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From symphony orchestra to chamber ensembles to prison outreach, cellist Henry Shapard finds meaning as a musician

The youngest VSO member is about to make his Vetta Chamber Music debut with a Benjamin Britten solo

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about UNA Productions' Grass is Green, at the Rothstein on April 25

Inspired by devastating forest fires, California work features a drag cellist-pianist and six dancers

Eighth & Eight Creative Spaces introduce new food and beverage program

Located in the Massey Theatre Arts Complex, the spaces welcome two familiar faces from New Westminster’s dining scene

CULINARYGail JohnsonApril 20, 2023Massey Theatre, Eighth & Eight, food, New Westminster

Dinuk Wijeratne plays the Chan Centre in The Journeyed Compass, May 5

Sri Lankan composer-conductor-pianist to perform alongside musicians Layale Chaker and Kinan Azmeh

MUSICStir VancouverApril 20, 2023Partner Content, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

New Bill Reid Gallery exhibition celebrates namesake’s influence on Northwest Coast art, opening April 26

Bright Futures features works by emerging and established Indigenous artists alongside pieces by the iconic Haida goldsmith, carver, and sculptor

WHAT'S STIRRING, ART & DESIGNGail JohnsonApril 20, 2023Bill Reid Gallery, Indigenous art, Bill Reid

Huu Bac Quintet brings Chinese-Vietnamese jazz fusion to Anvil Theatre, May 6

Group pulls influence from founder’s heritage and travels across China, Peru, Montréal, and beyond

MUSICStir VancouverApril 20, 2023Partner Content, Anvil Theatre

Piano sensation Tom Borrow performs in Vancouver, April 23

International Piano Magazine calls the 22-year-old Israeli artist “the very definition of ‘one to watch’”

Review: Kylie Vincent finds strange and disarming sweet spot between laughter and trauma

Riffing on SpongeBob, blowjobs, standup, and deep family dysfunction, the comedian coins a new mashup

COMEDY, THEATREJanet SmithApril 19, 2023THE CULTCH, The Cultch

Bring Back the '90s! re-creates the era of boy bands and Nintendo through comedy

The Improv Centre’s new show celebrates the pastel decade

COMEDYGail JohnsonApril 19, 2023The Improv Centre, TIC, comedy, improv, Spring 2023, 90s, Homepage feature

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announces tentative agreement with IATSE Local 118

The potential four-year plan with stagehands, theatre technicians comes after months of negotiation

NEWS, MUSICGail JohnsonApril 19, 2023Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, IATSE

Dance West Network’s Creative Collaborations brings emerging dance to rural B.C. this spring

Project features seven artists using performances and workshops to engage with local communities

DANCEStir VancouverApril 19, 2023Partner Content, Dance West Network

Soprano Dory Hayley has spent years preparing for the unique demands of Georges Aperghis's 14 Récitations

“You’re yelling, crying, laughing, gasping, and using breath in a forceful range,” the soloist says of Vancouver New Music concert

MUSICJanet SmithApril 19, 2023Vancouver New Music, VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Stir Bedside Table: Hilary Atleo

The Indigenous co-owner of Iron Dog Books talks science fiction, graphic novels, and beach reads

Vancouver Cantata Singers perform The Peaceable Kingdom and more on April 29

Choral ensemble will close out its season with works that centre around world peace

MUSICStir VancouverApril 19, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers

B.C. writer Susan Musgrave named to The Griffin Poetry Prize 2023 shortlist

Haida Gwaii-based author of Exculpatory Lilies among five finalists vying for $130,000 prize

READ, NEWSGail JohnsonApril 19, 2023Susan Musgrave, BC authors, BC writers, poetry

Wayne Marshall plays and conducts Rhapsody in Blue at the VSO, May 6 and 7

Renowned British conductor, organist, and pianist takes on two roles in style-melding concert

MUSICStir VancouverApril 18, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Stir Q&A: B.C.’s best sommelier for 2023 spills on Beaujolais, her new wine school, and more

Michelin-starred Burdock & Co’s wine director Kelcie Jones to be honoured at the Vancouver International Wine Festival

New podcast Climate Change & Other Small Talk launches on Earth Day, April 22

Vancouver’s Carmen Aguirre is among the international playwrights taking part in trans artist Sunny Drake’s environmentally focused project

WHAT'S STIRRING, PODCASTSGail JohnsonApril 18, 2023Sunny Drake, Carmen Aguirre, climate change, podcasts

SD Holman steps through grief in SUM Gallery photo-based exhibition Pas-à-pas; not intent on arriving

Imagery captures impressions from the cross-country journey the Vancouver artist undertook after spouse Catherine White Holman’s tragic floatplane death

ART & DESIGNJanet SmithApril 18, 2023SUM Gallery, LGBTQI+, SD Holman, photography

Gabriel Kahane performs two captivating albums at Music on Main, May 10 and 11

Magnificent Bird, released in 2022, makes its Canadian premiere at the Annex

MUSICStir VancouverApril 18, 2023Partner Content, Music on Main

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