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Arts Umbrella Dance Company presents work by leading choreographers in Season Finale, May 18 to 20 at Vancouver Playhouse

Works by Crystal Pite, Sharon Eyal, Aszure Barton, Johan Inger, William Forsythe, and more on the program

Theatre review: Royal City Musical Theatre’s Crazy For You conjures golden-era Broadway magic

Top-tier tap dancing and intricately staged numbers make for the kind of splashy musical rarely seen in this town

THEATREGail JohnsonMay 7, 2023Royal City Musical Theatre

Arts in the Garden is returning for its 24th year of celebrating nature through the arts, May 27 and 28

Live music, visual arts, activities, and performances. take place in garden spaces

South African dance company Dada Masilo forced to cancel Vancouver performances

DanceHouse was to close its 2022-23 season with The Sacrifice

DANCE, NEWSGail JohnsonMay 5, 2023DanceHouse, Dada Masilo, South Africa

At Ballet BC, inspiration flows from a volcanic eruption for Johan Inger's large-scale new work

The Swedish icon’s new commission builds a mini-community onstage at WAVE/S

DANCEJanet SmithMay 5, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, ballet, Spring 2023, Johan Inger

Vancouver's Chor Leoni sings of mental health and wellness in The Turning

Upcoming concert features The Leonids, the choir’s all-star ensemble, in a program that celebrates music as a healing force

MUSICGail JohnsonMay 5, 2023Chor Leoni, mental health, Spring 2023

Theatre Review: Untitled Peter Tripp Project invites viewers into a surreal waking dream

The show explores exhaustion and endurance through a series of hallucinatory set pieces

THEATREJanet SmithMay 5, 2023Pi Theatre, Pi Provocateurs, review

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

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