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Stir Cheat Sheet: 8 highlights of the Winter Celebrations at Anvil Centre

Taiko drumming, Kwantlen First Nation storytelling, soul music, and more on the diverse 2022 program

FESTS, HOLIDAY22Gail JohnsonDecember 16, 2022Anvil Centre, Uzume Taiko, Joseph Dandurand

Arts Umbrella School of Dance announces 2023 International Auditions Tour

The showcases are aimed at those interested in attending this year’s summer intensive as well as post-secondary programs

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 15, 2022Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Stir 'Splainer: 5 holiday gift ideas from Downtown Vancouver art-vending machine

Art prints, egg-tart pins, embroidered patches, and more at Vancouver Vending Co. site in Bentall Centre

ART & DESIGN, HOLIDAY22Stir VancouverDecember 15, 2022Holiday 2022, Vancouver Vending Co.

Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre launches UNCEDED: S7ULH TEMÍXW / TI TMICWKÁLHA / OUR LAND – A Photographic Journey into Belonging

THE SLCC’s new exhibition opens on the winter solstice, December 21

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverDecember 15, 2022Partner Content, Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre

Out in the Ring takes deep dive into wrestling's queer history, streaming via Whistler Film Festival to January 2

Fascinating characters, and some dark times, as documentary travels from 1950s through WWE to today

SCREEN, FESTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 14, 2022Whistler Film Festival

Dance Victoria presents Out Innerspace Dance Theatre's Bygones on January 13, as part of Dance Days festival

Vancouver company’s optical illusions, cutting-edge choreography, and cinematic elements keep audience in suspense

DANCEStir VancouverDecember 14, 2022Partner Content, Dance Victoria, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre

Martha Sturdy explores climate change through striking wooden sculptures in All Fall Down, to December 17

The acclaimed artist’s exhibition has themes of extreme weather and the cycle of life

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverDecember 14, 2022West Vancouver Art Museum

Myfanwy MacLeod's new installation makes satirical, pop-culture nod to the holiday blues

Called Do You Hear What I Hear?, Vancouver artist’s repeating pattern covers upholstery and Christmas gifts in window exhibit at 1265 Howe Street

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithDecember 13, 2022Malaspina Printmakers, Myfanwy MacLeod

DanceHouse and Hawthorne Foundation launch $10,000 Louise Bentall Award for Emerging B.C. Choreographers

Biennial prize pays tribute to memory of late arts supporter, who passed away in 2017

DANCE, NEWSJanet SmithDecember 13, 2022DANCEHOUSE, DanceHouse, Louise Bentall

VIFF celebrates the season with Wes World, Best of 2022, December Docs

Tribute to Wes Anderson’s witty oeuvre kicks off with a party December 21

SCREENStir VancouverDecember 13, 2022Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre

Vancouver Chamber Choir offers wide-ranging concert at CHRISTMAS BY CANDELIGHT, December 16

The diverse program includes a moving piece by VCC composer-in-residence Matthew Whittall

MUSIC, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 13, 2022Vancouver Chamber Choir, Matthew Whittall, Holiday 2022, Christmas

Gift Guide: 14 cookbooks for the culture vultures and culinary artists on your list

Québécois, Persian, Palestinian, African, and Jewish cuisines are among those featured in standout 2022 titles; then there are some killer desserts

Pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa embraces the light and the dark for Music for the Winter Solstice

At contemplative Music on Main concert, the musician premieres new Rodney Sharman work dedicated to her late mother

HOLIDAY22, MUSICJanet SmithDecember 12, 2022Holiday 2022, Music on Main, MUSIC ON MAIN

Anne of Green Gables—The Musical star brings triple-threat skills to classic, at the Gateway December 15 to 31

Known for Riverdale appearances and other local musicals, Kyra Leroux takes on the role of the feisty Avonlea orphan

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 12, 2022Holiday 2022, Gateway Theatre

Sanjay Talwar takes multitasking to festive new heights, playing all of A Christmas Carol's characters

In solo feat, Shaw and Stratford veteran roots out the vivid details in Dickens’s original story

THEATRE, HOLIDAY22Janet SmithDecember 12, 2022FIREHALL, Firehall Arts Centre, Holiday 2022

The Necessity of Live Art: PuSh Festival's Gabrielle Martin on programming with need in mind

Director of programming cites empathy, communion, and renewed international presence at event, January 19 to February 5, 2023

THEATRE, FESTSStir VancouverDecember 12, 2022Partner Content, PuSh Festival

Soprano Arwen Myers relishes the joy in Early Music Vancouver's Festive Cantatas: J.S. Bach Magnificat

The in-demand Portland-based vocalist is among several guest artists performing Bach’s exuberant Magnificat and Cantata BWV 110 (Let Our Mouth be Full of Laughter)

Persian-Canadian poet Sareh Farmand explores topics of freedom and home in Iranian Poetry and Art in Canada, December 15

The Tehran-born author of Pistachios in my Pocket joins the book’s illustrator, Nazli Ataeeyeh, for a free discussion at West Vancouver Memorial Library

CULINARY, READJanet SmithDecember 12, 2022poetry, Persian, Iranian