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Pipa virtuoso Wu Man brings the instrument's power and possibilities to Vancouver

The revered musician performs with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tong Chen in Image China: East/West Symphonic Concert

MUSICGail JohnsonNovember 19, 2022Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, pipa, Wu Man, Tong Chen, Chinese

Coastal Jazz offers a concert of sonic exploration via Ken Vandermark and Not for Proper

Alvaro Rojas’s Music for 22 opens the highly anticipated show at The Ironworks

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 18, 2022Partner Content, Coastal Jazz

Theatre review: The Arts Club's Sound of Music sees a lavish remount, with Chelsea Rose making a mesmerizing Maria

Superb singing carries a show that is polished to the last detail

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverNovember 18, 2022Homepage feature, Arts Club Theatre, Holiday 2022, Feature 1

Dance review: Through emotion and aerial movement, Throe throbs with a sense of yearning

Performance company Corporeal Imago’s Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes bring a fresh new choreographic language to Vancouver with their new ensemble piece

DANCEGail JohnsonNovember 18, 2022Corporeal Imageo, Gabrielle Martin, Dance Centre, dance, review, dance review

Kyōdai brings together music and home videos from the Japanese Canadian community at the Fox Cabaret on December 3

Powell Street Festival and Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre present a show that’s a multisensory concert

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverNovember 18, 2022Partner Content, Powell Street Festival

Stir Pairing: France in Vancouver, via a curator's studio talk, new bistro food, and a cool red wine

This edition brings together the 2022 France/Canada Curatorial Residency Program, Gastown’s Jules Bistro, and Château Pesquie Ventoux Terrasses Rouge

Piano star Zlata Chochieva returns to Vancouver on the heels of two acclaimed albums, November 20

Vancouver Chopin Society presents the Russian-born, Berlin-based sensation amid a year of world touring

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 17, 2022Vancouver Chopin Society

Chor Leoni lifts spirits with song this holiday season

The acclaimed choir celebrates light, hope, and connection in Christmas with Chor Leoni

MUSIC, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverNovember 17, 2022Partner Content, Holiday 2022

Microphones and loopers, as the body becomes an Echo Chamber in Vanessa Goodman's newest work

The Action at a Distance artistic director has been busy creating while touring North America and the world

DANCEJanet SmithNovember 17, 2022Vanessa Goodman, Chutzpah! Festival, Action at a Distance

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