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A cavalcade of conductors at Vancouver Bach Choir's SummerSing!, May 14 at the Chan

The annual departure into jazz and rock choral arrangements is a fun celebration of the season

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithMay 10, 2023Vancouver Bach Choir, Spring 2023

Kasandra Flamenco performs ROJO Y SOMBRA at the Shadbolt Centre, May 26 and 27

Fiery dance piece combines contemporary, flamenco, guitar music, and red silks

DANCEStir VancouverMay 10, 2023Partner Content, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Stir Bedside Table: Vancouver chef Robert Belcham

The restaurateur and hospitality mentor talks about how a lifetime of reading has opened pathways to new thinking

Indian Summer Festival announces Shabazz Palaces and Sarathy Korwar concert, as well as Nova Bhattacharya dance performance

July shows are the first unveiled for fest’s 13th annual installment

FESTS, MUSIC, DANCEJanet SmithMay 10, 2023Indian Summer Festival

Surrey Art Gallery presents Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment event May 13

Emerging artists-in-residence share dance, poetry, and music as part of exhibition on view to June 18

ART & DESIGN, CULTUREStir VancouverMay 10, 2023Partner Content, Surrey Art Gallery, Spring 2023

Aeriosa's vertical dance brings together Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and hearing audiences, May 18

The company soars to new heights by teaming up with Deaf theatre artist Landon Krentz

Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival announces 2023 lineup

It’s an otherworldly journey for the fest’s 16th year, with the theme of Queers in Space

ART & DESIGN, FESTSGail JohnsonMay 9, 2023QAF, Queer Arts Festival, Indigequeer, Virago

The Vancouver Bach Choir presents the Bergmann Piano Duo and Fringe Percussion, May 27

On the concert program are Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms

MUSICStir VancouverMay 9, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Bach Choir

Stir Q&A: Israel's Roy Assaf lets dance speak profoundly for itself, at Ballet BC's WAVE/S double bill

“For many years now I have been, with great difficulty, trying to answer the questions of journalists about my work”

DANCEJanet SmithMay 9, 2023BALLET BC, Ballet BC, Spring 2023, Vancouver Civic Theatres

Vancouver Short Film Festival announces 13th annual event, June 2 to 11

Films can be seen at the VIFF Centre from June 2 to 4, and online up to June 11

FESTS, SCREENStir VancouverMay 9, 2023Partner Content, Vancouver Short Film Festival

BC Distilled returns to East Vancouver’s Croatian Cultural Centre, May 13

The tasting festival showcases hundreds of locally produced, artisan spirits from 40 distilleries

WHAT'S STIRRING, CULINARYGail JohnsonMay 8, 2023BC Distilled, spirits

Vancouver author-poet Kevin Spenst launches Chuffed about Chapbooks: a Poetry Tour of Everywhere, May 12

The author-poet is taking his words all across Canada, starting with a local event featuring Evelyn Lau

WHAT'S STIRRING, READGail JohnsonMay 8, 2023poetry, read

Theatre review: útszan's simple storytelling carries powerful emotional impact

Lil’wat theatre artist Yvonne Wallace’s solo speaks to the preciousness of language

THEATRE, FESTSJanet SmithMay 8, 2023Ruby Slippers Theatre, The Cultch, Yvonne Wallace, Indigenous, Lil'wat

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

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