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Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience takes visitors past the artist's darker torments

Working from letters, historian Fanny Curtat helped build a large-scale show that celebrates the expression and urge to connect behind famous paintings

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 30, 2023Beyond Van Gogh, Fanny Curtat, Paquin Entertainment, Homepage feature

The Black Arts Centre is bringing community to Metro Vancouver

Coinciding with Black History Month, the youth-run gallery is participating in the PuSh Festival for the first time, curating a Club PuSh event

ART & DESIGN, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 30, 2023PuSh Festival, BLAC, Moroti George, Black History Month, Black

In An Undeveloped Sound, Jonathon Young explores language, existence, and the wider meaning of "development"

Inspired by the myth of Faust, the writer-playwright’s new work features a team of spokespeople representing a mysterious “developer”

THEATREJanet SmithJanuary 28, 2023Electric Company Theatre, PuSh Festival, Jonathon Young

Vancouver Chamber Choir presents THE BAROQUE AFFECT, with music written between 1640 and 1740

The concert concludes the VCC’s 43rd annual Conductors’ Symposium, hosting choir directors from around the world

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 27, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Tributes flow in at news Vancouver experimental filmmaker David Rimmer has died

Canada Council described him as “one of the finest technicians of Canada’s avant-garde film movement”.

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2023David Rimmer

Jazz @ The Bolt offers diverse, electrifying lineup for 2023

Cory Weeds teams up with Tim Reinert for a mini festival featuring revered New York City musicians, leading Canadian artists, standout up-and-comers, and more

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2023Jazz @ The Bolt, jazz, Cellar Music, Cory Weeds, Tim Reinert, Shadbolt Centre

Tales From the Gimli Hospital sees 4K redux, plus more Guy Maddin greatness in Celluloid Dreamland, at The Cinematheque to February 20

Essentials like My Winnipeg and The Saddest Music In the World share space with lesser-known oddball triumphs like Careful

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 27, 2023The Cinematheque, Guy Maddin

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

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