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Vancouver mail-art and abstract pioneer Michael Morris passes away at 80

Senior artist also cofounded the artist-run Western Front

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithNovember 21, 2022Michael Morris, obituary, Western Front

Anonymous Art Show returns for 19th year, November 25 to December 17

The artists behind hundreds of original 8” x 8” works are only revealed once a purchase is made at this fundraiser for North Van Arts

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGN, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithNovember 21, 2022North Van Arts, Anonymous Art Show, Holiday 2022

Soul singer Jarvis Church performs live at the Shadbolt

The multifaceted singer-songwriter and producer got his start fronting The Philosopher Kings

MUSICStir VancouverNovember 20, 2022Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Thomas Dunford's lute is his passport to good times, in bars, parks, and on the concert stage

Solo show at Early Music Vancouver features nine short works by his beloved John Dowland, and Bach’s magisterial Suite in G Major

MUSICJanet SmithNovember 20, 2022Early Music Vancouver, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Homepage feature

Pi Provocateurs presents Szepty/Whispers

In the new play, a neurodivergent artist probes their family’s silence around mental health

THEATREStir VancouverNovember 19, 2022Partner Content, Pi Theatre

Chef Ayelet Latovitch digs deep into Persian Jewish food

Appearing virtually live from Israel at the 2022 Chutzpah! Festival, the culinary artist is inspired by her feminist grandmother

FESTS, CULINARYGail JohnsonNovember 19, 2022Chutzpah! Festival, Jewish, Persian, food

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams follows Ferragamo's unlikely rise to luxury footwear king, at VIFF Centre to November 28

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino traces life from poor Italian village to Hollywood

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithNovember 19, 2022VIFF, VIFF Centre

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

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