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Squamish Constellation Festival weighs in with its own dire future after Vancouver Folk Music Festival cancellation

Cofounder says cost escalations and the lack of longer-term recovery funding have the concert event desperately looking for an investor “angel”

MUSIC, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 17, 2023Squamish Constellation Festival

Fast-rising cellist Julia Hagen joins Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for Haydn concerto, February 3 to 5

Program also features Elgar’s shimmering Enigma Variations

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2023Partner Content, VSO

Vancouver Folk Music Festival won’t return for 2023, as board moves to shut down 45-year-old event

Board cites increasing costs, greater competition for funding as it asks members to vote on dissolution of VFMF Society

NEWS, MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 17, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival, VFMF, Folk Festival

Massey Theatre presents Ballet Jörgen Canada’s Cinderella

The contemporary take on the classic fairy tale features innovative, dramatic sensibilities

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 17, 2023Partner Content, Massey Theatre

Vancouver Chamber Choir soars into the cosmos in Under the North Star, January 20

Ēriks Ešenvalds’s ode to the Northern Lights, Jordan Nobles’s multilingual names of stars join a stellar program at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2023Vancouver Chamber Choir

Film reviews: Michael Roemer retrospective explores broken family bonds, isolation, and civil-rights era

At The Cinematheque, Nothing But a Man and Vengeance Is Mine reveal an overlooked American master

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2023The Cinematheque

New Westminster’s Anvil Centre Theatre launches Outside/In, with free indoor performances and an outdoor street fest over six dates

The celebration of arts and culture features local and national artists

MUSIC, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 16, 2023Anvil Centre, New Westminster, Outside/In

Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival whisks up drinkable art, to February 14

From cherry and coconut to Parmigiano Reggiano, the fest offers 145 creative flavours for 2023

Music review: String star Hilary Hahn brings lyricism and clarity to Sibelius’s beloved Violin Concerto in D Minor with the VSO

Moving encore of Bach’s aching “Sarabande” was dedicated to the late Maestro Bramwell Tovey

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 15, 2023VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Hahn

Film review: Women Talking takes a stark yet deep look at the power of words

Strong performances as females in a religious colony find their voices amid sexual assaults

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2023Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Vancouver pastry chef Kiko Nakata pours whimsy into desserts at Archer

The culinary artist dishes on the creative process behind some of her most popular menu items

CULINARYGail JohnsonJanuary 13, 2023Vancouver food, Vancouver restaurants, culinary arts, pastry, pastry chef, Kiko Nakata, Archer

The Cinematheque presents major Guy Maddin retrospective

Series features all 12 feature-length films by the Canadian cult icon

SCREENStir VancouverJanuary 13, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

In hyper-stylized Door Mouse, Avan Jogia pays tribute to Vancouver's grittier side

Star’s directorial debut sets dark issues of drugs and missing women inside a neo-noir fairy tale

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2023Avan Jogia, VIFF, VIFF Centre

The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman sings through the darkness

Coming to Vancouver for the Chan Centre EXP series, the Juno-nominated artist finds things to celebrate amid so much societal nihilism

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 13, 2023Chan Centre, Chan Centre EXP, The Weather Station

Panjabi Garden exhibition celebrates Sikh artist Keerat Kaur’s mother tongue, opening January 21

The multimedia solo show at Surrey Art Gallery explores the richness of language and nature

3 shows that bend genre at the interdisciplinary PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Soliloquio, Selfie Concert, and The Seventh Fire are just some of the dynamic interdisciplinary productions at the 2023 fest, January 25 to February 5

FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 12, 2023Partner Content, PuSh Festival

Never Twenty One pushes beyond gun violence into Black identity and creativity

Presented by the PuSh fest and Dance Centre, Smaïl Kanouté’s intense dance work draws on his own quest to connect with Afro communities around the world

DANCEJanet SmithJanuary 12, 2023DANCE CENTRE, Dance Centre, PuSh Festival, Homepage feature