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Boca del Lupo’s VR Salon showcases two critically acclaimed works, May 24 to 28

Part of LivePerformance360 series, event features Goliath: Playing with Reality and The Man Who Couldn’t Leave

SCREENStir VancouverMay 1, 2023Partner Content, Boca del Lupo

Vancouver's Upintheair Theatre announces 2023 rEvolver Festival lineup

Ten mainstage productions run the gamut from dance to drag to stand-up comedy and then some

FESTS, THEATREGail JohnsonMay 1, 2023Upintheair Theatre, Spring 2023, theatre, rEvolver Festival

Nominations are now open for 15th annual Indigenous Business Award program

Accolade from BC Achievement Foundation celebrates excellence in Indigenous-owned ventures

NEWSStir VancouverMay 1, 2023Partner Content, BC Achievement Foundation

Coming to Vancouver from the UK, sensational Kanneh-Mason family wows audiences worldwide

Here’s everything you need to know about the seven siblings ranging in age from 13 to 26 who play cello, violin, and piano

Review: The Flying Dutchman layers imagery and lush music for striking production at Vancouver Opera

Leads hand in powerful performances amid a swirl of atmospheric animated projections

DOXA 2023: Big Fight in Little Chinatown captures historic neighbourhoods' resilience

Director Karen Cho’s new documentary looks at Chinatowns in Vancouver, New York City, Montreal, and beyond confronting development and displacement

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 1, 2023DOXA, documentary, Chinatown, Chinese, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

Stir Pairing: Asian Heritage Month 2023

Celebrating with taiko, tap, a new cake lab, and Korean rice wine

Untitled Peter Tripp Project evokes the effects of sleep deprivation

The interdisciplinary experience is inspired by the New York City radio DJ who stayed awake for eight-and-a-half days straight

THEATREGail JohnsonApril 28, 2023Pi Provocateurs, Pi Theatre, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

CTORA Theatre presents The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, May 18 to 28

Show full of mythology, music, and magic brings Rick Riordan’s hit novel to the stage

STAGEStir VancouverApril 28, 2023Partner Content, CTORA Theatre

Vancouver International Wine Festival honours John Bishop with 2023 Spirited Industry Professional Award

Fest also announces Wine Program Excellence Award winners, including L'Abattoir, AnnaLena, Chambar, and Nightingale

For Huu Bac Quintet 's multi-instrumentalist leader, music has always been a refuge

Culture-crossing Huu Bac Quach moves easily between Chinese erhu, South American cane flute, Vietnamese dan bau, and guitar

MUSIC, CULTUREJanet SmithApril 28, 2023Huu Bac Quintet, Anvil Centre, Homepage feature, Spring 2023

B.C. arts and culture organizations receive $34.5 million boost from the Province

One-time recovery funds will support safe and accessible arts spaces, post-pandemic economic recovery

NEWSGail JohnsonApril 28, 2023provincial government, funding, COVID-19, Spring 2023

Dinuk Wijeratne and friends' The Journeyed Compass searches for the meaning of home through music

With clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and violinist Layale Chaker, gifted pianist-composer -conductor travel from Sufism to Syria in concert at the Chan Centre

MUSICJanet SmithApril 28, 2023Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, CHAN CENTRE, Spring 2023

At DOXA, Manufacturing the Threat unravels a problematic chapter in the name of national security

Filmmaker Amy Miller’s dissection of the BC homemade-bomb caper raises questions around democracy

SCREENStir VancouverApril 28, 2023DOXA, Amy Miller, Spring 2023

Vines Art Festival hosts Artist Care Fundraiser featuring Missy D and Kimmortal, May 11

Donations raised will provide tools that support, nurture, and advocate for artists in need

EVENTStir VancouverApril 28, 2023Partner Content, Vines Art Festival

South African dance artist Dada Masilo's The Sacrifice reinterprets The Rite of Spring

Dramatic piece for 10 dancers, three musicians, and a singer uses Stravinsky’s ballet as a springboard to explore grief and healing

DANCEGail JohnsonApril 28, 2023DanceHouse, Spring 2023, Homepage feature, African, dance, South Africa

Capture Photography Festival 2023 wraps up with a Speaker Series, April 29

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic to be discussed at the closing celebration

Dance Novella's When the Walls Come Down expresses Deaf experience in multifold ways, as part of International Dance Day

Racheal Prince and Brandon Alley perform with Deaf artist Caroline Hébert at The Dance Centre’s all-afternoon celebrations

DANCEJanet SmithApril 27, 2023DANCE CENTRE, The Dance Centre, Dance Novella, Spring 2023

Vancouver Chamber Choir hosts series-end concert REFLECTIONS on May 12

Show’s Estonian-Finnish lineup of music prefaces choir’s upcoming tour

MUSICStir VancouverApril 27, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Chamber Choir

Audain Art Museum hosts The Collectors’ Cosmos Renaissance Orchestra Concert, May 13

Pacific Baroque Orchestra’s Alexander Weimann, Chloe Meyers perform on virginal and violin respectively, surrounded by rarely seen prints by European masters

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