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Dance review: At PuSh Festival, Lontano + Instante put fresh new spin on circus arts

Vancouver audiences have never witnessed anything like the way the Cyr wheel turns in works by la Compagnie 7Bis from France

DANCE, FESTSGail JohnsonJanuary 27, 2023PuSh Festival, circus, review, dance review, reviews

UBC grad Simranpreet Anand wins The Polygon Gallery's Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize

Lens-based images that play on dhurries, spice, textiles, and pixellation earn $10,000 prize and a project with the gallery

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2023POLYGON GALLERY, The Polygon Gallery

At Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, interdisciplinary artist Émilie Monnet shares Indigenous cultural significance of the beaver

For the founder of Onishka Productions, who is of Anishinaabe-Algonquin and French heritage, the immersive Okinum started as a vivid dream

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonJanuary 26, 2023PuSh Festival, Indigenous, Emilie Monnet

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces it's delaying AGM to try to save event

After groundswell of support, board pauses motion to dissolve organization, pursuing options to revive 45-year-old summer tradition

NEWS, MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Folk Festival

Vancouver pastry chef Martha Naguiat-Ebro draws on dreaminess, Filipino culture for inspired desserts

Culinary artist creates unique dishes at Westin Bayshore and bakes ensaimada and more at Heritage Baking

New B.C. documentary Part of the Pack looks at the impacts of human contact with wolves

Those who succumb to the “call of the wild” may be further endangering animals already feeling the squeeze of urban development

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 26, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, wolves

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents world-renowned installation artist collaborating with local DJ for free dance party

The artist’s installation here features three, looping video portraits of herself incarnating the spirit of Nehanda, with music from nora chipaumire’s new opera

FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 26, 2023Partner Content, PuSh Festival

Audain Art Museum presents vast print exhibition of Dutch masters in The Collectors' Cosmos, to May 15

Opening January 28, The Meakins-McClaran Print Collection features more than 170 rarely seen works from the 16th and 17th centuries

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 26, 2023Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Curtis Collins, Dutch, prints

Vancouver's SUM gallery hosts Mexico City’s Salón Silicón’s Senos de Hombre, to March 25

The group exhibition explores queer identities, gender roles in Latin communities and beyond

WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonJanuary 26, 2023SUM Gallery, Queer Arts Festival, queer

Iranian-born local artists translate verse to the visual in Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree

Paintings by Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moinishirazi explore Persian culture, poetry, and history in new West Vancouver Art Museum exhibition

ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonJanuary 25, 2023West Vancouver Art Museum, Persian, visual art

In Haiti Betrayed, B.C. documentary filmmaker confronts impacts of Canada's foreign policy

Writer-director-producer Elaine Briere examines the role Canada played in the 2004 coup in the world’s first free Black republic, and much more

SCREENGail JohnsonJanuary 25, 2023documentary, VIFF Centre, Elaine Briere, Haiti

DanceHouse and Vancouver New Music team up to present Broken Chord

Featuring one dancer, four vocal soloists, and an onstage a cappella chorus, the epic work runs from February 23 to 25

DANCEStir VancouverJanuary 25, 2023Partner Content

The Marrow builds hypnotic rhythms around Gord Grdina's love of the lute-like oud

Jazz improvisation meets historical Middle Eastern forms in group formed with percussionist Hamin Honari, cellist Hank Roberts, and bassist Mark Helias

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 24, 2023Gord Grdina, The Marrow, BlueShore at CapU

American jazz scientist Scott Robinson cuts loose with CapU Jazz Ensembles on February 3

New Jersey-based artist is fluent in all jazz genres, as well as a multitude of reed and brass instruments

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 24, 2023Partner Content, BlueShore at CapU

At the Polygon Gallery, Leaving and Waving chronicles 27 years of parents saying goodbye in the driveway

Deanna Dikeman’s deeply affecting photo exhibit speaks to mortality and the importance of familial bonds

At PuSh Festival, Le Cri des Méduses transports haunting French painting to the stage

Quebec City’s Alan Lake Factorie blends dance, theatre, visual art, and cinema in its founder’s interpretation of a grisly 1819 masterpiece

FESTS, DANCEGail JohnsonJanuary 24, 2023PuSh Festival, dance, Quebec, Alan Lake, Vancouver Civic Theatres

In Sinatra & Beyond, singer-songwriter-pianist Tony DeSare does things his way

The New York City-based artist joins Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with his signature concert

MUSICGail JohnsonJanuary 23, 2023Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Civic Theatrees

Friends of Chamber Music welcome back beloved Han Finckel Setzer Trio

The ensemble of cellist David Finckel, violinist Philip Setzer, and pianist Wu Han is a Vancouver-audience favourite

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 23, 2023Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music

Momentum grows to save Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Fest supporters issue public statement urging members to oppose pending dissolution of the organization; meanwhile, others in favour of the move to dissolve

FESTS, NEWSGail JohnsonJanuary 23, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Gary Cristall