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Kokoro Dance performs with musicians Tony Wilson, Joe Williamson, and Kai Basanta, January 13

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi team up with jazz artists for the KW Production Studio show

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2023Kokoro Dance, Jay Hirabayashi

Arts Umbrella's Professional Training Program in Musical Theatre Performance hosts auditions January 28

Yearlong intensive instruction, coaching, and performance opportunities help build “triple threat” talents, for grades 8 to 12

THEATREStir VancouverJanuary 11, 2023Partner Content, Arts Umbrella, ARTS UMBRELLA

Vancouver violin virtuoso Cameron Wilson's BBC Trio plays jazz in concert, January 15

Standards and original compositions make up the program for the Kay Meek Arts Centre’s third show in its Jazz Violin Concert series

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2023Kay Meek Arts Centre, Cameron Wilson, jazz, violin

Dine Out Vancouver Festival 2023 announces 350+ participating restaurants

Reservations are now open; newcomers include Riley’s Fish + Steak, Gastronomy, The Farmhouse, VV Tapas Lounge, Delara, Monarca, and Nightshade, among others

CULINARY, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 11, 2023Dine Out Vancouver Festival, Vancouver food, Vancouver restaurants

Through circus, Sacre reinvents Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Australian contemporary-circus company Circa turns the ground-breaking work on its head

DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 10, 2023DanceHouse, The Cultch, circus, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Early Music Vancouver presents Grammy-nominated countertenor Reginald Mobley on February 3

The artist known for his social activism will perform Purcell’s “Raise, raise the voice”

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 10, 2023Partner Content, EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER, Early Music Vancouver

Dance Victoria announces 2023 Chrystal Dance Prize for Julia Taffe, Shion Skye Carter, and Amber Downie-Black

Annual award supports work that collaborates on an international level

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2023Dance Victoria, Aeriosa, Julia Taffe, Shion Skye Carter, Chrystal Dance Prize

Chan Centre EXP presents Juno-nominated The Weather Station featuring UBC Contemporary Players

Tamara Lindeman’s fast-rising experimental folk band performs in concert copresented by UBC Centre for Climate Justice

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 9, 2023Partner Content, Chan Centre

Audain Art Museum chills out with SNOWGA + SOUND, January 13

Whistler arts venue hosts a yoga class and soundbath in support of Protect Our Winters Canada

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 9, 2023Audain Art Museum, Whistler

Dancehouse's Digidance 2022-23 season closes with Batsheva Dance Company, online January 9 to 29

Ohad Naharin seeks out new ways to create and experience dance

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 8, 2023Partner Content, DanceHouse, DANCEHOUSE, Digidance

Vancouver choreographer Joshua Beamish explores fake news in world premiere of Source Amnesia, January 13 and 14

Five local contemporary dancers probe misinformation and malfunctioning memory through the kinetic movement of MOVETHECOMPANY’s artistic director

Janet SmithJanuary 8, 2023Joshua Beamish, Company 605, contemporary dance

Vancouver Chamber Choir offers fully immersive audio-visual experience in UNDER THE NORTH STAR

The one-of-a-kind concert takes place at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre and features 360-degree projections of the Earth, sky, galaxies, and stars

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 6, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Elaine Ávila’s Fado: The Saddest Music in the World returns to the Vancouver stage

Part musical, part theatre piece, Fado explores identity through the hauntingly moving music of Portugal

THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 6, 2023Firehall Arts Centre, Puente Theatre, Elaine Avilas, Donna Spencer, Portuguese, fado

Hiro Kanagawa adapts a large-scale staging of Mark Sakamoto's moving memoir Forgiveness

Artful animation, scores of costumes help move between Japanese prison camp and internment trauma during World War II

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 6, 2023Homepage feature, Arts Club Theatre, Hiro Kanagawa

PuSh Festival, Music on Main present Joby Burgess' “A Percussionist’s Songbook”

The genre-defying artist offers an electrifying performance of his new album

MUSIC, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 5, 2023Partner Content

Future Arts Network launches publishing mentorship workshop for BIPOC women and others of marginalized genders

Applications due January 9 for program aimed at breaking into the industry and arts leadership

NEWS, READJanet SmithJanuary 5, 2023BIPOC, Future Arts Network

With world premiere of Instantaneous Blue, Mitch and Murray Productions celebrates 10th anniversary, to January 22

Playwright Aaron Craven’s semi-autobiographical portrait of a family’s struggle with dementia is the company’s first original Canadian work

KDocsFF tickets go on sale January 5, with 25 social-justice documentaries on offer

Festival runs February 22 to 26 at VIFF Centre for its biggest festival yet

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithJanuary 5, 2023KDocsFF, KDOCS, VIFF Centre

The Polygon Gallery announces large-scale commissioned sculpture by Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe) artist Rebecca Belmore

Hacer Memoria will be installed along the exterior of The Polygon Gallery

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 4, 2023The Polygon Gallery, Indigenous

The 38th Annual JCC Jewish Book Festival announces 2023 lineup

Key themes include mental health, diversity of Jewish communities, and political reality in literature

FESTS, READJanet SmithJanuary 4, 2023JCCGV, Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival

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