt brewed by the North Shore Culture Compass and Vancouver’s North Shore Tourism

Brewing North Shore Culture Treasure Hunt features 11 breweries and terrific prizes

CULINARYStir VancouverNovember 15, 2022Partner Content, North Van Arts

Eastside Culture Crawl: 8 East Vancouver places for food and drink along the way

Palestinian fare, sushi, Negronis, and craft beer are a few of the offerings within Crawling distance

Portfolio Prize awards five emerging Vancouver artists $6,000 each

The five recipients are Durrah Alsaif, Mathew Andreatta, Manuel Axel Strain, Rebecca Bair, and Bracken Hanuse Corlett

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithNovember 15, 2022Portfolio Prize

IndieFest's searing new opera Angel's Bone draws on years of consultation with community

Delving into the heartbreaking issue of child and youth exploitation, the show is one of several that are rethinking the creative process

FESTS, MUSIC, OPERAJanet SmithNovember 15, 2022IndieFest, re:Naissance Opera, re:Naissance opera

SFU Woodward's forges partnership with Turkish Film Festival

Latest episode of ArtScape podcast focuses on event that has screenings at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts November 19 and 20

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 15, 2022Partner Content, SFUW, SFU Woodward's, SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs

Through music and new media art, Montreal's Erin Gee aims to trigger that tingling feeling

“Wave-reforming mind technology” aims for healing Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, at Vancouver New Music’s Parallel 05

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 15, 2022Vancouver New Music, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC, Vancouver Civic Theatres

In We Deserve to Work, 15 co-creators aim to transform attitudes about employment for people with disabilities

Self-advocates created, researched, and perform in the new play

THEATREGail JohnsonNovember 14, 2022Massey Theatre, disability

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