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Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily, and The Bad Plus, for June 23 to July 2 event

Fest opts for a smaller, more sustainable event as it moves forward for 2023

MUSIC, NEWS, FESTSJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2023Jazz Fest, Coastal Jazz & Blues

Review: Vancouver Opera's A Midsummer Night's Dream conjures heady music and big laughs

Rare staging of Britten opera mixes the mysterious and the farcical

MUSIC, THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 13, 2023Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Civic Theatres

At KDocsFF, The YouTube Effect explores the streaming site’s lack of regulation

Alex Winter’s documentary about the power and perils of the Google-owned tech behemoth has its Canadian premiere at the social-justice film festival

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonFebruary 13, 2023KDocsFF, documentary, film festival

Vetta Chamber Music presents Joan and Joe from March 3 to 6

Artisan gifts from local makers include serene ceramics, hand-loomed textiles, and much more

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 13, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Stir Q&A: Dil Ka playwright Lee Nisar talks biryani, being queer and South Asian, and food as the great unifier

Her new work, set in a traditional Pakistani family’s kitchen, debuts as part of Ruby Slippers’ Advance Theatre Festival at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Petunia & the Vipers hit the Kay Meek stage, February 16

There’s nothing like the Vancouver-based band self-described as “Tom Waits meets Elvis at Woody Guthrie's Hobo junction”

MUSICGail JohnsonFebruary 13, 2023Kay Meek Arts Centre, Petunia & The Vipers, West Vancouver

Local food and beer makers mark Black History Month

Among them: the recently opened Unity-Excellence-Legacy shop, which is dedicated exclusively to Black-owned businesses

CULINARYGail JohnsonFebruary 12, 2023Black, Black History Month, BC beer, Kula Foods, Rise Up Marketplace, U-E-L, Granville Island

Teenage Dick recasts Richard III with actors fit to play disabled characters

New York City-based artist Christopher Imbrosciano, who has cerebral palsy, takes on the starring role in Vancouver premiere of Mike Lew’s play

THEATREGail JohnsonFebruary 12, 2023The Arts Club, Arts Club Theatre, Arts Club, disability, Homepage feature

To Kill a Tiger takes a powerful look at one father's fight against sexual violence in India, at VIFF till February 16

Documentary details the struggle for justice in a village where a child was viciously assaulted

SCREENJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, NFB

La Rockeuse du Désert profiles Algeria's reigning female rocker, at The Cinematheque on February 12

Rendez-Vous French Film Festival matinee features Q&A with Quebec codirector Sarah Nacer

Rising Irish alt-folk star Anna Mieke weaves hypnotic strands of images into her songs

The singer-songwriter’s latest album has won her some high-profile accolades

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 11, 2023Anna Mieke, The Cobalt, Homepage feature

Corey Payette and Dillan Chiblow prepare to premiere Indigi-queer drag musical Starwalker in East Van, where it's set

The writer-composer-director and star talk high heels, Indigenous roles, and Two Spirit culture

THEATREJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, The York Theatre, Indigenous, LGBTQ+

Isabel Vincent shares story of opera-loving British sisters who saved Jewish musicians from the Nazis at JCC Jewish Book Festival

Author of Overture of Hope put her investigative-journalism skills to work in researching the women’s overlooked history

FESTS, READGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2023Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, Jewish Book Festival, Jewish, Holocaust

KDocsFF 2023 presents two double features about Indigenous governance, history, and resistance

Films’ directors will take part in discussions at Vancouver’s premier social-justice film festival

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverFebruary 10, 2023Partner Content, KDocsFF

Tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das spreads hope with Delhi to Damascus

The artist’s HUM Ensemble traces connections between Hindu and Muslim musical traditions, with Persia as common ground

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2023Chan Centre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, sitar, Sandeep Das, Persian

Banished from Egypt, comedian Bassem Youssef brings biting humour to JFL Vancouver

The “Jon Stewart of the Arab World” is a former heart surgeon now based in L.A.

COMEDY, FESTSGail JohnsonFebruary 10, 2023JFL, Just for Laughs Vancouver, comedy, Bassem Youssef, Homepage feature

Vancouver Cantata Singers present Songbird at the ANNEX on February 25

Evening of choral music inspired by the imagery of birds includes works by Brahms and Sam Dabrusin

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 9, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers

At JCC Jewish Book Festival, graphic novelists share stories of Holocaust survival in But I Live

Relating their experiences was not always an easy process for the survivors

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts presents Burnaby Lyric Opera in famous double bill from February 25 to March 4

Puccini’s comedic Gianni Schicchi pairs with Leoncavallo’s tragic Pagliacci

MUSIC, OPERAStir VancouverFebruary 9, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre

Matriarchs Uprising employs tech to take female contemporary Indigenous dance into the future

The multifaceted festival features everything from VR films to dancing avatars while remaining rooted in ancestral world views

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