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Nightingales to warblers, La Rêveuse: The Birds Concert draws inspiration from avian song

French ensemble goes beyond sonic beauty with compelling ecological message in Early Music Vancouver program

Two guest-curated programs reflect upon Black womanhood at DOXA, May 5 and 8

Films chosen by Nya Lewis and Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou are accompanied by thought-provoking essays

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverApril 14, 2023Partner Content, DOXA

Frida Kahlo: The Immersive Biography cancels Vancouver run at PNE Agrodome

Organizers cite logistical and time constraints for multimedia show that was set to launch May 3

ART & DESIGN, NEWSJanet SmithApril 14, 2023Frida Kahlo: The Immersive Biography

Review: Graveyards and Gardens grows new rhythms in its live rendition, via vocoders, violas, and clicking lamps

Caroline Shaw and Vanessa Goodman play with the tension between the human and the mechanical

Co.ERASGA presents their spring Studio Salon Series on April 28 and 29

Recurring event hosts local artists sharing their dance pieces in development

DANCEStir VancouverApril 14, 2023Partner Content, Co.ERASGA

Dance review: Israeli artist Hillel Kogan's We Love Arabs proves hilariously provocative

The excellent dance-theatre hybrid explores prejudices as it skewers the choreographic process

DANCE, THEATREGail JohnsonApril 14, 2023The Dance Centre, Theatre la Seizieme, review, Hillel Kogan, Spring 2023

Stir Pairing: Bean & Hat and Blasted Church Vineyards

In the Canadian clowning show and at the Okanagan Falls winery, there’s craft behind the creativity

CULINARY, THEATREGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023Blasted Church, Bean & Hat, LGBTQ2SAI, Spring 2023

Untitled Peter Tripp Project comes to Pi Theatre from May 4 to 6

Cautionary tale based on radio DJ’s undoing explores hallucination, fugue states, and doppelgänger paranoia

THEATREStir VancouverApril 13, 2023Partner Content, Pi theatre, Pi Provocateurs

BC and Yukon Book Prizes announce 2023 shortlists

West Coast Book Prize Society names finalists in eight categories

READGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023BC and Yukon Book Prizes, Spring 2023

Chor Leoni’s VanMan Summit Concert highlights over 200 voices on May 13

Men’s choir unites tenors, basses, and baritones for celebratory conclusion to week-long festival

MUSICStir VancouverApril 13, 2023Partner Content, CHOR LEONI, VanMan Choral Summit

Vancouver Folk Music Festival announces 2023 early-bird tickets now on sale; provides sneak peek at lineup

Among the confirmed artists are Celeigh Cardinal, Susan O’Neill, Blick Bassy, and Las Cafeteras

FESTS, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Vancouver documentary back home brings its poetic journey through grief back to VIFF Centre on April 14 and 15

Director Nisha Platzer employs hand-processed film and impressionistic imagery in quest to get to know the brother she lost to suicide

SCREENJanet SmithApril 13, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre

Juno-winning Florian Hoefner Trio brings modern jazz to BlueShore at CapU, April 18

Ensemble will perform songs off of acclaimed album Desert Bloom

WHAT'S STIRRING, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 13, 2023BlueShore at CapU, jazz, Spring 2023

Hey Viola! returns with its dreamlike civil-rights cabaret, at Gateway Theatre to April 22

Charismatic Krystle Dos Santos brings to life Viola Davis through a range of Nina Simone hits, gospel, jazz, and freedom songs

WHAT'S STIRRING, THEATREJanet SmithApril 13, 2023Gateway Theatre, Krystle Dos Santos

White Noise returns to the Firehall Arts Centre with its biting look at Truth and Reconciliation, to May 7

Frank, smart story of a dinner party gone awry attracted rave reviews last year

THEATRE, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 13, 2023Firehall Arts Centre, FIREHALL, Spring 2023

Kunji Ikeda takes the stage in Sansei: The Storyteller at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, April 27 to 29

One-man show examines the sombre history of Japanese Canadian internment through a personal lens

DANCEStir VancouverApril 13, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Stir Q&A: Bird's Kylie Vincent talks pain, laughter, and the coolest dog she knows

Comedian’s standup-theatre-memoir mashup digs fearlessly into the trauma she suffered in her teens

COMEDY, THEATREJanet SmithApril 13, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch, Spring 2023

See Vetta Chamber Music’s Wartime Masterpieces in concert, April 28 to May 1

Program will feature music from composers whose lives were impacted by war

MUSICStir VancouverApril 12, 2023Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Vancouver’s Chinese Canadian Museum receives additional provincial funding in advance of July 1, 2023 opening

Province of BC announces $10 million to support renovations, operating costs of the Chinatown cultural venue

CULTURE, NEWSGail JohnsonApril 12, 2023Chinese Canadian Museum

Architectural photojournalist Ema Peter chases the decisive moment

New exhibition at West Vancouver Art Museum features a career-spanning selection of the local artist’s transfixing images

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