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Dance review: PIÑA celebrates Philippine culture through seamless blend of textile, sound, light, and design

FakeKnot artistic director Ralph Escamillan’s new work shines a light on its namesake traditional fabric

Theatre review: The Legend of Georgia McBride tells a timely story with sensitivity and sass

Under the glitter, “a raised fist inside a sequinned glove” at the Stanley

THEATREJanet SmithMay 4, 2023Arts Club Theatre, LGBTQ+, Homepage feature, Spring 2023

Gabriel Kahane brings journeying Book of Travelers and inward-looking Magnificent Bird to Music on Main

One of the songwriter’s works grew out of a 9,000-mile train trip through Middle America, the other through COVID introspection

MUSICJanet SmithMay 4, 2023MUSIC ON MAIN, Music on Main, Spring 2023

Vancouver Chamber Choir's REFLECTIONS concert kicks off tour to Nordic lands, May 12

On the program are works by Helsinki’s Matthew Whittall and Cree-Dene composer Sherryl Sewepagaham, among many others

Vancouver International Jazz Festival announces The Revue Stage, new programming on Granville Island

New venue will host the Innovation Series: five nights of improvisational and experimental music

FESTS, MUSICStir VancouverMay 4, 2023Partner Content, Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

At Vignette, Vancouver chef Ash Kurtz channels his inner artist

The Mount Pleasant restaurant by Michelin-rated Boxset Collective has stories of travel and whimsy to tell

DOXA documentary reviews: From an engrossing look back at BC-born Satanic Panic to teens in Ukraine

Notes from Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams’s Satan Wants You, plus We Will Not Fade Away, You Were My First Boyfriend, and Kite Zo A

FESTS, SCREENGail JohnsonMay 4, 2023DOXA, documentary, Spring 2023

Renegade Arts Co presents award-winning musical Spring Awakening from May 25 to June 10 at the Shop Theatre

Celebrated musical follows two young teenagers as they navigate adolescence and a society that condemns their love.

THEATREStir VancouverMay 4, 2023Partner Content, Renegade Arts Co, Spring 2023

Vancouver's Amanda Sum combines pop-up books, music in New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert

The genre-mashing artist’s new work celebrates introverts, awkwardness

Burnaby Art Gallery blasts off with Arts Alive: Out of This World

The otherworldly exhibition features works by local students from Kindergarten to Grade 7

ART & DESIGNStir VancouverMay 3, 2023Partner Content, Burnaby Art Gallery

Community Awards go to Eastside Culture Crawl's Esther Rausenberg, artist-filmmaker Simon Daniel James, and other arts advocates

BC Achievement Foundation acknowledges Haida artists, Health Arts Society founder, and more

NEWS, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithMay 3, 2023BC Achievement Foundation

Stir Q&A: Vancouver-based Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt discusses her new book, Unbroken

Subtitled My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls, the forthcoming title is a gripping read

READGail JohnsonMay 3, 2023Angela Sterritt, BC authors, BC books, Indigenous

Dumb Instrument Dance presents a month of Asian artists at Ahhm, May 6 to 29 at Morrow

Taiko drumming, dance with cookware, and even a cozy reading rest place

DANCE, READ, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 3, 2023Morrow, Dumb Instrument Dance, Spring 2023

Astrolabe Musik Theatre presents the Canadian premiere of Into the Little Hill, May 19 and 20 at SFU Goldcorp Centre

Composed by George Benjamin, it’s a contemporary re-telling of the classic Pied Piper tale

MUSIC, OPERAStir VancouverMay 3, 2023Partner Content, Astrolabe Musik Theatre

Elektra Women's Choir celebrates the beauty and power of music sung by sopranos and altos

Two concerts by three ensembles cap off the annual Tapestry International Celebration of Women's Choirs

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 3, 2023Elektra Women's Choir, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

National Geographic Live series kicks off with Coral Kingdoms and Empires of Ice, May 9 at Orpheum Theatre

Program featuring renowned photographers, filmmakers, and explorers continues September 12 and October 24

SCREEN, STAGEStir VancouverMay 2, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Civic Theatres

SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs and The Dance Centre present Ralph Escamillan's PIÑA May 4 to 6

In latest episode of Artscape podcast, the dance artist talks about FakeKnot’s new multidisciplinary production

At DOXA fest, dance films create new hybrids, mixing choreography, interviews, and cinematography

La Singla searches for a lost flamenco star; A Way to B profiles the members of a daring disability-arts troupe; and Cheenee traces the history of Indian diaspora in Trinidad and Tobago

Creativity dangles at the Craft Council of BC Gallery's The Earring Show, May 4 to 18

Artists use materials from silver to crochet to recycled plastics to fashion artfully innovative bling

ART & DESIGN, FASHION, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 1, 2023Earring Show, Craft Council of BC

Lil'wat playwright Yvonne Wallace celebrates and reclaims ancestral language in útszan (to make better)

Having its Vancouver premiere, the solo is in ucwalmícwts and English

THEATRE, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 1, 2023The Cultch, Yvonne Wallace, Indigenous

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